David Byrne and Mavis Staples are two legends who come from vastly different musical traditions, but they've got a long history with each other. And it's a history built around one song: "Slippery People," a twitchy and gospel-influenced jam from the 1983 Talking Heads album Speaking In Tongues. A year after the Talking Heads released…

Do the right thing, Dave.David Byrne of Talking Heads performs onstage You could say it’s a ‘Once In A Lifetime’ offer – David Byrne has been asked by Dumbarton FC if he’ll buy a brick at the Scottish side’s new stadium. The Talking Heads frontman was born in the Scottish town in 1952 and lived...

Hot Chip have announced a new album, called A Bath Full Of Ecstasy, that will be out in June. It's their first album since 2015's Why Make Sense?, and it's their first album that they recruited outside producers to work with them, namely Philippe Zdar (Cassius, Phoenix) and Rodaidh McDonald (the XX, David Byrne, Sampha).

"They’ve both changed our idea of what popular music can be and how it can be released and marketed to us."Philip Selway and Ed O'Brien of Radiohead with David Byrne at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony David Byrne has paid tribute to Radiohead in a speech as he inducted them into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...

One of the most basic bits of Radiohead trivia is this: They named themselves after a Talking Heads song. Actually, they were called On A Friday first because they practiced on Fridays, but that's another story entirely. At some point they correctly decided "Radio Head," from the 1986 film and album True Stories, was a…