Talking Heads

Talking Heads was an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in
New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris
Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Auxiliary musicians also regularly
made appearances in concert and on the group's albums. The New Wave style of
Talking Heads combined elements of punk, art rock, avant-garde, pop, ... read more

This Week's Interesting DVD Releases - January 31st, 2012

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...
Posted 30 January 5.20pm — Comment on this

The Ting Tings urge label to rush-release leaked album

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...
Posted 24 January 11.19am — Comment on this

Shorties (Talking Heads, Elmore Leonard, and more)

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. ...
Posted 20 January 3.11pm — Comment on this

411 Music Ten Deep 12.30.11: Top 10 Brian Eno Albums

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...
Posted 30 December 2011 7.09am — Comment on this

Wazu - Wazu EP (album stream)

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 ...
Posted 14 December 2011 7.20am — Comment on this

Erol Alkan Q

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...
Posted 26 November 2011 12.06am — Comment on this

Hear Two 25 Year Old Radiohead Demos

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,...
Posted 21 November 2011 5.07pm — Comment on this

Shorties (Jeffrey Eugenides, Music to Occupy Wall Street, and more)

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...
Posted 5 November 2011 2.29pm — Comment on this

Favourite album: Risqué by Chic

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 ...
Posted 26 September 2011 5.26pm — Comment on this

New band of the day – No 1,098: Theme Park

This highly touted four-piece have pretensions to Talking Heads' funk-rock mantle – but fail to burn down the houseHometown: London.The lineup: Miles Haughton (voca...
Posted 5 September 2011 5.33pm — Comment on this

Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club Plan 30th Anniversary Release

Cult rockers Tom Tom Club are planning to celebrate their 30th anniversary with new music - 11 years after the release of their last album. The group, fronted by Talking ...
Posted 1 September 2011 8.06am — Comment on this

The Kitchen celebrating 40 w/ 'Pioneers of the Downtown Sound', hosting annual block party

Talking Heads at The Kitchen in 1976 (photo by Kathy Landman) On the occasion of The Kitchen's 40th Anniversary, legendary experimental musician and composer Rhys Chatham...
Posted 29 August 2011 9.48pm — Comment on this

Review Revue: Talking Heads - Little Creatures

There’s not much that I could say about Talking Heads that hasn’t been said already. Like most who came of age in the 1980s, the band has been a huge part of ...
Posted 18 August 2011 9.16pm — Comment on this

Art Crush: David Byrne’s Fake iPhone Apps

Talking Heads founder David Byrne is perpetually up to something cool. If he's not singing backing vocals on Arcade Fire records or writing his New York Times column abou...
Posted 17 August 2011 4.44pm — Comment on this

Mean Poppa Lean to play at Rollercoaster VI - O2 Shperherds Bush Empire - Friday 29th

Brighton sextet *Mean Poppa Lean *are set to unleash their new EP *'Live on Twelve Legs' *on *4th July 2011*. Inspired by the likes of Prince, Talking Heads and Chromeo,...
Posted 26 July 2011 2.13pm — Comment on this

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Top songs

The 5 most played Talking Heads songs in the past year.

  • Once in a lifetime  466 plays
  • Road to nowhere  465 plays
  • And she was  326 plays
  • Psycho Killer  166 plays
  • Burning Down The House  41 plays

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Absolute Radio stations playing songs by Talking Heads over the past year.

  1. Absolute 80s 587 plays
  2. Absolute Classic Rock 528 plays
  3. Absolute Radio 383 plays
  4. Absolute Radio 70s 34 plays
  5. Absolute Radio 90s 18 plays
  6. Absolute Radio 00s 15 plays

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