engine. We all know how sputtering our own suggestion motors can be. Think of that primitive analog exchange known as the “First Date”: Oh, you like Radiohead? Do you know SigurRos? Pause. Hate them. Can you really predict what albums or novels even your closest friend will enjoy? You might offer an occasio

and listen to “Karma Police” and on the other enact the sick OK Computer logic of surveillance, even name a British GCHQ monitoring program after the Radiohead song? The aim: Provide "either (a) a web browsing profile for every visible user on 124 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018356 the Internet, or (b) a user profile

ing percussion" but also being "exquisitely dark and artistically abrasive". Such alternative rock style has been compared to bands like U2, Oasis, Radiohead and Travis. The band acknowledges the Scottish alternative rock band, Travis, as a major influence on their earlier material. In their second studi

le who have taken Q to heart like to say they've been paying attention from the very beginning, the way someone might brag about having listened to Radiohead before The Bends. A promise of foreknowledge is part of Q's appeal, as is the feeling of being part of a secret community, which is reinforced thro

n The Times of Israel The Epic Failure of the BDS Cu=tural Boycott The headlines have focused for w=eks on the campaign by Roger Waters to persuade Radiohead to cancel its Is=ael gig. The self-appointed musical boycotter-in-chief has been no more su=cessful with Thom Yorke than with hundreds of other per

ued at £1.2bn (61.3bn), while the recorded music business is harder to value as its future is in question, with big acts like the Rolling Stones and Radiohead having already jumped ship. A bid is unlikely to be made until EMI has resolved its issues with Citigroup, which it must pay £120m to settle a cov