PRESS REVIEWS SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE SHOW
The house band of the uneasy new millennium filled the Shoreline Amphitheatre Tuesday with 20,000 enraptured souls, collectively mesmerized by what is perhaps the least likely sound in commercial pop music. Confounding the oddsmakers, Radiohead has made a cash cow of its falsetto angst, its feedback squalls and off-kilter lullabies. [full review at sfgate.com]
Radiohead is not bulletproof. The band does have one weakness. Luckily, they got that sole hole in the armor out of the way first on Tuesday evening at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. Many fawning critics would have you believe the band behind 1997’s revered “OK Computer” is actually flawless. Most passionate fans would contest that there simply isn’t anything the band doesn’t do well. But it’s simply not true. There is one area where the band doesn’t excel: math. [full review at timesstar.com]
There are so many reasons why Radiohead is considered one of the world’s greatest rock bands. It expresses more courage to go outside industry borders than any 21st century band should, considering the pressure to produce hits for impatient recording labels these days. Yet Radiohead does virtually anything it wants musically, from writing hits to producing epic and emotional masterpieces in sonic experimentation that rely on few rules. Its studio work is legendary, inspiring respect from even those who don’t like it or admit they simply can’t understand it. But if a band can’t pull most of that off live, the title is empty. [full review at bayarea.com]
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