The musician also performed two tracks from his latest solo album, Who Is the Sky?<\/p>\n
\n\tDavid Byrne<\/a> and his gigantic band of blue-clad backing musicians squeezed into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert, featuring a pair of Talking Heads<\/a> classics.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhile the setup didn\u2019t necessarily allow for the elaborate choreography Byrne and Co. bring to their live performances, there was still plenty of energy throughout the four-song set. Byrne opened with two tracks from his most recent album<\/a>, Who Is the Sky?<\/a>, starting with \u201cEverybody Laughs,\u201d which was followed by \u201cDon\u2019t Be Like That.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tNext, Byrne and his band delivered a boisterous rendition of\u00a0 \u201c(Nothing But) Flowers,\u201d bringing the song to a close with a chill-inducing blast of a cappella harmonies. And to wrap up their set, Byrne led the group through the Fear of Music<\/a> favorite, \u201cLife During Wartime.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tByrne released Who Is the Sky? back in September, with the album marking his first solo release since 2018\u2019s American Utopia. He\u2019s already spent much of the fall on the road<\/a> in support of the album, and has a few more gigs left before the run wraps Dec. 6 in Miami. (Dates in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and Europe will follow in 2026.)<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tIn a recent interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, Byrne once again dampened hopes for a possible Talking Heads reunion, even after he and his old bandmates \u2014 Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison \u2014 reunited for several events promoting the Stop Making Sense re-release. Still, Byrne spoke about readily incorporating fresh versions of Talking Heads classics into his sets \u2014 including \u201cPsycho Killer,\u201d<\/a> which he hadn\u2019t played in 19 years \u2014 without falling into the nostalgia trap.<\/p>\n \n\t\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\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The musician also performed two tracks from his latest solo album, Who Is the Sky? David Byrne and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[18374,146,85,46,409,9117,20748],"class_list":{"0":"post-163422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-david-byrne","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-npr-tiny-desk","14":"tag-talking-heads"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}