To make a music scene you need four things: cheap housing, recent art-school graduates, a stage where anyone can play and a small clique of young critics eager to discover a new subculture. As ...

Few musical artists have had the lasting impact and relevance of Talking Heads... they were a group of art students who ended up transforming mainstream rock. Music biographer Jonathan Gould looks at ...

Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” the 1984 Jonathan Demme film widely considered the best concert movie ever made, Jonathan Gould has published a ...

When an author decides to tackle the story of a popular and important band like Talking Heads, the contours of which are familiar to many of its fans, the remit should be to illuminate the unexplored ...

For a band that broke up under a cloud of bitterness, Talking Heads still appreciate a good celebration. The recently released biography “Burning Down the House” (HarperCollins, 512 pages) from New ...

Byrne connected with Williams when her band covered the Talking Heads' "Burning Down The House" for the Stop Making Sense re-release Who Is The Sky? is out on Sept. 5 Hayley Williams is the reason for ...

Few musical artists have had the lasting impact and relevance of Talking Heads… they were a group of art students who ended up transforming mainstream rock. Music biographer Jonathan Gould looks at ...

BURNING DOWN HE HOUSE: Talking Heads and the New York Scene that Transformed Rock. By Jonathan Gould. Mariner Books. 512 pages. $35. Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of ...