Dirty Projectors

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Dirty Projectors Release Two Free Singles

January 11, 2010 – It may be a little while before Dave Longstreth and pals get around to releasing a proper follow-up to last year's much panted-over breakthrough Bitte Orca. …
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Band to Watch: Brooklyn Art Rockers, Dirty Projectors

July 8, 2009 – "That's my shit!" shouts David Longstreth in the middle of his pad Thai lunch. He's just seen one of his lyrics misquoted in a review of Bitte Orca, the new album by his band Dirty Projectors. Rather than induce righteous anger, this gaffe makes him ecstatic. …
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Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk Headline Brooklyn's Pool Parties

July 2, 2009 – It's only fitting that a concert series based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- hipsterdom's Plymouth Rock -- has assembled a lineup stocked with indie faves galore. Sentimental pop wizards Grizzly Bear, laptop mash-up maestro Girl Talk, Bjork-collaborating up-and-comers Dirty Projectors, and rowdy Texan noisesmiths/SPIN office assaulters ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead are among the headliners for the fourth annual summer of P …
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Watch: Dirty Projectors Debut New Video

June 30, 2009 – Brooklyn art rockers the Dirty Projectors have released a video for R&B-inflected Bitte Orca track "Stillness Is the Move." And unlike Jay-Z's new video, this one is light on Harvey Keitel appearances, but the Matthew Lessner-directed clip does feature wolves and a llama. Those familiar with the band's reputation for innovation would surely expect something that defies run-of-the-mill-ness, and they'd be right. Outfitted in powder …
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Bjork, Dirty Projectors Play Benefit Show in NYC

May 11, 2009 – It was the night of a thousand shooshes. And with good reason. This past Friday's intimate benefit show at Housing Works bookstore in New York's Soho neighborhood was an acoustically nuanced, elaborately voiced performance by the Brooklyn-based indie-rock theoreticians Dirty Projectors featuring pop's most likable experimentalist, Bjork. …
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David Byrne, Sharon Jones, Feist Rock for Charity

May 4, 2009 – David Byrne, the National, Feist, Bon Iver, and Sharon Jones, among others, performed at New York's Radio City Music Hall Sunday night for Dark Was the Night Live, a celebration of AIDS/HIV awareness organization Red Hot's compilation of the same name. And what a celebration it was, with over two hours of collaborations (Byrne and Dirty Projectors! …
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My Morning Jacket, Spoon, Arcade Fire Fight AIDS with New Songs

December 1, 2008 – A jaw-dropping collection of indie rock's finest have contributed exclusive new songs to Dark Was the Night, a 32-track album out February 17 via 4AD, which will benefit the Red Hot Organization, a charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. …
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