David Byrne

  • Catch up on a week's worth of free songs

    Tracks from David Byrne and James Blood Ulmer highlight the week in Audiofile.
    May 12, 2007

  • Song of the Day: "I Wish," David Byrne with Forro in the Dark

    David Byrne tries his hand at (Brazilian) country music.
    May 8, 2007

  • Daily Download: "Regiment," Brian Eno & David Byrne

    A legendary Brian Eno and David Byrne album gets reissued
    July 12, 2006

  • Burning down the house

    A definitive new box set will proclaim the eclectic greatness of Talking Heads when the ugliness between David Byrne and Tina Weymouth has long been forgotten.
    By David Bowman December 3, 2003

  • "More Songs About Buildings and Food"

    It's 1978, and a band of Manhattan art-school geeks called Talking Heads teams with Brian Eno to produce the funkiest nervous-breakdown record ever made.
    By Paul A. Toth June 24, 2002

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    By Joyce Millman May 16, 2001

  • Sharps & Flats

    Celebrating 10 years of David Byrne's Luaka Bop label, "Zero Accidents on the Job" shows how to do world music right.
    By Joey Sweeney March 27, 2000

  • People have the power

    Patti Smith, David Byrne, Angelique Kidjo, Philip Glass and others throw a New Year's benefit party for Tibet.
    By Seth Mnookin February 9, 2000

  • David Byrne at the Ear Inn

    More talk about buildings and food and Big Suits and Brian Eno and Richard Avedon and Twyla Tharp and Patti Smith and ...
    By David Bowman October 14, 1999

  • Donn Pohren, flamenco's hero

    Over a bottle of vino tinto, the first non-Spaniard ever awarded the title "flamencologist" talks about one of the world's most vibrant folk arts.
    By Jon B. Rhine October 2, 1999

  • "Stop Making Sense"

    Fifteen years later, the delightful Talking Heads concert pic is still the kind of miracle movie that comes about once in a lifetime.
    By Stephanie Zacharek September 16, 1999

  • Profiler

    The real-life model for Thomas Harris' serial-killer expert psychs out the O.J., Ramsey and Dahmer cases -- and David Byrne, too.
    By David Bowman July 8, 1999

  • Sharps & flats

    Thievery Corporation's second full-length compiles brutal dissections of songs by remix-friendly hipster outfits like Pizzicato Five, Stereolab and Gus Gus.
    By Amanda Nowinski June 4, 1999

  • The politics of plagiarism

    Why Beck, Stereolab, Tortoise, the High Llamas and Sean Lennon are all fascinated by Tom Zi.
    By Jeff Stark May 26, 1999

  • Talking Heads talk again

    The Talking Heads reunite for the unveiling of a spanking-new Dolby Digital print of the already great-sounding movie they made with director Jonathan Demme, "Stop Making Sense."
    By -- Michael Sragow April 27, 1999

  • Singing the body eclectic

    What's what in world music: the Salon critics' guide
    By Cynthia Joyce October 3, 1997

  • David Byrne Feelings

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
    By Mark Athitakis July 30, 1997
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