Guardian Music — (Bella Union)This Bristol-based quartet claim to play "free-range rock music", but it's more informative to take their description of their visual sense and apply it to their music: "Fifth world". Zun Zun Egui sound like a great many things, but most... more info

Guardian Music — Other artists in contention for induction next April include Beastie Boys, Eric B & Rakim and, er, DonovanGuns N' Roses, the Cure and Eric B & Rakim are among those nominated to be inducted next year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The long list... more info

Guardian Music — 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 as Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Earth Wind & Fire's I Am, those other symp... more info

Guardian Music — Transcender, London"Ecstatic, hypnotic and just plain psychedelic" is the motto for the Transcender festival, the pervasive feeling of the event being that music from anywhere in the world can blow someone's mind. Now in its third year, Transcender b... more info

Guardian Music — 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 (vocals, guitar), Marcus Haughton (vocals, guitar), Louis Bhose (bass) and Oscar Manthorp... more info

ContactMusic — 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 Heads stars Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, last hit the charts with The Good, t... more info

Popdose — The Talking Heads emerged weird, polished that weirdness, and let the world catch up more info

Brooklyn Vegan — 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 curates a shared program of music from his time as a performer and music... more info

KEXP Seattle — 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 the soundtrack to my life for most of my life. I don’t think I had heard this full alb... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — 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 about cycling (seriously), he's creating wry and topical art. His latest offering is... more info