Pitchfork — Denizens of Oklahoma, time to break out the fake blood and hand puppets: After a rigorous nomination process, the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize??" is now the state's Official Rock Song by the order of Oklahoma's state legislature, Tulsa World report... more info

Pitchfork — Denizens of Oklahoma, time to break out the fake blood and hand puppets: After a rigorous nomination process, the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize??" is now the state's Official Rock Song by the order of Oklahoma's state legislature, Tul... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — I don't have cable. And if I did, my television would never be set to VH1 because most of their "creative content" makes My Super Sweet Sixteen look like The Sopranos. But occasionally they put on this show called Storytellers where egomaniacal mus... more info

Pitchfork — Virgil Griffith is a 25-year-old grad student at Caltech, and in his spare time he makes elaborate charts comparing people's SAT scores to their tastes in music and books. And you know what that means: Caltech grad students have way too much spare t... more info

Idolator — After making some disparaging comments about a misunderstood perception of "The Radiohead Model" (which Maura helpfully defined correctly) and kicking up a consequent shitstorm, Cure lead singer Robert Smith has, refreshingly, expanded on his ideas r... more info

The Quietus — Says he is "QUESTIONING THE DUMB ACCEPTANCE OF THE 'FREEART IS THE 'NEW' PARADIGM" (apologies for caps) more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Kyle Gustafson Right now, Radiohead is so universally beloved that it becomes news whenever any prominent artist says anything remotely bad about them. (Well, in our universe it's news, anyway.) So when Cure frontman Robert Smith sniffed a... more info

Idolator — So last week's little controversy over Robert Smith saying that In Rainbows' pay-what-you-want experiment was maybe not so good for art led to me getting annoyed with the term "The Radiohead Model," and how it's been misused for the purposes of argui... more info

Stereogum — In a Kanye-locked post, the Godlike Genius clarifies calling Radiohead's In Rainbows strategy, aka "marketing ruse," an "idiot plan," taking a moment to address the "idiot critics": "I AM NOT CONFUSING 'ARTISTIC VALUE' WITH 'COMMERCIAL VALUE' ... MER... more info

Guardian Music — Comments cut from TV interview with rapper include attack on Radiohead and praise for Chris BrownKanye West lashed out at Radiohead and rallied behind Chris Brown at the taping of a recent TV special, according to reports. Not that anyone will see it... more info