David Byrne
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 03: David Byrne performs with Jherek Bischoff during the 2012 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 3, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
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I live rent-free, with my dad, David Byrne, at least for the time being.
Now this girl's got a record, which could hamper her later in life
Is it the band? Is it Eno? Is it David Byrne? Is it 1979? Is it punk? ... I’m still really interested in unearthing, excavating in that book the feeling of that band, and what they signified. Even the dress and the haircuts and the weird clarity of the song titles, and the arty minimalism of their album designs — all of this seemed to be saying something.More quotes »
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David Byrne on NYC’s New Bike-Share Program
The former Talking Heads frontman and cycling enthusiast is pretty excited about New York City’s new bike-share program, which launches this summer and will lead to more than 10,000 additional bicycles on city streets. People who live and work in New Yor 5/29/12 from World Hum | Travel Guide Read more »
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David Byrne – “This Is How We Ride”
Look around you. Bikes are everywhere: in glamorous ads and fashionable neighborhoods, parked outside art galleries, clubs, office buildings. More and more city workers arrive for work on bikes. The future is visible in the increasing number of bikes you from Fortworthology Read more »
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David Byrne on New York's New Bike-Share Program...
I’ve used a bike to get around New York for decades. There’s an exhilaration you get from self-propelled transportation — skateboarding, in-line skating and walking as well as biking; New York has good public transportation, but you just don’t get the ki from The Daily Swarm Read more »
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Music: Music Review: The Walkmen: Heaven
David Byrne once described heaven as a place where nothing ever happens. The heaven Hamilton Leithauser sings about in the title track of The Walkmen’s seventh album is a similarly uneventful place, and he’s willing to fight to keep it that way. Over a r from The A.V. Club Read more »
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David Byrne on how biking builds a better a city – and growing up in Arbutus
Writer, musician and former MICA student and Talking Heads front-man David Byrne had a thoughtful piece on biking yesterday in The New York Times. The peg was New York’s bike-share program which is going to start with 420 stations in Manhattan, Long Isla from Baltimore Brew Read more »
