David Byrne

David Byrne's New Album Is Apparently Called 'American Utopia' and It's Out in March

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2017

David Byrne has been teasing a new solo album for a while now, but with the Talking Heads legend announcing an ambitious tour yesterday (De...

Don't Worry, David Byrne Approved Selena Gomez's Talking Heads-sampling "Bad Liar"

PUBLISHED May 18, 2017

Selena Gomez shared her new single "Bad Liar" late yesterday (May 17), with many listeners remarking that the opening bass lick bears a str...

David Byrne Is Busy at Work on a New Solo Album

PUBLISHED May 11, 2017

Having ruled that a Talking Heads reunion would be "a number of steps backwards" earlier this year, David Byrne is instead moving forward w...

Watch a Trailer for David Byrne's 'Contemporary Color' Film

PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2017

Talking Heads frontman David Byrne celebrated both creativity and colour guard with his Contemporary Color events in 2015. Now, the documen...

David Byrne Says a Talking Heads Reunion Would Be "a Number of Steps Backwards"

PUBLISHED Jan 5, 2017

Whether he's at work on the monumental production of Contemporary Color or Joan of Arc musicals, David Byrne's schedule is undoubtedly a fu...

David Byrne and Luaka Bop

A World Apart

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

It was a provocative and counter-intuitive gambit coming from the source. "I hate world music," read the opening sentence of David Byrne's...

David Byrne Preparing Musical on the Life of Joan of Arc

PUBLISHED May 20, 2016

David Byrne has revealed that his next project will be a musical about the life of French historical figure Joan of Arc. Titled Saint Joan,...

David Byrne Discusses "The Echo Chamber" of American Politics in New Essay

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2016

Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is no stranger to putting pen to paper outside the realm of his many musical successes, having published...