The Bends, Radiohead's sophomore album released in March 1995, acted as the catalyst for their amazing transformation. It’s the album that briefly captures Radiohead as rock heroes, before they ...

How the long shadow of "Creep," a supernatural novel, a cameo from a future Walking Dead actor, and more played into the band's 1995 alt-rock classic ...

It is also worth noting that 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Radiohead's second album The Bends, released in March 1995. The band have already marked that anniversary by releasing previously unseen ...

From ‘OK Computer’ (1997) onwards, a political streak permeated Radiohead’s work. But on The Bends, Yorke’s mental state inspired songs which satisfied themselves with exploring the ...

A look at a simpler time when the band were just one-hit wonders wondering where to go next. Radiohead’s The Bends Was a Sophomore Record No One Saw Coming: Classic Album Review ...

Radiohead has unearthed rare footage of a 1995 solo performance by its lead singer Thom Yorke in Toronto to mark three decades since the release of its beloved sophomore album The Bends — and ...

At that point, they were pretty much known for one song - Creep - but in premiering a number of ferocious new numbers from what was to become The Bends, Radiohead announced themselves as a force ...

A legendary rock band appears to have confirmed its first tour in seven years. Speculation that English alt-rock icon ...

Whether or not you consider The Bends to be Radiohead’s first masterpiece probably hinges on whether you think “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” is an unbearably poignant meditation on death and ...

Brian Wilson once tried to decapitate brother Dennis with a cymbal, Liam and Noel Gallagher exchange regular kung-fu kicks on stage and Colin and Jon ...

In a 2006 Pitchfork interview he expressed irritation at bands who’d taken their musical cues from The Bends-era Radiohead, particularly radio-friendly ballad High and Dry. “It upset me a lot ...