Yeah, Blender isn't that great. There are no really good music magazines out these days. It's all niche marketing, rather than objective listening and evaluation. You pick up a magazine, and it's either geared entirely toward "indie" releases or geared entirely toward "mainstream" stuff (indie in quotations because I don't believe there is such a thing anymore). There is good music, but you have to read between the lines of the reviews to find it.
I think it sucks that people tend to limit themselves to a certain genre, and/or won't bother listening to anything outside what a certain magazine or website proclaims to be cool.
As for Radiohead, I love KidA, Amnesiac, and Hail To The Thief - I'm not such a fan of their early work. The Bends is probably my least favorite album of the early stuff.