Though David Byrne’s online journal often takes on daunting subjects, such as Czech Republic steel foundry/coal mine complexes, “The Kindle Experience,” Bono, and the “Internet Antichrist,” that doesn’t mean he’s short on words about music. In fact, his latest entry consists of over 2,000 words discussing his ongoing collaboration with St. Vincent, past work with Brian Eno, how the suggestion that he would “collaborate for a bag of Doritos” isn’t too far off, and more. (A few photos of his recording studio are also included, which bear a striking resemblance to TwentyFourBit HQ.)

As for the headline above, Byrne mentions his performance with St. Vincent at the Lincoln Center’s Allen Room in New York City earlier this year, adding:

At [Annie Clark’s] suggestion, we did a song we’d been writing together, one of about 8 or so. Our collaboration was partly inspired by the Dirty Projectors/Björk thing at Housing Works many months ago that we both attended. We agreed to do something similar there, though there is no timetable. Annie (her real name) has been on tour, on and off, for quite a while, so the collaboration proceeds in fits and starts.

The most intriguing part of this excellent pairing is that Clark and Byrne are attempting to use a brass ensemble as their core backing band.

The annual South by Southwest Music, Film, and Interactive Festival will descend upon Austin, Texas in almost exactly one month from tonight, but aside from a few über-hyped projects, the full film screening list wasn’t fully known until yesterday’s announcement.

Though our recent rummaging through the Sundance Film Fest roster proved notably fruitful, SXSW’s lineups kind of pwned it in a way, offering quite the competitive array of music and/or musician-related films for us to ogle.

Now we could spit out a whole post for every single one of these, but that’s not how I roll, so let’s just throw the hand on the table, kids:

In case you haven’t heard, David Byrne takes his blogging very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that past entries to his official journal have taken on Czech Republic steel foundry/coal mine complexes, “The Kindle Experience,” and Bono. But in his latest rant/essay, Byrne goes a bit more apocalyptic. Check out “Internet Antichrist” here.

Whereas Fake Tom Waits joined Twitter in the early days, the real Tom Waits didn’t start tweeting until today. (It’s probably just an intern, but at least it’s an official ghost Twitterer or something.) Anti Records pointed their followers at the new page today with: “All the Wit and Wisdom of Tom Waits is now on Twitter! Follow @anti_tomwaits.”

So what’s he tweeting in there?

It’s fitting that Billy Corgan, who just launched a spiritually-minded site/blog, has joined an impressive list of participants in an upcoming open discussion series at NYC’s Rubin Museum of Art (via Hipsters United) on Carl Jung, a psychiatrist who “broke off from [his mentor] Freud,” as World of Psychology notes, to develop his own theories, which “place more emphasis on the spiritual side of our inner psyche.”

Jung’s The Red Book, a “part journal, part mythological novel” that was 16 years in the making and only recently officially published, will be the starting point of conversation between “personalities from many different walks of life” (read: famous people, kinda) and psychoanalysts.

So who else will be chatting in this series? David Byrne is doing one, of course, as well as Charlie Kaufman, Albert Maysles, Sarah Silverman, Gloria Vanderbilt, and more.

For the full list of “personalities”/psychoanalysts go here and grab available tickets here.

Can’t say I’ve ever been much of a Fatboy Slim fan, but his new project with David Byrne, which includes an amazing list of guest vocalists, looks quite promising. Byrne and Slim, aka Norman Cook, have teamed up for a concept album, called Here Lies Love, about controversial former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos, NPR reports.

You may recognize Marcos’ name because she essentially threw the Beatles out of her country for allegedly ditching a scheduled luncheon back in the day (watch a vintage newsreel about that event below).

What’s more, Byrne and Cook are also planning to turn the album into a stage production, a la the Andrew Lloyd Webber-penned Evita, starring Madonna as Argentinian first lady Eva Péron. Madonna won’t be the lead in Here Lies Love, however, but the pair have tapped over 20 guest vocalists, including Cyndi Lauper, Martha Wainwright, Santigold, Tori Amos, and Sharon Jones.

When the trailer for Beyond Ipanema, an upcoming documentary about the history and influence of Brazilian music, which features interviews with M.I.A., David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, and Seu Jorge, came out last month, little was known beyond what I just mentioned (watch the trailer at The Daily Swarm). A lot more details have been revealed, however, and it appears that the recently reunited Os Mutantes play a starring role in the flick.

“The story of the 70’s psychedelic band from São Paulo is one of the highlights of Beyond Ipanema,” a description on the film’s site reads. “When production started, they had been retired for almost 30 years… The film’s crew witnessed their 2006 American tour, which culminated with a show for 30,000 people in Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival.”

In another chance encounter while filming, the crew managed to capture the sale of the most expensive Brazilian record: “An extremely rare 45” copy of a 1966 recording by the band O’Seis,” an early formation of—you guessed it—Os Mutantes. The record sold for $5,000, which isn’t quite what that dude got for his rare Velvet Underground vinyl, but maybe the seller in the film had a crap eBay rating or something.

The film’s still making the festival rounds and doesn’t have a wide release date yet, but P4K’s got the first track “Teclar” here, from Os Mutantes’ Haih, due out next week.

It is well known that Talking Heads singer David Byrne takes his bicycling hobby very seriously. So much so, when asked to help the NYC Department of Transportation choose the winners of a public bike rack design competition, Byrne submitted his own designs, which were graciously accepted and can now be seen on various city sidewalks. Now he has written a memoir about his adventures on two wheels due out this fall, called Bicycle Diaries, and one story from the book (obtained by Jugo Magazine) reveals why you wouldn’t want to cross paths with a cycling David Byrne.

One of Byrne’s gripes with pedestrians, including a certain famous hotel chain heiress, is that they often ignore crossing lights: “[Hilton] was holding her little doggy, crossing the street against the light and looking around as if to say, ‘I’m Paris Hilton, don’t you recognise me?’” Byrne wrote. “[New Yorkers] have enough brains not to walk in front of a truck, but they’ll step right into the path of a cyclist, thereby initiating a game of urban chicken.”

I’ve never experienced it myself, but the thought of David Byrne barreling at you on a bike is kind of frightening to me.

Meanwhile, for a more substantive David Byrne update, check out his article on the history of steel factories/coal mines in the Czech Republic here.

In a press release on their site, Bonnaroo announced today that David Byrne is the first artist ever to curate a stage at the annual festival. In addition to his own performance of “Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno,” Byrne has chosen Santigold, the Dirty Projectors, Ani DiFranco and St. Vincent to perform on the Friday, June 12 stage.

On how he decided on these performers, Byrne said, “this was an easy one. I basically reeled off a list of what I was listening too recently or who I had seen live recently and Ashley [Capps] and Co did the rest. It’s not like these folks need me to introduce them to a wider audience, at least I don’t think they do…I’m just thrilled they’ll be added to the festival lineup.”

For the complete announcement, click here.