Thom Yorke

The High Five: Great New Songs from Tyler the Creator, Watch the Duck, the Pastels, and More

Welcome, time-crunched and over-stimulated music fan, to All Shook Down's High Five -- a place where Byard Duncan wades through the shit to find you the hits. Well, five of them, anyway. Sad times here at the High Five. With one notable exception, this week's picks take different approaches to the ... More >>

Local Musicians Re-Imagine Radiohead's Kid A with Stunning Success, 2/24/13

UnderCover SF presents Kid A February 24, 2013 Rickshaw Shop Better than: That Stereogum Kid A mixtape; reading the Kid A 33 ⅓ book while listening to Kid A. There's an Internet-famous Chuck Klosterman essay about cover bands. The crux of it: if artists become artists to express themselves, why ... More >>

Atoms for Peace's Amok: A First Listen

Who's the audience for Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich, and Flea's stutter-skip project Atoms for Peace? Well, me, probably. Preferring the contained chaos of Yorke's 2006 solo bow The Eraser (and his incredible cover of Miracle Legion's "All for the Best") to anything his Noted Rock Band has done over th ... More >>

#Hashtag: The Ghost of Music Future Previews 2013

Five Great Neil Young Covers For His 67th Birthday

Today, November 12, is the birthday of one Neil Young, gifted songwriter, whiny singer, killer guitar player, and longtime Bay Area resident. In celebration of the man's 67th, we rounded up some of the best tributes to him available in the wilds of YouTube. Featuring solo pianos, another titan of so ... More >>

Bouncer Discovers a Crafty Illusion Behind Cervecería MateVeza

Live Review, 4/11/12: Radiohead Moves to the Beat in San Jose

Radiohead Wednesday, April 11, 2012 HP Pavilion, San Jose Better than: The way you will dance to weird rhythms when you are 43 and have two kids. Maybe "dancing" isn't quite the right word for it, but whatever you want to call that moving thing Thom Yorke does to the music Radiohead makes these da ... More >>

Modeselektor: Show Preview

DJ Cam on Dedicating His New Album to Massive Attack and the Pleasures of Working Alone

​ Parisian DJ and producer DJ Cam first gained notoriety in the early '90s with his releases of groundbreaking albums Underground Vibes and Substances. Blending classic jazz and hip-hop, he set a new precedent in the trip-hop and backpacker scenes with his unique aesthetic. Throughout this len ... More >>

Seek the Booty: 10 Artists to See at Treasure Island

DJ Shadow Reviews His Own Discography

DJ Shadow​This week, DJ Shadow released his fourth solo studio album, The Less You Know, The Better. Featuring cameos from Little Dragon, De La Soul, Talib Kweli and Tom Vek, Shadow insists that the album isn't just a snapshot of where he's at as a musician in 2011, but also something that wil ... More >>

Can't Get Any Satisfaction: A Tour of the Most Grammatically Misguided Songs in Pop

​Today is National Grammar Day, which means until midnight you're legally obligated to put up with the prescriptivist fulminations of that one buy or girl in your office whose knickers get all bunched when you say "15 items or less" or "the reason is because." (Lucky for everyone in the world I wo ... More >>

Radiohead's The King of Limbs: A First Listen

​ If Radiohead wants to move in real time, we music critics can oblige. I'm putting on the just-dropped The King of Limbs and engaging it as I listen. Here's a first take: "Bloom" Thom Yorke guested on Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma last year, and not wanting to be outdone, swiped a falling-down ... More >>

Ana Tijoux: Show Preview

From John Cage to Thom Yorke, Via Pootie Tang: The Sounds of Silence

By now you've probably heard, or heard about, 2 Minute Silence, the charity single "recorded" by an incredibly grizzled-looking Thom Yorke, along with Bryan Ferry, Mark Ronson, David Cameron and a few others, for the U.K.'s Remembrance Day earlier this month. The nod to John Cage's canonical 4'33" ... More >>

Sonic Booty

Six sets worth plundering at this year's Treasure Island Music Festival.

Show Preview: Flying Lotus

Prague Rock: Free Radiohead Concert DVD Out Now

Been a while since Radiohead came through the Bay Area, and it'll probably be another while before they return. (Thom Yorke played at the Fox in April, but that doesn't count.) Looks like several more months of putting their discography on shuffle and watching 7 Television Commercials on endless loo ... More >>

Watch Thom Yorke Perform A New Radiohead Song, 'Give Up the Ghost'

Thom Yorke has been playing a haunting new song called "Give Up the Ghost" at a few solo shows this year. But recently at the Big Chill Festival in England, Yorke performed the song and, according to reports, announced that it is, in fact, "a new Radiohead song." It seems likely that the song will ... More >>

Wednesday's Pick: Autolux

​AutoluxThis Will Destroy YouGreat American Music Hall9 p.m., $18Not many bands are star vehicles for women drummers. Lenny Kravitz rhythmist Cindy Blackman's jazz trio comes close, but Los Angeles band Autolux' trap-kit pounder Carla Azar is in a class all her own. She plays barefoot at center st ... More >>

Lux-urious Noise

Show Preview: Robyn

Video: Thom Yorke Covering Joy Division in Oakland Last Night with Atoms For Peace

The sound quality on this clip is that of a cassette tape left to melt in your car, but this is still a pretty great video, posted on Pitchfork this morning, from last night's Atoms For Peace show at the Fox in Oakland. Thom Yorke and co. covered the Joy Division classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart, ... More >>

Last Night: Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace, Flying Lotus at the Fox Theater

Christopher Victorio​Atoms for Peace, Flying Lotus Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Fox Theater Better than: scouring the Internet for leaks of Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma. The glowing eyes of two Moorish, gold Genies peered out over the Fox Theater Wednesday night. Fans had bought the place out to ... More >>

Concert preview: Atoms for Peace

Coachella Brings Pavement, Jay-Z, Them Crooked Vultures, Thom Yorke, and Girls Together

PavementMarcus Roth © 1999​Pavement's first West Coast date of its 2010 reunion tour was announced today, as the Coachella lineup went live with the indie rock giants as Sunday's big headliner. The news will likely send the group's many geeked out fans into organizing the So Cal caravans for the ... More >>

Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras at Cafe du Nord

Action Jackson​Trashcan Sinatras Thursday, July 30, 2009 Café Du Nord Better Than: Any other Scottish band on a wet weeknight in San Francisco The Trashcan Sinatras are one of pop's--and Scotland's--best-kept secrets. They've been around for two decades, winning fans via extensive college rad ... More >>

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Catching the Dub Bug

Official Unofficial Radiohead Set List at SF Outside Lands

Chillout Folk

Peter Morén

The Last Tycoon(Wichita/Quarterstick)

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DJ Vadim Ditches Breakbeat for Dub on 'The Soundcatcher'

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A Fanclub's Notes

Once hyped as a supergroup, Teenage Fanclub may have to settle for midlevel stardom, and that may be just fine

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Comfortably Numb

The road to music snobbery is paved with the music of Radiohead

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