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Hayley Williams’ music taste is top-notch — and on Monday, she shared some of the albums that have been “keeping [her] company” recently.

Among the albums on the Paramore frontwoman’s list were Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, both of which she had sweet things to share.

About Bey’s country LP, Williams wrote on Instagram stories: “I cry at the same part of ‘American Requiem,’ every time. Showed my mom and she got chills around the same time. When Beyonce sings, ‘If you ain...

Radiohead side project the Smile — featuring the band’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood along with former Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner — have announced their second album, Wall of Eyes, the follow-up to their 2022 debut A Light for Attracting Attention.

Ahead of the LP’s January 26 release, the trio have shared the video for the album’s title track, a visual that reunites Yorke with director Paul Thomas Anderson, who previously helmed the singer’s Anima short film along with Radiohead’s “Daydreaming” video:

Wall of Eyes features the...

Radiohead wouldn’t be Radiohead without the eerie falsetto of Thom Yorke, but he didn’t become one of popular music’s most recognizable voices overnight. In an excerpt from Jason Thomas Gordon’s upcoming book The Singers Talk (via Rolling Stone), Yorke discussed how Neil Young and Jeff Buckley helped him hone in on his signature sound, the perks of bringing a chiropractor on tour, and the time he got so stoned he forgot his lyrics onstage.

Despite briefly taking vocal lessons in school, Yorke said he he used to think that his voice was “uncomfortably high or awkward.” Thankfully, that didn’t keep him from sending off a demo tape to a music magazine when he was 18, which earned him a pretty glowing review in response: “‘Who is this guy? He sounds just like Neil Young!’”

“I went, ‘Who’s Neil Young?'” Yorke recalled. “I’d never even heard Neil Young,...

Happy 20th anniversary to Hail to the Thief, Radiohead’s most misunderstood album. If you doubt the last part of that sentence, consider the fact that Thom Yorke once described this supremely anxious, stubbornly combative music as being ideal “for shagging.” Our five brainy lads released it in the summer of 2003, two years after Kid A and Amnesiac caused a tectonic shift that changed music forever, as every fan at the time couldn’t wait to remind you. This is why Thief was always destined to be the black sheep...

Projects can be allocated up to €1 million in financing.

Berlin’s VFX scene has received a cash injection of €4m from the German capital’s Senate for the next two years.

The funding is on top of an existing €5m that is already being provided by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg’s Digital Film Production programme.

The additional funding comes with a change to the programme’s guidelines which will now see the maximum grant that can be allocated for a project increasing from the previous €500,000 to €1m.

Projects supported since the programme’s launch in 2020 have included VFX work by Berlin-based...