Has Radiohead disappeared from the Internet?

LONDON — The band Radiohead has seemingly removed itself from the Internet.

As users of the social news networking service Reddit were the first to observe, the British band’s official website and pages on Facebook and Twitter have been stripped of all their content.

The homepage of the Radiohead website, which can be found at www.radiohead.co.uk, is now a blank white page. The band’s official Twitter account @radiohead, which has 1.58 million followers, is now bereft of tweets. Its Facebook page, which has 11.8 million likes, has become similarly devoid of words, pictures and posts. The band’s singer, Thom Yorke, has also deleted all the tweets from his personal Twitter account, @thomyorke.

This follows a move in which Radiohead’s B-side songs disappeared from streaming sites early last month. However, those songs were removed from Spotify and Apple Music during the group’s transfer from their previous record label Parlophone to their new label, XL Records, which said it would make the band’s albums available for fans in their “original form” before adding other tracks.

But what can this new spate of “cyber vanishing” possibly mean? Many fans of the British alternative rock band have been speculating that Radiohead’s disappearing act heralds the release of a new album.

Other mysterious clues include the flyers that some Radiohead fans received on Saturday in the mail, containing the words: “Sing a song of sixpence that goes/Burn the Witch/We know where you live” and the fact that the band registered the name of a new company called Dawnchoruss Ltd in February.

If a new studio album does materialise, it would be Radiohead’s ninth since Pablo Honey, their debut in 1993. The band’s third album, OK Computer, has been consistently voted one of the greatest albums of all time. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH