David Byrne News

 
No Destination: I Guess That This Must Be The Place
Consequence of Sound
If the cover song is the highest form of musical flattery, then David Byrne must be tickled pink at how his 1983 classic “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)” has fared over the years. It was perhaps most famously covered by Arcade Fire, ...


 
Trust David Byrne: '80s downtown veteran Mikel Rouse still has lots to say
Capital New York
By Seth Colter Walls Musician Mikel Rouse moved to New York in 1979, at least partly on the advice of David Byrne and the rest of Talking Heads, for whom Rouse and his new-wave band had recently opened when Byrne & co. swung through Rouse's hometown, ...


 
Byrne's Welsh trip pays big dividends
Irish Independent
Wicklow teenager David Byrne found a weekend trip across the Irish sea very fruitful as he pocketed second prize in the North Wales Boys Open Championship. A 36-hole total of 144 at Rhuddlan on Saturday followed by a two-round aggregate of 146 at ...


 
Windy City Times
Donna Summer: The queen of disco dies
Windy City Times
by David Byrne On May 14, I applauded a contestant at Windy City Gay Idol for drawing the microphone away from his mouth while singing. I told him it offers a great visage, but I have only seen two sirens do that flawlessly and still have their voice ...

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Bonnaroo Flashbacks: Crowd-Surfing with Crystal Castles, Phoenix + MIA ...
Huffington Post
Byrne has also been known to argue with meat-headed security (not at Bonnaroo) about them stopping folks in the audience from shooting. Beautiful set, 'nice moves, here's two songs from Bonnaroo's fort ever artist in residence.


 
Tyne Daly Leads Acting Roster At Williamstown Theatre Festival
Hartford Courant
The season will also include a special "workshop production" of David Byrne's Here Lies Love, which will play at nearby MASS MoCa. The season's first Main Stage production, the David Hyde Pierce-directed production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of ...


 
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Laney College's 9th Floor Radio brings Oakland's music scene to the Internet
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
“That was David Byrne and Bryan Eno,” says Wertz, looking at Cowitt. “Did you say you have music to play?” “Oh that's right. I was going to do this.” Cowitt slides up a fader control on the large mixing board in front of him. A bright jazzy piano sound ...