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ART/BOOKS BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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TOUR/PERFORMANCE REVIEWS |
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RADIO DAVIDBYRNE.COM |
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JOURNAL PRESS |
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HERE LIES LOVE |
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GROWN BACKWARDS: ALBUM & TOUR |
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THE KNEE PLAYS: 1984–88, 2007 |
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MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS |
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DB PITCHFORK REVIEWS |
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TALKING-HEADS.NET |
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PRESS ON PROJECT PAGES: E.E.E.I., Arboretum, Stop Making Sense, etc.
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 Speak Up!: David Byrne
"It eases my conscience to bear witness against this mistake."
Gothamist, 3.14.08 |
 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, 1.30.08 |
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, 1.08 |
 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, 1.14.07 |
 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, 6.04 [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, 8.17.03 |
 << 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, 4.29.01
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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 |
 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 |
