Tag Archives: Radiohead
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The 75 best albums of 2020: 75-61
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…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Ed O’Brien goes deep with a spacey perspective on ‘Earth’
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.…
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Outside Lands announces daily set times
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…
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REVIEW: Thom Yorke ‘sighs from the depths’ in SLC ahead of SF show
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…
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RIFF Rewind: Tupac, Wu-Tang and the Breeders wrote the best songs of 1993
Photo: Che Holts 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 that’s…
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Review: Elbow discovers new sound with Little Fictions
Formed in 1997, Manchester, England group Elbow are back with their sixth full-length release, Little Fictions. Having found their overall sound in the beginning, Elbow never veered too far away from what they showed in their 2001 debut Asleep in the Back. The band has always made a type of indie rock that combines elements of chamber music, dreamy production and Britpop. They’ve attempted to…
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The Top 5 music moments of 2016
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…
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Photos: Ian Young’s Top 16 concerts of 2016
Photos: Ian Young By all accounts 2016 was a shitty year. But amid the chaos were much needed distractions in the form of live music. This year I traveled to Iceland, Chicago, Indio, Los Angeles and Seattle to attend 110 shows and eight festivals, watching and photographing more than 250 bands. Here’s…
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Photos: Seven great sets from Outside Lands 2016 Day 2
Photo: Che Holts SAN FRANCISCO — Eight years after headlining opening night of the inaugural Outside Lands Music Festival, Radiohead returned Saturday to the event with a two-hour set that showed their range of abilities. Because of the way the event has grown and evolved, fans weren’t standing shoulder…
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Outside Lands announces daily schedule for 2016
Festival organizers released the schedule Thursday for the ninth annual Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park. Headliners LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead and Lionel Richie will close down the Lands End main stage on the Polo Field on Aug. 5, 6 and 7, respectively. On the Twin Peaks stage in…