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Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame put together a wonderful inductee tribute to the incomparable Tina Weymouth, the pioneering bassist, producer, and founder of two really influential bands, Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. The documentary alternates historical footage with live interviews featuring Weymouth, husband Chris Frantz, and others who have…

Artist Todd Alcott (previously) has visually reimagined the songs of the Talking Heads as mid-century vintage paperback books, magazine covers, ads and flyers that perfectly capture the essence of the band’s style and particularly, front man David Byrne’s writing. For the song “Psycho Killer”, Alcott chose to create a mock-up…

In 1980, Talking Heads along with producer Brian Eno, released the song “Once In a Lifetime” to moderate success. With the advent of MTV a year later, the song became wildly popular as a meditative poem to the American middle class. Music vlogger Polyphonic recounts the its appropriately weird history,…

Researchers at the Samsung AI Center in Moscow have quite amazingly turned the Mona Lisa and other famous subjects of photos and art into realistic talking heads. This “Few-Shot Adversarial Learning” technology combs through thousands of videos and catalogs visual information. When an image is presented, the matching landmark features…

Super Deluxe remixed an October 2010 60 Minutes interview between Eminem and host Anderson Cooper during which the rapper talked about words rhyming with “orange”. They then combined it with some live footage and created a catchy song using the very distinct style of the iconic art pop band Talking…

Videographer Swede Mason has put together a hilarious mashup that traded in the prominent visage of David Byrne in the video for the iconic Talking Heads song “Once In a Lifetime” with that of Donald Trump, providing a rather interesting take on the lyrics. And you may ask yourself What…

With the continuing success of David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway, the prolific singer songwriting David Byrne and the cast of the show performed an incredible barefoot version of the Talking Heads song “Once in a Lifetime” on Saturday Night Live. Byrne began the song with the same “drunken monkey”…

Filmmakers Jan Riesenbeck and Dennis Stein-Schomburg have created “Facelift”, a surreal short film about a talking head describing his philosophy for self-discipline and self-optimization. As the man describes each aspect of this thought process, his head takes on different features. A bird exits his brain, his skull comes apart in…