After more than 50 years, an early demo of Talking Heads’ hit ‘Psycho Killer’ has surfaced at RISD
The tape of The Artistics, the first band of frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, was recorded in a Providence apartment and is now in the RISD Archives.
Where did Talking Heads meet?
The founding members of Talking Heads met at the Rhode Island School of Design, when they each attended at the same time in the early 1970s.
How ‘Born Under Punches’ became Talking Heads most complex piece of music: “A whole new thing”
A look into Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) the opening track from the Talking Heads album Remain In Light and how its the band's most complex song.
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Talking Heads
Talking Heads formed in New York City in the mid-'70s and quickly became fixtures in the New Wave scene with spiky songs like 'Psycho Killer.' After two albums of jagged, thorny art-rock ...
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“It was the first song I wrote just to see if I could. I discovered - oh yes, I can!”: How David Byrne created Talking Heads' most popular track right out of the gate
The song was intended as a deliberately dark response to the more playful macabre antics of Alice Cooper. But it would end up shaping Talking Heads’ future ...
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RISD alumni Talking Heads return for screening of ‘Stop Making Sense’
The Rhode Island School of Design welcomed back class of 1974 alums Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz for a screening of “Stop ...
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Remember When: Talking Heads Play Their Tumultuous Last Show Together at the 1984 Sweetwaters South Festival
In February 1984, the Talking Heads played their last show ever, retiring from touring after a tumultuous set they almost didn't finish.
Talking Heads' Tina Weymouth Says ‘The Band Wasn't Started by David Alone' in Tense Moment at Brooklyn Reunion
The core four members of Talking Heads - vocalist and guitarist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and ...
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Hear Q Lazzarus’ Previously Unreleased Full Cover Of Talking Heads’ “Heaven”
Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives Of Q Lazzarus is out 2/21 on Sacred Bones.
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To mark the London Film Festival premiere of Spike Lee's film of David Byrne's American Utopia – Film Editor Ella Kemp and music writer Chris Taylor replicate the post-gig debrief to unpack the new ...