David Byrne

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• J. Torres & Eric Kim–Love as a Foreign Language Volume 1 (2006)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 126
  SOUNDTRACK : DARK WAS THE NIGHT: This Disc (2009). This compilation was released to benefit the Red Hot organization, who raises money to fight AIDS.  I’ve gotten about a half dozen or so of their compilations over the years (and was surprised to see that they have released about 2o of them!). This collection ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• ‘because music is very physical and often the body understands it before the head.’ — david byrne

  
  mygorgeoussomewhere.org — Authority: 432
  (Replace the word “music” with the word “poetry” in the quote above, and we’re in business.) I usually don’t post two videos in one day, but when I was watching one of the Mairéad Byrne videos on YouTube, this self-interview by David Byrne popped up as a related video. At first, I thought it was just ...
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• David Byrne–The New Sins (2001)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 126
  SOUNDTRACK : KISS-Kiss (1974). I’ve always loved the first Kiss record.  Everything about it is over the top, and I can’t imagine what people thought of it when it hit shelves back in 1974. And yet, for such a preposterous looking record, the tracks are really great.  The music is a mixture of pop, Rolling ...
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• While were at it

  
  turbine — Authority: 519
  Can someone check the liner notes for Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites from Talking Heads and find that passage where David Byrne talks about the electric guitar’s natural sound?  It’s one the great bits of artistic aesthetic I’ve read, and does much to explain their music. I used to have it, but ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Sweden, the award-winningest country.

  
  Blogs - — Authority: 147
  type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js">If youre tired of reading about all the awards being bestowed on "Up In The Air," "The Hurt Locker" and all, well, there are alternatives. For example: we could celebrate the sheer multiplicity of awards for their own sake, like the Swedish Film ...
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• The Absolute Best Songs of 2009

  
  Pretty Much Amazing! — Authority: 565
  Artwork by the talented and generous Adam Sarpalius . The final list is here. We have been working on this Absolute (sarcasm) Best Songs of 2009 list all year, updating it at the end of every quarter. I was only going to have PMA’s Top 50 of the year listen, but I couldn’t narrow it down beyond the top 75. ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• The Power and Peril of the Ridiculous

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Years ago, a Spanish oncologist paid me to come to his office twice a week for English conversation classes. That was the cover story, anyway. Every Monday and Wednesday, Id show up at his office in the biggest hospital in the city at 10 am sharp. Hed welcome me warmly, lock the door behind us, crack the window next ...
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• Jim Massey & Robbi Rodriguez–Maintenance: Volume 1 It’s a Dirty Job (

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 126
  SOUNDTRACK : Future Soundtrack for America (2004). This CD came with the McSweeney’s Future Dictionary for America .  It was released on Barsuk Records (home of Death Cab for Cutie and other great bands) and it was compiled by Spike Jonze and one of the Johns from They Might Be Giants. This is a solid ...
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• Bootleg City: Bruce Springsteen & the Max Weinberg 7 in Asbury Park, Christmas ‘03

  
  Popdose — Authority: 609
  Six years ago I was fed up with the state of affairs in Bootleg City but determined to do something about it. A small group of Bootleg City school board members — David Byrne, Bob Marley, and myself — were tired of being constantly undermined by Mayor Cass, who we felt had a personal agenda. Additionally, a ...
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• Feel Good Friday – Stay Up Late – Talking Heads

  
  The Squirrel Queen — Authority: 120
  I heard part of this song this morning while in the truck. I sang along until I turned the key to get out of the vehicle. I wanted to relive the whole thing, so, lucky you, I’m sharing it as my Feel Good Friday tune. The Talking Heads with “Stay Up Late”.
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• Best of 09: Top 50 Singles (#1 - 10)

  
  Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Authority: 504
  At the beginning of the year I unleashed an article unlike anything I had ever written for this site before. Titled, " The 9s Have It: Historical Reasoning Why 2009 Will Be A Great Year for Music ", I detailed the history of the last year of the decade and its overall affect on the pop culture we would experience ...
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• David Byrne’s Here Lies Love

  
  mainly music meanderings — Authority: 425
  What do Tori Amos , Nellie McKay , Sia , St Vincent , Steve Earle , Natalie Merchant , Cyndi Lauper and more all have in common? They are all featured vocalists on the upcoming 2CD/1DVD concept album by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim … Here Lies Love (due out 23 Feb 2010).  They had me at Tori ...
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• Preview: Here Lies Love - David Byrne & Fatboy Slim

  
  Vintage Vinyl News — Authority: 142
  Artist: David Byrne & Fatboy Slim plus Guest ArtistsTitle: Here Lies LoveRelease Date: February 23, 2010Label: Todomundo/NonesuchFormat(s): 2 CDs/1 DVD/100-Page BookThe new project is best described in this letter sent out by David Byrne.I have, after many years, finished the Here Lies Love CD project - at least ...
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• The Dead Guys Won’t Write More Symphonies

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 578
  David Byrne writes one of the most interesting musician’s blogs around, and his latest post is a keeper. In the post, he talks about The LA Opera production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle , above, is budgeted at $32 million, and at how $14 million of that is coming from the City: It’s time to rethink all this ...
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  TIM MCFARLANE — Authority: 99
  "I think maybe it’s time to stop, or more reasonably, curtail somewhat, state investment in the past — in a bunch of dead guys (and they are mostly guys, and mostly dead, when we look at opera halls) — and invest in our future. Take that money, that $14 million from the city, for example, let some of those ...
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• This Week in Shoes

  
  ShoeBlog — Authority: 509
  REMINDER: Today is your last chance to enter Shoeblog’s Taryn Rose shoe giveaway . Entries/comments received after midnight, Pacific time will not be eligible. What do you think of Andreia Chaves ‘Invisible’ concept shoes? Covered with mirrors, they are meant to constantly change appearance as ...
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• David Byrne + Fatboy Slim = Imelda Marcos Tribute Album!

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 574
  Um, whaaaaat ? So many questions! 1) David Byrne — he of the legendary Talking Heads, longtime collaborator of Brian Eno — and Fatboy Slim — ’90s big beat sensation — were working together on an album ? 2) The project the pair has chosen to take on together is… devoted entirely to the relationship ...
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