David Byrne

Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Frank O'Hara, Video, John Giorno, John Cage, Structuralism, Dial-a-Phone, Poets, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Poem, Ecstatic Alphabet/ Heaps of Language, David Byrne, Arts News

A new installation at the Museum of Art in New York, titled, "Dial-a-Poem" brings ecstatic poetry to you online or over the phone at any time of the d...

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Bonnaroo Flashbacks: Crowd-Surfing with Crystal Castles, Phoenix + M.I.A., Florence, David Byrne, Erykah Badu, Neon Indian, MGMT (VIDEOS)

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Mgmt, Painted Nipples, Nudity, Phoenix, Neon Indian, Erykah Badu, Bonnaroo 2012, M.I.A., Crystal Castles, Florence and the Machine, David Byrne, Bonnaroo Highlights, Bonnaroo Videos, Bonnaroo Clips, Video, Culture News

Exactly three weeks from my favorite festival, herewith, a scrapbook of old clips and thoughts from Bonnaroos past.

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James Murphy Wants To Make Turnstiles A Musical Experience

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Wnyc, New York Subway, Yale University, Nyc-Subway-Turned-to-Music, Mta, LCD Soundsystem, David Byrne, James Murphy, James-Murphy-Lcd-Soundsystem, New York News

Love New York, but beeping subway turnstiles bringing you down? James Murphy, formerly of LCD Soundsystem, would like to change that. Murphy recent...

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(Almost) Samba-free Albums From Brazil

Marty Lipp | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: World Music, Talking Heads, Caetano Veloso, Brazilian Music, Brazil, David Byrne, Caetano Veloso Music, David Byrne Caetano Veloso, Video, Arts News

On O Que Voce Quer Saber de Verdade, Monte shows that she is a master of surrounding her gorgeous voice with gorgeous music.

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Dog Ears Music: For Love Is Agony Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Jimmy Durante, Squeeze, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Of Montreal, Arthur Conley, A Girl Called Eddy, Bobby Womack, Danielle Evin, Wild Nothing, Music, Sia, Yogi, Michael Penn, mp3s, Gin Wigmore, The Notations, Phil Ramone, Nina Simone, André Previn & London Symphony Orchestra, Soul Children, Yellow Ostrich, Sparks, Dog Ears, David Byrne, Fiest, Best New Music, Entertainment News

This week we review albums by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Sia, Of Montreal, Bobby Womack, Wild Nothing, Jimmy Durante and other artists.

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Icon of the Day: Chaucer Meet Hip Hop, Hip Hop Meet Chaucer

Alona Elkayam | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: The Merchant, Luaka-Bop, Hip Hop, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey-Chaucer, Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Simmonds, Slidepollajax, SoHo Playhouse, Jay-Z, Baba-Brinkman-Raps, Hugh Heffner, David Byrne, Style News

I had this great idea in 2005: Take one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett, and set his collection of work, How It Is, to hip hop.

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Chats With George Benson, John McLaughlin, Fred Schneider of The B-52's, and L.A. Guns' Tracii Guns, Plus Lisa Hannigan's New Video

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Fight Club, Eric Clapton, Lifetime, Tracii Guns, Mitch Mitchell, Grant Green, The Eagles, Snuff, Sly and the Family Stone, Ravi Shankar, Miles Davis, Sarah Palin, The 4th Dimension, Billy Joel, Tony White, L.A. Guns, The Beatles, Charlie Matthau, The Surperions, Soupy Sales, Kate Pierson, Axl Rose, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Smith, Elton John, Cindy Wilson, Lisa Hannigan, The Velvet Underground, David Byrne, Morbid Angel, Harvey Mason, John McLaughlin, Madonna, Freaky Deaky, Chuck Palahniuk, Stacey Blades, Paul McCartney, George Benson, Patti Smith, Nat King Cole, Ricky Wilson, John Mayall, Keith Strickland, Noel Redding, Nikki Sixx, Fred Schneider, Walter Matthau, Chuck Berry, Katy Perry, Mojo, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Elmore Leonard, Herbie Hancock, Zakir Hussain, B-52's, Jack Johnson, Abstract Logix, Lady GaGa, Larry Young, R.E.M., Jimi Hendrix, Guns N' Roses, Entertainment News

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David Byrne's 'Tight Spot' Audio-Visual Installation (VIDEO)

VernissageTV | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Tight-Spot, Contemporary Art, High Line, Globe, New York, David Byrne, Sound, Pace Gallery, Arts News

Musician and artist David Byrne, best known as frontman and founding member of the band Talking Heads, created a site-specific outdoor installation un...

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Susana Baca, the Singing Minister of Culture

Elio Leturia | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Minister of Culture of Peru, Susan Baca, Cultura, Talking Heads, Peruvian Music, David Byrne, Latin Grammys, Video, Latino Voices News

As in many parts of the world, being black, female and of a humble origin -- read poor -- is a life challenge. But Susana Baca has overcome.

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The Legacy of Postmodernism

J. Michael Welton | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Robert a.M. Stern, Postmodernism, Robert Venturi, James Wines, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Michael Graves, Victoria & Albert Museum, David Byrne, London Art, Postmodernism History, 1980s Art, 1990s Art, April Greiman, Arts News

Almost as quickly as it arrived and changed our world, Postmodernism disappeared. But with a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, it's time now to take a look back at its evolution.

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Social Media Opens at The Pace Gallery, With Works by David Byrne, Miranda July

Brian Gresko | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: New-York-Contemporary-Art, Miranda July, New York High Line, Talking Heads, Social Media, Aram-Bartholl, Adam Bell, Byrne-Art, Robert Heneicken, Penelope Umbrico, David Byrne, Pace Gallery, NY Around Town, New York Art, New York News

Word had gotten out about the opening of Social Media at The Pace Gallery in Chelsea -- not surprising, given the show's title.

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David Byrne Builds Inflatable Globe In NYC

nymag.com | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: New York Contemporary Art, New York High Line, Global Inflation, Tight Spot, Rock Star Artist, Talking Heads, Brooklyn Art, High Line, Global Art, New York, Byrne Art, David Byrne, Pace Gallery, Pace New York, Arts News

Starting on the evening of September 15, you'll hear it as you approach West 25th Street, coming from under the High Line: womp, womp womp. It's a lit...

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LISTEN: Arcade Fire Team With David Byrne

Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Arcade Fire Spike Jonze, Arcade Fire, Video, Culture Wars, Arcade Fire Album of the Year, Scenes-From-the-Suburbs, Arcade-Fire-the-Suburbs, Speaking in Tongues, The Suburbs, David Byrne, Spike Jonze, Entertainment News

Arcade Fire are gearing up to release a deluxe edition of last year's smash hit album The Suburbs which garnered the band a Grammy for album of the ye...

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Festival Of Ideas Kicks Off In NYC

Marina Cashdan | Posted 07.03.2011

This week a major cultural initiative will be launched, The Festival of Ideas for the New City, coordinated by the New Museum and scores of cultura...

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WATCH: Crist Apologizes In Settling Lawsuit Over Campaign Song

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Charlie Crist David Byrne Lawsuit, Video, 2010 Election, Elections 2010, Charlie Crist Apologize, David Byrne Charlie Crist, Charlie Crist Apology, Charlie Crist, Charlie Crist David Byrne, Charlie Crist Campaign Song, David Byrne Charlie Crist Lawsuit, Charlie Crist Youtube Apology, David Byrne, Politics News

TAMPA, Fla. -- Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has settled a lawsuit filed by Talking Heads singer David Byrne after Crist used one of the group's s...

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Thirty Years Of Sublime Rock 'n' Roll: A Conversation With Marshall Crenshaw, Plus Chatting With Petra Haden, Cory Mon and Wes Kirkpatrick

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Losers Take All, Whit Smith, The Eagles, Ira Kaplan, The Bulgarian Female Vocal Choir, Hot Club of Cow Town, Rich Kienzle, Robert Crenshaw, Rachmaninoff, Chad Weiss, The Milo Twins, Marshall Crenshaw, Cheap Trick, The Byrds, Albert Einstein, David Byrne, Keith Jarrett, Bug Music, Alan Betrock, John C. Reilly, Ronnie Spector, The Stooges, Jaron Lanier, Cibo Matto, Sean Lennon, If by Yes, The Move, Bach, La Bamba, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Sam Phillips, Tom Wolfe, Stefan Sagmeister, Yuko Araki, Nick Lowe, Debussy, Hirotaka Shimizu, Richard Goddard, Robert Gordon, Owen Paul, Nilsson, Phil Spector, Jake Riviera, Beatlemania, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Bo Diddley, Petra Haden, The Louvin Brothers, Yo La Tengo, Bill Frisell, Cory Mon, Guitar Hero, Erik Satie, David Richman, Karen Berg, Steve Reich, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Yoko Ono, Cory Mon & the Starlight Gospel, The Foo Fighters, You Are Not a Gadget, Empire Records, Razor & Tie, Buck Owens, Danny Tamberelli, Nickelodeon, Gin Blossoms, The Ventures, Rock Band, Marti Jones, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Graham Maby, City Winery, Wes Kirkpatrick, Keigo, Cornelius, Entertainment News

Back in 1981, Marshall Crenshaw's single "Something's Gonna Happen" was released on Shake Records, initiating his string of critically acclaimed classic albums and 45s. Now Marshall, celebrating 30 years of music-making, sits down to talk.

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(R)evolution: Eros(ion) Flow at the Gershwin Hotel

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lady GaGa, Chinese New Year, Poetry, Gershwin Hotel, Aldo Tambellini, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Dianne Bowen, Edwin Torres, Lees Sklover, Lisa Paul Streitfeld, Louisa Bradshaw, David Byrne, Arts News

Now that Lady Gaga has announced the birth of the new post-patriarchal female archetype by her 2011 Grammy performance busting out of a semi-transpare...

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(R)evolution in Consciousness: The Book of Symbols Launch at the Rubin Museum of Art

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Rubin Museum, Aras, The Book of Symbols, Jackon Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Eranas Society, Carl Jung, Lee Krasner, Leslie Dill, Pat Steir, C.G. Jung Center, Ronnberg. Tim McHenry, Rubin Museum of Art, Lee Smolin, Richard Panek, Olga Froebe-Kaptey, David Byrne, Arts News

The "Handless Maiden" of the Grimm's fairy tale... can be seen as representing a feminine being -in-the-world that is psychically so bedeviled by the...

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Tales From a New York Record Store

Binky Philips | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: East Village, St. Mark's Place, Amy Carter, Ramones, Binky Philips, Keith Richards, Billy Joel, David Byrne, Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, New York News

I spent the entire decade of the 1980s running St. Mark's Sounds, which was, at the time, pretty much the most happening record store in The Big Apple on the most happening block of St. Mark's Place.

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Interview with The National: Bryce Dessner Talks The Obama Campaign Song, Passion Projects, New York Real Estate and What's Next

Stephanie Keller | Posted 05.25.2011

On the Monday night after the Austin City Limits Festival, The National taped what will be one of the last performances ever shot at the original ACL ...

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Buy David Byrne Print For $50!

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, NY Events, Charity, Ny News, Creative Time, David Byrne, New York City News, Ny Shopping, NY Around Town, New York News

Buying art was never this easy or cheap, not to mention for such a great cause. Recently, 20x200.com secured an exclusive print by artist and Talkin...

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Movie Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Kirk Douglas, Frank Langella, Shia LaBeouf, Oliver Stone, Brian Eno, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Movie Review, Bush Era, Marshall Fine Movie Review, David Byrne, Michael Douglas, Brechtian, Entertainment News

Oliver Stone is never content to just make one movie; he always makes several, then squeezes them all together into one engorged package, chockablock with gaudy visuals, oversized characters and unchecked passion.

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A West Village Treehouse That Fits A Family Of Four

wsj.com | MARSHALL HEYMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treehouse, West Village, David Byrne, Nick Cohen, Southhampton, Ashley Koral, NYC Real Estate, New York News

It's next to impossible to turn down an invitation to visit someone's treehouse, particularly if it's in the West Village around the corner from your ...

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"American Tune": A Playlist For These Un-United States

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Testament, Prince, Bunny Wailer, War, Paul Simon, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Lower Manhattan, Neil Young, The HIlls, Woody Guthrie, Smashing Pumpkins, James McMurtry, Stevie Wonder, Abraham Lincoln, Fleetwood Mac, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Newt Gingrich, John Stewart, Sugarland, David Byrne, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Laura Nyro, Queen Latifah, Ground Zero Mosque, Simon & Garfunkel, Steve Winwood, Neil Diamond, Brooks & Dunn, Bryan Ferry, Madonna, Bree Sharp, Green Day, Brotherhood of Man, Iggy Pop, The Youngbloods, Buck Owens, George Washington, U2, Al Green, Jakob Dylan, Will Rogers, Brad Paisley, Entertainment News

I had a waking dream last night in which Newt Gingrich was lobbying to have the word "United" in the "United States Of America" formally removed once and for all.

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Review: Dave Eggers and David Byrne, 'It Is Right to Draw Their Fur,' at SF Electric Works

Cherie Louise Turner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Eggers, SF Electric Works, McSweeney's, San Francisco Art, Visual Art, David Byrne, Arts News

The first, and last, impression of this show is delight, with a dose of idiosyncrasy. It's a good summer offering: light and witty, even quirky hip.

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