Tentative Decisions gathers early demos and live recordings of songs that eventually appeared on the band’s first two albums ...

Demos & Live' includes demos of "Psycho Killer" and "Warning Sign" from pre-Talking Heads band The Artistics ...

The quintessential art school band of our time began at Rhode Island School of Design, where singer/guitarist David Byrne started the Artistics with drummer Chris Frantz. Frantz’s girlfriend and ...

In the late 1970s, music executive Seymour Stein coined the term “new wave” in an effort to persuade DJs who balked at punk artists to give his new band, Talking Heads, some air time. The ...

Record Store Day's Black Friday edition has some cool releases to hunt down for the music lover on your shopping list (or for ...

Talking Heads released their iconic concert film Stop Making Sense in a restored 4K print via A24 in 2023, and now they’ve announced a deluxe edition of the the soundtrack album available as a ...

When Talking Heads went into the studio to record their 1980 album, “Remain in Light,” they were on the verge of breaking up. They came out with a renewed commitment to the band, via a collection of ...

Pioneering keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison cut his teeth in the seminal proto-punk band The Modern Lovers in the 1970s and ’80s before leaving an indelible mark on music history with Talking ...

Thurston Moore listens to plenty of obscure music, but some of it is so good he feels that it needs to be remembered.

Welcome to Band Jury, a SPIN series in which artists defend black sheep albums they feel deserve another listen. These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a ...

Seymour Stein, whose Sire Records launched Madonna’s career and signed such early punk rock and new wave icons as the Ramones and Talking Heads, died Sunday morning in Los Angeles after a long battle ...