With all the new summer music events vying for your attention, we understand if you've got festival announcement burnout. Consider adding ACL to your wish list, though, as they've just announced a ton of great bands who'll be visiting Zilker... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS 2008 GETS FOOS, FOGERTY»
Posted on April 15, 2008 (30 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Beck | David Byrne | Foo Fighters | John Fogerty | Manu Chao | Robert Plant | The Mars Volta | The Raconteurs
Last night David Byrne jumped on stage with Paul Simon at BAM for the Paul Simon: Under African Skies event, where Simon and guests revisit songs from Graceland and The Rhythm Of The Saints. NME has the lowdown on the... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE CALLS PAUL SIMON AL @ BAM»
Posted on April 10, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Paul Simon
The signs of a hipster reappraisal for Paul Simon have been apparent. Now with Paul's Byrne/Grizzly Bear-powered BAM residency, the moment is in full bloom. And Time Out New York is all over it for the mag's residency preview piece,... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE, GRIZZLY BEAR, VAMPIRE WEEKEND DISCUSS THEIR LOVE FOR PAUL SIMON»
Posted on March 31, 2008 (16 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Grizzly Bear | Paul Simon | Talking Heads | Vampire Weekend
Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. This week we take a pass through a Rolling Stone from 1989 featuring David Byrne striking poses, Mel Gibson being hunky, and Dennis Miller hawking Cuervo. CONTINUE READING OLDSTAND: ROLLING STONE, JANUARY 12, 1989»
Posted on February 18, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Bono | David Byrne | Dennis Miller | Mel Gibson | Metallica | Rod Stewart
We mentioned Fiery Furnaces getting Byrne-y in their video for "Duplexes Of The Dead," so it's good to see David Byrne repay the favor -- and say "eucalyptus juice" in the process -- as he puts his best Eleanor forward in this cover of "Ex-Guru." Cool (hot?), but if he decides to cop her style from the "Navy Nurse" vid, we're burning down the house.
Posted on January 30, 2008 in (0 comments)
The bookers at Brooklyn Academy of Music really want you to pay them a visit. And it's been working. First news about Paul Simon's BAM residency (and his interest in Grizzly Bear for it) started spreading on the hush hush... CONTINUE READING PAUL SIMON MOVING INTO BAM FOR A MONTH, INVITING DAVID BYRNE AND GRIZZLY BEAR TO VISIT»
Posted on January 29, 2008 (8 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Grizzly Bear | Paul Simon
Giving us another reason to love him and his silvery locks, David Byrne recently used his blog to clarify and refine claims he made about home recording and the music industry in a Wired article (no, not the one with Thom). In the post, he notes that after the Wired piece ran, he received letters from two Canadians -- Jane Siberry (now called Issa?) and ex-Arcade Firer, current studio co-owner Howard Bilerman -- suggesting home recording's not as inexpensive as Byrne makes it sound, that most folks still use an engineer, musicians still often need advances to record if they don't own all the expensive home equipment, etc. Byrne, admitting he too isn't entirely DIY, prints their letters, along with his responses that "in general, though I exaggerated too much in the Wired piece, the costs have indeed come down dramatically." Makes sense he'd be honest, dude does swear on Neon Bible.
Posted on January 21, 2008 (0 comments)
David Byrne's everywhere -- shows, art openings, top ten lists, parties, the grocery store, etc. Adding to his already impressive resume, the Talking Head recently sat down on Wired's dime and conversed with Thom Yorke, someone who also seems pretty... CONTINUE READING THE PRICE OF MUSIC: DAVID BYRNE INTERVIEWS THOM YORKE»
Posted on December 19, 2007 (20 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Radiohead | Talking Heads | Thom Yorke
What a whirlwind career it's been for Vampire Weekend. And by career we mean 18 months of course. But in that time the band's nabbed themselves a BTW designation, blessings for from indie pop Godfathers old and new, a European... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND TALK BLOGS, BYRNE, CRUNK ON MTV»
Posted on November 30, 2007 in , , (11 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Talking Heads | Vampire Weekend
When our phone book-sized copy of Artforum's annual "Best Of" arrived in the mail yesterday, we turned immediately to the "Best Of Music 2007" section, of course, where we were happily surprised to see a list from Stereofave Marissa Nadler,... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE, MARISSA NADLER, KIM GORDON GIVE ARTFORUM THEIR BEST-OFS»
Posted on November 29, 2007 (21 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Kim Gordon | Marissa Nadler
David Byrne makes David Shrigley's words very much his own on the awesome "For You," the song included for you (well, if you're a subscriber) in this week's 'Gum Drop. To extend the concept some, three 'Gum droppers will receive... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP GIVEAWAY #8»
Posted on October 17, 2007 in (0 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | David Shrigley | Laurie Anderson | O Plus S | Yeasayer
Right, David Byrne on a bike is something we see every once in a while. But never in Times Square! And never with commentary. This big was filmed for David's "How New Yorkers Ride Bikes" event at Town Hall on... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE RIDES A BIKE, RELEASES NEW MUSIC»
Posted on October 16, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: David Byrne
Since nailing down Band To Watch status around here earlier this year, the Ivy League Afro-beat/new wave/indie pop kids of VMPRWKND have seen their name written (usually with vowels) in the NMEs and the SPINs the Rolling Stones of the... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE REVIEWS VAMPIRE WEEKEND, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (PLUS AVEY ET AL BRING CONAN SOME JAM)»
Posted on October 8, 2007 in (16 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Conan O'Brien | David Byrne | Vampire Weekend
Prince Paul may no longer be a Handsome Boy (he and Dan the Automator cited irreconcilable differences), but still he's talented and charming enough to attract a slew of notables to his new project: Baby Elephant sees Paul team up... CONTINUE READING NEW BABY ELEPHANT (FEAT. DAVID BYRNE) - "HOW DOES THE BRAIN WAVE?"»
Posted on August 8, 2007 in , (12 comments)
Tags: Baby Elephant | Bernie Worrell | David Byrne | Prince Paul | Talking Heads
Another thing we would have loved to hit while in Austin last week was David Byrne's "Record Companies -- Who Needs Them?" talk -- which suggests new marketing models for an industry that, he says, will see digital sales out-pace... CONTINUE READING QUOTES FROM DAVID BYRNE TALKING TO MUSIC HEADS IN AUSTIN»
Posted on March 23, 2007 (25 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Talking Heads
Great article in the New York Times this weekend, tracing the evolution of the Talking Head from an "archetypal nerve-racked data-age persona" to the "mellow," show-going, approachable multi-media artist he is today. In support of the saintly tag the NYT... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE: INDIE ROCK'S PATRON SAINT»
Posted on January 15, 2007 (23 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | David Byrne
We were just checking in on David Byrne's blog, which we're prone to do whenever we see him at a show (OMG, maybe he'll blog about us! LOL!) and while we didn't get a review of the CYHSY show, we... CONTINUE READING MOVIETALK WITH DAVID BYRNE»
Posted on January 2, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: David Byrne
Never shy to share his musical tastes with the world (and a sucker for Brazilian artists), David recently profiled Cê, the latest release from 64-year-old Caetano Veloso, on the Nonesuch blog.It’s another radical shift of direction for him- every recent... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE'S #1 INDIE ROCK RECORD OF '06»
Posted on November 30, 2006 in (16 comments)
Tags: Caetano Veloso | David Byrne
Anytime a band covers one of our favorite songs, we're all ears -- and when that song is "Once In A Lifetime," well, we're duty bound to share! So here's the vid from LA's The Exies (short for The Existentialists),... CONTINUE READING THE EXIES COVER TALKING HEADS»
Posted on November 15, 2006 in (91 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Talking Heads
Recently having demonstrated his appreciation for record companies, tonight David Byrne unveils the fruit of his love for benches and back support. From his website:I've been obsessed with chairs for a long long time. The cover of the mid-80s Talking... CONTINUE READING TAKE A LOOK AT THESE CHAIRS»
Posted on October 19, 2006 (6 comments)
Tags: David Byrne
David Byrne spoke at McGill University yesterday as part of The Future of Music Policy Summit, produced with the Pop Montreal festival. The Talking Head's talk was titled "Record Companies: Who Needs Them?" Font humor for intellectual property fans: Pics... CONTINUE READING APOLOGIES TO LAWRENCE LESSIG»
Posted on October 6, 2006 (9 comments)
Tags: David Byrne
As soon as Under Byen wrapped up their awesome set at Merc last night (post TK), it seemed like everyone we spoke to was off to do the same thing: check in with Sawyer, Kate, and Jack! Yeah, we're pathetic,... CONTINUE READING SPEAKING IN TONGUES ABOUT LOST»
Posted on October 5, 2006 (23 comments)
Tags: David Byrne
An interesting double bill for adventurous show hoppers last night: Of Montreal brought their song-and-dance to Irving Plaza while, on the other side of 14th Street (and way on the other side of the sonic spectrum), Grizzly Bear brought their... CONTINUE READING OF MONTREAL & GRIZZLY BEAR DO NYC»
Posted on September 27, 2006 (11 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Final Fantasy | Grizzly Bear | of Montreal
From davidbyrne.com... 9.7.06: The Empire Fights Back A new music download site has made deals with two of the largest music catalogues in the world — potentially, then, they could become a challenge to iTunes. But the model is way... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE ON SPIRALFROG»
Posted on September 8, 2006 (5 comments)
Tags: David Byrne
If we donated $5,000, Bookeaters host John Hodgman promised the sold out Beacon crowd, Sufjan Stevens and David Byrne would perform together at the end of the night! Together for the first time! Break out your wallets! Twenty dollars bought... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS, DAVID BYRNE DUET FOR $5,000»
Posted on August 23, 2006 (33 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Sufjan Stevens | The Long Winters
