The Hold Steady slam Radiohead

The Hold Steady's Tad Kubler has criticised Radiohead for releasing their last album In Rainbows on a pay-what-you-like scheme.

Speaking to BBC 6Music, Kubler also confessed that he dislikes the musical direction the British band has taken in recent years.

"I think they've lost the plot," he stated. "What are they doing? Where are they going? What's happening? I don't get it anymore. They lost me.

"I still appreciate what they're doing, or what they're trying to do. But I think they're trying too hard not to be Radiohead. That seems a little ridiculous to me.

"I like them as a rock band, [it's] all the buttons and sequencing and stuff like that I don't really care for. I'm a fan of rock music and what they're doing now I don't think is very good."

Brooklyn-based rockers The Hold Steady, who played a set at last weekend's V Festival, will embark on a UK tour in September.