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 This is How We Ride
"Compare the feel of pedaling along the riverside to the clenched-jaw, stressed-out feel people have when they drive to work, get stuck in traffic, pay a fortune for parking or circle around looking for impossible-to-find street parking. Just saying."
By David Byrne, The New York Times, 05.26.12
Illustrations by Josh Cochran |
 PODCAST: David Byrne and James Murphy
"Have a listen to a special Soundcheck podcast of the event, which includes discussion of the songwriting process, David Byrne's proposal for an unusual (and potentially deadly) installation, and James Murphy's plans to revolutionize New York City's subway turnstiles."
WNYC, 04.10.12 |
 David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Imelda Marcos Musical Is Happening
"When he's not busy giving new collaborations terribly self-deprecating names, David Byrne has been hard at work revamping an old one, with Fatboy Slim. The concept compilation he released two years ago almost to the date, Here Lies Love, will at long last be brought to the stage."
By Devon Maloney, Spin, 04.09.12 |
 David Byrne and Will Oldham Team as the Pieces of Shit for This Must Be the Place Soundtrack
"This Must Be the Place takes its name from a song by Byrne's former band, the Talking Heads. Several renditions of the song are included on the soundtrack, including a live take by Byrne. Byrne also makes an appearance in the film-- an experience he documented with a lengthy journal entry."
Jenn Pelly, Pitchfork, 04.03.12 |
 Popular Music Draws Crowds to YUAG
DB and James Murphy speak at Yale
"Noting the similarities between the two artists’ aesthetics, Schaefer quoted a London-based digital PR and marketing agency that wrote on its blog, “James Murphy is our generation’s David Byrne.” The two men paused before Byrne responded to laughter from the crowd, “Now we both feel weird.”"
By Kat Huang, Yale Daily News, 03.22.12 |
 David Byrne: Room for London
"New York correspondent Matt Wells caught up with [DB] back at home in Manhattan, to reflect on his stay in London hearing how he had a "little issue" with the slow elevator to get up to the installation called Room for London."
Radio Interview with Matt Wells, BBC Radio 4, 03.21.12 |
 David Byrne: Head Collaborator
"A soundtrack with Will Oldham for a film about a Nazi-hunting rock star. An opera about Imelda Marcos with Fatboy Slim. David Byrne's collaborations continue to amaze"
By Hadley Freeman, Guardian.co.uk, 03.15.12 |
 Maverick Mixtapes: David Byrne
"It was a little hard to confine this list solely to Americans, as music innovation is pretty global as a phenomenon. What's really cool about what all of these people are doing is that they all seem to defy categories"
By DB, WQXR — Q2 Music, 03.08.12 |
 Alice’s T-Party: Sofia Coppola, David Byrne, and Others
Design T-shirts for Chef Alice Waters and Levi’s
"True to character, Kalman provided a whimsical illustration about liking pie, Eggers offered an abstract drawing of a Mandarin orange praising it as a “fruit of beauty and truth,” Coppola kept things simple with a green emblem, and Byrne rendered clouds on a piece of toast."
By Emily Holt,Vogue.com, 08.19.11 |
 David Byrne Breaks in NYC's First Pop-Up Cafe
"David Byrne, backpack casually slung over one shoulder, yuks it up with NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz, and Downtown Alliance Senior Vice President for Planning and Economic Development Nicole LaRusso."
By John Del Signore, The Gothamist, 08.12.10 |
 Watch: David Byrne Lectures About Venues and Birds in TED Talk
"Byrne's topic is an intriguing one: Do we all make things with a venue or context in mind? He promotes the idea that music evolves and adapts to its surroundings in a logical way, i.e. U2 make mid-tempo rock songs because that's what sounds good in an arena."
By Ryan Dombal, Pitchfork, 06.11.10 |
 David Byre: Song Lyrics are Overrated (Video Interview)
"David Byrne is fascinated by sounds, not words.".
By John D Sutter, CNN.com, 04.01.10 |
 David Byrne in the 'Burg
"I loved his manner of speaking. He’s got this kind of circular way of talking—much more like a favorite uncle expounding on a dear subject to him than a university lecture."
By Talisa Chang, The Greenpoint Gazette, 12.03.09 |
 A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City
Osaka's robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician's fantasy metropolis.
By DB, The Wall Street Journal, 09.11.09 |
 David Byrne: speaking in tongues
"Right now the former renaissance man of post-punk Manhattan is enjoying something of a, well, renaissance."
By Stephen Dalton, The Times, 08.01.09 |
 'Pedaling Revolution,' by Jeff Mapes: Bike Messenger
"The book is useful — for those of us who occasionally find ourselves on the defensive, Mapes provides names, dates, facts and figures."
By DB, The New York Times Book Review, 05.31.09 |
 FADER: The Icon Issue
Every release of an Icon issue is a special occasion, but this year is a little extra special because we've dedicated it to someone who's still around...
FADER, 05-06.09 |
 David Byrne Releases Live EP for Charity, Plays the Building in London
Plus a new book about bicycling in the works. You know who should get his own energy drink? David Byrne.
Tom Breihan and Amy Phillips, Pitchfork, 05.12.09 |
 In praise of ... David Byrne
What makes the former Talking Head magical is the combination of avant garde leanings with earthiness and a rapture in the everyday.
Editorial, The Guardian, 04.13.09 |
 David Byrne: stay hungry
David Byrne’s voracious creative appetite has seen him turn a building into a musical instrument, design a series of bicycle racks and write a disco opera about Imelda Marcos. Now he is revisiting his early Talking Heads period, but always with an ear open for something new.
Richard Grant,
The Daily Telegraph, 03.16.09 |
 The 2009 Creativity Top 50: David Byrne, Musician/Artist
The Creativity 50 List features people who made a significant mark on the creative consciousness of our industry and our culture as a whole.
Creativity, 02.10.09
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 David Byrne
2008 was a busy year for Byrne.
Among other things, he released two albums, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, his second collaborative record with Brian Eno, and Big Love: Hymnal, his score for the HBO TV series.
Larry Ryan, The Independent, 01.23.09 |
 David Byrne
The Talking Heads' former frontal lobe on recording his soulful new album with Brian Eno, transforming buildings into musical instruments, writing song-and-dance numbers about Imelda Marcos, and designing bicycle racks for a better tomorrow.
Interview, 11.08 |
 Bob the Builder
"Conversation was like one of his pieces: a crazy mishmash of images, multiple layers and references, and a spray of allusions that were simultaneously silly, profound and beautiful…"
DB Op-Ed re: Robert Rauschenberg, The New York Times, 05.16.08 |
 Speak Up!: David Byrne
"It eases my conscience to bear witness against this mistake."
Gothamist, 03.14.08 |
 Byrne Is More Than a Former Talking Head
"Are there any threads that connect these activities? 'There probably are, but I'm not really aware of them,' said Mr. Byrne."
The Wall Street Journal, 01.30.08 |
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars
 "What do we need music to do? How do we visit the land in our head and the place in our heart that music takes us to? Can I get a round-trip ticket?"
By DB, WIRED, 01.08 |
 The Importance of Being David Byrne
"David Byrne, just by being David Byrne, has simply made everything a little bit less like everything else..."
Filter, 12.07 (PDF) |
 David Byrne
"Has a girl ever been put off by your hairy arms?"
Wooooo, 12.07 |
 Indie Rock’s Patron Saint Inspires a New Flock
"…he has also become, without fanfare or Talking Heads reunion tours, perhaps the single greatest influence on the current generation of indie rockers."
The New York Times, 01.14.07 |
 David Byrne: Interview with Dave Eggers
"The act of singing [live] recreates the emotions that went into the songs in the first place — like adding water to freeze-dried food."
The Believer, Music Issue, 06.04 [100kb PDF] |
 David Byrne's Alternate PowerPoint Universe
"With his newest project, David Byrne has tried not only to see [PowerPoint] anew, but also to use it in the least likely of all applications: a medium for creative expression."
The New York Times, 08.17.03 |
 << We Are The Noise Between Stations >>
"A philosophical exploration of the work of David Byrne, at the crossroads of popular media, conceptual art, and performance theatre."
Sytze Steenstra, Mixed Media vof Maastricht, 2003
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 Same as He Ever Was
"Watching David Byrne is like peering into an ant farm."
The New York Times Magazine, 04.29.01
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 I Hate World Music
"In my experience, the use of the term world music is a way of dismissing artists or their music as irrelevant to one's own life…"
By DB, The New York Times, 10.3.99 |
 Still Off His Rocker
"Unlike a lot of aging hipsters and rock icons who run out of ideas when they grow up, Byrne is brimming with new projects."
The Washington Post, 08.13.97 |
 Chronicler of the Weird Has Finger on the Button
"He photographs what he stumbles upon, rarely manipulating the images. He's surprised only when he doesn't find what he's not sure he's looking for."
The Globe and Mail, 10.09.95 |
 A Composer of Pleasure: David Byrne
"Consistently he has displayed a knack of staying one step ahead of trends in popular culture."
The Times, 12.01.89 |
 Rock's Renaissance Man
"'People talk about how strange I am,' says the man who dances onstage like a Bunraku puppet leading an aerobics class and ended his last series of Talking Heads concerts wearing a huge white suit cut like a tailored tennis court."
Time, 10.27.86 |
