Major Lazer, Amber and Dave play Fallon
April 12th, 2013Interview with Coup De Main magazine
March 26th, 2013
I love this quote from Dave, taken from a fun, insightful interview with New Zealand magazine Coup De Main. Read the whole thing here.
Tour film by Olga
March 1st, 2013Want to see Dave and Amber dancing to Daft Punk? Or Haley singing Whitney Houston? See these and several other wonders of the world in Olga’s short film, ‘World Tripping’, which she shot on her iPhone whilst on tour with Chairlift and Dirty Projectors.
Offspring Are Blanc
January 31st, 2013Just before the Carnegie Hall show, Dave released the separate parts (’stems’) of Offspring Are Blank for remixers to use. Here’s my version.
In case you don’t know it, the backing sample is from Living On The Ceiling by Blancmange, which was a top ten hit in the UK in 1982.
If you’d like to remix Offspring Are Blank, you can find a link to the stems at dirtyprojectors.net
Dirty Projectors at Carnegie Hall, 11 January 2013
January 1st, 2013
This is shaping up to be a very special show. Dirty Projectors will be joined by chamber ensemble yMusic, who played on Swing Lo Magellan (and Letterman). Brooklyn Vegan confirms there is to be a special guest as well as a 250-only 7″ of Offspring Are Blank, featuring previously unreleased track There’s A Fire on the b-side, on sale at the merch stall. And Dave has told the New York Post that the band will be delving “deeper” into their back catalogue. So whether you saw Dirty Projectors last year or have yet to catch them live, you won’t want to miss this unique event.
Buy tickets for Dirty Projectors at Carnegie Hall, Friday 11 January
Offspring Are Blank music video
December 12th, 2012Just out, the promo clip for Swing Lo Magellan opener, Offspring Are Blank.
Did you buy a t-shirt on the 2012 tour? Well, you might just have bought it from Max Goldblatt, who manned the merch stall on most dates and who edited this clip. You can keep up with Max on Twitter @tothemaxx where he also posts about films and drops puns that will make you smile. Max, respect!
The Albums Of The Year lists are awash with Frank Ocean but the UK’s Guardian newspaper just made Swing Lo Magellan its #4 album of 2012, with writer Tim Jonze insightfully describing it as “a love letter to the joy of music”.
14 DECEMBER UPDATE - Hot on the heels of Offspring Are Blank, the video for Swing Lo Magellan is released today and The Socialites will follow tomorrow. For almost-up-to-the-minute DPs news, follow @UsefulChamber on Twitter or click the #News link to the right.
La Blogothèque releases 1hr film of Paris show
November 10th, 2012
Incomparable French audio-video site La Blogothèque has published its film of Dirty Projectors' 18 October show at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris. The clip comes in at just under an hour and features Offspring Are Blank, Swing Lo Magellan, The Socialites, Cannibal Resource, Beautiful Mother, See What She Seeing, No Intention, About To Die, Just From Chevron, Maybe That Was It, Gun Has No Trigger, Dance For You, Stillness Is The Move, Impregnable Question. (Link follows as I couldn't make the embed work.)
Dirty Projectors at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 18 October 2012 by La Blogotheque
If you haven't already done so, I urge you to see the other Dirty Projectors performance captured by La Blogothèque - 2007's 'A Take Away Show' (aka 'Un Concert A Emporter') featuring Dave, Amber and Angel wandering the streets of Manhattan playing songs from the Rise Above era. It's really special.
Dirty Projectors - A Take Away Show (via YouTube) - Part I | Part II
About To Die EP
September 20th, 2012Dirty Projectors release the About To Die EP on 5/6 November (Europe/US respectively) as a 12″ single (with MP3s) and digital download. There’s an official video too, featuring scenes and outtakes from Hi Custodian - see above.
Joining About To Die on the EP are three new songs from the Swing Lo Magellan sessions - While You’re Here (Dave’s tribute to Gerard Smith, formerly of TV On The Radio), Here Til It Says I’m Not and Simple Request.
Order the EP here - dominorecordco.com/abouttodie
To see photos from the filming of Hi Custodian, taken by Dave’s brother, the artist Jake Longstreth, go to hicustodian.wordpress.com
Hi Custodian - the Dirty Projectors film
September 7th, 2012Ayo, Prince, this ain’t Lake Minnetonka either. It’s 2012, it’s Hi Custodian - the film by Dirty Projectors.
Dirty Projectors news (via Twitter)
July 31st, 2012