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A budding group of New York art-school punks, the Talking Heads won a prized gig in 1975: opening for the Ramones at the famed CBGB club. Members David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth met while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. Keyboardist Jerry Harrison joined in '76, and from that point on, the Talking Heads embarked upon a creative journey that took their new wave sound from underground to household name in the '80s. Their music launched an experimental craze as they lent wry, melodic tones to African percussions and electronic rock. The group issued an official breakup memo in '91 but reunited in '99 for the 15th anniversary edition of the concert film, Stop Making Sense....more

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  • Rediscovering Rock and Roll, A Journey: Chapter Seven

    by Paul WilliamsJune 18, 2008Comments (2)

    In the future, perhaps, everything will be digital, and we’ll be able to order videos of individual songs, which will be instantly transferred over phone lines to our combination personal computer/music disc/video disc player (and billed to our credit accounts at the same time). There will be a broadcast service, so we can be exposed to new product in the first place, but they’ll figure out some way that you can’t copy (read more)

  • The Arm of Fun

    by Max MobleyJune 18, 2008Comments (4)

    With vinyl, music becomes tangible, certainly less ephemeral. When it slides out of the sleeve, it’s like you’re holding the song in your hands, don’t drop the song, man, they shatter. (read more)

  • The Futureheads: News and Tributes

    by Mark AschJune 18, 2008Comments (0)

    News and Tributes is the one people would have been waiting for, all stop-start tempo accommodating stabs of jagged guitar and anthemic choruses (read more)

  • Charles Manson: When I Get to the Bottom

    by Brian BrownJune 11, 2008Comments (37)

    Dennis Wilson called Manson his Wizard and the two became very close, swapping girls, songs, and religious ideas. Wilson meanwhile championed Manson to the elite music establishment by opening all sorts of doors for him, dropping him off, guitar in hand, at the hippest gatherings and playing his demos to whomever would listen. He even used Manson’s ideology in interviews. Suddenly the surfing, All-American, beefcake Beach Boy was talking about fear (read more)

  • Part II: Dawson and the Legendary Gig Wagon Races

    by Dinky DawsonMay 28, 2008Comments (1)

    As we reached Chris’ gig wagon, Moonie pointed at the front extension, a telltale sign that this thing had a huge engine under the hood. (read more)

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