When Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood stepped into New York’s tiny Mercury Lounge in November 1994 to play an acoustic duo show, their band was known for a single song that they’d already ...

Nobody expected The Bends from Radiohead. When the band’s second album was released in 1995, pretty much everyone assumed this would be the last we'd hear from the British quintet that gave us the ...

“My Iron Lung,” the album’s first single, is said to be a bitter response to the popularity of “Creep,” which had stayed relevant and so insulated the band, keeping them alive against the shifting ...

The post Radiohead’s The Bends Was a Sophomore Record No One Saw Coming: Classic Album Review appeared first on Consequence. One of my favorite anecdotes about the creation of The Bends highlights the ...

If they had followed the script of just about every other band that had eked out a grunge-tinged surprise hit in the ‘90s, Radiohead would have faded quickly into obscurity. Certainly, not even their ...

The Bends contains some of the songs most beloved by the band’s faithful. Here are our choices for the Top 5 on the album. If you only know Radiohead post-OK Computer, you might be surprised at how ...

The brainy Oxford, England band bring nuance and impressionistic, foreboding beauty to the uber British sound, schooling Oasis, Blur and the like at their own game. By William Goodman Think about ...