'I still get berated for the line "Take your seaside arms", but it's from Nabokov's Lolita'Gary Kemp, songwriter/guitaristI wrote the song at my parents' house, where I w...
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At Underwire, Geeta Dayal interviews Jonathan Lethem about his 33 1/3 book on Talking Heads' Fear of Music album. The Believer also interviews Lethem. The Guardian profil...
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The 33 1/3 series of books on seminal albums has featured a commendable variety of authors, and recently Jonathan Lethem's book on talking Heads' Fear of Music album show...
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“Renowned UK house duo X-Press 2 return to the 6 Mix for two hours of inspirations and current favourites. Rocky and Diesel first rose to underground prominence in ...
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A soundtrack with Will Oldham for a film about a Nazi-hunting rock star. An opera about Imelda Marcos with Fatboy Slim. David Byrne's collaborations continue to amazeIt i...
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(Nonesuch)One result of David Byrne's love affair with Brazilian music was a friendship with veteran singer and activist Caetano Veloso, who, like Byrne, mixes catchy tun...
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Three music films stand out among the week's DVD releases. Talking Heads: Chronology shares video of the band's live performances from 1975-2002. The Other F Word is a do...
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Band ask Columbia Records to issue Sounds from Nowheresville a month early following online leakThe Ting Tings are asking their label to release their new album more than...
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Studio 360 interviews David Byrne about the Talking Heads' early years. Talk of the Nation interviews author Elmore Leonard about writing fiction and television scripts. ...
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From U2's Achtung Baby and David Bowie's Heroes to Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food and more, 411's Christopher Bell counts down the top 10 Brian Eno-pr...
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Fans of Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Talking Heads, and David Bowie will want to have a listen and grab "Murder 1" from Australian-born, now NYC-based duo Wazu. The track ...
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The electro overlord and former Trash supremo empties the contents of his psychic record bagThe track I'll be opening my next DJ set with Crackboy: Something For Brillian...
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Youtube user klootme has given the internet some rough tracks the band scratched out in its pre-fame infancy. The band recorded these, allegedly for their 1986 demo tape,...
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The Montreal Gazette interviews author Jeffrey Eugenides. I'm always fascinated by the epigraphs writers choose for their work. For The Marriage Plot you've chosen two, o...
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Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Paul Lester takes a tour through love's darker chambers with ChicChic's third album came out in 1979, the same year ...
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