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Dirty Projectors news via Twitter

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Useful Chamber has joined Twitter to bring you more Dirty Projectors news, more quickly than usual.  This should allow us to highlight more small stories that become old news by the time I’ve agonized over the wording of the post and what accompanying photo to use.  Things like Nat’s upcoming UK tour or Angel’s contribution to Stereogum’s Strokes tribute album.  And that’s not to mention the new Dirty Projectors LP due this year.

UsefulChamber on Twitter - twitter.com/UsefulChamber

Non-Twitter users can view the feed on this page and click the short URL links for the full story. The band has its own Twitter page, so I’ll retweet anything that appears there, although happily they look to be more focused on music than social media - four tweets since September.

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Getty played, Lost Weekend cancelled

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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Unless this is the only music site you ever read (hey, you could do worse) you’ll have heard that Dirty Projectors played their two special Getty Address shows at the Lincoln Center, NY and the Disney Concert Hall, LA. There’s only one YouTube clip so far, of two songs from the Disney encore - perhaps a blessing, given the quality of most YouTube content. There are, however, links to reviews, features and photos on the new UC ‘Past Shows‘ page. Take a scroll down this virtual Memory Lane for further link goodness, with more to be added as we go along.

The past fortnight also saw the Bang On A Can All-Stars‘ performance of three new and intriguingly named DL compositions. WQXR streamed it live but aren’t able to release the recording at present. As Joey from Portland says in the comments, “Hopefully someday [we] will get to hear the great sounds of Matt Damon, Breakfast At J&M, and Instructional Video“.

Meanwhile, the group are no doubt looking forward to sampling vegemite sandwiches and stocking up on Paul Hogan Show videos as the tour rolls into Australia this weekend. Great shame about the Lost Weekend, though.

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“If you can…” (Imagine It lyrics and guitar tab)

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

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Have you ever done that thing where you have to copy an address someone has handwritten, but you can’t make a part of it out, so you just draw the shape of the word and hope the postman will figure it out?  What I’m trying to say is, Making out the lyrics to Imagine It by Dirty Projectors is hard.  A pair of Grado SR-60 headphones, state of the art (2002) audio software, several different recordings of the song - all these have helped in the production of a set of words undeniably similar to whatever it is Dave and the girls are singing.  A marginally easier task was transcribing Dave and Amber’s twin guitar lines, a.k.a. the riff of the decade, into tab and orchestral score.

If you’re not familiar with Imagine It, or have only heard the Prince-plays-rubber-band version of it on the New Attitude EP, then I suggest you view the greatest YouTube clip there is or ever will be, then grab the Daytrotter session version of the song.  Then email telling me all the notes and words I got wrong.

Lyrics to Imagine It by Dirty Projectors (on Useful Chamber lyrics page)

Imagine It by Dirty Projectors - guitar tab and score (pdf)

Postscript - if you’re a drummer, you might want to check out Billy’s YouTube channel, where he has posted clips of himself playing along with Useful Chamber, Temecula Sunrise and various other bands’ songs.

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