News Pop Culture David Byrne apologises for using blackface in a 1984 Talking Heads video by Happy “We have huge blindspots”: David Byrne has taken to Twitter to address his use of blackface in a Talking Heads promotional video back in 1984. In a series of tweets,…
Features Pro Audio Talking drums and Talking Heads: the limitless world of percussion instruments by Josh Davies The percussion family consists of the widest range of instruments seen in any instrument family. An orchestral percussionist, for example, needs to master a huge variety of instruments, each with…
News Turns out Jerry Seinfeld helped out David Byrne with his Broadway show by Manning Patston Turns out Jerry Seinfeld, best known for Seinfeld (aka the show about nothing) had some input in David Byrne‘s critically acclaimed American Utopia. Byrne recently revealed that the comedian gave…
Features Pro Audio Madchester and the sounds of the Second Summer of Love by Max Mahood Even though electronic music and synthesisers were becoming more popular throughout the 1980s, there was still a healthy guitar-based strain of alternative-rock music on both sides of the Atlantic. If…
Features 10 records to introduce you to the world of art-rock by Luke Saunders For the most part, art-rock is an undocumented musical niche. A small fragment under the oversized umbrella of rock, that exists as a translucent concept in people’s minds rather than…
News Watch David Byrne perform Talking Heads’ ‘Once in a Lifetime’ on SNL by Claudia Schmidt On this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, the musical guest was none other than Talking Heads‘ frontman, David Byrne. Byrne took to the stage to perform a theatrical rendition…
Film and TV News Spike Lee set to direct film version of David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ by Claudia Schmidt It has just been announced that Spike Lee will be directing an adaptation of David Byrne’s American Utopia. The film, which is a direct cinema adaptation of the hit Broadway…
News Talking Heads have finally made themselves an instagram account by Luke Haggart Talking Heads, the band that made quirky ‘cool’, have just come out with an official Instagram page. The group, which has been disbanded since 1991, has just signed up to…
Exclusives Pro Audio The 80s Part I: experimentation, cutting edge tech and breaking into the mainstream by Max Mahood If the 1970s was the decade that began the revolution of electronic music, the 1980s was the decade that improved it. The 80s also added new cultural and technological features…
News David Byrne’s unveils new live EP titled …The Best Live Show of All Time by Joanna Panagopoulos David Byrne‘s new EP has a humble title, …The Best Live Show of All Time, named after a review from the music website NME. “The American Utopia tour may just be the…
News WOMADelaide returns in 2019 with an incredibly diverse lineup by Molly Lasker Adelaide’s iconic festival WOMADelaide is back for another year in 2019, just dropping its first lineup of super talented artists from around the world. Since it was established in 1992,…
Film and TV News David Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories is getting re-released by Happy Back in 1986, legendary Talking Heads frontman David Byrne directed a feature film titled True Stories. The film starred John Goodman and featured a soundtrack from Talking Heads. This November,…
News Holy shit, David Byrne is touring Australia later this year! by Happy David Byrne, iconic frontman of Talking Heads and general musical genius, is touring this great nation of ours later this year… and please excuse me while I regain some composure,…
