Over the weekend, the National-curated festival Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (named after the Walt Whitman poem) took place at the borough’s sprawling venue BAM. Performers included the Roots, Solange, David Lonstreth of Dirty Projectors, Parquet Courts, and many others. We sent Daniel Topete to shoot Here We Go Magic, Phosphorescent, and S...

If you caught any of Major Lazer’s frantic, fun-as-hell festival-rocking live shows over the last few years, you likely saw girls twerking on speaker-risers, Skerritt Bwoy performing death-defying feats of daggering, and Diplo perched behind his DJ table, looking vaguely bemused at the whole spectacle. But the Major Lazer that appeared...

For a new 12″ single, Dirty Projectors have lined up a pretty great cast of producers to remix the Swing Lo Magellan track “The Socialites.” AlunaGeorge and FaltyDL have both contributed remixes, as has Hot Chip co-leader Joe Goddard. Goddard’s take on the track is a fluid, rippling thing, exactly what you...

Boston Calling is a brand-new music festival that will hold its first installment in Boston’s City Hall Plaza 5/25-26, and it’s got a lineup that leans heavily toward accessible, middle-of-the-road indie and alt-rock. The National will co-headline alongside the suddenly omnipresent Fun., and the lineup also features the Shins...

Last month, Dirty Projectors played Carnegie Hall, and you want to make sure you’ve got something special for the merch table when you do a thing like that. So for the occasion, the band made a special 7″ single version of the excellent Swing Lo Magellan opener “Offspring Are Blank,” limiting it to 250 han...