Radiohead is releasing hours of previously unheard material from the mid-'90s after the band said it received ransom demands from hackers
Last week cyber attackers stole archive material held by lead singer Thom Yorke and threatened to release it unless the band paid $150,000, according to a Facebook post from Radiohead. The recordings date from"around the time of OK Computer" -- Radiohead's third album released in 1997 -- the band said. Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke pictured in 2016.
The material, which was stored on minidisk, will be available to download for $23 for the next 18 days, according to the post."Never intended for public consumption it's only tangentially interesting," reads the post, which the band's PR firm says was written by lead guitarist and keyboardist Jonny Greenwood.Read More"And very, very long. Not a phone download.
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