With the release of their 8th studio album (The King of Limbs) on Friday, Radiohead dominated the listener charts on Last.FM for the week. They went from 103K listeners and 942K plays last week (which was good for 2nd place behind The Beatles) to 173K listeners and 3.3 million plays this week (good for 1st [...]

In another surprise Radiohead’s 8th studio album (The King of Limbs) is available to download today instead of tomorrow like they said on Monday. Although I suppose it is the 19th in some parts of the world! Maybe that’s what the Japenese tweet was about? They are going by the Japanense clock? www.TheKingOfLimbs.com Radiohead also [...]

Surprise announcement today: Radiohead‘s 8th album (titled The King of Limbs) is now available for pre-order and will be released as a download on February 19th (this Saturday.) The high quality (320k) mp3 version of the album is being sold for $9 (no “name your own price” this time around.) There’s also a “newspaper album” [...]

Take a look back: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, & 1990s. Now it’s time to finish this up: The top ten pop/rock albums of the 2000s according to the users of RateYourMusic.com: #01 – Radiohead – Kid A (#1213 on Amazon’s Bestselling List) #02 – Arcade Fire – Funeral (#575) #03 – Godspeed You! Black Emperor – [...]

Continuing my series on the top ten albums of each decade according to RateYourMusic.com users; Today I’m in the 1990s. See 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. #01 – Radiohead – OK Computer (#991 on Amazon’s bestsellers list) #02 – My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (#2998) #03 – Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The [...]

“On August 23rd 2009, a group of Radiohead fans descended on the Výstaviště Holešovice Exhibition Hall in Prague on a mission to capture the band playing using as many different angles as possible. Bringing together the exceptional talents of many contributors, here’s a glimpse of the result.” After learning about the project Radiohead gave the [...]

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Radiohead drummer Phil Selway’s debut solo album, Familial out on August 31st, but I just listened to four tracks from the album and I think they are really nice. It has a very quiet contemplative singer-songwriter type vibe to it but with some hints of Radiohead in the [...]

Radiohead has released seven studio albums to date. What if you were to take the top two most played tracks on Last.FM (using the last 6 months rankings) from each of those albums and put them on a mix? It seems like this mix would be a pretty good introductory overview of Radiohead’s career to [...]

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said that a new Radiohead album is likely to be coming out sometime this year in a recent BBC interview (on Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape.) A choice tidbit from the interview: “I’m really excited… I feel like this is the best record we ever made. It really is genuinely exciting. It’s [...]

As a huge Radiohead fan and big fan of the Last.FM site I came with this idea of ranking Radiohead’s songs by which ones are most “shouted” on the site. I will also compare the rankings of most “shouted” vs. most played. There would seem to be a direct correlation, but are there some songs [...]