One of Dark Was The Night Live's many, many, many highlights Sunday night was the onstage pairing of David Byrne and Dave Longstreth, fleshing out one of the compilation album's most logical pairings. When Byrne first announced their Red Hot tracks, he wrote "I'd been told more than once that we should all work together, and it seems the suggest...

Reuters - A number of Western musicians, most famously Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel, have embraced what is sometimes called world beat, a one-size-fits-all label that accommodates Latin, African, Arabic and even Appalachian genres. No one seems better suited to the task than Bela Fleck.

Details are emerging on the Renaissance Man's Here Lies Love, a concept album about Imelda Marcos, shoe-obsessed widow of the Philippines' former dictator. Byrne wrote the project with Fatboy Slim and promises every song will have a different vocalist. Among them: Santigold, Roisin Murphy, Sharon Jones, Alice Russell, and Tori Amos. Read more at...

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has roped in a host of guest singers on his forthcoming Fatboy Slim-produced album - including Santigold and Roisin Murphy.

David Byrne has been announced to perform at the opening night gala of Celebrate Brooklyn, scheduled to take place on June 8.