The snake is eating its tail. On “Hard Times,” the opening track and lead single from their 2017 album After Laughter, Paramore adopted a plastic neon Afropop/new wave vibe seemingly influenced by Talking Heads. Recently, Hayley Williams and friends covered “Burning Down The House” for the forthcoming comp...

Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams previously hinted at David Byrne covering one of their songs last yearThe post David Byrne to cover Paramore’s ‘Hard Times’ for Record Store Day 2024 appeared first on NME.

John Mulaney has a new comedy special out on Netflix today called Baby J. Turns out it features music composed by David Byrne, who was also in Mulaney’s Sack Lunch Bunch and appeared on Saturday Night Live with the comedian in 2020. “Putting it together with our amazing crew and my hero David Byrne,” Mulaney wrote o...

In 2020, Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club drummer Chris Frantz released a memoir, Remain In Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina, which described the Talking Heads’ formation after Franz recruited then-girlfriend (now wife) Tina Weymouth on bass, guitarist/keyboardist Jerry Harrison, and David Byrne. In a couple of as-told-to essays in th...

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