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As seen on YouTube; Angine de Poitrine live on KEXP

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Angine de Poitrine live on KEXP. French-Canadian Dada-ist instrumental rock-techno-jazz maybe? A bit of Can, Primus, King Crimson and Sun Ra and a whole lot of virtuoso drums and guitar loop-pedal juggling. If I could I’d go straight for the moshpit but it’s just me in my homeoffice so …

Some of the YouTube comments (not a cesspool, for once) are spot on;

Aside from their insane technical skills, the fact that the guitarist can keep the looper in time whilst playing a microtonal guitar on top of odd timesignatures blows my mind. All hail!

No artificial intelligence without original thought could come up with something this bizarre and enthralling.

my wife isn’t going to appreciate a single second of this

Anyway, just look & listen;

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
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Radiohead 2025 jukebox

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As a long-time Radiohead fan I was happy to see video of their first gig in many years and although did enjoy the set I don’t have the feeling I’m missing out on anything really. Great songs, great musicians but nothing new, nothing really unexpected (not counting a couple of songs that they only very rarely perform live).

I watched the vid and then switched to a The Smile live show from 2024 and (although) it’s very different and -to me- a lot more relevant than what Radiohead is doing now which (to me) seems “just” a rehash of past greatness maybe?

Radiohead - FULL SHOW - live Madrid 2025-11-04 night 1 European Tour complete concert
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Music from Our Radioheads: Thom Yorke solo in Zermatt

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Long time no Radiohead here, so let’s fix that shall we? Here’s Thom Yorke solo in Zermatt (Switzerland) playing songs from Radiohead, his solo-records and his new band (The Smile). If anything this is a testament to the great songwriter the man is! Also remarkable; he seems so much more at ease on stage now, maybe having accepted the spotlights which sometimes seemed too much for him to cope with. But then again the period of the great hype has passed and the spotlights now are likely very different from the ones he had to cope with in the nineties? Anyway, what a concert, no? I hope Yorke will perform solo in these parts one of these years!

Thom Yorke at Zermatt Unplugged - Full Multicam - April 9, 2022
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