The Talking Heads released a new three-CD album, “Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live,” on Friday. It’s an expanded version of ...
When artist Robert Rauschenberg died in 2008, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne wrote an op-ed for the New York Times. Reflecting on both their friendship and creative collaborations, Byrne recounted ...
When David Byrne and Chris Frantz were students at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1973, they formed a band called the Artistics. The material was punk but not quite, recorded in Frantz’s Benefit ...
To make a music scene you need four things: cheap housing, recent art-school graduates, a stage where anyone can play and a small clique of young critics eager to discover a new subculture. As ...
When Talking Heads released a restored and remixed version of their classic 1984 concert film “Stop Making Sense” for its 40th anniversary, guitarist-keyboardist Jerry Harrison says it confirmed ...
Byrne debuted some Who Is The Sky? material on Tuesday night, and his cover of Paramore’s “Hard Times,” and also like on the Americna Utopia tour, he is reached back into Talking Heads’ discography to ...
The landmark 1984 concert film “Stop Making Sense” gave us David Byrne in an oversized suit, shared the most dynamic phase of Talking Heads’ unique melding of New Wave attitude, art school creativity ...
The musician believes the rockers captured lightning in a bottle — and would struggle to recreate the magic Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...
In his 20s, David Byrne begged to return to a river. At 72, the Talking Heads frontman knows he can’t step in the same one twice. As Byrne’s pioneering punk act turns 50, he’s forced to take a beat ...
Talking Heads haven’t toured since 1984 — and according to the band’s frontman, David Byrne, there’s no plans to change that. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Byrne confirmed that the iconic ...