For a band that broke up under a cloud of bitterness, Talking Heads still appreciate a good celebration. The recently released biography “Burning Down the House” (HarperCollins, 512 pages) from New ...

In the mid-1970s, the struggle to avoid bankruptcy was only one of New York’s problems, as anyone who walked the city’s crime-ridden, garbage-strewn streets in those days will recall. More than 1 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jim Bennett/FilmMagic; Gus Stewart/Redferns via Getty Images Never meet your heroes. That ...

When David Byrne wrote his first and most successful hit song for the Talking Heads, he had one question in mind: what would it sound like if Alice Cooper and Randy Newman wrote a song together? An ...

How influential was the New Wave band? Talking Heads, 1976. I moved to Greenwich Village from a blue-collar New Jersey suburb in 1974, when I was 19, landing in the midst of a cultural transformation ...

Though the final Talking Heads album came out in 1988, the band never really went away. Unlike defunct groups trapped in a cycle of rediscovery every generation or so, Talking Heads have remained ...