The Smile (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner), “Cutouts.” Cutouts is the second full-length album from The Smile in 2024. The supergroup composed of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, along with Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, has achieved a level of productivity they were unable to match…

Manchester Orchestra, “The Valley of Vision.” As if the new Manchester Orchestra project, The Valley of Vision, isn’t enough for the ears, it ramps up the layers visually with a 180-degree virtual reality film that achieves great beauty by simply allowing the recipient to interpret it their own way.…

The Smile (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner), “A Light For Attracting Attention.” The sign of a good chef is the ability to combine a bunch of cold leftovers into a mouthwatering gourmet experience. Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, freed from their familiar Radiohead kitchen and working with…

How do you describe a band like The Marías? Billed as alt-pop, the Angelenos incorporate a span of genres from jazz to reggaeton on their first full-length album, Cinema. However you describe it, one thing is certain—Cinema is a gorgeous album that, as described by lead singer María Zardoya, offers…

The best albums of 2020 include Washed Out, the Mountain Goats, Ethan Gruska, Tom Petty, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown, Logic, The Strokes, Moses Sumney, Fleet Foxes, Willie Nelson, Yves Tumor, Nicolas Jaar, Ed O’Brien, Charli XCX and Blackpink. After nearly a decade of living through 2020, we’re finally…

For many indie rock fans, the name Ed O’Brien carries no particular immediacy. Invoke O’Brien’s decades-long tenure with English superstars Radiohead, however, and these same fans will gush accolades. The art rock group enjoys a rare status with critics and aficionados, appealing to ravers, indie rockers and even some metalheads.…

Outside Lands stage times. Festival organizers released the schedule Thursday for the ninth annual Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park and added two new performers to the lineup in Felly and Haley Heynderickx. Headliners Twenty One Pilots, Child Gambino and Paul Simon will close down the Lands End main…

SALT LAKE CITY — Freezing temps and an off-the-beaten-path venue in an industrial-but-gentrifying part of town couldn’t keep fans away from Thom Yorke’s solo show at The Union Event Center Thursday night. Thom Yorke Oliver Coates 8 p.m., Saturday Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Tickets: $60-$80. The Radiohead frontman has been…

Radiohead. STAFF file photo. Usually this column is the top five songs of each year. Sometimes, in an especially good year, I bend that and make it the top 10. This week has nine. The reasons for this are threefold: First, the longlist has 23 songs on it and…

Let’s admit that 2016 was a rough year. But one of the bright spots was great music. Here’s our top 5 music moments of 2016. 1. Hip-hop artists dropped surprise albums The year was full of surprise, especially politically, socially and globally. Music, on the other hand, had some of the best surprises, particularly in…