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 ...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, the avant-garde New York band that helped redefine Seventies rock & roll, especially that coming out of the city. A new book publishing Tuesday — ...
Jonathan Gould chronicles the rise and breakup of Talking Heads, shown here in 1982 from left: Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz and David Byrne. (Luciano Viti / Getty Images) When an author ...
Olivia Rodrigo welcomed David Byrne onstage during her headlining set Saturday at New York’s Governors Ball festival for a rendition of the Talking Heads classic “Burning Down the House.” Byrne and ...
Few musical artists have had the lasting impact and relevance of Talking Heads… they were a group of art students who ended up transforming mainstream rock. Music biographer Jonathan Gould looks at ...
BURNING DOWN HE HOUSE: Talking Heads and the New York Scene that Transformed Rock. By Jonathan Gould. Mariner Books. 512 pages. $35. Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of ...
Olivia Rodrigo has good taste. She has often welcomed music heroes to the stage to perform their classic songs with them, a trend that continued Saturday in her headlining performance at New York's ...
Talking Heads are having a pretty incredible run for a band that broke up 35 years ago. In 2017, Selena Gomez rode one of Tina Weymouth's slippery basslines all the way to the Top 20. The band's ...
When an author decides to tackle the story of a popular and important band like Talking Heads, the contours of which are familiar to many of its fans, the remit should be to illuminate the unexplored ...
Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” the 1984 Jonathan Demme film widely considered the best concert movie ever made, Jonathan Gould has published a ...
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Talking Heads — and '70s N.Y. music scene — deserve better than 'Burning Down the House'
When an author decides to tackle the story of a popular and important band like Talking Heads, the contours of which are familiar to many of its fans, the remit should be to illuminate the unexplored ...
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