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  Dirty Projectors Embrace 'Horror,' Respond to Strokes on New LP

  October 19, 2011 – This past January, after capping an exhaustive world tour behind his band's breakout 2009 album Bitte Orca, David Longstreth, leader of Brooklyn experimental indie intellectuals Dirty Projectors, rented an old house in rural Delaware County, New York, to decompress and begin writing material for their follow-up. He settled in alone. "It was amazing to be by myself and just write," Longstreth tells SPIN. …
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  Dirty Projectors, St. Vincent Honor Azerrad's DIY Book

  May 23, 2011 – Last night at New York City's Bowery Ballroom, a host of indie faves, including Dirty Projectors, St. Vincent, and Titus Andronicus, helped music journalist (and SPIN contributor) Michael Azerrad celebrate the 10th anniversary of his book, Our Band Could Be Your Life, which chronicles the DIY bands who shaped American independent music scene as a whole from 1981 to 1991. …
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  Adele Rules Charts, Fever Ray's Spooky Song + More

  March 9, 2011 – Adele earned the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts for the second week in a row with her second album, 21. The British singer moved 168,000 copies of the LP, following last week's sales of 352,000 units. …
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  Patti Smith, Roots, J Mascis Honor Neil Young Live

  February 11, 2011 – The watershed moment of Thursday night's star-studded Neil Young tribute concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall came just 20 minutes into the two-hour-plus set, as 65-year-old soul singer Bettye LaVette finished her jazz-flecked rendition of "Heart of Gold." "I was the only black chick in the inner city singing that in 1972," she joked. …
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  LISTEN: New Bjork, Dirty Projectors Collaboration

  June 30, 2010 – Mount Wittenberg Orca, the benefit collaboration between Icelandic singer Bjork and indie faves Dirty Projectors, is out today. …
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  Dirty Projectors, Bjork Collabo Out June 30

  June 23, 2010 – After teaming up for an intimate benefit performance at NYC's Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in May 2009, Dirty Projectors and Bjork have hit the studio and recorded a seven-song EP, Mount Wittenberg Orca, set for a June 30 release date.The songs that appear on the album were penned by Dirty Projectors main man David Longstreth for last year's performance -- which SPIN music editor Charles Aaron affectionately called the "night of a thous …
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  Dirty Projectors Cover Dylan, Nas Does Slick Rick

  June 3, 2010 – Some of today's hottest musical acts are paying tribute to their favorite artists in Levi's new performance series, Pioneer Sessions. Dirty Projectors, Nas, She & Him, and the Swell Season are among the acts picked by Levi's to cover classic songs that influenced their music. The latest installment: Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors, whose cover of Bob Dylan's "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" was posted Thursday. …
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  Best & Worst Moments of Coachella: Day Two

  April 18, 2010 – BEST BALLSY MOVE: MGMT "Kids" is to MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden, as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain: a ubiquitous pop track that made them famous, but ultimately worked against their artistic vision, as fans continued to demand the sound the band wanted to leave behind. And Saturday night at Coachella, MGMT did just that, omitting their most popular song while playing to some 40,000 people. Ballsy! …
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  9 Best Moments of the Big Ears Festival

  March 29, 2010 –  …
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  Dirty Projectors Curate Orchestral Extravaganza

  March 1, 2010 – On Saturday night in Los Angeles, Dirty Projectors threw one of the greatest and strangest shows of the year from within the airship-shaped chamber of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The night was curated by David Longstreth -- the lanky main brain of the experimental Brooklyn band -- and built around an ensemble-backed performance of the Projectors' highly dense and hugely bizarre fifth album, 2005's "glitch opera" The Getty Address. T …
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