David Byrne surprised fans with his cover of the Olivia Rodrigo hit "Drivers License," which was released to mark the song's ...

Five years ago, pop star Olivia Rodrigo released her generational hit, Drivers License. To celebrate the anniversary, Talking ...

When David Byrne and Chris Frantz were students at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1973, they formed a band called the Artistics. The material was punk but not quite, recorded in Frantz’s Benefit ...

If you spend enough time wandering around downtown Manhattan, the odds are that you’ll eventually encounter the musician David Byrne riding a bicycle. (He owns four: a folding bike, an electric, an ...

To make a music scene you need four things: cheap housing, recent art-school graduates, a stage where anyone can play and a small clique of young critics eager to discover a new subculture. As ...

One of the best things about the music of Talking Heads is that they remain a band with a sound that's truly their own. Featuring over three hours of material, the set also includes a beautiful ...

Also in recent years, Byrne has reunited with his former Talking Heads bandmates to promote a restored version of the band’s classic 1984 concert film, Stop Making Sense. Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, ...

Though the final Talking Heads album came out in 1988, the band never really went away. Unlike defunct groups trapped in a cycle of rediscovery every generation or so, Talking Heads have remained ...

How influential was the New Wave band? Talking Heads, 1976. I moved to Greenwich Village from a blue-collar New Jersey suburb in 1974, when I was 19, landing in the midst of a cultural transformation ...

The band Talking Heads are about to reissue their groundbreaking second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, which was first released in 1977. The Super Deluxe Edition from Rhino comes as the ...

For a band that broke up under a cloud of bitterness, Talking Heads still appreciate a good celebration. The recently released biography “Burning Down the House” (HarperCollins, 512 pages) from New ...