JamBase — David Byrne assembled a collection of his favorite holiday music for his Christmas Playlist. more info

Consequence Of Sound — Paul Simon, LCD Soundsystem, and many more also appear on the collection the Talking Heads frontman curated for NPR. David Byrne’s Christmas Playlist Includes The Pogues, Phoebe Bridgers, and 100 gecs: Stream Abby Jones more info

Stereogum — The Broadway production of Here Lies Love — the David Byrne and Fatboy Slim musical about Imelda Marcos based on the 2010 concept album of the same name — will close later this month, with its final performance scheduled for Sunday, November 2... more info

Stereogum — For the past month, Talking Heads have been back in action, at least in interview form. They first reunited for a conversation at the Toronto International Film Festival to coincide with the premiere of the restoration of Stop Making Sense for its... more info

Stereogum — Just yesterday, Paramore released a new version of their latest album This Is Why featuring reworks by Panda Bear, Wet Leg, Julien Baker, and more. Last night, the band was in conversation with writer Amanda Petrusich for The New Yorker Festival, ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — So, for now, we reach the end of the decade compilations in retrospect, given 2018 hasn't actually ended yet and we'll then be compiling the playlist in the moment. Plenty happened in 2018, but not a lot outside the rise of K-Pop was progress... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 2012 was a bit of a weird year. It was the most difficult of these to compile, if that's any judge (not helped by Words And Music By Saint Etienne's absence from Spotify) The London Olympics seemed to be treated as some as an unnecessary dist... more info

Stereogum — John Mulaney, noted on Twitter that he's "A Man With Neither Children Nor Musical Ability" on Wednesday (11/20), and also announced that his new Netflix special will be coming to the streaming service next month. more info

Stereogum — David Byrne has taken his American Utopia live show to Broadway for an extended residency that started in October and will run through the beginning of next year. Last month, he linked up with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus for a performance on Jimmy Ki... more info

Consequence of Sound — He sat down for a quick interview, too. David Byrne performs “Road to Nowhere” with cast of American Utopia Broadway on Fallon: Watch Nina Corcoran more info