David Byrne

David Byrne ponders music’s shape-shifting stage—good luck breaking in though

David Byrne discusses his latest album while dissecting the evolution of the music industry’s mechanics. He suggests that while artistic control has expanded, breaking through remains elusive for new artists.

Reflecting on Talking Heads, he taps into live performance's malleability and the overlap between music and theater. Byrne’s creative process resists formula, exploring how presentation alters audience reception.

David Byrne swaps utopia for introspection in quietly eccentric new album

David Byrne returns with Who Is the Sky?, a follow-up to American Utopia that turns its gaze inward while peering toward the surreal. The album includes appearances by Hayley Williams, St. Vincent, and a rotation of others equally at ease navigating between theatrical nuance and avant-pop restraint.

Presented as an invitation to embody the "mythical creature we all harbor inside," Byrne channels theatrical alter-egos more magical realist than mythologic. Collaboration replaces spectacle, offering eccentricity with just enough self-mockery to avoid self-seriousness.

David Byrne revives "Psycho Killer" with zero theatrics, just a steady stare

After nearly two decades of silence, David Byrne resurrects “Psycho Killer” onstage during opening night of his Who Is the Sky? tour. He sidesteps nostalgia while returning to this Talking Heads classic with stoic precision rather than theatrical flair.

Meantime, “Psycho Killer” continues its afterlife through others—Miley Cyrus and Duran Duran among them—each covering it with varying shades of irony and reverence.