Stereogum — More than a year after they released The Bends, Radiohead spent their summer touring North America’s finer outdoor shed venues, opening for Alanis Morrisette. Considering the lordly spot Radiohead now occupy, that seems like a gross indignity. But ... more info

Stereogum — Flying Lotus must have gotten the memo that it’s Radiohead Week here at Stereogum, so he brought Jonny Greenwood onto his BBC Radio 1 residency for a guest mix. His set included an unreleased solo track called “Lola Choir,” an instrumental edit... more info

Stereogum — Unlike Radiohead albums, it’s not really fair for me to rank band-inspired tattoos from worst to best. At the end of the day, that’s someone’s art and another person’s flesh that I’m critiquing, and this isn’t the right platform for it. W... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Toni Morrison discussed dealing with failure at the NEA Arts Magazine. Stream the trailer for the new Kurt Cobain documentary, Montage of Heck. Stereogum listed essential Radiohead non-album tracks. Author Claire Fuller interviewed herself at The Ner... more info

Stereogum — My passionate teenage obsession with Radiohead coincided with the rise of Napster. So whereas previous generations of fanatical music fans lived and died by record stores, catalogs, and zines, I surfed the far recesses of the internet for rarities an... more info

Stereogum — I have almost nothing to say on the subject of Radiohead. I barely know anything about their music, because I’ve never liked it. It’s not a value judgment on their personhood or anything — it’s just not for me. The only person in my immediate... more info

Nialler9 — After the announcement of his gig at the Marquee in Cork for Tuesday June 16th, Beck has today been announced for the Royal Hospital Kilmainham for Wednesday June 17th, this time with guests Jonny Greenwood and the London Contemporary Orchestra. The... more info

Stereogum — The Dublin trio Cloud Castle Lake, whose Dandelion EP came out last year and impressed a lot of people, have a new single called “Glacier” coming out next month. It’s a jittery, ethereal piece of work, with a rhythm section that slip-slides all... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — St. Vincent won "Best Alternative Music Album" at the Grammys tonight (before the telecast)! Past winners of that award include U2, REM, Tom Waits, Beck, Nirvana, Radiohead, Beastie Boys, Coldplay, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Bon Iver, Gotye,.... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The last time Beck was in competition for a Grammy Award for album of the year he ended up one of several young acts – along with Eminem and Radiohead – to be shut out by an unexpected win by the veterans of Steely Dan. more info