Archive for May, 2010

New Dirty Projectors album this year

Friday, May 28th, 2010

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Whatever you do, don’t watch this YouTube clip of an interview with Brian and Nat. You’ll feel like you’ve been mugged for two minutes of your life by the interviewer. Just take my word for it that, at the end, Brian reveals that Dirty Projectors are in the studio working on a new album for release “this fall”.

Thanks to reader Sdorazi (who calls Brian and Nat “the non-dave guys”, reminding us of KITH’s The Daves I Know) for pointing this out.

Other news just in, Domino are releasing a 7″ single of Stillness Is The Move in the UK, to promote the London Barbican Centre Getty Address show.  The b-side will be the Lucky Dragons remix of Stillness.  As is also the case for Domino heavyweights Arctic Monkeys, Dirty Projectors don’t feature in the Domino/Uniqlo t-shirts range that was announced this week.

Finally, Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan have some photos of Wednesday’s David Byrne / Kitchen gala show.

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Dylan cover, Kitchen gala show, Roots collab

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

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Dirty Projectors have contributed their cover of Bob Dylan’s I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine (previously heard at the LA Getty Address show) to the Levi’s Pioneer Sessions. The mp3 isn’t up yet but Pitchfork has details.

The band are playing a David Byrne-themed benefit show in NYC tonight. Bad news - it’s sold out.  Good news - it was $500 a ticket.

?uestlove has tweeted that The Roots are working with Haley, Amber and Angel on two interludes for their forthcoming album. See his photo, watch his video, anticipate.

Kris Ellestad, whose guitar tabs are linked from this site, has added another beautiful DPs cover version performance to YouTube, this time Spray Paint (The Walls).  Tabs for Depression and Useful Chamber are under way, we hear.

[Before you call Ticketmaster, the poster above, by Michael Neault, is from a 2007 show.  More archive gig posters are linked on the Past Shows page.]

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Election eve news roundup

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

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- Dave DJ’d at the reportedly very hot Rites Of Spring Haiti benefit on Sunday night, along with Bjork, Tyondai Braxton and others.  Haven’t seen a list of what he played so far but some photos have surfaced.

- New shows continue to be added.  Academy 2, Manchester on 7 July and The Wiltern, LA on 24 September, to name two.  See Tour Dates for more.

- Amber provides vocals on dubstep artist Rusko’s new record, Hold On [listen on YouTube]

- The Deradoorian song, You Carry The Deed, has been remixed by Hidden Cat [info and 128kbps mp3] [320kbps mp3 (via Hidden Cat myspace blog)].  (Note - if you put it after Mind Raft in iTunes and set your playback to crossfade, you’ll be mixing like a pro.)

- Record label Domino has taken steps to remove some clips of Dirty Projectors’ Coachella performance from YouTube.  The clips were of full songs, professionally filmed, reputedly taken from a webcast (see Pitchfork).  Let’s hope this is in anticipation of an official release.

- The Coachella show opened with I Will Truck [passable YouTube audience clip] and was watched by Jay-Z and Beyonce.

- Angel played a rare solo show on Monday and Nat has lined up five solo U.S. dates this month.

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