Talking Heads were one of the most influential rock bands of the late 1970s and early ‘80s, so it shouldn’t have been surprising that a spinoff project would have achieved some commercial success. At ...

Context is everything. In 1979, when “Air” appeared on Talking Heads’ Fear of Music album, its lyrics felt more paranoid than prophetic. But today, in a time of global warming and airborne disease, ...

Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rapby Nik Cohn. Vintage £7.99 So much could have gone wrong when a 55-year-old white man from Northern Ireland turned up in New Orleans with quixotic dreams of ...

“Words of nuance, words of skill/Words of romance are a thrill/Words are stupid, words are fun/Words can put you on the run…” What are words worth? So asked pop band Tom Tom Club in their 1981 hit, ...

Hailing from Nagoya, Japan, four-piece CHAI are an almost indescribable bundle of pop energy, melding punk, kruatrock, yacht-rock funk, disco, the Tom Tom Club’s wordy rappinghood, and more into their ...