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Jonny Greenwood

June 2024

  • Billie Eilish and Shabaka Hutchings.

    Best culture of 2024 so far
    The best albums of 2024 so far

  • Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood pictured performing in Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands, in 2017.

    Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood calls backlash over Israel show amid Gaza war ‘unprogressive’

May 2024

  • Press shot of Jonny Greenwood, he has his fingers in his ears. Behind him are large pink/purple flowers on a bush.

    Jonny Greenwood: ‘I’m still arsing around on instruments like when I was a kid’

    The Radiohead guitarist changed rock music, then conquered the world of soundtracks. But can he revolutionise the church organ with an eight-hour composition?

March 2024

  • the Smile’s Thom Yorke at Eventim Apollo, London.

    The Smile review – Thom Yorke on jolly and utterly joyful form

    Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner’s pandemic-born band fly free from expectations, taking in everything from krautrock to Afrobeat

January 2024

  • The Smile’s Jonny Greenwood, Tom Skinner and Thom Yorke.

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – agile, tuneful second album

  • Normal service is resumed … Tom Skinner, Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – inventive Radiohead side project risks eclipsing the real thing

July 2023

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100 metronomes wound up for performance of Ligeti Poeme Symphonique, Buffalo Arts Festival, Albright-Knox Gallery
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    How György Ligeti soundtracked 2001, inspired Radiohead and composed music like ‘a knife through Stalin’s heart’

    The Hungarian escaped two murderous regimes, wrote pieces to be played on metronomes and car horns, and depicted inner and outer space to Stanley Kubrick. Now, in his centenary year, the Proms will celebrate Ligeti’s genius

May 2023

  • Dudu Tassa and Jonny Greenwood sitting on sunlit stone steps.

    Global album of the month
    Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood: Jarak Qaribak review – engaging reworkings of love songs from across the Middle East

    The Radiohead guitarist teams up with the Israeli bandleader and guests from across the region for an uplifting survey of songs from Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and more

November 2022

  • Tom Skinner

    Tom Skinner on the Smile, Sons of Kemet and going solo: ‘It gives me a blank slate to explore’

    The Sons of Kemet drummer explains how he’s keeping his cool while launching his debut record, working with Jonny and Thom from Radiohead – and preparing for the birth of his second child

May 2022

  • Attracting the right attention … The Smile (L-R) Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke and Tom Skinner

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention review – Radiohead spinoff offers no alarms, some surprises

    Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood team with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner for a debut that may not be head-spinningly different, but is still exceptional

February 2022

  • Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner, AKA the Smile, at Magazine, London.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    The Smile review – Yorke and Greenwood stay close to the mothership

    Thom Yorke’s latest spin-off excels the more it deviates from Radiohead – in a thrilling frenzy of analogue synths and percussion

January 2022

  • The Smile at Magazine London.

    The Smile review – Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood give prog rock tendencies full rein

    The Radiohead duo, joined by Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, pair memorable dynamics with typically uneasy lyrics in an intriguing if meandering performance

November 2021

  • Down the rabbithole

    Down the rabbit hole
    What connects Drive My Car to Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood?

    From Haruki Murakami to Paul Thomas Anderson via The Big Sleep, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film inspires a trip down the rabbit hole
  • Radiohead.

    Radiohead: Kid A Mnesia review – two classic albums, plus surprises

    The band’s 20th-anniversary reissue of Kid A and Amnesiac along with unreleased material makes for fascinating listening
  • Good at shoulder-shrugging convulsions of misery … Kristen Stewart in Spencer.

    Spencer review – Kristen Stewart’s Diana impersonation is enjoyably strange

    Pablo Larraín’s overwrought fantasy, set during a stifling royal Christmas in 1991, offers an arthouse-bizarro version of Diana’s story

September 2021

  • Swaggering vocal dexterity ... Little Simz at End of the Road.

    End of the Road 2021 review – phones firmly in pockets at life-affirming festival

    From Little Simz to Richard Dawson, the indie stalwart’s 15th anniversary party provided a joyous slice of summer in a difficult year

May 2021

  • Tom Skinner, Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke, aka the Smile.

    Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood form new project, the Smile

    Group, which also includes Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, will make their debut at Live at Worthy Farm, filmed on the Glastonbury festival site

March 2020

  • Krzysztof Penderecki

    Enigmatic, devotional, restless … a guide to Krzysztof Penderecki's music

    From Kubrick to Aphex Twin, Lynch to Radiohead, the Polish composer’s otherworldly sounds have inspired musicians and soundtracked some of cinema’s most haunting moments

November 2019

  • Colin Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Ed O’Brian, Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway Radiohead at Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, Britain - 28 Nov 2007

    Kid A, B, C, D or E: which Radiohead member are you?

    As three of the group explore their solo pursuits and reveal more of their personalities, take our quiz to find if you are a tempestuous Thom or a flirty Phil

October 2019

  • ‘I haven’t played with musicians like this since school. It’s so exciting’ … Greenwood.

    Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood: 'Instead of cocaine, hook me up with a recorder group!'

    He has composed a Prom and scored Paul Thomas Anderson films. As he launches his own classical record label, the guitarist reveals how it all started with the humble recorder
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