Subject: Radiohead

• MySpace Genre Semiotics!

  If you didn't know, bands don't like telling you what they sound like. Here's an example why: Let's say I play in a band, we're called "Stillborn Leper", and my boss asks me what we sound like, and I say "We're like a mix of Radiohead and The Velvet Underground, but our guitarist is really into The Pixies and Joy Division so sometimes we have a lot of post-punk going on, too." Stillborn Leper is, in all likeliness, a poorly executed teenage train wreck so godawfully bland it could sound like an

  December 7, 2006

• Radiohead to Release New Album, Shift Paradigm (Possibly)

  October 1, 2007

• Two Takes on Radiohead's In Rainbows

  Hurry! You immediately have to read OC Weekly freelancer Ned Raggett's review of In Rainbows, which will be running in our print edition next week; we thought you'd want to get an advance peek at what he has to say, as Radiohead's new album is the most important thing in the world this week. Also, check out my VVM colleague/Riverfront Times music editor Annie Zaleski's late-night first impressions of In Rainbows. Finally, do yourself a favor and read this wry history of musicians giving a

  October 11, 2007

• The best albums of 2007 - as told by David Downs

  VVM Web Music Editor David Downs calls 2007 the year of rehab. "For LiLo, Britney, Amy, and America as a whole. It'll be remembered as the year we hit rock bottom, and the getting up wasn't going to be easy. Here's how it sounded." Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris "Turning on the Screw" Because no one rocks harder while still pulling in the girls. This album has at least five epic, shredder songs that kept me awake during several 2 a.m. burns down the pitch-black California Interstate 5

  December 27, 2007

• Coachella Guessing Games

  Around this time every year, fantastical rumors concerning the Coachella line-up begin to simmer. Last year's big "what ifs" were the Police, the Smiths—but then again, that's every year—and Rage Against the Machine. Sometimes the delusions and pipe dreams end up being the truth. Usually they don't. And every year, almost as if by tradition, faux Coachella fliers are whipped up by some dudes who hang out on the internet message boards for way too long. These are the first two I've seen ci

  January 10, 2008

• Coachella lineup to be announced today

  That's the word coming from a story in today's LA Times. Confirmed: My Morning Jacket, Rilo Kiley (who've never been as good as they were the night I saw them years ago at Chain Reaction--so long ago, the Weekly archives don't go back that far!), Jack Johnson, the Raconteurs, the Verve (of "Bittersweet Symphony" fame? Really? Who took their one hit and laughably thought they could sell out the then-Arrowhead Pond with it back in 1998? I know, I was there.) But it's weird. The lineup will be an

  January 21, 2008

• Radiohead's N. American Tour Dates Announced

  Closest the British mope-rock kings come to OC is a two-date run at Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 24 and 25. Pre-sale tix are available April 9 and general on-sale April 12. Grizzly Bear support Aug. 3-15, Liars Aug. 19-28. Radiohead have good taste. August 1 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL August 3 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Indianapolis, IN August 4 - Blossom Music Center - Cleveland, OH August 6 - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, QC August 8 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Pa

  April 7, 2008

• New Dating Website Focuses On Music Tastes

  June 12, 2008

• Major Label Gives Vinyl Purists Another Reason to Be Smug

  OK Computer in sweet, sweet analog. How appropriate. In a move that signals either grave desperation or incredible savvy (vinyl sales in America have risen by more than 80 percent in the last year, after all), Capitol/EMI—one of four remaining major labels—is firing up the vinyl presses for a series of ltd. ed., 180-gram audiophile-pleasing wax of popular titles from its voluminous catalog. These remastered LPs will include replications of their original artwork and packaging. The followin

  July 10, 2008

• Listen to the Band: Audible Mainframe

  When it comes to Long Beach transplants Audible Mainframe, their unique blend of charisma and conscious hip hop gives wanton O.C. hip hop fans plenty to buzz about. But here's a few words of advice before attending one of their shows: if you're not a fan of watching a cramped stage of musicians sweat their asses of to hard- hitting eclectic sounds...stay home. Since deciding unplug their amps and leave the east coast hip hop scene over a year ago, the band has been on the grind with their inf

  September 3, 2008

• Just What I Needed

  December 18, 2003

• Walk Away

  Weekly art director Ben Froehlich was a real-life rock star once
  

  July 13, 2006

• [Locals Only] Melanoid Is Seriously Good

  April 2, 2009

• [Locals Only] Out On a Limb

  February 19, 2009

• [CD Review] Kanye West, '808s & Heartbreak' (Roc-A-Fella)

  November 27, 2008

• [CD Review] Travis, 'Ode to J. Smith' (Fontana)

  November 13, 2008

• [CD Review] Radiohead, 'The Best Of' CD/DVD (Capitol)

  June 12, 2008

• [hits!] Top-Selling Records at Rhino Records

  April 3, 2008

• [Hits!] Top sellers at SecondSpin in Costa Mesa

  February 21, 2008

• Blood, Sweat 
and Beers

  January 10, 2008

• Hits!

  Music Revolution

  January 17, 2008

• Hits!

  Greene Records

  January 10, 2008

• DESERT STORM

  May 5, 2005

• CD Review

  Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation Deluxe Edition (Universal/Geffen)

  June 7, 2007

• [CD Review] White Rabbits, 'It's Frightening' (TBD Records)

  June 4, 2009

• Cherub Rock

  A toddler and her dad road-test alt-lullabies

  March 29, 2007

• Singles Going Steady

  The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

  December 28, 2006

• Prostate Orgasm

  GET OUT! Nightlife and more: Dec. 7 - Dec. 14

  December 7, 2006

• Sabbath Was the Blob

  Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 30 - Dec. 7
  

  November 30, 2006

• Snootisms

  The Velvet Teen

  November 2, 2006

• Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

  In defense of Coachella

  May 4, 2006

• Bird Is the Word

  Doves are modern British to the max

  October 6, 2005

• STREET WAVES

  Innaway Before And After Science

  June 9, 2005

• Begin Your Pilgrimage Now

  The District ditches the drunken Betties for more Lounge-y crowd

  April 7, 2005

• Gorge Away

  The light pours out of Bloc Party

  March 17, 2005

• Epic Soundtracks

  Loma Lynda: music to watch movies to make music for by

  October 7, 2004

• Debasered

  This monkeys gone to Coachella

  May 6, 2004

• Who Wants to be a Pendejo?

  February 5, 2004

• Super Crass

  October 16, 2003

• Smoky, Boozy, a Little Insane

  August 21, 2003

• To the Rescue!

  August 29, 2002

• Stars and Guitars

  January 17, 2002

• New Music

  August 30, 2001

• Help Me, Jesus!

  June 21, 2001

• Heavy!

  May 24, 2001

• Here Comes Captain Cynical

  April 5, 2001

• The Parade Winds Down

  November 2, 2000

• Spew Spew Spew!

  April 20, 2000

• [CD Review] Sonic Youth, 'The Eternal' (Matador)

  June 11, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Everything Sort of Old Is Kind of New Again

  September 10, 2009