Art imitating life imitating art. “Wild Wild Life” was the lead single from True Stories, the soundtrack to David Byrne’s pseudo-documentary about the fictional town of Virgil, Texas. Byrne wrote the ...

With hits like “Psycho Killer,” “Wild Wild Life” and “This Must Be the Place,” talking Heads have been creating iconic cultural moments for more than 50 years. Now, music historian and author Jonathan ...

In 1975 in New York City, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz struck up a band together and called themselves the Talking Heads. They joined an East Coast punk scene populated by Blondie, ...

Talking Heads are having a pretty incredible run for a band that broke up 35 years ago. In 2017, Selena Gomez rode one of Tina Weymouth's slippery basslines all the way to the Top 20. The band's ...

An expanded, Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, will include discs of studio outtakes and live recordings from the period. The three-CD and ...

Jonathan Gould chronicles the rise and breakup of Talking Heads, shown here in 1982 from left: Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz and David Byrne. (Luciano Viti / Getty Images) When an author ...

Though the final Talking Heads album came out in 1988, the band never really went away. Unlike defunct groups trapped in a cycle of rediscovery every generation or so, Talking Heads have remained ...