Hayley Williams and David Byrne learn to take the good with the bad on their new collaboration, “Open the Door.” The record will appear on the official soundtrack to The Twits, the forthcoming animated film featuring characters adapted from Roald Dahl’s book of the same name, heading to Netflix on …
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“Psycho Killer” is back from the dead. David Byrne performed the Talking Heads hit for the first time since 2006 during opening night on his Who Is the Sky? tour in Pittsburgh. The musician stood beneath a bright spotlight and moved in time with his dancers and band, who wore …
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David Byrne swapped his big suit for an orange tracksuit on The Tonight Show during an intimate performance at Rough Trade NYC in Rockefeller Plaza. In the episode aired on Wednesday, theformer Talking Heads frontmanperformed his new single “What Is The Reason For It?” from his upcoming album, Who Is …
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By now, fans see David Byrne as more than a quirky dude in a beloved legacy rock act. He’s a plainspoken public intellectual; an advocate for civic improvement and multi-cultural cooperation; a neurodiverse poet of the modern condition; an artistic éminence grise with fingers on multiple cultural pulses. In some …
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Wedding bells will be ringing soon for David Byrne. On Monday, the former Talking Heads frontman revealed that he’ll be tying the knot this week, just a few weeks after revealing that he is engaged to Mala Gaonkar, and also shared a playlist of instrumental songs that will play at …
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If you’re hoping to see David Byrne reunite with his former bandmates in Talking Heads, you’re not alone— but you probably shouldn’t expect it to happen anytime soon. In his expansive new Rolling Stone Interview, Byrne let fans of his old band down gently. “You can’t turn the clock back,” …
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D avid Byrne strolls into his downtown Manhattan office around noon and promptly removes all of his footwear. He’s been in this prewar building only for a few months, but it’s already unmistakably his own, looking as much like a work space as it does like a museum of the …
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David Byrne‘s new LP Who Is The Sky? arrives in slightly over three weeks, and he’s just shared new single “The Avant Garde.” “Some people will hear this and say, ‘David is calling bullshit on his friends’ but it’s more nuanced than that,” Byrne said in a statement. “Anyone who …
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Netflix‘s The Twits is moving classic Roald Dahl book characters from the page to the screen. The vibrant animation of the upcoming film, out Oct. 17, will bring the complexities of Jim and Credenza Twit and their unruly amusement park, Twitlandia, to life. So will its soundtrack of original music …
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David Byrne has shared his new song “She Explains Things to Me,” the latest single from the former Talking Heads frontman’s upcoming album Who Is The Sky? The sweeping track was inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2014 collectionMen Explain Things to Me, with the titular essay providing a scathing …
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