The Brazilian songwriter Tom Zé doesn't make a habit of performing in New York or in the United States. The last time he toured was in 1999, backed by the Chicago instrumental band Tortoise. And there's no one like him in Brazilian music or, for that matter, anywhere. So it's a coup that the Lincoln Center Festival has booked him for a concert at...
Shabazz Palaces ''Clear some space out so we could space out,'' Palaceer Lazaro raps on Shabazz Palaces' debut album, ''Black Up'' (Sub Pop), summing up the group's aesthetic. Ishmael Butler, a k a Palaceer Lazaro, called himself Butterfly when he was a leader of the jazz-loving, Grammy-winning New York hip-hop group Digable Planets in the 1990s....
The '80s theme was laid on so thick at an auction and party for the public arts group Creative Time on Thursday night that if a member of the Brat Pack had sauntered by, we wouldn't have blinked. Then David Byrne, the former frontman of the Talking Heads, strode in. His white hair brought us back to the present with a thump: 1981 was 30 years ago....
David Byrne (født 14. maj 1952 i Dumbarton, Skotland) er en sanger og sangskriver, der er opvokset i USA. Tidligere medlem af New Wave/rock bandet Talking Heads.