SEEN AND NOT SEEN
Talking Heads
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
A MEA CULPA
“It’s like looking in a mirror and seeing someone else—you’re not, or were not, the person you thought you were,” Byrne writes.
We Can Do This
David Byrne brings his ‘American Utopia’ show to Broadway, with powerful music and messages, beautiful staging, and Talking Heads classics to get you dancing—but not in the aisles.
Let the Best Ideas Win?
He calls himself a liberal but saves his own slaggings for the left, while saying little about threats to free speech from the right.
A TALKING HEAD
The Daily Beast talks with rock’s resident public intellectual about his new album, ‘American Utopia,’ and how he wants to lift everyone’s spirits. And no, he’s not being ironic.
Family Affair
What would happen if Hanson were good? Echosmith, easily pegged as a teen, sibling pop band, is too Zen—and good—to knock.
Minimalist Rock
It's been almost 30 years since movie critic Pauline Kael got blown away by Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads concert film, but her shrewd enthusiasm is still persuasive.
Interviewed
The Oscar winning filmmaker behind the celebrated films Stop Making Sense, Married to the Mob, The Silence of the Lambs, and more discussed his first feature in six years, A Master Builder, and much more.