Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan

Dirty Projectors have a history of creating delightfully grandiose records full of complex, sprawling arrangements and bizarre concepts. But where do you go after marking “suicidal Don Henley rock opera” and “Black Flag debut re-imagined from 15-year-old memory” off your musical to-do list? For Projectors’ frontman Dave Longstreth, the answer was simple. And as is often the case, the simplest answer proved to be the best one. For the group’s sixth album, Swing Lo Magellan, Longstreth decided to take an approach that focused primarily on songwriting. Rather than trying to make every track work under an overarching theme, the songs...  read more

Stream Dirty Projector's Swing Lo Magellan

About a week ahead of the album’s release date, Swing Lo Magellan from Dirty Projectors is available for stream in its entirety over at NYTimes.com....  read more

Dirty Projectors Perform New Album Cuts During KEXP Session

Dirty Projectors’ upcoming Swing Lo Magellan, out on July 10, is shaping up to be one of the summer’s most anticipated releases, and the Projectors are doing a lot to amp up excitement. They played a couple of tracks off the album, “Offspring Are Blank” and “The Socialites,” during an in-studio session with Seattle radio station KEXP yesterday....  read more

Dirty Projectors Announce Summer Tour

Brooklyn experimental rockers Dirty Projectors have announced a two month-long summer tour in support of their upcoming album, Swing Lo Magellan. The band will hit the road in early July, just days before Domino Records will release their sixth studio album July 10.   read more