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Less than a year after Jackson Brown successfully sued John McCain for using "Running On Empty" without permission, David Byrne is suing Florida Governor Charlie Crist for using Talking Heads' "Road…   Read Story »
The video you're about to watch is a career highlight for me. I became a Peter Gabriel fan(atic) after seeing "Digging In The Dirt" on VH1 in the dog days of '92. That September, prior to the…   Read Story »
MGMT hit the Coachella stage playing their generally freakier Congratulations material in relatively human clothing, which prompted me to posit an aesthetic axiom: The weirdness of MGMT's music is…   Read Story »
We know Byrne loves collaborating. But his next project, an album with St. Vincent, was somewhat inspired by the Dirty Projectors/Björk event in NYC, Byrne writes in his blog. The album has no…   Read Story »
We brought you this track from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Imelda Marco concept album in January, and today Byrne debuted a video to go with it. Says Byrne: "We did a photo session for a magazine…   Read Story »
Make this the third take on David Byrne's highly collaborative bizarro concept album about shoe-loving dictator's widow Imelda Marcos. Totally normal sentence. A co-credit on the sounds goes to…   Read Story »
"Here Lies Love" is the scene-setting title track from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's post-BPA Imelda Marcos concept album. As we've mentioned, each track on the 2-CD collection features a different…   Read Story »
Here lies the first listen from Here Lies Love, the weirdo concept album about Imelda Marcos, the shoe-obsessed widow of the Philippines' former dictator. It comes courtesy of everyone's favorite…   Read Story »
This year in music was great and we'rea gonna let it finish (sorry), but in terms of notable album releases the ship has sailed. No offense, 30 Seconds To Mars. While the Gummys' virtual poll booth…   Read Story »
David Byrne's still going strong. The forthcoming 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition of Stop Making Sense reminds you he's been around longer than you. Talking Heads were clearly more than Byrne, but…   Read Story »