Stereogum — When Esquire UK interviewed Noel Gallagher for a recent cover story, Alex Bilmes asked the musician what his hobbies are, to which he responded: interviews. “Because I get to be a gobshite, and I get to do that thing: to be the last of a dying bree... more info

Stereogum — Professional a cappella group Straight No Chaser are releasing their fifth(!) album for Atlantic Records, The New Old Fashioned, in two days. (People really like a cappella these days!) Like the majority of a cappella groups, they mostly do covers, a... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has earned plenty of acclaim for his recent film work, but now the band's producer, Nigel Godrich, has an immersive and unsettling new score for a film by one of L.A.'s finest rising photographers. Godrich has teamed up w... more info

Stereogum — It seems safe to say that nobody is going to say no to a new Radiohead album whenever the band decides to give us one. Last month, drummer Phil Selway confirmed the band were in the studio working on a new album, although he was vague about its statu... more info

Stereogum — Irish epic art-rockers Cloud Castle Lake are one of many bands from across the Atlantic making their US performance debut at CMJ Music Marathon this week. They’re also one of the best, a compositionally ambitious lot with a knack for dynamic buildu... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Concert documentaries are practically as old as the sitar, and films set in recording studios not much newer than that.But the music is the thing, and there are many things, from many different places, in “Junun,” a jolting jam session of a pictu... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, we learned that Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood had gone to India to work on a new album with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and with the Rajasthan Express, a qawwali group from northwest India. The great director Paul Thomas Ander... more info

Stereogum — “Silver Car Crash,” the first single from Majical Cloudz’s new album Are You Alone?, drew heavily from the Smiths’ “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.” The project’s title track has now arrived via Pitchfork, and it bears the even he... more info

Stereogum — Roman GianArthur is a member of Janelle Monáe’s Wondaland Arts Society, the group of Atlanta R&B weirdos that also counts “Classic Man” singer Jidenna among its ranks. We posted a song he did with Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes five years ago, b... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Salman Rushdie talked to Weekend Edition about his new novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. Kim Gordon shared a road trip diary at the Washington Post. Truth & Fiction interviewed author Sarah Gerard. Radiohead is recording a new... more info