Is there any band cooler than Radiohead? I think not. The National and Wilco are other bands with a high "cool factor," but Radiohead seems more forward-thinking, more experimental, more challenging, than any other band out there. They do what they want, when they want. And every record they've made has been impressively great. They have a new album coming. Check out these two pretty amazing videos. The first one is Directed by P.T. Anderson... Which makes me think of my own favorite motto: "Every step counts..."
And this one reminds me of that phrase from John Milton, famous poet and Protestant, when speaking of the Catholics: "Them We Burn..."