Radiohead erase Internet presence, return with new single and video.

In case you missed it, music titans Radiohead erased their Facebook, Twitter, website, and pretty much everything else they had on the Internet two days ago.  They were gone.  Fans were puzzled, but not entirely surprised as Radiohead have been Internet renegades for years.  They were the first to release an album (In Rainbows) online and told fans they could pay whatever they wanted for it, even nothing at all if they liked.

Their website and Twitter content was often cryptic, and they’d go for long stretches without posting anything.

They came back yesterday with a new single and video – “Burn the Witch.”  It’s a dissonant, almost frantic song with Thom Yorke’s usual mysterious lyrics.  The video is also a tribute to the unsettling film The Wicker Man.  Don’t bother with the Nicolas Cage version.  Just don’t.  Enjoy the original, this new song, and the upcoming album (whenever that is) instead.

Keep your mind open.

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Nik Havert

I've been a music fan since my parents gave me a record player for Christmas when I was still in grade school. The first record I remember owning was "Sesame Street Disco." I've been a professional writer since 2004, but writing long before that. My first published work was in a middle school literary magazine and was a story about a zoo in which the animals could talk.

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