David Byrne

D avid Byrne and three members of the Roots made surprise appearances with Dirty Projectors on stage Sunday night (Nov. 22) at New York's Bowery Ballroom, capping a four-show local run by the Brooklyn-based critical darlings. Read More

Plastic Bertrand's 1977 hit a Plane Pour Moi" is almost certainly the only instance of a song cut in English that then became a bigger hit recorded in French. Read More

The middle song From David Byrne's epic "Rock, Paper, Scissors" trilogy. Read More

Always looking for ways to better the festival each year, Bonnaroo's ninth promises to build on the achievements of the previous eight in all facets of the event. Read More

This is the second-to-last in a series looking at the best music of the 2000s. Read More

The sinister, unsettling and paradoxical; such themes can produce some of the most interesting and pleasingly perplexing music. Read More

It may be a quarter of a century since Ryuichi Sakamoto scored the soundtrack to Nagisa Oshima's Japanese prisoner of war flick, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, but it remains the Tokyo-born electronic music pioneer's best known work. Read More

The shows I'm most looking forward to this weekend are from Seattle's BOAT , a truly fun live band whose new album, Setting the Paces , is just terrific, loaded with irresistible indie pop, as much as you can fit on tangerine-colored vinyl. Read More

The Friends of Chamber Music was bringing in Nolan Gasser to give a lecture and introduce a concert by the world-renowned St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Folly Theater. Read More

Chanteuse Bebel Gilberto couldn't have been anything but what she is -- a world-class performer, singer, and songwriter. Read More