David Byrne

David Byrne & St. Vincent played the Chicago Theatre (pics, review, setlist)
Annie Clark took center stage at The Chicago Theatre on Tuesday (9/18), with David Byrne joining her slightly off-center. Behind them stood the eight-piece brass and woodwind section (some of whom have played with Arcade Fire, Beirut, LCD Soundsystem, Passion Pit, Coldplay, Aaron Neville, Wayne Shorter, and Charles Mingus), flanked by drummer Brian Wolfe and keyboardist/co-musical director Daniel Mintseris...
What’s going on Tuesday?
Alabama Shakes @ Metro in August (more by James Richards IV) today in Chicago * Teitur, Jodee Lewis @ City Winery * Geocities, Shapers @ The Burlington * JT Royster, Panther, Cold Country @ Township * Soft Jolts, The Damn Choir, Sklut & Weston @ Schubas * The Black Swans, Mako Sica, Grandeurs @ Empty Bottle * Elephant Revival, Jonas Friddle & The Majority @ SPACE * Alabama Shakes, The Pollies, Doc Dailey @ Subterranean Alabama Shakes play a free (with RSVP) show tonight at Subterranean...
David Byrne talking about his new book at The Music Box the day before his show with St. Vincent
How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music...

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