The mp3 of Dirty Projectors’ cover of Bob Dylan’s I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine is now available from the Levi’s Pioneer Sessions website. You give them your email address, they send you a download link. There’s also a YouTube clip and some photos.
More live shows, in the US and Canada, were announced this week and are on the Tour Dates page.
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.]
- 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.
Good news for anyone in Europe who looked longingly at the Disney Center and Allen Room reviews and pictures - Dirty Projectors and Alarm Will Sound are to play a Getty Address show at the Barbican, London on 25 June…
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=10551
Thanks to Harry for this info.
Stereogum has an mp3 of Dirty Projectors’ cover of Bob Dylan’s Dark Eyes, taken from an Australian radio session they played earlier. (That’s two Bob covers in a month, by my reckoning - I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine was part of the Disney Center encore.) Go here to hear the whole show.
Pitchfork yesterday broke the news that Dirty Projectors will play their 2005 album, The Getty Address, in full, at two special shows this month. They’ll be assisted in both performances by NY chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound. There’s another minimalist official website, too, featuring Dave’s letter to Don Henley. More details at Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan.
If that puts you in the mood for some more Getty era DPs music, WNYC are still streaming a show that Dave and cohorts recorded nearly five years ago for the Spinning On Air programme. It’s a real treat, somewhere around an hour long with a bit of chat but mostly just astonishing music. Thanks to Murray Levy and other readers for pointing this out.
Ascending Melody and Emblem Of The World, formerly extra tracks on the shelved Temecula Sunrise EP, and hitherto unavailable except on the internet, are released today as a free download and 7″ single. What’s more, this news comes via the new, official Dirty Projectors website, at dirtyprojectors.net Go see, but unexpect the expected. There’s a brief explanation of the release on the band’s myspace page, too.
(Actually, Audacity was used for the mastering, not the recording. But why let facts get in the way of a laboured pun?)
New York’s live music archivist and generous soul nyctaper has an early Christmas present for you - a Domino/D-Lo approved recording of Dirty Projectors’ end of US tour Bowery Ballroom show from 22 November. That’s right, the one with The Roots and David Byrne. It sounds amazing and it’s yours for nothing. nyctaper is similarly generous in his praise for Bitte Orca - ”Not since Kid A has a band moved rock music this far forward this quickly, and, like Kid A, challenged the most basic notions about what ‘rock’ music is - and could be.”
Dirty Projectors: November 22, 2009 Bowery - Flac and MP3 Downloads (by nyctaper)
You can show your appreciation by donating to nyctaper and/or by buying an official Dirty Projectors recording. Hey, if you haven’t heard Fluorescent Half Dome on cassette, you haven’t truly heard it.
Solange Knowles has recorded a cover of Stillness Is The Move. Full story and mp3 at Stereogum.
A quick heads up - Dirty Projectors have recorded a 30 minute session for Sirius XMU, a North American indie rock radio station.
The show is broadcast today at 4:00 pm ET, then again on Sunday at 12:00 pm ET. The No Intention performance is already on YouTube.
Kids, eh? The earliest footage of Dirty Projectors on YouTube is a 2006 performance from SXSW. It’s just a couple of minutes of Not Having Found, but astonishing and thrilling nonetheless. The same lineup recorded a session for Austin’s KVRX Radio on 17 March 2006 and two of the songs - Not Having Found and Fucked For Life - are available from KVRX as mp3 downloads. There are pictures too, including one of guitarist Spencer Kingman eating an onion as if it were an apple. In other words, this is another essential addition to the Dirty Projectors canon.
Back in 2009, the Temecula Sunrise EP looks like it could go either way. Manchester’s Piccadilly Records shows it as a very specific 400-copies-only 12″ single coming out on Monday, whereas it seems to have disappeared from the Domino release schedule altogether. Over on Pitchfork, Bitte Orca was voted the 56th best album of the decade in their Top 200 albums of the 2000s feature. Cue a retread of the “This list is sooo WRONG!” / “Come on, it’s only a poll” debate. Hey, it is only a poll.