The National-curated Crossing Brooklyn Ferry kicked off its weekend-long fest last night and Thursday's slate featured performances from the likes of the Walkmen, Sharon Van Etten, Twin Shadow, Zs,…   Read Story »

This Must Be The Place is the new movie where Sean Penn, seriously, plays an aging Robert-Smith-lookalike Nazi-hunter rock star. Obviously, we're all going to watch the shit out of this movie. But if…   Read Story »

David Byrne made a bunch of screenshots of fake iPhone apps for an exhibit titled "Social Media," showing at the Pace Gallery on West 25th Street from 9/16 - 10/15 (via BoingBoing). I just made a…   Read Story »

As Videogum pointed out, Sean Penn has a new movie. What Gabe didn't mention is This Must Be The Place is a mumblecore remake of Edward Scissorhands featuring new original music by David Byrne. NJ…   Read Story »

From Webster Hall last night: It's good to live in NYC. (via The Awl)   Read Story »

Earlier this month we mentioned the upcoming deluxe edition of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, and that it would include two new songs. One of those songs, "Speaking In Tongues," includes guest vocals…   Read Story »

Some strange and funny confluences of music and politics over the last couple weeks. First, Republican and former Governor of Florida had to apologize on camera after he lost a suit filed by David…   Read Story »

Crowded House just finished a three-night run at New York's Bowery Ballroom. Last night was their final night, and as a very pleasant surprise, David Byrne came on stage to sing "Once In A Lifetime"…   Read Story »

As we reported in March, David Byrne and St. Vincent have been planning to work together since running into each other at the Björk/Dirty Projectors charity event our own Brandon Stosuy staged at…   Read Story »

The mutual admiration society Peter Gabriel's spun out around himself extends today with some back-scratching by a fellow cross-generational crossover icon. Remember the m.o. with Peter's Scratch My…   Read Story »