David Byrne has shared a music playlist he listens to while biking between tour dates on his ongoing “Who Is the Sky? Tour”. The Talking Heads co-founder has unveiled a new installment of David Byrne Radio titled “Biking Playlist,” featuring songs he listens to while cycling between dates on his ongoing “Who Is the Sky? Tour”. According to Byrne, the entire band travels with folding bicycles, allowing them to get out and explore whenever the schedule permits.
“The whole band has folding bikes that we travel with – if I have an afternoon off I’ll often go for a ride to clear my head,” Byrne explained. “And if I’m on my own and it’s a secure path or not a busy road… I’ll listen to this playlist.”
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David Byrne has shared a playlist titled “Biking Playlist” that helps him clear his head while biking. He has used a bicycle as his primary means of getting around New York since the early 1980s. In 2009, he published Bicycle Diaries, a travelogue drawn from rides through cities around the world that doubles as a meditation on architecture, culture, and bike-friendly urban design. Byrne has even designed a series of bike racks that were installed throughout New York City in 2008 and 2012.
“What I think of as pop music is broadly defined,” he wrote. “Some songs are, by consensus, mainstream, but even some of those often push at the edges. Others take the format, length and shape of pop songs, but to my ears they don’t sound anything like the ones considered more mainstream.”
“That said, they’re all equal in my book,” he continued. “I don’t think of any of them as inside or outside – as I’ve seen those definitions change with plenty of exceptions that prove the rules are meant to be broken.”
David Byrne 2026 Tour Dates:
07/09 – Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Live
07/10 – Barcelona, ES @ Cruïlla Festival
07/11 – Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Festival
07/14 – Cascais, PT @ Ageas Cooljazz Festival
07/18 – Halifax, UK @ The Piece Hall
07/20 – Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Playhouse
07/21 – Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Playhouse
07/22 – Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Playhouse
07/24 – Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival
07/26 – Cardiff, UK @ Depot Live at Cardiff Castle
08/07 – Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre
08/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
09/17 – Saratoga, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
09/19 – Queens, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
Stream David Byrne’s “Biking Playlist” on Spotify and Apple Music below.
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