Smile

LONDON —  Steve Harley, a British musician whose glam-rock band Cockney Rebel had an enduring hit with the song “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me),” has died. He was 73.Harley’s family said Sunday that he had “passed away peacefully at home, with his family by his side.” Harley said late last year he was being treated for “a nasty cancer.”Born in London in 1951, Harley spent almost four years of his childhood hospitalized after contracting polio, periods during which he began reading and writing poetry. He worked as a…

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The precise status of the Smile is intriguingly TBC. Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood began making music with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner to stay busy during the pandemic and they have already released more music in two years than Radiohead have managed in 15. While Yorke’s solo albums were clearly a side hustle – opaque, electronic, on the run from tunes – and Greenwood’s film scores something else entirely, the Smile have enough substance to rival the day job. The restless Greenwood once said he wished that…

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features multi-instrumentalist Probyn Gregory. Three and a half decades ago, when the Beach Boys were America’s…

This strategic partnership is set to change the e-commerce landscape and introduce a game-changing capability to deliver shipments via drones. New Delhi: SMILe (Shree Maruti Integrated Logistics Ltd), leading E-commerce enablement platform, has announced its collaboration with Skye Air, leading SaaS-based autonomous logistics solution provider.This strategic partnership is set to change the e-commerce landscape and introduce a game-changing capability to deliver shipments…

Had things gone as initially planned, Parker Finn’s Smile may have been lost in the seemingly endless stream of original films that premiere regularly on the wide variety of streaming services. The movie was originally set for release on Paramount+, but strong responses from test screenings made the studio think twice about distribution strategy. After earning a nice heap of buzz at Fantastic Fest 2022, it played on the big screen nationwide about a week later, and it ended up becoming one of the biggest box office…

Harry Bliss is a famous American cartoonist and illustrator. He's a New York Times best-selling artist known for his humorous and artistic "Bliss" comics. Since 1999, Bliss has published many books and collaborated with authors like Doreen Cronin on the well-loved "Diary of a Worm" series. His unique style and wit make his cartoons stand out, earning him recognition in the world of illustration and cartooning."I see my drawings as a piece of a longer narrative. I’ve always tried to make my work seem as though the reader…

The release of a new Radiohead album is greeted in certain circles as a kind of holy occasion, a time to drop everything else going on in your life and commence Deep Listening. We have not witnessed such a hallowed event since 2016, when Radiohead dropped A Moon Shaped Pool, and a new album after such a wait sure would be welcome. Sometimes, though, it’s nice to see what the members of a great band can do when working outside such weighty expectations. That’s the story of the Smile, the excellent side band…

It may be unwise to prematurely wonder about the fate of Radiohead, still one of the most important bands in the world. But confronted by this assured, slinky and tuneful follow-up to 2022’s A Light for Attracting Attention, the Smile are categorically where Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are expending their A-game energies right now – this pared-down, agile iteration of Yorke’s and Greenwood’s sound, abetted by Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner.To A Light…’s funkiness and rage, Wall of Eyes adds psychedelia, 70s German…

Three songs into the second album by the Smile, Thom Yorke informs us that he’s had it. “It takes away, it takes the fun out,” he keens, to Read the Room’s vinegary guitar riff. “Maybe I can’t be arsed.” Long-term observers of Yorke’s songwriting might also greet this with a shrug. For decades, his lyrics have mapped out an overcast emotional territory bordered by fear, anger, despair and ennui. So it is on Wall of Eyes. There are twitchy songs inhabited by nameless sources of dread, suggestions that something terrible is…