Radiohead
Coachella Festival
Indio
May 1, 2004

Radiohead may be the only band on earth that had a prayer of following [the Pixies]. The band had canceled a show earlier in the week because of singer Thom Yorke's severe throat infection, and rumors had been circulating for days that Radiohead might pull the plug on Coachella. Hardly. In its only US appearance of the year, Radiohead cobbled a stunning landscape of shifting, complex moods that was hypnotic one moment and ferocious the next. The sound of 50,000 voices crooning "Karma Police" (Radiohead's one shot at a singalong and a rarity in its set lists) into the blessedly cool desert night was unforgettable.

Joan Anderman

Boston Globe
03.05.04