Radiohead
July 2024
Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government
Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule
June 2024
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July 2023
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
June 2023
May 2023
- Global album of the monthDudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood: Jarak Qaribak review – engaging reworkings of love songs from across the Middle EastThe 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