October 4th, 2010
Many thanks to everyone who entered last week’s competition - the two winners have been notified. Nearly everyone got it right. The correct answer was that the picture is reversed, as you can tell if you know Dave plays guitar left handed.
If you didn’t win, here are two more opportunities to hear some high quality music free of charge - two more radio sessions which you can hear online:
The Current (Minnesota Public Radio)
KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle
There are some professional photos from the KEXP session on photographer Kyle Johnson’s website.
The image above is how the Bitte Orca Expanded second CD looks on an Arcam CD73. CD-Text, people.
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September 26th, 2010
The expanded version of Bitte Orca is released this week. Added to the original album is a second cd, containing unreleased “Live at Other Music” acoustic tracks, hard to find b-sides and a new recording of Bob Dylan’s As I Went Out One Morning.
To win a copy (we have two to give away), take a look at the photo above and tell us…
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Answers to the email address above by Friday 1 October. First two correct answers out of the virtual hat win the booty.
Prizes are courtesy of Domino U.S., so the competition is open to U.S. residents only.
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September 22nd, 2010
NYCtaper has released an authorised bootleg of Dirty Projectors’ 11 Sept show at Terminal 5. It’s a beautiful document, fuller sounding than the Bowery Ballroom one from almost a year ago. The set was different too, including the entire Bitte Orca album on shuffle, as well as several songs previously unheard on live recordings of this quality. On standouts such as I Will Truck and Beautiful Mother, the audience response is testimony to DPs’ enduring capacity to thrill - an attribute arguably more common to practitioners of other musics, such as metal or teen pop, than indie/alternative.
Dirty Projectors: September 11, 2010 Terminal 5 - Flac and MP3 Downloads (nyctaper)
NYCtaper encourages anyone enjoying their recording to support Dirty Projectors - and what better way than by picking up the expanded edition of Bitte Orca, released next week. Your non-expanded copy would make an excellent recycled Christmas present. If you can’t afford it, check back here in a week or so for this site’s first ever competition.
The T5 show also got the Brooklyn Vegan treatment, with photos not just of the headliners but of the merch stand, support Owen Pallett, audience members and even a couple of security staff. For some pro photos from T5, see here. The photo above is by Johnny, who recorded T5 for NYCtaper.
Other important things you need to know - the Milwaukee Express has a short interview with Dave and last weekend I heard the Rusko/Amber song playing on the in-store stereo at TK Maxx.
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September 2nd, 2010
A 2cd version of Bitte Orca is set for release 27 September. It features five songs from DPs’ June 2009 acoustic show at NYC’s Other Music record store, plus some b-sides and a new recording of Bob Dylan’s As I Went Out One Morning. Full tracklisting here.
Accompanying this will be a 500-only vinyl release of the Other Music set, which can be preordered from the Other Music online shop.
The never-ending tour continues, mostly in the US, with two UK dates in December - see Tour Dates.
A few more links for you…
Krist Novoselic, Nirvana’s bassist, has been listening to Two Sheeps Asleep
Is there a physical release of Mount Wittenberg Orca in the offing? This Clash Magazine feature on Bjork seems to suggest so.
Click Track has a new Dave interview, with Part 2 following tomorrow.
That up there is Dirty Projectors’ fall 2010 press photo by NYC photographer Tom Hines.
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July 31st, 2010
A few recent happenings you might have missed…
New tour dates continue to be added, including a support slot at Phoenix’ show at Madison Square Garden and a Belle & Sebastian curated festival in the UK.
Hold On, by Rusko, with Amber providing “vocals of pure dance-floor sex“, has been released as a single on Diplo’s Mad Decent label, with a not-featuring-Amber video.
Domino released a 7″ single of Stillness Is The Move on 19 July.
Reviews of Mount Wittenberg Orca have appeared, including this one from Pitchfork.
Angel is to appear on the new Tyondai Braxton-produced, female vocals only, Prefuse 73 album, which also stars Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Trish Keenan (Broadcast).
And Dave reveals his highlight of the year so far in this Oxegen festival preview interview.
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June 24th, 2010
Over a year after Björk and Dirty Projectors’ one-off collaboration at the Housing Works Bookstore in NYC, Dave has announced that the music specially written for that show has been recorded and is to be released next Wednesday (30 June). It’s a seven song affair, called Mount Wittenberg Orca, available as a download only, with profits going to the National Geographic Society’s Oceans Initiative, a campaign to establish international marine protected areas. The full story, including an explanatory letter from Dave is at Stereogum, whose Brandon Stosuy made it all happen. And five teaser clips for MWO are on the new Dirty Projectors YouTube channel.
Buy Mount Wittenberg Orca ($7)
Also this week, The Roots album How I Got Over, which features Amber, Haley and Angel performing on an interlude track, is streaming on the band’s MySpace, ahead of its release next week.
The third ever, first ever in Europe, Getty Address show takes place tomorrow at the Barbican, London, with Alarm Will Sound, then it’s on to the Glastonbury Festival for a slot on Sunday. For anyone in the UK, BBC2 and BBC3 are covering Glastonbury, so maybe there will be some DPs on tv this weekend.
Lastly, Dave has consented to a few more interviews in support of the groups current round of live dates…
T in the Park preview | Westword Music Showcase interview
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June 3rd, 2010
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.
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May 28th, 2010
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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May 26th, 2010
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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May 5th, 2010
- 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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