Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads, Modern Lovers). Casual god. Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Read our Talking Heads Over/Under: The post Happy Birthday Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads, Modern Lovers) appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Antimusic Rock — Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live offers an unprecedented look at Talking Heads' earliest years more info

Magnet Magazine — 20 years ago today, Beth Orton released Comfort Of Strangers. Heart of soul. Read Beth in MAGNET on the Slits, Talking Heads, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Erykah Badu and more: The post Beth Orton Released “Comfort Of Strangers” 2... more info

Obscure Sound — Fondly reminiscent of Roxy Music in its suavely impactful post-punk and art-pop synergy, “Slingshot Vestibule” is a new track from Damnesia. A thumping bass ferocity and ghostly keys combine with a steady vocal unveiling, complemented by a brass-... more info

Magnet Magazine — Even though the two bands actually sound very little alike, Radiohead has overlapped to no small degree with Talking Heads over the years. Aside from being named for a latter-day Talking Heads song, Radiohead is a group similarly fronted by a self-ad... more info

Stereogum — Xiu Xiu are people of taste. This is obvious based on their decades of brilliant, provocative musical output, but also based on their selection of covers. Songs like New Order’s “Ceremony” and David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” are ... more info

Stereogum — Before Talking Heads were Talking Heads, they were the Artistics. Rhode Island School Of Design students David Byrne and Chris Frantz formed the Artistics in 1973, and they made a kind of music that wasn't really known as punk rock yet. The band didn... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 75th birthday Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club). But remember, happiness can’t buy money. Read our Talking Heads Over/Under: The post Happy 75th Birthday Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club) appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Magnet Magazine — The last time I saw David Byrne with a troupe of weightlessly untethered musicians and deceptively simple dancers, they were, en masse, boogalooing down Broadway at the Hudson Theatre for the Talking Heads frontman’s still-fresh American Utopia al... more info

Stereogum — David Byrne and Hayley Williams have been closely aligned lately. Last year Paramore covered “Burning Down The House” as part of the promo campaign for A24’s reissue of the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. Byrne, in turn, covere... more info