Byrne, David
David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected
David Byrne is all about connectedness these days. “Everybody’s coming to my house/And I’m never gonna be alone,” he sings on Broadway in “American Utopia,” half joyful, half fretful, still open. His online magazine, “Reasons to Be Cheerful” — which bills itself as “a tonic for tumultuous times” — catalogs all the ways in which […]
Know MoreA Radiohead Spinoff’s Snarling Single, and 8 More New Songs
The latest Radiohead spinoff is the Smile, the quasi-power trio of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and the drummer Tom Skinner from Sons of Kemet. “Not the smile as in ha-ha-ha, more the smile as in the guy who lies to you every day,” Yorke told the virtual audience at the 2021 Glastonbury Festival. On the […]
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