"....fearless sincerity, devotion to craft, agnosticism about digital technology (which is to say, they use it but don’t fetishize it), profound musical curiosity, ingenuity at using the human voice as an instrument, and an uncanny ability to reproduce their complex material in live performance (in no small part because this is where the money is).These also happen to be the qualities that defin
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Like Grizzly Bear and M83, Dirty Projectors will be headlining a show with the LA Philarmonic. Dirty Projectors recently released the "Temecula Sunrise EP" and I posted their track 'Ascending Melody'. The performance with the LA Philarmonic will take place on February 27 at...Click the link to read more
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It has been a huge year for Dirty Projectors! With the release of Bitte Orca the band went from being an interesting little indie band to being a band that could appear on all the late night talk shows and tour the world to packed houses. It was a pretty big leap but based on the tremendous pop sounds coming off Bitte Orca it's one that is totally merited. Ask just about any music critic about ...
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Along time ago back in August I reported that Dirty Projectors would be releasing an EP for their track 'Temecula Sunrise', featuring one album tracks and a couple of outtakes from "Bitte Orca". That was supposed to be released in September then the release date was moved...Click the link to read more
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Dirty Projectors perform on Letterman Monday August 31
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It has been a huge year for Dirty Projectors! With the release of Bitte Orca the band went from being an interesting little indie band to being a band that could appear on all the late night talk shows and tour the world to packed houses. It was a pretty big leap but based on the tremendous pop sounds coming off Bitte Orca it's one that is totally merited. Ask just about any music critic about ...
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Words and photos by Mehan Jayasuriya.Back in June, I saw the Dirty Projectors play to a crowd of a few hundred kids at the Rufustival in Baltimore. It was the week before the release of Bitte Orca and I remarked at the time that it seemed, "a foregone conclusion that after years spent as an opening act, the band will soon graduate to headliner status," What a difference a few months makes. Last...
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Stressing contrast and composition, Bitte Orca barrels between percussive background vocals, distorted guitar licks, and hand claps on “Cannibal Resource” to fingerpicking, string orchestration, and sonorous female vocals on “Two Doves.” Throw in some falsetto and tempo changes and you have one aesthetically complicated but imaginatively and meticulously crafted album.Reminds us of: The Fu
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Dirty Projectors are led by former Yale student, current "musical director" and one of the most unique/eccentric indie singer/songwriters of the early 2000's, Dave Longstreth, who is accompanied by a shifting cast of band members. In fact, there have been 17 different band members in total, but no more than six at a time (including Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend).Dave deco...
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Reviews of new albums by Sonic Youth, Dirty Projectors, Double Dagger, J Dilla, and Joan of Arc
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Image used totally without permission. Sorry. Photo by Matt Rourke of the AP MP3: Dirty Projectors - Police Story YANP is almost exclusively a music blog, but I just had to throw a little light on this. For the full story, go here. The above photo is a picture of my friend Ed being sprayed with mace while [...]~~
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I took a stroll outside of Mog today and checked out other blogs. Found some cool stuff and thought I would share. It's funny for Anna's "MOG Witch Project":http://mog.com/Anna/blog_post/101567 post she had Patrick Wolf's "Magic Position" video posted (which I hadn't heard/seen and thought was awesome) and today I come across this school choir singing the song. Boy am I behind when the song ...
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Today's "Song of the Day" on NPR is one that seems hauntingly familiar to old-skool punk fans. But those who would get that sense of recognition would probably brush it off, thinking "Bah, this is a catchy pop song. I don't listen to pop..." Well, this is true, it is a pop song, but it once was a raging punk song, blasted out of crunchy guitar cabs and screeched over by Henry Rollins in the ...
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With 2007's release of "Rise Above", Dave Longstreth and co. established themselves as one of the most creative acts in indie rock. The album featured reworkings of Black Flag's "Damaged" straight from Dave Longreth's head. Now the band has signed to a new label, Domino and has managed to keep a steady line-up besides mastermind Dave Longstreth. The band has been working on two albums this year...
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Dirty Projectors - Rise Above(Dead Oceans, 2007)9 stars out of 10So many ways to begin talking about such a great work - likely to be the year's best album - that it's unfortunate that I've got to pin it down to one, but I'll choose Jorge Luis Borges. In 1939, Borges published a short work of fiction called "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (read it here) in which a writer takes on a major...
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| 2 Temecula Sunrise |
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| 3 The Bride |
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| 4 Stillness Is the Move |
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| 5 Two Doves |
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