As someone who usually finds himself spinning the same couple dozen favorites over and over again, joining the Popblerd! team gave me new reason to leave my musical bubble and dive head first into the year’s new music. Needless to say, it was a wonderful experience. I ended up with over thirty albums all told in my final tally of the year’s best, but like any bad parent, I was able to pick favorites. So without further ado, here are […]
The Viewfinder: Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower”
She saw the lights, she saw the pale English face Some strange machines repeating beats and thumping bass Visions of pills that put you in a loving trance That make it possible for all white boys to dance-Ben Folds, “Zak & Sara” Within my first view of Radiohead’s new “Lotus Flower” video, these words immediately came to my head. Of course, we already knew Thom Yorke was/is a spaz, but his moves here are on some deranged, other shit. I […]
“The King of Limbs”: New Radiohead Album Out This Week!
Between this news and The Arcade Fire’s Grammy win last night, every wanna-be hipster from 25-40 is shitting their drawers with glee right now. British rock superstars Radiohead will be releasing their eighth album, The King of Limbs, via their website via a multitude of packages this Saturday. The news is a semi-surprise; the members of Radiohead have been discussing working on new music for quite some time. The most unexpected thing here is the fact that the album’s coming out […]