After crunching some numbers, David realizes there's no way Live Nation could be making money on his undersized European shows. And further realizes that their cost is likely being subsidized by the…   Read Story »

By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Not that it's a competition, but at any summer festival you'll be expected to answer What Was The Best Set So Far several times a day. We have a tie for Friday, at…   Read Story »

Proceeds from the live EP benefit Amnesty International. Listen/buy at everythingthathappens.com and consider it a preview for Bonnaroo, where Byrne will be the first artist to curate his own stage…   Read Story »

In a new blog post, Byrne calls Sunday's indie all star concert a triumph of art rock and explains why popular music may be at a peak. He also contrasts the approach of his creative, "serious" Dark…   Read Story »

One of Dark Was The Night Live's many, many, many highlights Sunday night was the onstage pairing of David Byrne and Dave Longstreth, fleshing out one of the compilation album's most logical…   Read Story »

The fear with any supertalent variety show like last night's Dark Was The Night live event is that the appeal on paper will far outstrip the appeal of having your ass glued to a seat for four hours.…   Read Story »

Details are emerging on the Renaissance Man's Here Lies Love, a concept album about Imelda Marcos, shoe-obsessed widow of the Philippines' former dictator. Byrne wrote the project with Fatboy Slim…   Read Story »

In his silver fox incarnation, the ever-prolific David Byrne appears never to have met a collaborative opportunity he didn't like. Just in the last few months he joined creative juices with Dirty…   Read Story »

Last night David Byrne went on The Colbert Report. During the jokey Q&A he got insightful, where other people laugh, trying to answer Stephen C's questions as carefully as possible even when they…   Read Story »

So far the focus of N.A.S.A. (North America/South America)'s The Spirit Of Apollo has been beatmakers Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon's various guest collaborators. "Gifted" featured Kanye West, Lykke…   Read Story »