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CBGB Is Dead. Long Live CBGB. - New York Times


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CBGB Is Dead. Long Live CBGB.
New York Times
For the last six years the name CBGB has been little more than a logo on T-shirts for young people in the East Village. Now a group of investors has bought the assets of that famous punk-rock club, which closed in 2006, and plans to establish an ...

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Corrections: May 9 - New York Times

Corrections: May 9
New York Times
It was Talking Heads, not “the Talking Heads.” (One of the band's albums was called “The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads.”) OBITUARIES Because of an editing error, an obituary on Tuesday about Bob Stewart, the creator of several television game ...

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Suckers, bound for Lowbrow, talk new album and ...suckage - El Paso Inc.

Suckers, bound for Lowbrow, talk new album and ...suckage
El Paso Inc.
Brooklyn band Suckers are pretty difficult to describe musically – among the many attempts out there, they've been likened to a more-unhinged Talking Heads – but they're easy on the ears and even better live. Their show Wednesday, May 23, at Lowbrow is ...

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Jonathan Lethem Riffs on Talking Heads in Fear of Music - Wired News


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Jonathan Lethem Riffs on Talking Heads in <cite>Fear of Music</cite>
Wired News
In his new book Fear of Music, Jonathan Lethem delivers an impassioned, hilarious and unabashedly personal take on the classic Talking Heads album of the same name. “Fear of Music took me at an age when I had very few defenses,” Lethem said in an ...
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Free Film School #48: Tonight I'm Gonna Docu Tonight (Part 1) - Crave Online

Free Film School #48: Tonight I'm Gonna Docu Tonight (Part 1)
Crave Online
Watch Jonathan Demme's 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense sometime (which is, kind of ironically, about a band called Talking Heads). Or, better yet, the epic 1970 concert film Woodstock. Although some concerts don't go so well.

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Up from Under the Sun - Cincinnati CityBeat


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Up from Under the Sun
Cincinnati CityBeat
The seeds for Donkeys' sound were surreptitiously planted by their elders, as DeNardo's dad was big into David Bowie and Talking Heads, and Sprague's parents had introduced him to The Band and Fleetwood Mac. Early on, the band culture appealed to ...

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"Absolutely No Interviews": Human Don't Be Angry Interviewed - The Quietus


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"Absolutely No Interviews": Human Don't Be Angry Interviewed
The Quietus
People always seem weirdly surprised when you or Aidan Moffat talk about loving mainstream pop music – say if Aidan tweets about Cher Lloyd, or when you reminisce about Madonna. Could Arab Strap have been a pop band in a parallel realm?

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Trust David Byrne: '80s downtown veteran Mikel Rouse still has lots to say - Capital New York

Trust David Byrne: '80s downtown veteran Mikel Rouse still has lots to say
Capital New York
By Seth Colter Walls Musician Mikel Rouse moved to New York in 1979, at least partly on the advice of David Byrne and the rest of Talking Heads, for whom Rouse and his new-wave band had recently opened when Byrne & co. swung through Rouse's hometown, ...

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Trash Collector: The Return of Johnny and Joey - Consequence of Sound

Trash Collector: The Return of Johnny and Joey
Consequence of Sound
Each chapter has him delivering his opinions on everything, from people in other bands (“Jerry Harrison, the Talking Heads keyboard player, made me nuts”), to touring (“I hated Europe”), to Elvis movies (he says Loving You is the best one).

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Summer concert guide: Van Halen, Nicki Minaj, Beach Boys - AZ Central.com


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Summer concert guide: Van Halen, Nicki Minaj, Beach Boys
AZ Central.com
This is hipster rock as fans have come to know and love it in the '10s, with a glancing look over the shoulder to their indie forebears Modest Mouse and even older forebears Talking Heads (lend an ear to "Black Sheep").

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