The current Creative Loafing features my piece, "Radiohead Leads the Way: Why it's the best band to debut in the past 20 years." Here's an excerpt:
Radiohead, which performs Tues., May 6, at the Ford Amphitheatre, has also earned a rep for awe-inspiring concerts. More important, the English quintet excels in all the categories: influence, innovation, listenability and live prowess. Radiohead's richly textured art-rock, specifically the sound they perfected on 1997's OK Computer, led to clones like Coldplay, while Radiohead's more electronica-leaning Kid A (2000) influenced newer bands such as Bloc Party. On the business front, Radiohead's move last year to independently release In Rainbows as a digital download for which consumers could name their own price is one of the most revolutionary events in the annals of music commerce.
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This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2008.