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San Francisco Chronicle
an hour ago
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- San Francisco Chronicle
Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison is touring live with ‘Stop Making Sense.' Here's how to get tickets
Talking Heads guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison isn't just letting the days go by. The Marin resident is set to travel with the band's legendary concert film ' Stop Making Sense ' on a national tour with stops in the Bay Area. Presented by A24 and restored for the film's 40th anniversary with Harrison's involvement, 'Stop Making Sense' will travel to 29 cities, beginning on Sept. 13 in Norwalk, Conn., and ending Jan. 17 in Bellingham, Wash. Harrison, 76, is scheduled to introduce the film at each show, share behind-the-scenes stories from the making of the film, and host an audience Q&A following the screening. Harrison's Talking Heads bandmates — vocalist-guitarist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth — are not scheduled to appear in person. Northern California stops include the Golden State Theatre in Monterey on Oct. 2, the Mondavi Center in Davis on Oct. 3, the Gallo Center in Modesto on Oct. 4, the Bankhead Theater in Livermore on Jan. 9 and the Uptown Theatre in Napa on Jan. 10. Pre-sales begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 31. General sales begin at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit 'Stop Making Sense,' directed by Jonathan Demme, is widely considered one of the great concert films of all time. Filming took place during four live shows at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles between Dec. 13 and 16, 1983, and featured such now-classic songs as 'Once in a Lifetime,' 'Burning Down the House,' 'Psycho Killer' and 'Girlfriend Is Better.' The movie made its world premiere April 24, 1984, as the closing night film of the San Francisco International Film Festival. It was released nationwide in October 1984 and made more than $13 million against a $1.2 million budget. The soundtrack album from the film was released in September 1984 and spent over two years on the Billboard 200 chart. The 4K restoration, which includes a Dolby Atmos soundtrack painstakingly remastered by Harrison and veteran engineer and mixer Eric Thorngren, was re-released in September 2023 and was an unexpected IMAX and arthouse hit, leading to Harrison's tour. The tour coincides with the 50th anniversary of the band's founding in 1975, a time chronicled in Jonathan Gould's new book 'Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock.' Harrison has been revisiting the band's legacy through live performances of songs from the band's 1980 album 'Remain In Light' with guitarist Adrian Belew, including a performance at 2022's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco.
Perth Now
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Hayley Williams drops new solo album Ego on website
Hayley Williams has delighted fans with the surprise release of her new solo album, Ego. The Paramore frontwoman's new song Mirtazapine aired on WNXP Nashville last week, and now she has shared the 17-track LP on her website, However, those wishing to listen to the record will have to be signed up to the Misery Business singer's hair brand Good Dye Young's mailing list to receive a 16-digit access code. It's not clear whether Hayley - who is now an independent artist after her major label deal expired - will be making the tracks available to stream on traditional outlets after a period of time. The 36-year-old star surprised fans when she gave little notice before dropping her second solo album, Flowers for Vases / descansos, in 2021. Hayley dropped her debut solo record, Petals for Armor, in 2020. Since her last full-length solo effort, Hayley has teamed up with hardcore rockers Turnstile on the song Seein' Stars and singer-songwriter Moses Sumney on the seductive serenade I Like It I Like It. Meanwhile, Hayley has teamed up with David Byrne on his first solo album in seven years, Who Is the Sky?. She features on the track What Is the Reason For It? on the upcoming collection from the Talking Heads star - which is due out in September. David previously shared a cover of Paramore's Hard Times for Record Store Day, while Hayley released a rendition of Talking Heads classic Burning Down The House on the Stop Making Sense tribute album. Ego tracks: Kill Me True Believer BloodBros Negative Self Talk EDAABP Ice In My OJ Mirtazapine Brotherly Hate I Won't Quit On You Disappearing Man Hard Glum Love Me Different Whim Discovery Channel Dream Girl In Shibuya Zissou
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tyler, the Creator Gives the People What They Want But Can't Figure Out What He Needs
Don't Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator's second album in less than a year and, at only 28 minutes, notably less robust than its predecessor, Chromakopia. But all the elements of his work are here: the swaggy boasts, the effortless shifts from deep-voiced rapping to winsome, slightly off-key singing that makes a listener wonder if a second person has entered the booth; and beats that shape-shift like a kid rifling through a toy box. It's the latest manifestation of a boundless creative impulse that has helped him leap from grumpy provocateur circa 2009's Bastard to arena status, an annual music festival in Camp Flog Gnaw, and Billboard chart-topping albums. His musical template of youthful braggadocio and disarming sensitivity should be recognizable to anyone that has absorbed his work. But it's entertaining all the same. Thematically, Don't Tap the Glass is intended to create distance between Tyler's superstar heroics and the 34-year-old Californian underneath the image. But it's mere packaging for an artist that loves to conceptualize his work to make sense of his latest studio adventures. 'Big Poe' unfolds like an early Aughts bottles-and-models romp, complete with a cameo from Pharrell 'Sk8brd' Williams and a sample of Busta Rhymes and Williams' 2002 hit, 'Pass the Courvoisier Part II.' 'Sugar on My Tongue' echoes the oral-sex allusion of the Talking Heads number (as well the 2003 Trick Daddy and Cee-Lo Green cover) as Tyler sings over an Eighties funk vibe. He appropriates the run-on flow ever-present in current rap lyricism as he rhymes, 'So please keep that weirdo shit from me/I'm just stackin' up my cheese, tryna stay sucka free.' Then he claims on 'Stop Playing with Me,' 'When I get to snappin' like doo-wop/Really got the juice like 2Pac.' For the title track, he chirps, 'Nigga said I lost touch with the regular folks/I ain't never been regular, you niggas is jokes,' and copies Too Short's patented 'Biiitch!' for emphasis. More from Rolling Stone Tyler, the Creator Releases New Album 'Don't Tap the Glass' Tyler, the Creator Unveils New Album 'Don't Tap the Glass' Will Release on Monday Doechii and Tyler, the Creator Song 'Get Right' Debuts at Louis Vuitton Fashion Show Tyler's po-faced assertions of gettin' that paper and flying private with Maverick Carter and Lebron James are offset by moments when he sings anxiously, as if his chest-thumping masks a soft interior. While most melodic rap acts attempt to transform their macho desires into post-millennial pop-blues, Tyler deploys an emo voice that trembles with anxiety, as if he's struggling with vulnerability and gender expectations. Perhaps intentionally, there's nothing on Don't Touch the Glass that feels as explicit as when he rapped on 2017's Flower Boy, 'I've been kissing white boys since 2004.' Instead, he duets with underrated alt-soul performer Madison McFerrin on 'Don't You Worry Baby,' ad-libbing as she sings, 'We can carpool, cum at the same time.' In many ways, Tyler's brazen sexuality feels refreshingly Gen-Z. Yet his incongruent coyness also reflects a lineage of Black performers who curate their public lives, carefully hiding secrets from public view. These tensions appear in most if not all of Tyler's work. 'I can buy the galaxy/But can't afford to look for love,' he sings on 'Tell Me What It Is.' Don't Tap the Glass may not offer new twists, but it's still fun to hear Tyler conjure magic tricks like 'Don't Worry, Baby,' which spools together an R&Bass rhythm and is reminiscent of Ghost Town DJs' 'My Boo' and K.P. & Envyi's 'Swing My Way.' If this 10-track album has problems, it's not a relative lack of candor, but Tyler's refusal to break from a patented sound that draws from equal parts Kanye West, OutKast, and Neptunes; and has proved an enduring form of hip-hop in the past decade-and-a-half. He's tried shaking things up before with the clumsy Afropunk flurries of 2015's Cherry Bomb. (On 'I'll Take Care of You,' he revisits the rollicking rhythm of that album's title track, and pairs it with a sample of Crime Mob's 'Knuck If You Buck.') Now that he's matured into such an accomplished musician, one wonders if it isn't worth trying again. Perhaps that's part of the plan for Don't Tap the Glass, too: Give the people what they love, warn the superfans to keep their distance because he's 'Noid,' and figure out what to do next. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
David Byrne Is Done With Mansplaining on ‘She Explains Things to Me'
David Byrne has shared his new song 'She Explains Things to Me,' the latest single from the former Talking Heads frontman's upcoming album Who Is The Sky? The sweeping track was inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit's 2014 collection Men Explain Things to Me, with the titular essay providing a scathing look at male arrogance and how conversations between men and women go awry. More from Rolling Stone David Byrne's New Album Is 'A Chance to Be the Mythical Creature We All Harbor Inside' Watch Olivia Rodrigo Burn Down the House With David Byrne at Gov Ball Hear David Byrne and Devo's Long-Unheard Collaboration 'Empire' 'Many times I have marveled at how a friend (usually a female friend) seems to clock what is going on in a film between characters way before I do,' Byrne said of the single in a statement. 'Sometimes I understand poetry, but sometimes I need help. Though inspired by the Solnit book Men Explain Things to Me, there is a huge difference — mansplaining is usually unasked for, in this case I am the one asking.' Bynre shared the first single and opening track 'Everybody Laughs' from Who Is the Sky? last month. The album marks his first since 2018's LP-turned-Broadway show-turned-HBO film American Utopia. It arrives Sept. 5 and features contributions from Hayley Williams, St. Vincent, and the Smile drummer Tom Skinner. Byrne previously said in a statement that Who Is the Sky? is 'a chance to be the mythical creature we all harbor inside. A chance to step into another reality. A chance to transcend and escape from the prison of our 'selves.'' He added, 'At my age, at least for me, there's a 'don't give a shit about what people think' attitude that kicks in. I can step outside my comfort zone with the knowledge that I kind of know who I am by now and sort of know what I'm doing. That said, every new set of songs, every song even, is a new adventure. There's always a bit of, 'how do I work this?' I've found that not every collaboration works, but often when they do, it's because I'm able to clearly impart what it is I'm trying to do. They hopefully get that, and as a result, we're now joined together heading to the same unknown place.' Byrne will support the record with a lengthy North American tour this fall that will feature — like his American Utopia gigs — a mobile 13-piece band. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
Economist
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Economist
The rise of AI art is spurring a revival of analogue media
Walk into Torn Light Records, on Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago's hipster corridor, and you may feel like you have stepped back in time. Jazz wafts through the speakers. On prominent display is a copy of 'Remain in Light', a cult album released by Talking Heads in 1980. Yet the shop opened last year, having relocated from Cincinnati. It is one of half a dozen record stores on the street, but competition is not a problem: sales have been brisk. 'Having people being really interested in physical media again has been great,' says Daniel Buckley, the co-owner.
