Useful Chamber

Dirty Projectors Rise Above, 25 June 2010
Publication:  Dazed Digital

Interview: David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors, 22 June 2010
Publication: The Scotsman

Pedestrian.tv interview with Amber, 9 March 2010

Why Dirty Projectors Is One of the Most Risk-Taking Groups of All by Hugo Lindgren, 8 November 2009
Publication: New York magazine

Timing fortuitous for Dirty Projectors’ Coffman by George Varga, 30 October 2009
Publication: San Diego Union-Tribune

Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth doesn’t think they sound like that by Sean O’Neal, 26 October 2009
Publication: The Onion A.V. Club
Sample quote: “Frank Zappa I fucking hate. I think that shit is so fucking nerdy.”

Q&A: Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors, by Frances Michelle Lopez, 19 October 2009
Publication: Phoenix New Times Music Blog

Interview: Dirty Projectors by Chris Dahlen, 6 July 2009
Publication: Pitchfork
See also this outtake from the interview, on Chris Dahlen’s own website.

Dirty Projectors: Balls Deep in the R&B (interview by text message) by Chris Martins
Publication:  LA Weekly

Not Mucking About by Alex Deaney, June 2009
Publication: The Stool Pigeon

Dirty Projectors interview, by Andy Beta, 22 June 2009
Publication: Beta Blog
Sample quote: “It’s an awesome time to be making music.  The trading of ideas and stuff like that is… I feel like it is a different model than the Graceland love and theft way.  I feel like it’s a different sort of paradigm.”

Like Tiny Bacteria Running Around: An Interview with the Dirty Projectors, by Mehan Jayasuriya, 15 June 2009
Publication: Popmatters

Suite Relief, by Michael Alan Goldberg
Publication: Boston Phoenix

The Experimental, Led By The Obsessive, by Ben Sisario
Publication: New York Times, 7 June 09
Sample quote:
“It’s as difficult to perform as it sounds and requires painstaking rehearsals that can last up to 12 hours.”

Is this the cleverest band in rock? by Gaby Wood
Publication: The Observer, 7 June 2009

Dirty Projectors’ brand new sound by Sophie Harris, 4 June 2009
Publication: Time Out New York

Dave Longstreth Takes a Village by Alex Sherman, 28 May 2009
Publication: Interview Magazine

Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors Take a Finger Lickin’ Bite Out of Life by Foster Kamer, 26 May 2009
Publication: BlackBook New York

Interview with Angel Deradoorian by John Behm, 14 May 2009
Publication: Culture Bully - a Minneapolis based music blog
Sample quote:
Interviewer - “Do you know any good jokes?”
AD - “I am incredibly serious.”

David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors Talks About Dark Was The Night by Bill Bradley, 23 Apr 2009
Publication: Vanity Fair
Sample quote: “D.I.Y. venues in Brooklyn are the homecoming of punk values, as opposed to the expired husk of punk aesthetics, to New York.”

Rising Above by Reef Younis, April 2009
Publication: Loud & Quiet
Review of London Scala show.

Making Music interview with Dave Longstreth by Whole Music Club, 5 March 2009 (video and audio, c.90 minutes)
“The leader of Dirty Projectors takes the McGuire stage for a special evening with the University of Minnesota’s Whole Music Club. Local musician James Everest (Vicious Vicious, Roma di Luna) interviews David Longstreth about his career in a program that includes live demonstrations, video, and questions from the audience.”
Streaming video on the Walker Art Center website
96kbps mp3 (via Rapidshare)

DL reports from the studio on progress with Bitte Orca, Dec 11 2008
Publication: Stereogum

Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth Makes You a Mix Tape, 26 June 2008
Publication: New York magazine

David Byrne blog post about Knotty Pine, 20 May 2008

Feathers Ruffled, Dirty Projectors Rule The Roost by Samuel Strang, May 2008
Publication: Drowned In Sound

Interview: Nat Baldwin by Andy Jenkins, 4 February 2008
Publication: RVA News

Imagine It by kicking_k, January 2008
Publication: Plan B magazine
More info here.

Dirty Projectors Interview Winter 2007 by Tom Hannan, 12 December 2007
Publication: Rockfeedback.com
Sample quote: “It’s like a cancerous piling of ideas”

Dirty Projectors by Matt Fink, 1 Nov 2007
Publication: Under The Radar magazine
Sample quote: “The idea of remaking this album imperfectly in my head was the first idea. It’s kind of a shell that gives support or architecture to a bunch of sensual melodies.”

Dave Longstreth, Dirty Projector by Jen Carlson, 27 Sept 2007
Publication: Gothamist - a website about New York

An Interview with James Sumner, Creator of the Animated Film “The Getty Address” by Dakota Kim, 2 Aug 2007
Publication: Dakota blog
Sample quote: “One of the biggest thematic inspirations of The Getty Address is the destruction of the American landscape. Not even pure destruction but the genericization suffices.”

Dirty Projectors On Dead Oceans by Steven Sawada, 23 February 2007
Publication: The Stranger
Sample quote:
Interviewer - “Any general thoughts on the cult of personality?”
DL - “The 1988 Living Color hit single??”

Dirty Projectors - Screening Sans Cleaning by Michael Barthel, 2006
Publication: The Deli - music recipes from the big apple
Sample quote: “I am into making live shows that are epic and wet, spontaneous, free. I am into recordings that are like texts — complete, formal, unchangeable.”