Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Live" CD will be released September 28th on Nacional records. The album features select tracks from the 'Live @ the Clubhouse' album as well as a latin alternative remix tribute to "Genius of Love". While Tom Tom Club has performed from Connecticut to Spain, London and Japan in the past year, they will embark on their first lenghty U.S. tour in ten years this fall.

The following dates have been confirmed:

9/21 – StageOne – Fairfield, CT
9/22 – StageOne – Fairfield, CT
9/23 – Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, DC
9/24 – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH
9/25 – Midpoint Music Festival – Cincinnati, OH
9/26 – Exit In – Nashville, TN
9/27 – The Old Rock House – St. Louis, MO
9/28 – Metro – Chicago, IL
9/29 – Mickey Finn’s Pub – Toledo, OH
9/30 – Phoenix Theatre – Toronto, ON
10/1 – Cabaret Mile End – Montreal, QC
10/2 – Higher Ground Showcase Lounge – Burlington, VT
10/3 – Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA
10/8 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
10/9 – The Getty – Los Angeles, CA
10/10 – Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
10/12 – Casbah – San Diego, CA
10/14 - Santos party House - New York City, NY
10/16 - Brooklyn Bowl, New York City, NY

“It will be a real pleasure for us to see so much of the USA again this fall,” says Tom Tom Club drummer/founder Chris Frantz. “We are all very excited about this tour, to go out and make new friends and reconnect with old friends. The band consists of seven players, is smoking hot and completely live. We don't use any sequencers or backing tapes at all!”.

Read the full press release on the forum.

A message from David in his latest newsletter: "I was honored to do a TED talk this year - back in February. It's about 16 minutes long and now, today, they are posting it online. It is also available as a video podcast, downloadable free from the "iTunes store. [...] My own talk (it wasn't a musical performance) was based on the idea that the acoustic properties of the clubs, theaters and concert halls where our music might get performed determines to a large extent the kind of music we write. We semi unconsciously create music that will be appropriate to the places in which it will most likely be heard. Put that way it sounds obvious...but most people are surprised that creativity might be steered and molded by such mundane forces. [...]

"Song and Circumstance", Sytze Steenstra's new book on the works of David Byrne will be officially presented during a book launch in Amsterdam's main rock venue Paradiso on June 25th. More info -in Dutch- in the press release. Doors 4:30pm, admission free.

The book offers a full account of David Byrne's sorawling artistic portfolio. David Byrne's work functions almost completely through the mass media - in popular music, experimental theatre, film, television, fine art and writing. The underlying connection is a conceptual approach to both high and popular art. Read the review by David Marx.

"Song and Circumstance" is available from Amazon (UK) and Amazon (US). Remaining copies of the books predecessor, "We are the Noise between Stations" (2003) by the same author, is exclusively available from the Talking-Heads.net webshop.

Starting friday March the 26th, Chris Frantz will host a monthly radio show on WPKN 89.5 FM in Bridgeport CT (also on WPKM 88.7 Montauck). The show airs from 1pm-4pm. Guests on the first episode are Mickey Leigh, author of the book "I Slept With Joey Ramon" and Bucks Burnett who will talk about his 8-track museum. The show will also feature a lot of music, personally selected by Chris, including some never before heard on air. Tune in to "Chris Frantz the Talking Head" on-line at www.wpkn.org.

"Ride, Rise, Roar" is the title of a new David Byrne concert film that blends onstage performances from the 2008/2009 'Everything that happens'-tour with behind-the-scenes auditions, rehearsals and interviews. The movie premiers during SXSW in Austin, TX on march 15th. More info, bios and trailer here.