Before Talking Heads were Talking Heads, they were the Artistics. Rhode Island School Of Design students David Byrne and Chris Frantz formed the Artistics in 1973, and they made a kind of music that wasn’t really known as punk rock yet. The band didn’t last long. Shortly after the Artistics were done, Byrne and Frantz both moved to New York, and they started Talking Heads with Frantz’s then-girlfriend, now-wife Tina Weymouth on bass. Now, the long-lost Artistics demo is finally about to see the light of day.
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