{"id":67611,"date":"2025-08-13T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67611\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:20:07","slug":"david-byrne-drops-single-the-avant-garde-looks-ahead-to-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67611\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Drops Single ‘The Avant Garde,’ Looks Ahead to World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDavid Byrne<\/a>\u2018s new LP Who Is The Sky? arrives in slightly over three weeks, and he\u2019s just shared new single \u201cThe Avant Garde.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSome people will hear this and say, \u2018David is calling bullshit on his friends\u2019 but it\u2019s more nuanced than that,\u201d Byrne said in a statement. \u201cAnyone who knows me knows that I go to plenty of shows that might be classified as avant-garde or experimental. Edgy and untraditional work is hugely inspiring to me, as it often changes the way I think and influences what I do (without me simply appropriating the ideas, I hope). That said, trying something unproven and radically new is risky. Sometimes, as with anything risky, it doesn\u2019t quite hit the bullseye. There\u2019s no guarantee that it will achieve what it aims to do, but when it does, the emotional and intellectual rewards are worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a brand new Rolling Stone Interview<\/a> with Deputy Music Editor Simon Vozick-Levinson, Byrne said he called the album Who Is The Sky? because of a mangled voice-to-text message that meant to ask \u201cwho is this guy?\u201d \u201cThe algorithm got it a little bit wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd what came up on my phone was \u2018Who is the sky?\u2019 And I thought, \u2018That\u2019s a beautiful phrase.\u2019 I know what they were really saying \u2014 it\u2019s pretty easy to tell, in English anyway. But I thought, \u2018I\u2019m going to put that on the list of album titles.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Who Is The Sky? tour kicks off Sept. 30 at Radio City Music Hall. It\u2019s an epic run that\u2019ll keep Byrne busy through March. As always, he\u2019s likely to play plenty of old Talking Heads songs in addition to selections from his recent solo albums. \u201cI can mix and match and have it adapt to the sound that I\u2019m doing at the moment without completely destroying the integrity of the older songs,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m also aware that there\u2019s a real trap. If you do too much of the older material, you become a legacy act that comes out and plays the old hits. You cash in really quick, but then you\u2019ve dug yourself a hole.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Rolling Stone Interview dates back to the earliest days of the magazine when Bob Dylan,<\/a> John Lennon,<\/a> Pete Townshend,<\/a> Jerry Garcia,<\/a> and many other iconic artists sat down for extensive, career-spanning conversations. Over the past few months, the franchise has been revitalized. Recent Rolling Stone Interview subjects include Eric Church,<\/a> James Gunn,<\/a> Charlamagne Tha God,<\/a> Stephen A. Smith,<\/a> and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFor a deep dive through history, head to the Rolling Stone Interview Archive.<\/a> It begins with Eric Clapton and Cass Elliott in 1968, and stretches all the way through the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Byrne\u2018s new LP Who Is The Sky? arrives in slightly over three weeks, and he\u2019s just shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,33113,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-67611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-david-byrne","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}