10 Most Influential Electronic Rock Artists
4. Radiohead
If you were to tell a casual music fan in the '90s that Radiohead would have been the future of rock, you may have gotten some confused faces. After all, these were the guys known for Creep and a few other post grunge cliches, so how would that fit into the new millennium? Once Radiohead proved all of their naysayers wrong on OK Computer, they set their sights on the future of rock by...doing the exact opposite of what everyone thought.
After making one of the last event records of the '90s, Radiohead stripped back their sound and got a lot more raw with electronic instruments, marking Kid A as one of the most definitive shifts in rock music history. Although we had seen a few electronic pieces of Radiohead's music here and there in the '90s, the next decade is where they fully came into their own in the genre, going from sample-heavy songs like Idioteque to eventually creating freeflowing sonic jams on songs like 15 Step.
And while not every record has necessarily been star studded from back to front (hello, King of Limbs), the band have never showed any signs of burnout in the years since either, looking to craft just the right music when the time calls for it. Even though the band may seem to be on sabbatical at this point, there's no signs that they're going to break their track record for glitchy bliss any time soon.