Rock and Roll Book Club: 'This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century'
You don't expect to get a lot of laughs from a book with a title like This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century (buy now). I had a literal LOL moment early on, though, when author Steven Hyden asked rhetorically, "Is it possible that I take Kid A way too seriously?" There is, of course, virtually zero chance that anyone who would even contemplate cracking a book about the music of the 2000s would accuse any critic of taking any Radiohead album, especially that one, too seriously. Both Pitchfork and Rolling Stone named Kid A (2000) the greatest album of...