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Dirty Projectors Book Show With L.A. Philharmonic, Get Covered by Solange
Dirty Projectors’ idiosyncratic nature has inspired two recent developments on seemingly disparate ends of the musical spectrum: an orchestral performance and an R&B cover.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsListen to Dirty Projectors B-Side "Ascending Melody"
With Bitte Orca and “Knotty Pine” as proof, Dirty Projectors have never been more accessible.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDirty Projectors Make Letterman Stop, Tour Through Fall
Jay Leno may have had the ratings edge, but he never had the indie cred of good old David Letterman. Just this year, Letterman's Late Show has featured Animal Collective, Okkervil River, Cursive and Paste's Artist of the Week Kid Cudi.... read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsOne on One: 20 Single-Artist Cover Albums Worth A Listen
A well-done cover song is a beautiful thing—and, by extension, so is a compilation of tracks by a slew of musicians paying tribute to one of their heroes. But it takes a special combination of love and guts and a hearty dash of hubris for a single artist to tackle the oeuvre of another—whether a friend or a legend—all by their lonesome. Sometimes the result is a mess (like Dirty Dancing songstress Jennifer Warnes' maudlin, schlocky Leonard Cohen tribute, Famous Blue Raincoat), but when the stars align, it can be really wonderful. Here are a few of our favorites. (Scroll... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayDirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
Having assembled a backing band dexterous enough to... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsBand of the Week: Dirty Projectors
If Dirty Projectors frontman Dave Longstreth needed any evidence of his band’s acceptance among the giants of art-rock, the first week of May 2009 should have provided plenty... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesDark Was The Night heads to Radio City Music Hall
The recent release of indie compendium Dark Was The Night was enough to make any music lover quiver with joy—the compilation featured 31 of today's best indie acts, and it was for a good cause. But wait, there's more! According to Asthmatic Kitty, a small group of the album's contributors will perform from the album at Radio City Music Hall. ... read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsDavid Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, Gillian Welch, The National, Feist, many more contribute to Dark Was the Night comp
Today is World AIDS Day. Appropriately enough, it's also the day that the line-up was revealed for Dark Was the Night, a compilation release which will benefit AIDS/HIV awareness group, The Red Hot Organization.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsDirty Projectors: Rise Above
Some albums test your tolerance for irony... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsDirty Projectors cover entire Black Flag album
Wow almighty, is Dirty Projectors’ Black Flag tribute album weird. I’m not sure what else to say about it except that it doesn’t seem like a middle-ground kind of thing. The topsy-turvyness will either blow you away or trigger an uncontrollable grimace. What happened was, Projectors-man Dave Longstreth found an empty cassette case of Black Flag’s Damaged while helping his parents clean out the house he grew up in. Rather than scrambling wildly through the other scraps of his youth to locate the album, he decided to recreate it from memory using “the cheapest cassette four-track he could find.” That... read more
Found in: Music, News
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