Guardian Music — Rihanna is the queen of Twitter. David Byrne's psychedelic radio show is a global hit. And Tim Burgess has his own virtual caffAs recently as the mid-1990s, when record companies still sent postcards to fans alerting them to new releases, a few reall... more info

Guardian Music — Boston Arms, LondonThe woman shaking her corkscrew curls and bawling into the microphone doesn't much look like the music industry's usual idea of a star. Brittany Howard is, nonetheless, riding a thermal of acclaim so fast and so high it could be gr... more info

Stereogum — Kelly Pratt is a multi-instrumentalist who’s worked with a seriously impressive list of artists that includes Arcade Fire, Beirut, St. Vincent, and David Byrne. He also records his own music under the name Bright Moments, and his album Natives is a... more info

ContactMusic — Former Talking Heads star Chris Frantz refuses to give up on a reunion and hopes frontman David Byrne wakes up to the idea one day The drummer tells Billboard com that he his wife and bandmate Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison would be interested in a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako, words by Andrew Frisicano Jherek Bischoff & some of his guests It wasn't the marathon that opened the inaugural Ecstatic Music Fest in 2011, but this year's opening show on Saturday (2/4) had some of that... more info

Guardian Music — Singer considers 1986 album to be his greatest – and defends decision to record in South Africa during apartheid regimePaul Simon has said he considers his 1986 album Graceland his greatest musical achievement and has defended his decision to recor... more info

Guardian Music — Picking 12 acts to play A Room for London wasn't the hard part. For starters, how do you get a piano into a boat on a roof?The Roi des Belges began its life last summer in a barn in rural Sussex. A marriage of Plymouth steel and magenta-stained timbe... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — 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. Drummer Wes Marskell of the Darcys talks to the Boston Globe about the band's fu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mirah Mirah has two NYC shows coming up this February. First, she'll play as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival as one of the guest vocalists performing with Jherek Bischoff, which also includes David Byrne, Craig Wedren, Greg Saunier, and... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — In conjunction with the release of their new EP Canyon Candy (on David Byrne's Luaka Bop label), Javelin with director Mike Anderson made this pretty great short film featuring lots of people getting shot. And in conjunction with that short... more info