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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 …

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 …

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,” …

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 …

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 …

Among the brilliant first four Talking Heads albums, More Songs About Buildings and Food has always been a dark horse candidate for the all-around greatest. Released 47 years ago this month, it sounds more electable now than ever. With its lean muscularity, panic-attack propulsion, weird ambiance, highwire anxiety, paranoid prescience …

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, the avant-garde New York band that helped redefine Seventies rock & roll, especially that coming out of the city. A new book publishing Tuesday — Burning Down House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock — goes deep …

Olivia Rodrigo welcomed David Byrne onstage during her headlining set Saturday at New York’s Governors Ball festival for a rendition of the Talking Heads classic “Burning Down the House.” Toward the end of her weather-delayed set, Rodrigo brought out the “legendary” Byrne, who immediately launched into the Speaking in Tongues …

This week marks the official 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, and to celebrate, the band reunited on Jeopardy! to present a category entirely devoted to the group’s legacy. David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison first appeared on-screen together to reveal …