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  • Thursday,January 26,2023
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    Congratulations to David Byrne, who has been nominated for an Academy Award, with Ryan Lott (of Son Lux) and Mitski, for Original Song, for "This Is a Life," from the Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert film Everything Everywhere All at Once. You can hear it here. The film has received eleven Academy Award nominations, including Son Lux for Music (Original Score), another track from which features Randy Newman. The 95th Academy Awards will be held in Hollywood, airing live on ABC, on Sunday, March 12.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Film
  • Thursday,January 12,2023
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    Here Lies Love, the immersive disco pop musical based on the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos and the People Power Revolution of the Philippines, with music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, will premiere on Broadway this summer at the Broadway Theatre, directed by Alex Timbers and choreographed by Annie-B Parson. Performances will begin Saturday, June 17, ahead of an official opening night on Thursday, July 20. 

    Journal Topics: Artist News
  • Thursday,January 5,2023
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    David Byrne’s American Utopia is the focus of the latest episode of the Suzie Explores podcast. Seven members of the Broadway cast—Bobby Wooten III, Mauro Refosco, Daniel Freedman, Tim Keiper, Stéphane San Juan, Jacquelene Acevedo, and Tendayi Kuumba —joined host Suzie Collier six months after the end of the Broadway run to discuss the show and what’s happened since. You can watch the conversation here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Podcast
  • Tuesday,January 3,2023
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    David Byrne rang in 2023 performing two songs with Miley Cyrus as part of NBC’s New Year’s Eve special Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party. Byrne, Cyrus, and a full band performed “Everybody’s Coming to My House,” from his 2018 album American Utopia and its subsequent Broadway production, and David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” You can watch them both here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Video
  • Tuesday,October 11,2022
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    David Byrne spoke with Radiolab co-host Latif Nasser and neuroscientist Thalia Wheatley at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts just before the opening of Theater of the Mind, the new immersive experience he created in Denver with collaborator Mala Gaonkar. They discuss one of the show’s central themes: perception. You can hear their conversation here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Podcast, Radio
  • Monday,March 14,2022
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    David Byrne is on the Talk Easy podcast hosted by Sam Fragoso. They discuss his show American Utopia, which marks its last few weeks on Broadway and which Fragoso calls “dazzling … remarkable,” the celebratory nature of performing the show for audiences as people have begun to congregate again, and much more. You can hear it here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Podcast
  • Tuesday,March 8,2022
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    David Byrne was on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to talk with Fallon about his famed suit from Stop Making Sense, writing music from a rental car, performing American Utopia on Broadway, and his new book of drawings, A History of the World (in Dingbats). He was joined by his cast mates to perform "Like Humans Do." Byrne joined Tariq from The Roots to face off against fellow guest Renée Zellweger and Fallon in a game of The Jinx. You can watch all of the above here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Television, Video
  • Saturday,March 5,2022
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    David Byrne was on CBS Saturday Morning to talk with Anthony Mason about bringing American Utopia to Broadway and took Mason on a walk through his new art exhibition at Pace Gallery in NYC. He was also joined by his Broadway cast mates to perform "Burning Down the House," "Everybody's Coming to My House," and "Marching Through the Wilderness" in a Saturday Sessions set from the St. James Theatre, where the show is running through April 3. You can watch the conversation and three performances here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Television, Video
  • Sunday,February 20,2022
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    David Byrne sat down for Wired magazine's Autocomplete Interview, answering the internet's most searched questions about himself—about American Utopia, Talking Heads, tutus, songs that make him cry, and more. You can see what he had to say here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News
  • Thursday,February 10,2022
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    David Byrne is on a special bonus episode of WNYC's United States of Anxiety to talk with host Kai Wright about his show American Utopia on Broadway. "It's a live Broadway show in which he performs his music almost as a catalyst to a wider conversation about living in a plural society," Wright says: "you, me, us, and what's possible if we can make that work." You can hear their conversation here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Podcast
  • Monday,January 17,2022
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    David Byrne is the guest on the latest episode of the SmartLess podcast hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. "I am truly starstruck," Arnett says in the introduction of his surprise guest. "This person's music has played a huge role certainly in my life and lots of people's lives ... This person is, quite honestly, it's rare that you get to say, living legend." You can hear their conversation here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Podcast
  • Tuesday,January 4,2022
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    David Byrne was on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers remotely to discuss American Utopia on Broadway, the adaptations he and the cast and crew made to keep the show going—in an "unchained" (aka unplugged) version—during recent Covid-19 outbreaks, and the Spike Lee–directed film of the show, which is up for a Grammy Award for Best Music Film. You can watch their conversation here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Television, Video

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