Dirty Projectors: “Keep Your Name”
Art rockers Dirty Projectors have been frustratingly silent since 2012. After releasing their best album, Swing Lo Magellan, and touring the world, the band went off the grid. That’s not to say frontman and son...
Concert Review:
Dirty Projectors
The Majestic Theatre was filled with an air of excitement Saturday night as the flannel-clad crowd poured in. Marking both the Majestic's 5-year anniversary and Dirty Projectors' first Madison gig since 2005, t...
Q&A with Dirty Projectors’
Amber Coffman
Dirty Projectors are a band that have remained nearly impossible to define throughout their decade-long career. What began as a solo project of David Longstreth (vocals/guitar/songwriting) expanded into a revol...
Film: Dirty Projectors
Hi Custodian
Below is Hi Custodian, a short film written and directed by Dirty Projectors' David Longstreth, featuring music from the band's new album Swing Lo Magellan. It stars Longstreth plus band members Amber Coffman, ...
Dirty Projectors: “Swing Lo Magellan”
Leave it to David Longstreth and Dirty Projectors to tab a light-hearted, acoustic ramble as the title track for their most recent album. Now fully submerged in a tour supporting Swing Lo Magellan, the band has...
Dirty Projectors: “Dance for You”
"Dance for You" marks the second single release from Dirty Projectors' upcoming album, Swing Lo Magellan, the Brooklyn outfit's sixth studio album set to release next Tuesday. This most recent single provides a...
Major Lazer feat. Amber Coffman: “Get Free”
Major Lazer has emblazoned a path of its own in the EDM world that virtually no producers have crossed before. The brain child of producers Diplo and Switch, Major Lazer fuses Reggae influences with electronic ...
Dirty Projectors: “Gun Has No Trigger”
Dirty Projectors fans have been waiting to hear David Longstreth's incomparable ululations since their 2010 Björk collaboration Mount Wittenburg Orca. Their new album, Swing Lo Magellan, is set for release on J...
Dirty Projectors + Björk
"All We Are"from the EP Mount Wittenberg Orca2010
"If you grow up in the river, the river's all you know."
Let's get the rather strange yet essential set-up out of the way first. Stereogum writer Brandon Stosuy...
Dirty Projectors
"Cannibal Resource"from the album Bitte Orca2009iTunes
Attempting to describe Dirty Projectors in one swift adjective or genre can be rather difficult. Their sound is sophisticated, as displayed on their album ...
Dirty Projectors
"No Intention"from the album Bitte Orca2009iTunesOf all the New York art-rock bands to command column inches in the New York Times arts section and elicit echolalic reporting of new singles and remixes this yea...
Dirty Projectors
"Two Doves"from the album Bitte Orca2009iTunesElusive Brooklyn innovators Dirty Projectors are unafraid to stretch convention — so much so that previous releases have teetered on a fine line between experimenta...