What band's song is played over the opening credits of "CBGB"?

The band whose song plays over the opening credits of CBGB is Talking Heads.

The 2013 film CBGB dramatizes the rise of Hilly Kristal’s legendary New York club and the punk and new-wave scene that formed around it. Its soundtrack opens with Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime,” the song associated with the film’s opening-credit sequence. The track is an especially fitting choice because its lyrics mention both CBGB and the Mudd Club, another important downtown New York venue.

Talking Heads were central to CBGB’s early history. The original trio—David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, and Chris Frantz—played their first show at the club in 1975, opening for the Ramones. The group later expanded with guitarist Jerry Harrison and developed a distinctive blend of punk energy, art rock, funk, and new wave.

The film also uses Talking Heads at the end: over the final credits, it plays the band’s real 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech, during which the members thanked Kristal. That closing appearance can cause confusion, but the answer to the opening-credits question remains Talking Heads.