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The Latest Breaking News from OK Computer

From someone who’s already seen the show twice, here’s 10 songs Radiohead should try and get into the setlist on their triumphant comeback tour

The Oxford rock trailblazers hit Italy this weekend ahead of their first London shows in nine years next week

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Radiohead kick off their European tour with a career-spanning setlist in Madrid - here's everything they played and where they're headed next

Fans certainly weren't Let Down by the band's comeback

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“The meaning behind all of this is right in front of our faces, we’re just overlooking it”: Just what was the Radiohead Binary Code theory - and was there any truth in it?

Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band?

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“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was like, ’If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Thom Yorke reflects on the viral Radiohead smash that nearly broke up the band

The song has been doing the rounds on social media ahead of Radiohead’s upcoming reunion tour – but it almost didn’t see the light of day

Guitar World

From problem child to golden child: The story behind every song on Radiohead’s Kid A

A deep dive into the Oxford quintet's game-changing fourth album as it turns 25

Louder

“If the point of Radiohead songs isn’t to make you feel good, what is their music for?”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Radiohead's Let Down

Hitting the charts 28 years on from its release thanks to a TikTok resurgence, this gloomy cut from OK Computer is having a moment. We put the song under the musical microscope

MusicRadar

Radiohead’s Let Down enters US Billboard charts 28 years after its release

Song from 1997 album OK Computer scores band their fourth spot in the chart after going viral on TikTok

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Radiohead have broken into the American charts with a single from OK Computer that was released 28 years ago

It looks like Gen Z have discovered OK Computer

Louder

‘A succession of bad paintings’: Stanley Donwood and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke – review

This Is What You Get explores the intense creative partnership behind countless album sleeves from OK Computer to In Rainbows. But is it good art? Absolutely not

The Guardian - UK

10 brilliant songs from the 90s that bands were barmy to not put on a record

For your consideration: a list of B-sides and outtakes that deserved a slot in the spotlight

Louder

A classic Radiohead track is back in the charts again – but this is the song I'd use for testing instead

Let Down is enjoying a major revival thanks to the likes of TikTok and YouTube, but is it the best Radiohead test track for probing your system's capabilities?

What Hi-Fi?

“As a junior-millennial rock fan, hearing The Bends felt tantamount to digging up the first fish who grew legs”: We got a 28-year-old music journalist to review a 30-year-old Radiohead album and this is what he wrote

Released on March 13, 1995, Radiohead’s second album continues to influence new artists and wow younger audiences

Louder

Radiohead’s The Bends at 30: this fraught, compassionate, violently disturbed record remains one of their best

There was a time in the early to mid-2000s when naming The Bends as your favourite Radiohead album was like opting for chicken korma from the takeaway menu, while the gourmands decided between the bangla shatkora and jhinga bahar.

The Conversation

Treat your hi-fi system to these 11 incredible albums celebrating their 30th birthday this year

We've compiled 11 iconic albums from 1995 that are enjoying their 30th anniversary this year.

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“People would be like, ‘This again?’ I’d tell them it made my shift easier”: P.O.D.’s Marcos Curiel played Radiohead to survive working in a goth retail store

Guitarist explains his love for Thom Yorke’s band and (almost) everything they’ve ever done

MusicRadar

"It was a dark place, and we realised we didn't want to go back there": is Radiohead's King Of Limbs not just their most underrated record, but the one that helped save them?

Thom Yorke: "It was an experiment. I didn't think we really genuinely thought anything would come out of it, certainly not an entire record"

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Laurence Canty obituary

Other lives: Bass guitarist who wrote an influential instruction book and taught the instrument at a London university

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20 Radiohead guitar chords you need to know

Voicings that will open your mind and change the way you play guitar

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30 incredible albums that didn’t win Album of the Year at the Grammys, including Beyoncé’s Lemonade

So many incredible albums didn't win Album of the Year at the Grammys.

Guitar World

“It’s the only delay that can make those OK Computer sounds”: Ed O’Brien explains why one BOSS pedal was integral to Radiohead’s landmark ’90s albums

The Bends and OK Computer wouldn’t sound the same without the BOSS DD-5 – and Radiohead’s resident effects expert is already eyeing up some newly launched delays for the band’s next outing

Louder

“They crawled up their own bums”: The album that made Butch Vig lose faith in Radiohead

The Garbage drummer and Nirvana producer was not impressed by Radiohead's 1999 album Kid A

Louder

Thom Yorke on the Radiohead and Massive Attack album that never happened

Bristol trip-hop dons Massive Attack were lined up to remix Radiohead's OK Computer in its entirety – until life got in the way...

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Radiohead’s OK Computer painstakingly recreated using a slew of N64-derived classics

Follow-up to YouTuber's In Rainbows/Super Mario 64 epic features FX from Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and more

MusicRadar

Karma Police: the story behind the Radiohead classic that started life as a tour bus catchphrase

"Sometimes the best stuff happens when you’re not even listening at all”

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The 12 best Radiohead songs to test your hi-fi system

Radiohead’s vast catalogue of innovative, eclectic work makes the band an ideal candidate for putting your hi-fi system to the test.

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