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Stage One in Fairfield, CT. The group, which is spearheaded by Fuzz and his wife Carrie Sangiovanni, recently described their music in a Jambands.com interview as "Gypsy Swing Meets The Beatles at Tim Burton's House." On hand to join the group for this musical amalgam were Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club.

Our review of Stop Making Sense , published November 6th, 1999, is also available.

Fifty people were in attendance, paying two dollars each for admission. 1970 - Bob Dylan recorded his song "George Jackson" in tribute to the black militant who had been killed in a California prison shootout.

As soon as you wrap your head around the fact it has been a quarter-century since Jonathan Demme and David Byrne teamed up to create Stop Making Sense , you may settle into another realization: Despite the intervening years bestowing a sort of classic-rock status upon the band's hits, the Talking Heads were always an amazingly weird band.

This article was originally published in Mean Magazine , which I was editing at the time, with art direction by Camille Rose Garcia .

Halloween's a holiday that Phish built their reputation for unpredictability on - since 1994, when a show by the band's fallen on October 31st, they've celebrated by donning a "musical costume" covering a band's classic album in its entirety, and keeping its identity secret until the day of the show.

"More Songs About Buildings and Food": That funny title to that great 1978 Talking Heads album went through my head walking down Granite Drive - perhaps Pasadena's shortest street - after a quick trip into Granite Park Place.

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Maybe there's a great deal of comfort to be had in watching a married couple of woolly mammoths bicker about gender roles, child rearing and the roller-coaster hormone ride called pregnancy.

We know how it is: You'd like to go to the movies this weekend, but you're still working on putting together your Michael Jackson costume for Halloween; sewing all those sequins onto that glove is taking forever.

Which is no more dignified this time around. Sometimes, the green-eyeshade contentions of campaign and ethics geeks have to give way.

David Byrne of Talking Heads in a scene from the Blu-ray DVD release of the concert film Stop Making Sense.

Four stars out of five: Jonathan Demme's full-bodied experience of Talking Heads captures the band at its apex in the early 1980s.

Hosted by Ben McNally.) "Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around" was all about how bicycles and bike-culture would play a major role in revitalizing dead or dying urban spaces, especially as automobiles became less and less practical with respect to the environment and one's personal finances.

Brooklyn-based duo Project Jenny, Project Jan , like many great musical partnerships, is an opposites-attract kind of pairing.

In Thursday's National Post , Ron Nurwisah chats with musician, artist and writer David Byrne, who is at IFOA to promote his book Bicycle Diaries .

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc.

David Byrne, the former lead singer of iconic a 80s new wave group Talking Heads, is a bit of a bike nut.

The Talking Heads in Blu-ray and the DVD debut of a horror fan-favorite from the '80s lead off these movies that have arrived on home video.

As in 1980s, low bond yields will boost stocks--for a while. In the song "Once In a Lifetime," David Byrne of the Talking Heads runs through changes people encounter as they age and concludes that life is ultimately "the same as it ever was." Translation: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Journeyman guitarist Adrian Belew has traveled all over the musical map. He's played hard rock, funk, new wave, progressive rock and Beatles-style power pop.