David Byrne

The Strange World Of… Bill Laswell

From making groundbreaking electro to working with Whitney Houston via boozy sessions with Motörhead, plus avant explorations of thrash, drum & bass, grindcore, gnawa and disco, Bill Laswell has been on more great records than you've had hot dinners. Zachary Lipez offers ten points of entry to his bewilderingly vast back catalogue

Let’s Waste Some Time: Quietus Best Movie Moments Of 2020

Always In Light: Notes On Spike Lee And David Byrne’s American Utopia

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 film's complex brilliance

And The Heat Goes On: Talking Heads’ Remain In Light At 40

Their fourth album may have been born under punches, and may still raise questions over its authorship for the band’s exceptional rhythm section – but, writes David Bennun, it hangs together perfectly, and it never seems to age

All Making Sense: Chris Frantz Interviewed

Chris Frantz talks to Ian Gilchrist about life and work in New York and Nassau with his ground-breaking bands Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club

The Strange World Of… Jon Hassell

Before the release of Listening To Pictures: (Pentimento Volume One), his first new album in nine years and the launch of his own imprint label on Warp, experimental trumpeter and composer Jon Hassell talks Claire Sawers through ten important works in his back catalogue -- including one he wished he’d put his name to, and one still stuck in the pipeline

The Strange World Of… David Byrne

David Byrne is releasing his latest studio album, American Utopia, next month and playing Roskilde festival in Denmark in July. Need some help getting to grips with his large body of work? William Doyle is on hand to suggest ten points of entry

Head Music: Stop Making Sense Reassessed

With Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense out on blu ray, Neil Fox takes another look at the 'greatest concert film ever made'.

Groove Is In The Heart: An Interview With St. Vincent

Annie Clark tells John Freeman how a naked encounter with a rattlesnake, Ambien-induced hallucinations and groove-metallists Pantera all inspired her astonishing new ‘funeral party’ album

30 Years On: Talking Heads’ Speaking In Tongues Revisited

What's in a name? Chad Parkhill looks at the language of Talking Heads

How Music Works: David Byrne Interviewed

The former Talking Heads frontman talks to Quietus Editor John Doran about the ideas in his new book, How Music Works and we offer you the chance to win a copy of your own, signed by the man himself

From Gallows Mountain To Traitor’s Villa: Necessary Interviewed

John Doran talks to Tony Wilson of Necessary about music that is (necessarily) a chaotic mess, the recent horrific events in Utøya and Oslo and My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. Photograph courtesy of Steffen Oftedal

Wenderlust: This Must Be The Place Reviewed

A whimsical road movie anchored by Sean Penn's star turn and a David Byrne cameo, Paolo Sorrentino's English-language debut suggests that the acclaimed Italian director has, like Wim Wenders before him, entered the dread orbit of U2. Stephen Dalton muses on this cinematic Curse of Bono

The Modern Dance: David Byrne Discusses Ride, Rise, Roar

David Byrne on the choreography and sound in film project, Ride, Rise, Roar. Words by Helen Jack.

Talking Tom Tom Club: Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth Interviewed

As Tom Tom Club hit the UK, Stephen Dalton sits down for a fascinating chat about Talking Heads, their relationship with David Byrne, their creative and romantic relationship, and why working with the Happy Mondays was even more difficult than you might have thought

Groove Is From The Heart: Cornershop Interviewed

Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayers meet up with John Doran to talk twenty years of beats & pieces in the life of the UK's biggest cult band

TateShots: Exploring Connections Between Music & Art

The Quietus chats to Nicola Probert, creator of an excellent new series of interviews with musicians discussing their involvement with, and appreciation of, the visual arts

Tom Tom Club’s Chris Frantz On David Byrne, Brian Eno And Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

Julian Marszalek speaks to the Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads mainstay Chris Frantz

David Byrne and Brian Eno Talk About New Album

It is 27 years since the ambient pioneer and former Talking Heads frontman released their groundbreaking and staggering album _My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts_ but now they are back with a new album. The Quietus investigates.