Subject: David Byrne

• Jim of All Trades

  For David Byrne discovery Jim White, music wasn't his first career choice. Or his second. Or his third @

  April 16, 1998

• Haunted DIA Strikes Again, Befuddles David Byrne’s WiFi

  February 13, 2008

• Creepy, Catchy, Cool: Silence of the Lambs as Dance Pop

  April 16, 2008

• This Just In 8/14-8/20

  August 12, 2008

• Rearview: The Week in Review (10/4/08-10/10/08)

  October 10, 2008

• Byrne After Reading

  October 10, 2008

• Live Review: David Byrne at the Temple Buell Theater

  October 13, 2008

• Flick Pick

  Stop Making Sense

  March 6, 2003

• Not a Gas

  A mediocre Wind bags only a few charming laughs.

  April 17, 2003

• Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

  Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin.

  December 22, 2008

• DeVotchKa to open for David Byrne at Red Rocks

  DeVotchKa just got tapped to open for David Byrne, who visits Red Rocks Saturday, June 20  as part of his tour playing songs from his collaborations with Brian Eno, including tunes from Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Byrne played a stellar show with three encores at the Temple Buell Theater last October. Read Tom Murphy's review of the show here.

  February 23, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, February 23 edition

  Wigging out at the Beerdrinker of the Year contest. Welcome back. Today in Cafe Society: • Beerdrinker of the Year: A judge's tale. • Sexy Pizza's sexy facelift. • It's Denver Cupcake Week for Lovely Confections Bakery. • Room for one Pho. • Oodles of noodles and more news from Jet Entertainment. • Another round at Katie Mullen's. • A Milking It review of Jumbo Multi-Grain Krispies. They're big. Today in Backbeat Online: • Review: Two Cow Garage at 3 Kings Tavern. • Dialed I

  February 23, 2009

• Leonard Cohen, Chris Cornell, STS9 shows anounced

  Leonard Cohen's concert at New York's Beacon Theatre last Thursday marked his first American performance in fifteen years. As he took the stage, AEG Live announced a run of North American dates that, as of now, concludes with a stop at Red Rocks on Tuesday, June 2. It was one of a few Red Rocks shows that were announced this week, including David Byrne and DeVotchKa on Saturday, June 20, Rise Against and Rancid on Thursday, June 11, and STS9 on Saturday, July 25. As reported yesterday, Airborne

  February 24, 2009

• Global Groove World Music Festival

  June 10, 2004

• Yeasayer

  End of days? Why not dance the night away?

  January 31, 2008

• Freeloader

  Bringing you the best in free, artist-approved downloads.

  July 31, 2008

• David Byrne & Brian Eno

  August 28, 2008

• Westword's favorite national albums of the year

  December 25, 2008

• Road to Nowhere

  The Motet plays to a Talking Heads fan base.

  October 30, 2008

• David Byrne

  October 2, 2008

• Remaking Sense

  David Byrne comes up big-time in Stop Making Sense.

  August 2, 2001

• Teeth Mountain

  Sunday, August 10, Rhinoceropolis, 303-641-9809.

  August 7, 2008

• Record Breaking

  With the music industry in disarray, local acts seek new ways to release their music.

  January 24, 2008

• Sound Bites

  Capsule record reviews

  September 20, 2007

• Brazil '66

  May 17, 2007

• Cannibal Corpse

  May 31, 2007

• Barbez

  Wednesday, September 28, Bender's Tavern, 303-861-7070.

  September 22, 2005

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Self-released)

  August 18, 2005

• Various Artists

  Jim White Presents: Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Luaka Bop)

  June 16, 2005

• Off Limits

  Walk softly and carry a big shtick

  September 9, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  September 2, 2004

• David Byrne

  Friday, September 3, Ogden Theatre, 1-800-965-4827; Saturday, September 4, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, 1-866-527-8499.

  September 2, 2004

• Widespread Panic

  Über Cobra (Widespread Records)

  August 12, 2004

• Watchers

  To the Rooftops (Gern Blandsten)

  May 22, 2003

• Made With Love

  Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't.

  April 10, 2003

• Various Artists

  An Afro-Portuguese Odyssey (Putumayo)

  December 19, 2002

• Hit Pick

  George and Caplin

  November 7, 2002

• Critic's Choice

  David Byrne

  May 24, 2001

• Join the Club

  Any Dick or Harry can get funky with the Tom Tom Club's first recording in eight years.

  October 19, 2000

• Squawking Head

  David Byrne is mad as hell at his former bandmates--and he's not going to take it anymore.

  August 21, 1997

• Thrills for the week

  August 21, 1997

• Name That Style

  Do the members of Morcheeba make trip-hop? No--they make music.

  March 20, 1997

• Letters

  November 14, 1996

• Heads Down

  The Heads' Jerry Harrison on the controversial decision to carry on without David Byrne.

  October 31, 1996

• THE GOODS

  THERE WEREN'T THOUSANDS OF FIRST-RATE RECORDS RELEASED IN 1995. BUT THERE WERE NINETY.

  December 27, 1995

• THRILLS

  October 4, 1995

• NO ALTERNATIVE

  A LOOK AT THE MODERN-ROCK SONGS DENVER RADIO IS DOING TO DEATH.

  July 19, 1995

• CRASH COURSE

  March 23, 1994

• Spinner dubs Boulder's Biafra one of music's 10 biggest geeks

  ​AOL's music blog, Spinner.com, posted a list late last week titled "Revenge of the Rock Nerds: The 10 Biggest Geeks in Music." Between such dorky songsmiths as Talking Heads' David Byrne (#10) and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo (#1) lies former Dead Kennedys frontman and longtime Bay Area fixture Jello Biafra (#8), who is cited by Spinner's staff for his "obnoxious persona and politically charged lyrics." Curiously, Spinner also goes out of its way to mention how the adolescent Biafra's "anti-establis

  August 3, 2009

• Dirty Projectors

  November 5, 2009