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David Byrne & Brian Eno — Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Eno first worked with Byrne when he produced Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food, Fear Of Music and Remain In Light albums, and the pair had a more proper collaboration on 1981's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. Eno had written the music that appears here as far back as eight years ago, but invited Byrne to contribute lyrics, vocal...
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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Brian Eno — Another Day On Earth

Brian Eno has largely ignored his career as a pop musician in recent years, instead focusing on his roles as producer and ambient composer. With Another Day On Earth he attempts to return to that neglected area, which is exciting even if it's only partially successful. The album kicks off with "This," a gorgeous, rhythmic tune with Bowie...
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Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth

WATCH: Stephen Colbert, Brian Eno, and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe sing "Lean On Me"

Last night on The Colbert Report, musical genius Brian Eno dropped by to discuss his newly released EP Panic of Looking and his inventive art installation 77 Million Paintings, a constantly evolving “visual music” piece that involves ambient sounds and paintings displayed randomly on large flat panel TVs.  Speaking about the title of his...
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I Read The News Today... For July 7, 2011

M83 — also known as Anthony Gonzalez — is touring North America this fall in support of his upcoming new album. The LP is still untitled and doesn't have a release date, but you can see him in Mexican, American and Canadian cities from Oct. 15 to Nov. 22, playing songs from it. Turns out even singer/songwriter Veda Hille's two-year-old son is...
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CHARTtrack: Daniel Lanois Previews Nuit Blanche Set With Free Download

Daniel Lanois spoke to us earlier this week about how his set at Toronto's Nuit Blanche is going to melt your mind. Now we've stumbled upon a special preview of the event. We've got a free download of "Trance Ascent - Full Nuit Blanche 2010," what's being characterized as a "revisitation" of "An Ending (Ascent)" from Brian Eno's 1983 Apollo:...
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I Read The News Today... For July 13, 2010

Women have made "Eyesore," the first single from their upcoming Public Strain sophomore album, available for free download. Morrissey's Bona Drag singles compilation will be reissued on Sept. 27. —NME Here's quite possibly the nerdiest collaboration we've heard of in a while: Ben Folds and High Fidelity author Nick...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, Brian Eno Not Eligible For Oscars

You definitely won't hear the words "And the Oscar goes go... Karen O and Carter Burwell for Where The Wild Things Are!" at this year's Academy Awards. The score for last year's Where The Wild Things Are is ineligible for an Academy Award, according to The Wrap website. Brian Eno's score for The Lovely Bones and T. Bone Burnett and...
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McGee Vs. Eno In Twitter Skirmish

Can we please call an immediate moratorium on Twitter fights before paying attention to illiterate, foul-mouthed bickering between otherwise intelligent adults behaving like juveniles starts taking up too much of my time? Hold on, it already is. Record company executive and artist manager Alan McGee (The Jesus And Mary Chain, Primal Scream) has...
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The Bicycles: Oh No, It's #1

Toronto-based quartet The Bicycles have topped the Canadian campus radio chart for the second time with their unique brand of airy pop music. The Bicycles' The Good The Bad And The Cuddly debut held the #1 spot for two weeks in August, 2006. After debuting at #6 last week, Oh No, It's Love wasted no time climbing over its closest competitors...
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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Byrne/Eno Album Will Happen

David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts was a critical favourite when it came out in 1981, and it was reissued as an expanded 25th anniversary edition two years ago. It's about time that the two men released another album, isn't it? Well, they finally have. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today will be made available through...
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Brian Eno Creates 77 Million Paintings For Your Computer

Brian Eno — an early member of Roxy Music, the godfather of ambient music and the producer of U2's biggest records — isn't resting on his musical laurels. Eno's latest project, 77 Million Paintings, is a combination DVD/software package that will be released on Sept. 26 by All Saints/Hannibal/Ryko. It features an exclusive interview DVD and a...
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Roxy Music's New Album Won't Include Brian Eno

Brian Eno recently visited the members of Roxy Music while they were in the studio but, despite what you may have read elsewhere, the veteran musician/producer isn't rejoining the band. Roxy are recording their first new studio album since 1982's Avalon. In advance of that LP, they plan on releasing a remix album where various DJs and producers...
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Byrne And Eno Re-Explore My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno once called the musical adventure known as My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts as his "African vision." Almost 25 years after the groundbreaking album's release, the album is getting another shot at demonstrating its influence on everything from electronica to world music to sampling via its March 28 reissue by Nonesuch Records....
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