Mystic Bowie learned to love Talking Heads music growing up in Jamaica, then got a chance to play with two members of that legendary band in the Tom Tom Club. Now Bowie is touring his "Talking Dreads" ...
It had been a long day of music at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival this past October, but there was one last band I wanted to see before heading home: Marin’s own Jerry Harrison, a former ...
While David Byrne’s work with Talking Heads revolutionized rock music, his influence on global music culture extends far beyond those groundbreaking years. Through his record label Luaka Bop, founded ...
Jonathan Gould chronicles the rise and breakup of Talking Heads, shown here in 1982 from left: Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz and David Byrne. (Luciano Viti / Getty Images) When an author ...
In the late 1970s, music executive Seymour Stein coined the term “new wave” in an effort to persuade DJs who balked at punk artists to give his new band, Talking Heads, some air time. The ...
End of ski season party features This Must be the Band (TMBTB), a Talking Heads tribute band that only plays Talking Heads music, and, if possible, three to four hours at a time. Since forming in May ...
After Led Zeppelin broke up, Robert Plant said he became increasingly interested in The Talking Heads’ music. He took inspiration from the band as he navigated the breakup and admitted he wanted to ...
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The Life and Times of Talking Heads
How influential was the New Wave band? I moved to Greenwich Village from a blue-collar New Jersey suburb in 1974, when I was 19, landing in the midst of a cultural transformation I had no capacity to ...
Talking Heads’ art pop has shaped multiple generations of artists, from Radiohead to St. Vincent to Lorde. During New York’s nascent punk years, they were part of the culture-shifting scene at CBGB ...
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