in 2007, david byrne biked to town hall for an event he organized called "how new yorkers ride bikes". the event kicked off with footage (below) from byrne's journey on two-wheels through the streets of new york to event and on stage. has anyone read "bicycle diaries" yet? i just ordered a copy...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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the Mudd Club was a tribeca nightclub named after the doctor/alledged confederate conspirator (or screwed over innocent guy depending on who you ask) who set john wilkes booth's leg after he assassinated abe lincon with a tool called a "mudd club" which enabled him to escape DC. escape after he murdered abe lincoln. the club was opened by steve mass (a publisher), diego cortez (an art curator), and anya philipsit (a singer) opened the nightclub in october of 1978. it soon came to play a major role in NY's underground music and counterculture scene.
the Mudd Club featured gender-neutral bathrooms and even had a rotating gallery on its own floor. the club hosted live performances of punk rock, new wave, and experimental music frequented by jean-michel basquiat, johnny Thunders, keith haring, david byrne, and klaus naomi, the ramones, and frank zappa.
the owners attracted the rough downtowners by juxtaposing its chicly trashy main floors with an art gallery on the fourth floor. soon the mudd club was as known for its basquiat exhibitions as for its talking heads performances ("this ain't the mudd club or cbgb's, i ain't got time for that now"- 'life during wartime')
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Monday, September 8, 2008
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download Strange Overtones, the first track released from the David Byrne/Brian Eno collaborative album titled "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today".
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
Merkin says "upbeat, sounds like air france, and its got a kinda caribbean vibe"
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Monday, August 4, 2008
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David Byrne and Brian Eno are releasing and album together titled Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. The album will be released exclusively at EverythingThatHappens.com starting August 18th (buy it, or stream it online for free). Starting August 4th you can download "Strange Overtones" for free. This 11-track album marks the first collaboration between the Talking Heads front man and the legendary producer in 27 years!
Moreover, David Byrne announced a US tour this fall. Great news for everyone, especially those of us who weren't around to experience that My Life In The Bush of Ghosts magic in 1981. Here are a few leaked tour dates, and the the track list.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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"Toe Jam," the latest and greatest from Norman Cook (Fat Boy Slim), with help from David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. Censorship has never been so fun--
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
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(via David Byrne's Journal) Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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