This Must Be The Band provides a first class Talking Heads experience — they even go beyond, tapping into TH solo projects and other themes for certain shows.  For something really special, you gotta catch them with a horn section, something they wrangled for two shows at the Double Door last weekend. Most shows at [...]

News Bites for April 16. 2012 Looking to prep for UM Bowl?  Here are some snippets of the Jimmy Stewarts on the ballot for the Raw Stewage quarter It can use some snappier editing, but I found myself pretty intrigued by this television pilot featuring noted festival photographer Rex Thomson Would you like to sit [...]

Grateful Dead and Talking Heads on the same bill?  It never happened when these bands were together, but Chicagoans get a chance to see some of the foremost re-creators of this music on the same stage — Friday March 2nd at The Abbey.  This Must Be The Band plays a two hour set starting at [...]

We’re always happy to give a shout to a band that brings the funk as long and as hard as these guys.  This Must Be the Band returns to Brixie’s  in Brookfield for another Barn Spotlight show this Friday, May 6th. To celebrate, let’s revisit the five posts that made up our popular Talking Heads [...]

Today, we say goodbye to Talking Heads Tuesday with a few odds and ends collected from the web. 1. Would you like to know David Byrne’s take on the current situation in Egypt?  Now you don’t have to wonder. 2. From the very timely, to an idea whose time may never come… I’ve always thought [...]

More than just about any band (and I’ll throw the Beatles, Dead, and Zappa in there too), Talking Heads have provided direct inspiration to the jamband community.  Attribute it to their rhythmic ideals, engaging melodies or passion for innovation, but with only 8 studio albums to draw from, the variety of tunes covered and interpretations [...]

Every Tuesday in January, The Barn will offer another feature about the incredible music and career of Talking Heads. In addition to a healthy legacy of groundbreaking studio recordings, Talking Heads were a band that, at least in the early part of their career, offered audiences contrasting interpretations of their catalog on stage.  Fortunately, these [...]

Every Tuesday in January, The Barn will offer another feature about the incredible music and career of Talking Heads. 2010 was an incredible year for the music video.  From the Spike Jonze deliciousness of LCD Soundsystem’s “Drunk Girls” and his secret film project with Arcade Fire to wonderful tongue-in-cheek rave-ups like The Black Keys’ “Tighten [...]

This offering is more of a beautiful, lyrical poster than a true InfoGraphic.  But, the time is right to share, given our promise to focus on Talking Heads related content until the first of the year.

When a show this huge comes to the neighborhood, we are happy to include it as a Barn spotlight show. This Must Be The Band rings in 2011 at Brixie’s with the timeless, multi-faceted sonic amalgam that is Talking Heads music.  This is not your typical cover band — sure they cover the songs and [...]