Live from Austin, Texas

With David Byrne's newest tour crossing the country, it seems only appropriate to exhume one of the former Talking Heads' frontman's few live albums to see what Byrne has to offer onstage.

"Live from Austin, Texas" was recorded during Byrne's performance at the Austin City Limits music festival in 2001. Joined onstage by his backing band and members of Tosca, an Austin-based tango ensemble, Byrne performs hits from his nearly three decades of music-making with the same degree of passion, vitality and creativity he displayed nearly 20 years ago when Talking Heads still ruled the art-rock/punk/New Wave world the band helped invent.

Byrne has a peculiar legacy when it comes to live albums. He may be one of the few musicians alive who has not one but two genre-defining in-concert records to his name. "Stop Making Sense" is commonly considered the seminal concert film, capturing Talking Heads in all of their glory visually and aurally; the accompanying soundtrack album is a testament to the latter. Meanwhile, "The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads" finds Byrne and company performing in both their stripped-down early days in the late