David Byrne
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David Byrne wants you to know that wild hearts can’t be broken and that age doesn’t always lead into stodginess. The proof is in this clip from his Live At The Union Chapel DVD, in which he covers Whitney Houston and artfully brings the ‘80s back into the house of God.
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Luckily not all together! As Danger Dot pointed out, NIN are playing in Oakland this Friday, September 5th. Deerhunter opens the night at the Oracle Arena. For more NIN tour dates, tap on:www.NIN.com Brian Wilson also plays in Oakland that night, but at the Paramount Theater. Ooooh, fancy! He'll perform "That Lucky Old Sun" and his "greatest hits." For more tour dates and places, jump ove...
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http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2007/04/4107_your_gover.html"With royalties it gets more complicated. While traditional terrestrial radio does pay songwriter/publishing royalties for the musical work itself, in the U.S. they don’t pay performance royalties for the sound recording under the rationale that airplay promotes the songs, which benefits the copyright holders. (This determination was mos.
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--- - |- As Pitchfork news reported, David Byrne and Brian Eno have completed a new album called Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, which will be available this month from Nonesuch. The first track, "Strange Overtones", is available for download from the album's website. After one listen, it sounds very promising, these two really do bring out the best in each other. "This groove is ou...
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It’s fitting that Billy Corgan, who just launched a spiritually-minded site/blog, has joined an impressive list of participants in an upcoming open discussion series at NYC’s Rubin Museum of Art (via Hipsters United) on Carl Jung, a psychiatrist who...
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--- - |- Aha, that's more like it! Those feeling a little stiffed by the meager offering of live dates David Byrne served up a short while back can rest easy: the Talking Head has revealed the first leg of a generous world tour, set to storm the States and Canada as summer turns to fall.This is, of course, the "Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno" tour-- which, it bears repeating, features Davi...
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It is well known that Talking Heads singer David Byrne takes his bicycling hobby very seriously. So much so, when asked to help the NYC Department of Transportation choose the winners of a public bike rack design competition, Byrne submitted his own...
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Every few months I like to give you a breakdown in one concentrated location of upcoming tours I am either excited about seeing or jealous I am not going to be seeing. I do know I'm making a few 5 hour drives in October to see Ryan Adams and Randy Newman, but other than that I've been pleasantly surprised to see how many of these are stopping through good ol' Nashville (for some reason.) Ry...
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After weeks of waiting (or should I say decades ), the latest collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno is finally available for purchase. You can grab a 320kbps DRM-free digital copy for just under $9 or pay two bucks more for the CD as well. As if that isn't cool enough, they've also put up a stream of the entire album-- So... first impressions? ~~
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Two years ago the NME almost hammered the last nail into the coffin of the Glastonbury Festival with its scathing criticism of the 2007 line up, which included so-called dinosaurs of rock The Who. It was a welcome piece of campaigning journalism from the publication that has been sadly lacking since. But while it was right to attack organiser Michael Eavis, himself a middle aged man, for hiring...
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Can’t say I’ve ever been much of a Fatboy Slim fan, but his new project with David Byrne, which includes an amazing list of guest vocalists, looks quite promising. Byrne and Slim, aka Norman Cook, have teamed up for a concept album, called Here Lies...
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