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Radiohead | The King of Limbs

Self-released (2011)
OK Consumer?
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | March 03, 2011

Warp (2010)
Only an experimental laptop artist whose music exists primarily for pensive white weedheads would purport his new album to be “basically the studies that map out the universe and the relations of heaven and hell.”
By CARRIE BATTAN | May 03, 2010

Bands of brothers

'Hislopalooza' is a family affair
I'm living the most local life I've ever lived right now in Dorchester," says Chris Hislop, bespectacled guitarist in the long-running Boston band Piles.
By MATT PARISH | March 10, 2010

Message points

Christian Scott's political science, Anita Coelho's connections
Instrumental music isn't very dependable at conveying specific non-musical subject matter.
By JON GARELICK | March 09, 2010

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Tight but loose

Jangly + angular = Glowkid
I had never come across the adjective "jangular" until I visited the Glowkid website.
By CHRIS CONTI | January 20, 2010

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The Big Hurt: Attention whoring and headline parsing

Music news in brief
Slow news week.
By DAVID THORPE | September 15, 2009

Off the record?

Ten albums to get . . . while we still have albums
Pity the album. After a half-century of embarrassingly public body issues, our essential rock unit has not entered the new millennium looking very healthy. EPs are way more in vogue, MP3s have intangibility on their side, and 12-inches just sound impressive.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | September 14, 2009

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PJ Harvey wants your fucking ass

PJ Harvey + John Parish | House of Blues, Boston | June 6, 2009
PJ Harvey's two albums with John Parish are not her best work. (Go ahead and argue it, if you like.) The first, Dance Hall At Louse Point , was a surprise departure from her game-changing To Bring You My Love , an album that sold far less than Madonna records but packed as much cultural impact -- back when rock albums and cultural impact were still on speaking terms.
By CARLY CARIOLI | June 08, 2009

Bat girl

Kapow! Bat for Lashes conquers darkness with Two Suns
The strange world of Bat for Lashes is a lot like ours
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | April 22, 2009

Bat for Lashes | Two Suns

Astralwerks (2009)
Natasha Khan became a sort of viral video sensation a couple of years ago with her inventive video for "What's a Girl To Do."
By GUSTAVO TURNER | April 06, 2009

Springing ahead

The 'mericans are comin' back 'round
When I asked Chris Daltry just where exactly his acclaimed quintet the 'mericans had been hiding out, the founding father of the rootsy rockers was quick to deflect any insinuation that the Providence group had been slacking.
By CHRIS CONTI | March 25, 2009

Music seen: Radiohead night

At the Big Easy, January 3
The idea for a show collecting talented Portland musicians performing as Oxfordshire's Radiohead began almost a year ago.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | January 07, 2009

Fans cheer; earth weeps

Radiohead at Comcast Center, August 13, 2008
It’s a bummer that the four-plus hours I spent in my car feeling guilty about barfing loads of carbon into the air is most salient in my mind, because, as always, Radiohead delivered an awe-inspiring show.
By WILL SPITZ | August 19, 2008

Winning losers

Stand up for your write(-ins)
Every last one of you who votes in our Best Music Poll is a treasure; but blessed are those who write-in.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | May 07, 2008

''Nude'' remix

Fans redo Radiohead — astonishingly — well
Last month, Radiohead thrilled the big black glasses off thousands of hundreds when they posted stems for the public to download, remix, and upload to the band’s Web site to compete for listeners’ votes.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | April 29, 2008

Holler

Amplive's Rainydayz Remixes, approved by Thom
“We wanted to make you aware that you need to get approval before making arrangements of other writers’ work” — oops.
By WILL SPITZ | March 12, 2008

Ebb and flow

Dance: 2007 in review
The good news is that we still have our own major company, Boston Ballet, and it made its first international tour — to Spain — in more than a decade.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 17, 2007

The year the music thrived

National pop: 2007 in review
Bad times for the big guys have generally been good news for the rest of us.
By MATT ASHARE | December 17, 2007

Social settings

Seán Curran at the Tsai Center
Seán Curran’s dance looks like a formal exposition of movement, but after a while you begin to imagine webs of social interactions, relationships, and hidden histories.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 30, 2007

Price points

Getting into Radiohead’s In Rainbows
The growing gap between the shabby, brick-and-mortar world we all inhabit and the sleek, digital one we’ve all been promised widened just a bit.
By MATT ASHARE | October 16, 2007

Mixed and matched

Four premium mixes to get your summer started right
For fans of the 4/4 beat, summer is defined by DJ mixes that go from the car to the beach to the patio with ease.
By DAVID DAY | May 29, 2007

The new tastemakers

Does Pandora know you better than you do?
It’s a cliché by now, but the Internet allows you to be whomever you want to be.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 31, 2007

Splendid Theory

Wait for it...
Producer extraordinaire Nigel Godrich’s new Internet TV show, From the Basement, is splendid in theory.
By WILL SPITZ | January 30, 2007

Guest lists

What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 02, 2007