By Adam Rathe, eMusic ContributorHigh-school musicians haven't got it easy. Most never make it out of their parents' garage or, even worse, out of marching band. But for a chosen few, the music they started making in high school… more »

By Dave Sumner, eMusic ContributorDespite popular belief, jazz and pop music aren't at odds. In the past — and still to this day — jazz musicians have been both contributing to and tackling compositions from the Great American Songbook:… more »

Kendra Morris

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By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorThe Amy Winehouse/Adele comparisons are inevitable, and yet Kendra Morris brings her own distinct throwback soul bent to Mockingbird, a crate-digging collection of covers that touches upon everything from the Rolling Stones ("Miss You") to… more »

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By Arye Dworken, eMusic ContributorMusicians are narcissists. It's the chief qualification for getting on stage and soaking in the adulation of the masses. So when a band or a songwriter references another performer in a song, there's almost always… more »

Frank Ocean

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAs first revealed on NME, Frank Ocean played a far-too-brief version of "Fake Plastic Trees" at an industry event recently, turning the Radiohead standard into a slow-burning soul number. Check out some cell phone footage… more »

By Laura Studarus, eMusic ContributorUltraísta is spearheaded by producer Nigel Godrich, and the building blocks of the project's self-titled debut are what we've come to expect from Radiohead's unofficial sixth member. Alongside vocalist Laura Bettinson (FEMME/Dimbleby & Capper) and… more »

Ultraísta

By Andrew Parks, eMusic Contributor The Artist/Album: ultraísta, ultraísta (Temporary Residence, October 2nd) Why They're Worth Checking Out: Because multi-instrumentalist/producer Nigel Godrich is the guy responsible for all of Radiohead's good records. And while he's also involved with Thom Yorke's Atoms… more »

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorThere is every other music festival and then there is Coachella, the California-desert weekend that, in many ways, set the template for all that followed. The first U.S. festival to boast big-ticket reunions and all-over-the-map… more »

By Steve Holtje, eMusic ContributorRadiohead guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood's soundtrack for There Will Be Blood was obviously influenced by avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933). TWBB was denied an Oscar Best Original Score nomination because Greenwood recycled bits of his… more »

By Seth Colter Walls, eMusic ContributorAs long as PT Anderson is making movies about uber-driven weirdos, Jonny Greenwood's piercing, experimental classical compositions are going to fit the bill. And though Greenwood brings some of the same, eerie glissando effects to… more »

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorIt was a year full of surprising breakouts and breathtaking discoveries, with reliable favorites from familiar faces and strong entries from new voices. These are our Top 100 Records of 2011. more »

By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-Chief The last week before the holidays, and we are down to a trickle as far as new arrivals. This will be the last New This Week roundup of 2011. Where does the time go? Not… more »

By Michelangelo Matos, eMusic ContributorIt's hilarious how people still think Radiohead is a rock band. Ever since Kid A, guitar worshipers have spit on the ground and wondered when the hell Thom and friends are going to finally get… more »

By Ryan Dombal, eMusic ContributorIt's their first genuinely great album and still their best pop record. The Bends showed that Radiohead were intent on being more than just a grunge footnote. It was released a year after Kurt Cobain's… more »

By Ryan Dombal, eMusic ContributorHail to the Thief introduces itself with the sounds of a guitar sputtering to life through an amplifier. The static-y buzz leads into "2+2=5," the band's loudest, most flat-out-rocking song since OK Computer. With Thief,… more »

By Ryan Dombal, eMusic ContributorReleased less than a year after Kid A, Amnesiac was made during the same fertile recording period that birthed its predecessor. Yet it's hardly a bunch of also-rans and B-sides. Instead, Amnesiac is at once… more »

By Ryan Dombal, eMusic ContributorNearly 20 years removed from Pablo Honey's 1993 release, it's funny to think that the long Radiohead odyssey started with such a conventional ode to American indie. Oscillating between acoustic love songs inspired by R.E.M.… more »

By Ryan Dombal, eMusic ContributorFor a band of self-conscious perfectionists, following up an album that many called the best of the decade (or, in certain hype-fueld U.K. circles, the century) is no easy task. Knowing that they were in… more »

By Ryan Dombal, eMusic ContributorOK Computer was released on June 17, 1997. The domain name "Google.com" was registered just three months later, on September 15. In 1997, the Internet had yet to become an omnipotent cultural force, yet Radiohead… more »

By Ryan Dombal, eMusic ContributorRadiohead notice how we're increasingly staring into unreality - on the computer, on cable news, and in movies - and it worries them. As wary soothsayers for the Internet age, the Oxford quintet have remained… more »

By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorIn a SPIN cover story during the press run-up to Hail To The Thief, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien mused to Chuck Klosterman about longevity in rock. "I'm interested in bands as beasts," he said. "I'm… more »

By Vijith Assar, eMusic ContributorThere's really no debating that 2007 will be remembered, first and foremost, as the year Radiohead gleefully suicide-bombed those last stubborn fragments of the old music industry and swept the smoldering remnants into the new… more »