choose your difficulty
daily dos
tue 12/16/2008
Beyonce, Gnarls Barkley, Radiohead and Weezer are a few of the artists featured in Spin Magazine's 20 Best Music Videos of 2008.
the go team
daily dos
wed 11/26/2008
A boy's world crumbles around him in Radiohead's new animated video for "15 Step." (via Stereogum)
sombrero verde
daily dos
wed 4/23/2008
Maná joins British rock group Radiohead and hip hop band The Roots as one of Reuters' Top 10 music acts going green.
ni entiendo
daily dos
tue 4/8/2008
Radiohead, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine will descend upon Chicago to headline the Lollapalooza festival this August.
dos daily
daily dos
thu 1/17/2008
Alicia Keys swaps places with Radiohead and returns to the number one spot on this week's Billboard 200 chart.
Café Tacuba vs. Radiohead
versus
wed 1/2/2008
| name | Café Tacuba. | Radiohead. |
| hometown | Ciudad Satélite in México City, México. | Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. |
| formed in | 1989. | 1991. |
| members | Rubén Albarrán, Joselo Rangel, Quique Rangel and Emmanuel del Real. | Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway and Ed O'Brien. |
| sounds like | Alternative rock and electronic pop with folk influences. En español. | Alternative rock and electronic pop with modern influences. In English. |
| cite as influences | Sex Pistols, Rockdrigo, Talking Heads, Jaime López and Celso Piña. | Queen, Elvis Costello, Joy Division, The Smiths and The Pixies. |
| previously known as | Alicia Ya No Vive Aquí. | On A Friday. |
| last studio album | Sino. | In Rainbows. |
| lead singer's solo album | Sizu Yantra's Bienvenido Al Sueño. | Thom Yorke's The Eraser. |
| solo albums by other members | Joselo's Oso and Lejos. | Jonny Greenwood's soundtracks for Bodysong and There Will Be Blood. |
| common complaint | Lead singer can't sing. | Lead singer won't sing. |
| producer of choice | Gustavo Santaolalla. | Nigel Godrich. |
| making friends in high places | Turned in an instrumental album which their label refused to release unless additional songs with vocals were added. The resulting release won a Grammy. | Self-released their latest album, allowing buyers to set their own price. Former label alleges band rejected $6 million advance. Frontman Yorke calls claim "bullshit." |
| recent good deeds | Rock pa'l sureste benefit for victims of recent floods in Tabasco, México. | War Child to benefit children affected in war-torn countries. |
| the critics | Allmusic: "No Café Tacuba album sounds quite like another, for the band generally pursues a grand artistic vision for each project that goes all the way from the scope of the album to which musical styles will be fused, to which collaborators are best suited for the performances." | Allmusic: "Radiohead was one of the few alternative bands of the early '90s to draw heavily from the grandiose arena rock that characterized U2's early albums. But the band internalized that epic sweep, turning it inside out to tell tortured, twisted tales of angst and alienation." |
| webprops | 35,335 friends on official MySpace. | 11,448 friends on US record label-made MySpace. |
| best video moment | Getting both folksy and artsy in the black-and-white Maria. | Getting all modern and artsy in the color Fake Plastic Trees. |
dry your eye
daily dos
fri 11/16/2007
British pop singer Lily Allen tells Rolling Stone Magazine that Radiohead is "arrogant" for allowing fans to choose the price of its new album, In Rainbows. (via NME)
Café Tacvba, Vanessa Carlton, Radiohead and Thrice.
the music press
tue 10/16/2007
- According to Billboard.com, Café Tacvba's Sino “is a welcome return—even if it doesn't recall the patchwork of rock and folklore, or the outer-limits experimentalism, that put the group on the map more than a decade ago.” The Associated Press says the music in the band's sixth studio album is “exquisite, "tight," as well as "complex and harmonic.” While The New York Times makes sweet lemonade out of lemons proposing that “ if the songs weren’t so unsure of their place in the universe, perhaps the music wouldn’t be so inventively restless.”
- Pop singer Vanessa Carlton returns with her third album, Heroes and Thieves. Online Slant Magazine digs the way Carlton has matured as a singer and songwriter “but the material in general isn't exactly what you'd expect from an artist who left the nest in search of creative freedom and appreciation”. Entertainment Weekly gives the album a B for sticking “to the ornate, sentimental formula of her Grammy-nominated debut...and critically heralded but sales-impaired follow-up.”
- Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows has been the toast of the Interwebs in recent days for its pay-whatever-you-want-for-it pricing scheme. Rolling Stone thinks the album rocks so hard "all other rock stars owe us an apology.” To British newspaper The Guardian, In Rainbows represents “the strongest collection of songs Radiohead have assembled for a decade.” Dusted Magazine spoils the party, arguing that “it's the sort of thing that might sound amazing live, but that doesn't fare as well under the spotlight of high-fidelity recording.”
- Post-hardcore band Thrice return with The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II, the first half of their four-part EP saga. Sputnikmusic writes that the concept album is “halfway to becoming an amazing cycle…There are a few flaws and the second half of the collection to worry about, but so far, Thrice has produced another stunner.” Subba-cultcha.com applauds Thrice's musical diversity: “the sheer scope and strength of songwriting makes this album stand out amongst the mire.”
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