Performance

Talking Heads' music

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Talking Heads’ music emerged from New York’s downtown clubs in the late 1970s, shaped by CBGB’s first wave and a city tuned to art-school minimalism, funk, and anxious pop. Its tight grooves and talk-sung lyrics treat modern life as a system you can dance to, then question. At the Cutting Room, the after-party framing folds this legacy into Pink Talking Fish’s full run-through of Pink Floyd’s *Animals*, threaded with Talking Heads and Phish material, with animal-costume play as social ritual. One critical note: the band’s cool detachment often reads like reportage, which is why it still fits New York.