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Sonic Youth Say Radiohead 'Made Other Musicians Look Bad'

Sonic Youth have no desire to follow in the footsteps of bands like Radiohead and the Rolling Stones.

Following the release of Youth's latest, 'The Eternal,' bassist Kim Gordon dismissed Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' business model, which found the Brit rockers initially offering the album online to fans who could pay whatever they wanted for it, but later, releasing the album formally via Matador.

"I don't really think they did it by themselves," Gordon told the Guardian. "They did a marketing ploy by themselves and then got someone else to put it out. It seemed really community-oriented, but it wasn't catered towards their musician brothers and sisters, who don't sell as many records as them. It makes everyone else look bad for not offering their music for whatever."

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Radiohead Building New Album From Legos, Sorta

Radiohead announced that they're busy working on the follow-up to 2007's pay-what-you-want effort, 'In Rainbows.' In an interview with the BBC, bassist Colin Greenwood revealed that the group has reteamed with Radiohead uber-producer Nigel Godrich.

But it doesn't sound like we'll have anything tangible soon. "It was very noisy and chaotic and really fun," Greenwood told the BBC. "It's at the stage where we've got the big Lego box out and we've tipped it out on the floor and we're just looking at all the bits and thinking, 'What's next?'"

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Song-Inspired Band Names: Radiohead

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Inspired by Talking Heads' 'Radio Head'

Radiohead originally formed under the name On a Friday, which was the only day they could all practice together. When a critic pointed out that he was bored by their name, they swapped it for the title of the song 'Radio Head' from Talking Heads' 'True Stories' album.
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Potent Quotables: Miley Miffed by Diss


"I was dying to meet them and they said, 'We don't really do that.' I'm gonna ruin them!" --Miley Cyrus

The speed-talking tween star like, totally told on "stinkin' Radiohead" after they dismissed her at the Grammys.
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Robert Smith Hits Back at 'Idiot Critics'

Cure frontman Robert Smith ruffled a few feathers last week when he made what was interpreted as disparaging remarks about Radiohead and their pay-what-you-want model for the release of the band's last album, 'In Rainbows.' Since then, Smith has taken to the Cure's website to lash out at members of the press for the way his Radiohead remarks were interpreted.

"These idiot critics have tried very hard to turn my general point -- a point I made using Radiohead's 'In Rainbows: Pay What You Want' marketing ruse as is the most widely known example -- into a mock shockhorror," he writes. "How dare anyone question the famously independent and anti-capitalist Radiohead. They sell more 'product' that the Cure so their strategy obviously 'worked' (Huh?!!). And anyway, Robert Smith is way too old to comment on contemporary culture."

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Grammy Winners 2009: Robert Plant, Coldplay Lead British Invasion at the Grammys

Robert Plant and Coldplay lead a full-on British invasion at this year's Grammys, with Plant and his partner-in-crime, Alison Krauss, going five-for-five on the night, including wins for Album of the Year with their collaborative album, 'Raising Sand,' and Record of the Year for 'Please Read the Letter.'

"In the old days we would've called this selling out," Plant said. "I think it's a good way to spend a Sunday."

The duo also took home trophies for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album, Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for 'Rich Woman' and Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for 'Killing the Blues.'

Meanwhile, Coldplay, dressed in attire straight from the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' took home trophies for Song of the Year ('Viva La Vida'), Best Rock Album ('Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends') and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals.

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Deerhoof Hand Down Lessons From Radiohead, R.E.M.

Learning from Radiohead and R.E.M. is like apprenticing with Picasso. Just ask indie beloved Deerhoof, who recently toured with Thom Yorke and Co., who passed down some lessons from R.E.M.

"I, at one point, had to go up to Thom Yorke and attempt to describe just the sheer gratitude that the tour was so wonderful of an experience for us, and his answer was interesting," Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier told Spinner at the band's Interface taping. "He immediately went back in his mind to when Radiohead used to open for R.E.M., and he said that R.E.M. always also made a point of making the experience of a tour, which can be grueling or impersonal at times, into something beautiful and friendship creating."

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