The expanded version of Bitte Orca came out yesterday. The 2-CD package comes with a few bonuses, like unreleased acoustic tracks from their performance at Other Music, b-sides, and this cover of Bob Dylan’s “As I Went Out One Morning.” They’ve covered Dylan several times now, for Levi’s and live...

We listened to Dirty Projectors, Shins, and Passion Pit cover songs that inspired them for Levi’s Pioneer Sessions. In this edition, M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel tackle the much tackled Johnny Mercer and Rube Bloom pop standard “Fools Rush In.” Their take won’t supplant Sinatra or Ricky Nelson, but you can ...

As we reported in March, David Byrne and St. Vincent have been planning to work together since running into each other at the Björk/Dirty Projectors charity event our own Brandon Stosuy staged at Housing Works last spring. (It is the concert that keeps on giving.) As David tells it in a press release today, measuring [...]

Eddie Vedder just keeps on loving the ocean, even after it tried to swallow him whole. And right about now’s a good time for marine life to get a little love. Dirty Projectors and Björk have donated their Mount Wittenberg Orca, and over at pearljam.com/oceans, Pearl Jam’s laid out the many reasons and ways to [...]

Following up on last week’s announcement of a studio-recorded iteration of the unlikely collaboration between Dirty Projectors and Björk — initiated by DPs cover of “Hyperballad” for our tribute to Björk’s Post and brought to fruition by Brandon’s facilitating an unforgettable evening...