About

Useful Chamber is a Dirty Projectors fansite.  Dirty Projectors is a Brooklyn-based vocal/instrumental group and the musical project of David Longstreth.  The group comprises David Longstreth (vocals, guitar, musical direction), Amber Coffman (vocals, guitar), Angel Deradoorian (vocals, keyboards/bass), Brian Mcomber (drums), Haley Dekle (vocals) and Nat Baldwin (bass).

I haven’t attempted a biography here.  There are a few on the web, such as the Wikipedia entry and this early one on Allmusic.  I would suggest the most authoritative and comprehensive source for background information on Dirty Projectors, although not available in written form, is the Walker Arts Center interview with David Longstreth.  For a shorter print article on the history of Dirty Projectors, try Why Dirty Projectors Is One of the Most Risk-Taking Groups of All from New York magazine.

About me - my name is Miles.  I live in London and I make music as Vanilla Swingers.  Besides Dirty Projectors, some of my other musical favourites are Blonde Redhead, The Fall, The Mamas & The Papas and Scritti Politti.

To contact me: u$efulchamber at gmail dot com