Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Is Pittsburgh-Bound

PITTSBURGH, PA —Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member for more than two decades, will be appearing in Pittsburgh this year.

Byrne will perform at the Benedum Center on Sept. 16 in support of his upcoming album "Who Is the Sky," which will be released on Sept. 5. It's his first new album since "American Utopia" in 2018.

Tickets go on sale Friday.

“Who Is the Sky?,” was produced by produced by Grammy-winner Kid Harpoon of Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus fame. It features 12 songs arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra and includes appearances by St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner and American Utopia percussionist Mauro Refosco.

The album's first single is "Everybody Laughs."

“Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word “everybody” a lot.’ I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it,” Byrne said in a statement.

“Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that — hold opposites simultaneously."