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Reviews

David Byrne: 5 June 2009 - Philadelphia

By Daniel Kober

Dirty Projectors: Please take notes. [23 July 2009]

David Byrne

By Kirstie Shanley

The choreographed spectacle was almost like watching a long artistic music video or a postmodern ballet with exceptionally good music. [21 November 2008]

David Byrne: The Knee Plays

By Tal Rosenberg

Nonesuch reissues famous score by David Byrne, featuring the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and written for a section of Robert Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning (not really) the CIVIL WarS. [4 February 2008]

By Lyra Pappin

PopMatters' Lyra Pappin grills David Byrne in an attempt to understand why "I don't have to prove that I am creative!" [26 February 2007]

By Tyler Wilcox

David Byrne

Reviews

David Byrne: 5 June 2009 - Philadelphia

David Byrne

David Byrne: The Knee Plays

David Byrne

David Byrne

David Byrne: Grown Backwards

David Byrne: Lead Us Not into Temptation: Music from the Film Young Adam

David Byrne: Look into the Eyeball

News

David Byrne rides and writes about it in ‘Bicycle Diaries’ [23 September 2009]

David Byrne explains how he and Brian Eno got their groove on after two decades apart [28 October 2008]

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