David Byrne

Tyson Takes a Trip to Bountiful; Imelda Dominates Here Lies Love; Midler Meddles as Sue Mengers

Where there's a will...

The Best Albums Pitchfork Hated This Year

Since Purity Ring, Death Grips and Tame Impala didn't exactly take off this year like Arcade Fire or Animal Collective, Pitchfork's cultural influence might be cooling off, which is bittersweet since their writer stable is probably better now than it ever was (some of us don't miss those novelty rev ... More >>

Tonight David Byrne and Author Chris Ruen Explain Exactly, Specifically, and Definitively Why Illegally Downloading Music Makes You A Huge Asshole

Tonight, in the main branch of the New York Public Library, the long-running conversation about artist copyright, piracy in the digital age, changing (and disappearing) artist revenue streams, and illegal downloading continues with two people who've added much to that discourse of late: Talking Head ... More >>

TALKING HEADS

David Byrne discusses music’s biggest threat with Chris Ruen

David Byrne and St. Vincent - Williamsburg Park - 9/29/2012

By Kai Flanders David Byrne and St. Vincent Williamsburg Park 9/29/12 Better than: ... hoping against hope that a Talking Heads reunion tour will happen. Criticizing David Byrne is difficult. It's not just that he's such a seminal artist to a lot of people, nor that he's prolific and brainy: pub ... More >>

WONDER TWINS

David Byrne and St. Vincent join powers

Sick Of It All (16) Battles Talking Heads (8) As SOTC's March Madness Takes A Trip To CBGB

​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. Two CBGB staples from two different scenes, Talking Heads and Sick Of It All get in the Round of 32's pit as we try to det ... More >>

Yo La Tengo's Eight Nights Of Hanukkah Will Again Take Place Over (Yes) The Eight Nights Of Hanukkah

​Which is a sort of snarky way of saying that tickets for this year's Eight Nights of Hannukah celebration go on sale tomorrow at noon. For those unfamiliar with the tradition, every year Yo La Tengo brings together a bunch of friends whose identities "will not be divulged until the last possi ... More >>

Live: David Byrne's Tight Spot Expands To Fill A Crowded Space

​ David Byrne's Tight Spot The Pace Gallery/The High Line Thursday, September 15 Better than: A designer pop-up shop. In just about any other context, David Byrne's Tight Spot would be breathtaking. Installed under the High Line tracks on 25th Street, just west of 10th Avenue, it is hard to ... More >>

LONELY PLANET

David Byrne puts the whole world under the High Line

Delicate Steve+Headless Horseman

Live: Yo La Tengo (and David Byrne! and Glenn Mercer!) Come Together For Japan at Maxwell's

David Byrne and Yo La Tengo care. All photos by Jesse Jarnow.​Yo La Tengo Maxwell's Wednesday, March 23 Better than: Sitting home alone fretting about cataclysmic awfulness. It's been 26 years since Yo La Tengo played every Wednesday at Maxwell's, and a last-minute benefit for Peace Wi ... More >>

JUST LIKE HONEY

A choreographer takes advantage of the heat wave

Where Am I Eating? -- No Winner Yet, Extra Clues Added

​Please recognize and identify my soupy yellowness! Here we go again, this week's Where Am I Eating? The rules are "the same as they ever were," as David Byrne might say: Tell us what the dish is, the nationality, and where to find it, plus also this week, What are the choice of starches that ... More >>

A WHOLE NEW WORLD

Prepare to have your mind blown

More Songs About Treason And Pork: Here Are Eight Talking Heads Tracks That'd Also Work Great In Political-Campaign Ads

We've been here before. So yesterday former Talking Heads frontman and current omni-artistic silver fox David Byrne dropped a $1 million dollar lawsuit on Florida Governor and embattled Senatorial candidate Charlie Crist, who'd used the Heads' 1985 romp "Road to Nowhere" in a campaign ad without a ... More >>

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Pay Homage to Imelda Marcos

New St. Vincent Video: "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood," Featuring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein

Not news that St. Vincent's Annie Clark has all kinds of special friends--she just came off a week in NYC that involved performing with everyone from David Byrne to Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to the National. So of course she pulled ThunderAnt, who go by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein when not d ... More >>

Tonight! Atlas Sound, The Postelles, Stories In High Fidelity, And Ladysmith Black Mambazo

​Bradford Cox a/k/a Atlas Sound (that's him to the left) could've been a hypnotist in a prior life—if in doubt, stop by the Bell House, where he'll put the audience in a trance with subdued fluorescent vocals layered over tamed, fraying guitars and electronic noise that bubbles to the su ... More >>

Live: St. Vincent (and David Byrne, and Bryce Dessner, and the Bon Iver Dude) Invade the Allen Room

Good audio, lousy video, though it does seem as though she's floating in midair. St. Vincent Allen Room Friday, January 29 "Well this is just dreadfully pleasant," deadpans Annie Clark, summing it all up expertly, as usual. St. Vincent is holding court in the prettiest venue in NYC, vista-wise, t ... More >>

HEAD OF THE CLASS

Bring an apple for Professor Byrne

Forro in the Dark

Hey, So the Roots Played With the Dirty Projectors Last Night

"Stillness Is the Move" and and a solo-drenched "No Intention," to be exact, featuring Questlove and couple other members of the Roots crew. It was pandemonium--pretty much as rowdy as the Bowery Ballroom gets. Plus as the man says, David Byrne on "Knotty Pine" for the final encore, which is not a ... More >>

Dirty Projectors

BICYCLE! BICYCLE!

David Byrne talks you into buying a bike

David Byrne Would Like to Sell You a Bicycle

Natalie Kuhn​David Byrne is saying goodbye to his trusty folding Montague bicycle. The bike will forever be memorialized as the means of transportation in Byrne's eponymous Bicycle Diaries, a collection of essays which will be released on Viking next month. (Mostly, from what we've read of it, ... More >>

"Bikes to the Bars" Story an Excuse for Typical Times Temperance Lecture

You know, it never fails: the Times does a neat little item about "Bike to the Bars," a hokey but still enjoyable plot to get bikers to local craft brew joints, and in the middle of the fun finds it necessary to tell readers, "Still, booze and bikes don't always go together." And then they won't shu ... More >>

David Byrne's Raucous Luaka Bop Label Turns 21

Live: David Byrne Regales, Like, 10 Million People at Prospect Park

Just keep your eye on the glowing white rectangle. CREDIT David Byrne Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Monday, June 8 A lesson we forget every winter and relearn every summer is how nuts New Yorkers are when it comes to free outdoor shows -- and how many New Yorkers there are. Prospect Park i ... More >>

Stream 'Dark Was The Night' From Radio City

NPR is currently streaming the majority of May 3rd's Dark Was the Night concert, featuring the Dirty Projectors, David Byrne, Bon Iver, Feist, etc. This was the show that so moved Byrne that he later wrote it was "an exciting time" in music: "Maybe it's the headiness of being surrounded by so many c ... More >>

"This Skeleton on a Motorcycle Is a Bong": A Guided Tour of David Byrne's Studio/Office

Just a few more SOTC posts on this dude and he'll pass Asher Roth! The Fader, as part of their Icon Issue devoted to Mr. Byrne, is offering a two-part guided-tour of his studio digs/"insane office," wherein religious pamphlets commingle with mushy peas, scalp splashes, and Dave's Rock 'n' Roll H ... More >>

SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE

David Byrne plays a free concert in Prospect Park

GOOD VIBRATIONS

Your favorite compilation is now a live show

David Byrne Fights Nearly 30-Year-Old Charges of "Cultural Imperialism"

Tutu avalanche alert. I admit, upon reading Jon Pareles' Times review of David Byrne's Radio City show Friday night, to being a bit self-conscious about my own take, whether it got a bit too fawning and fanboyish. (Any review employing the phrase "Favorite Band Ever" will probably trigger this fea ... More >>

David Byrne Remains in the Light

A Talking Head indulges old neuroses and gorgeous new hymns at Radio City

BYRNE AFTER READING

Because he's released a book and done everything else, too

Live in Jersey: David Byrne Plays the Songs of Byrne and Eno

This Week's Voice: David Byrne & Brian Eno, John Carpenter, Serrano's 'Shit,' Paul Auster, and More

Coping With David Byrne & Brian Eno

A boost to your optimism from the Internet

David Byrne: Mayor Bloomberg Doubts the Village Voice

David Byrne: Sonic Architect

The former Talking Head's latest bizarre and brilliant scheme

Camp Followers

Start Making Sense

On the beauty but hollow humanity of micromanaged Mac rock

What's Stranger Than Paradise?

Or, How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the 'Burbs

Real Deal

Fischerspooner reborn; Lil' 'French Kiss' Louis bids adieu

Lullaby and Goodnight, With Fee Waybill Sleep Tight

Mo' Money

Tsunami benefits and political parties, oh my! Stars shine.

Binary Stars

Sensually syncopative Brazilian and American alter egos do their part for global warming

Punks in the Hall

The Ramones and Talking Heads Battle Their Way From CBGB to Cleveland

Sky City Fantasies

For the Fallen World of September 12, Visions of a Vertical Future