Dirty Projectors

SISTER ACT

Solange steps out from Beyoncé's shadow

Dirty Projectors' Big Empty

The wide open spaces of Swing Lo Magellan

This Week In The Voice: 4Knots! 4Knots! 4Knots!

This weekend is the 4Knots Music Festival, and the Voice is taken over by people performing during the all-day event. Michaelangelo Matos talks to party auteur Jonathan Toubin, who's hosting the afterparty; Michael Tedder looks at the rise of indiepop in New York, which has been assisted by Hospital ... More >>

Live: Dirty Projectors Celebrate New Sonic Territories At Prospect Park

Dirty Projectors w/Wye Oak, Purity Ring Celebrate Brooklyn! Prospect Park Bandshell Tuesday, July 10 Better than: An album listening party. There's a general struggle for artists with new records when playing a live show, especially before or on the day of the album release. In today's age of leak ... More >>

Nat Baldwin

Watch Videos From Last Night's Our Band Could Be Your Concert

Above, the ever-fierce Merrill Garbus (dba tUnE-yArDs) takes on Sonic Youth's "The Burning Spear" at last night's Our Band Could Be Your Concert, the multi-act musical tribute to the bridge between the DIY pioneers chronicled in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life and indie acts of today. ... More >>

Nat Baldwin

CMJ Day Two: Phoenix! With Daft Punk! At Madison Square Garden! Holy Shit!

Phoenix/Dirty Projectors/Wavves Madison Square Garden Wednesday, October 20 Better Than: Breathing normally This year, the biggest show of CMJ had the biggest secret to keep. I postulated recently -- maybe facetiously -- that this MSG bill fulfilled every part of the psyche. Well, the rampant ... More >>

Do Yourself a Favor: Dirty Projectors' Bassist Nat Baldwin Tonight For Free at Zebulon

Nat Baldwin's most visible credit at the moment may be his longstanding affiliation with Dirty Projectors. But the classically trained bassist has been sawing away at bull-fiddle tummies for far longer than Dave Longstreth's been serenading whales. Over the years, the New Hampshire native has appe ... More >>

LO-FI IN THE BIG TIME

Three different rock bands in one unique gig

Born Ruffians+Winter Gloves+First Rate People

Dave Longstreth Finally Vents His Unrelenting Whale Obsession Through An Album With Bjork

Mount Wittenberg Orca​In the words of the Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth himself: "Don't listen on those tiny stereo speakers -- put in on the stereo and blast dat shiiiiiiiiiiii!!" Aside from commanding us to "blast dat shiiii," bet you never thought Longstreth would be singing (presumab ... More >>

The Dirty Projectors (And Björk!) Are Up To Something, And Here Is (Oblique) Proof

Perhaps today in your Internet travels you will observe a few short, surrealist videos such as the one above, abstractly depicting some sort of Björk/Dirty Projectors project, putatively titled Mount Wittenberg Orca. A date, too: June 30. Huh. No idea what this could be about. Absolutely none.

Tonight! Ava Luna, Holly Miranda, Class Actress, And Deluxx Fluxx

No one shall lay their unworthy eyes upon Holly Miranda without Shrek 3D goggles.​Ava Luna, the band that Christopher R. Weingarten boldly praised as post-every-band-you-like ("post-TVOTR, Dirty Projectors-inflected bedroom soul," to be exact) is headlining Silent Barn, bracketed by a similar ... More >>

The Roots Return, With A Little Help From the Monsters of Folk: "Dear God 2.0"

For a band with such a wonderful sense of the moment, and such a savvy instinct for artistic fellow travelers--be they Jay-Z, the Dirty Projectors, or Ringo Starr--the Roots sure do make crushingly boring singles. This one, which goes in over Monsters of Folk's "Dear God"--perhaps the most randoml ... More >>

Photos: Rites of Spring, A DJ Benefit For Haiti Featuring Alex Ross, Björk, Dave Longstreth, Tyondai Braxton, and Brandon Stosuy

Björk, Brandon Stosuy, and the Dirty Projectors's Amber Coffman. All photos by Sam Horine.​We won't pretend to be remotely objective about Rites of Spring, last night's DJ benefit for Haiti organized by our pal Brandon Stosuy and featuring the diverse yet weirdly complementary talents of the ... More >>

'For the Moustache That You Love'

LET'S DANCE

Björk spins at a dance party benefit for Haiti

Swedish Twee-&-B Duo jj Cover "Birthday Sex." Why?

​You may have noticed that Zach and Camille--SOTC's daily stewards--aren't posting today, because they're on some kind of spiritual retreat that I'm not privy to the details of. As a guest, I'd be remiss in not writing an amorphous think piece that will fall through the cracks between more web ... More >>

ONE TO WATCH

Zun Zun Egui puts the heat on Brooklyn

Live: The Dirty Projectors Bring The Getty Address to Lincoln Center, Pay Homage to Don Henley

Twitpic via joe_saturday​The Dirty Projectors Allen Room, Lincoln Center Friday, February 19 The Allen Room's dazzling floor-to-ceiling glass vista is guaranteed to metaphorically enhance whatever you happen to hear there. Case in point: On Friday night those double layered panels refracted 5 ... More >>

On The New Pornographers' "Your Hands Together," Which You Can Listen To, Right Now

​I don't mean to alarm anyone, but an initial spin through the New Pornographers' imminent Together reminded me for some reason of the Dirty Projectors more than once, Carl Newman commanding a half-glib, half-baroque choir of backing vocalists (Neko Case counts for, like, 10 normal people) in ... More >>

The Dirty Projectors Played Opening Ceremony's Kick Off Party at the Ace Hotel; Solange Knowles Guested on "Stillness Is the Move" and Groove Theory's "Tell Me" (!!)

The scene at the Ace Hotel was pretty rowdy on Saturday night, as Opening Ceremony threw a party to celebrate opening a bizarre and tiny store in the chain hotel's lobby. Further research undertaken by SOTC over the weekend seemed to indicate that the store is long on McSweeney's and Levis-collabo ... More >>

Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Thom Yorke????, Pavement, Etc

​Lot of New York bands representing: LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Lucero, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Matt & Kim, Gil Scott-Heron, etc. Pretty fucking good show. Some other big ones--Public Image Limited, Grace Jones, Gorillaz, P ... More >>

The Top 10

Arguing about mellow indie rock, Lady Gaga, and the real grizzly bears

Week in Review: An Extra Side of Arrogance

R.I.P. Jay Reatard. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our American Idol recapper made it all the way to the BBC for calling Victoria Beckham's face "too crazy", we also tossed epithets in the direction of the Times, in solidarity with M.I.A., and toward Esquire, who this week were forced to ... More >>

The New York City Record Store Year-End Roundup

​In 2009, we began the weekly Local Top 10, a series we hoped would prove that New Yorkers were far too stubborn to let the record store go. The series ran until last month, when we literally ran out of stores to cover--not the best sign for the future of music retailing in New York City. Befo ... More >>

PANDORA'S BOX

Many worlds behind one sonar

The Roots Reunited with the Dirty Projectors to Back Mos Def and Talib Kweli on Jimmy Fallon's Show Last Week

Well, two Dirty Projectors, anyway. The Roots and Jimmy Fallon conscripted Amber Coffman and Haley Dekle last Wednesday to back Mos Def and Talib Kweli on "History," from Mos' most recent album. Always happy to see this show try something different. (And to reunite such potent creative partners.) ... More >>

Dirty Projectors

This Weekend! Saint Vitus, Echo and the Bunnymen, Glenn Branca, and David Bazan

"Basically, I think right now, the world's in shit," Scott "Wino" Weinrich told the Voice's own Phil Freeman recently, by way of explaining the decision to revive the finest iteration of doom-metal giants Saint Vitus for a brief tour. "There's a lot of despair, a lot of economic problems. People h ... More >>

News Roundup: New Yorker Festival, Brooklyn Country Festival, Phil Spector's Prison Papers

​--Tickets for the October 16-18 New Yorker Festival, which will feature plenty of musicians--Neko Case, Bon Iver, Loudon Wainwright III, Ian Hunter, Jace Clayton, and Melvin Gibbs, to name a few----and a really ace concert at the Bell House with Liturgy and Dirty Projectors, are on sale now. ... More >>

In Case You Missed Our Photos from Sunday's Pool Party With the Dirty Projectors. . .

Sam HorineDirty Projectors Dave Longstreth . . . they are here. Sunday was the second week of Jelly NYC's Pool Parties, relocated this summer from McCarren Pool, and Dirty Projectors proved to Brooklyn for the first time since Bitte Orce's' official release that they've only begun to feel out the e ... More >>

OPPOSITES ATTRACT

Brooklyn's favorite experimentalists the Dirty Projectors play an unexpected show

Photo of Flipped Dirty Projectors Van Not Exactly An Advertisement for Driving, Detroit, Touring in General

Well that's terrifying. First the Dirty Projectors were reported to have been in a "pretty bad" auto accident outside of Detroit yesterday. Early reports made it sound like one or more of them had been seriously hurt. An official statement quickly cleared things up ("Although the crash was serious ... More >>

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Dirty Projectors

Art-rock lobsters tote an Excel spreadsheet to Central Park. Rain ensues.

This Week's Voice: Dirty Projectors, Sonic Youth's The Eternal, Coppola's Tetro, Sigmar Polke, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

Vincent Gallo in Tetro In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla testifies to the alternating agony and ecstasy of Brooklyn's own art-rock lobsters, the Dirty Projectors. Cristina Black talks with downtown ingenue Regina Spektor. Dan Weiss on Sonic Youth's newest, The Eternal. Don ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

After a lifetime of political hackery, former city councilmember Noach Dear, who had never even practiced law, became a municipal judge. Who knew he'd become a savior to hundreds of New Yorkers harassed and dunned by unscrupulous and sometimes crooked debt collectors? And that he'd get standing ova ... More >>

Live: Enjoying a Central Park Downpour with TV on the Radio

So many umbrellas. TV on the Radio/Dirty Projectors Central Park SummerStage Friday, June 5 For a band that not too long ago had way better ideas than songs, way better better studio noises than hooks, TV on the Radio, long a critical favorite on record, grew up to be pretty fantastic live, no? E ... More >>

Shows This Weekend: TV on the Radio in Central Park, Hangover-Obliterating Techno, and Alcoholic-Chef Competitions

Friday Noted Björk collaborators the Dirty Projectors join 2008 Pazz & Jop winners TV on the Radio in Central Park Friday night to benefit this year's free Central Park SummerStage slate. Beware of projectile vomiting at Webster Hall; Chromeo's Dave 1 is DJing tonight. Trumpet virtuoso Ralph Ale ... More >>

TV on the Radio

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band+Disappears

Doing Laundry with Deradoorian a/k/a Angel from Dirty Projectors

"Kids in elementary school would call me 'DeraDorito.'" When you're in a critically acclaimed band like the Dirty Projectors, finding time to do those mundane things like laundry or talk to writers becomes a bit precarious. Such rings true for bassist Angel Deradoorian, who has more than a few th ... More >>

ARMY OF ONE

A benefit concert for the ages

GOOD VIBRATIONS

Your favorite compilation is now a live show

Björk to Team with Dirty Projectors for May Housing Works Benefit

We commend our friend, Brandon Stosuy, for convincing Björk and the Dirty Projectors to link up at Housing Works for a one-time-only collabo, in which Björk will perform music composed for her by DP auteur Dave Longstreth. We've spent many an afternoon or evening at Housing Works getting drunk i ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Top Five Wholly Subjective Austin Moments, Starring Dent May, Micachu, and Metallica

Nate "Igor" SmithJust some guy Two red-eye flights there and back, a night in a camper without a pillow or blanket, another crashed uninvited on an angry stranger's futon, no consistent shower or WiFi in sight--with pilgrimages like this, I think you're supposed to find God, but instead I found Den ... More >>

Your Last Minute New Year's Eve

Sound of the City will resume full-force come Monday. In the meantime, find your last minute arrangements below...

What I Want for Christmas: Brooklyn, Circa 2001

The Pied Piper's TV Party

Marveling at the eloquent insanity of the Dirty Projectors' new Black Flag tribute