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Tina Weymouth on Kid Ginseng record
Posted Friday, 16 May, 2008 by francey
After several CD-EPS, Tom Tom Club turntablist/electropunker Kid Ginseng recently released his first EP on vinyl- "Gift to Connect" contains brand new tracks, as well as some reworked versions of Ginseng classics.

Special guests include Tina Weymouth (vocal sample on "Wild at Heart") and Tom Tom Club's Mystic Bowie (vocals on "High Zone").

A few copies are now available from the talking-heads.net webstore.

Modern art icon Robert Rauschenberg dies
Posted Thursday, 15 May, 2008 by francey
Influential U.S. artist Robert Rauschenberg, best known for incorporating everyday objects into paintings, prints and sculptures, has died at the age of 82.

Rauschenberg won a Grammy Award in 1984 for designing the artwork for the limited edition of the Talking Heads album Speaking in Tongues.

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New David Byrne/Brian Eno album and tour
Posted Saturday, 19 April, 2008 by francey
After an on-stage collaboration with Paul Simon last week, David Byrne told the NY Daily news he's "[...]collaborating with Brian Eno for the first time in 20 years. Brian had written a lot of music, but needed some words, which I know how to do. What's it sound like? Electronic gospel. That's all I'm saying."

Rumours say Byrne & Eno will also hit the road together for a tour in the US later this year.

Tom Tom Club tourdates
Posted Monday, 7 April, 2008 by francey
The following tourdates for Tom Tom Club have been confirmed:

June 17th Fairfield Theater Company Stage One, Fairfield,CT (USA)
June 20th Meltdown Festival, South Bank Centre, London, UK....with Gang Of Four (UK)
June 26th McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY.....with Devo (USA)
June 27th Bank Of America Pavillion, Boston, MA.....with Devo (USA)

The Last Emperor on Criterion DVD
Posted Thursday, 20 March, 2008 by francey
Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated. One of the Oscar's went to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cong Su and David Byrne for their work on the soundtrack of the film.

A brand new 4-disk DVD edition of "The Last Emperor" has been released on Criterion, and includes, among many many other bonus featerers, a new interview with David Byrne.

The Criterion edition of "The Last Emperor" is available here

Dark Side of Disco vol. 3
Posted Wednesday, 19 March, 2008 by francey
The third part in the "Dark Side of Disco" series contains tracks by both Tom Tom Club and David Byrne. DSOD combined obscure 80s underground music with hard to find original 12" versions, reprinted on (bootleg) vinyl only. The first part, released two years ago, featured Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime". The recently released part 3 features the original "Dance Mix" of David Byrne's "Big Business" and Tom Tom Club's "Lorelei (Instrumental Long version)".

Funky Nassau
Posted Saturday, 16 February, 2008 by francey
K7 / Strut records will release the compilation CD "Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980 - 1986" on February 18. The CD contains the definitive story of the golden era at Chris Blackwell's Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and compes with extensive sleeve notes and artists interviews. The album includes tracks by Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Ian Dury, Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar, Will Powers and many others.

CD available here.

Minisite with some previous and videos, as well as a familiair face if you don't skip the intro sequence ;-)

Big Business - Slow to Speak remix
Posted Saturday, 19 January, 2008 by francey
After remixes for Thom Yorke, U2 and Bjork, 'Slow to Speak' did a funky remix of David Byrne's "Big Business" which has been released on 12" vinyl by TRS. Pressed in a strictly limited edition, the new remix stays true to the original, adding some breaks and extends the 1981 remix version.

David Byrne on Visionairy.53
Posted Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 by francey
David Byrne contributed an original sound piece to issue 53 of multi-platform art project Visionaire. "Visionaire 53 Sound" features more than one hundred sound pieces by leading artsts, musicians and personalities on 5 picture disk albums. The vinyls are packaged inside a dome case and and comes with a mini CLubman "Vinyl Killer" record player. Contributors include, besides Byrne, Michael Stipe, u2, Cat Power, Pet Shop Boys, Sunn O)), Jim White, The Knife, Milla Jovovich, David Sylvian and many many more.

"Visionaire 53 Sound" is produced in a limited edition of 4,000 copies and available for US$ 250 + shipping from the Visionaire site.

David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars
Posted Sunday, 23 December, 2007 by francey
Wired has an interesting article on nowadays music industry writen by David Byrne. New music included!

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