Last night, Dirty Projectors brought their endlessly tricky chamber-pop to the stage at the Late Show With David Letterman, playing the Swing Lo Magellan single “About To Die” while the classical combo yMusic backed them up. Their intricate, virtuosic live show is, as always, deeply impressive, and I’m pretty sure L...

Here’s another cut from Dirty Projectors’ forthcoming About To Die EP, a spare, swirling orchestra-accented cut called “While You’re Here.” Dave Longstreth takes the lead here and earlier today provided a dedication on Twitter. Hear it below. Hey, here’s a song I wrote on the day of Ger...

Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that you have not yet carved out the 20 minutes necessary to watch Hi Custodian, the massive and ambitious mini-movie that Dave Longstreth directed, which stitches together much of the new Dirty Projectors album Swing Lo Magellan. You will be pleased to learn, then, that the new [...]

Earlier this summer, Dirty Projectors announced the existence of their Hi Custodian short film project, a 20-minute, Dave Longstreth-directed clip that’s basically the Dirty Projectors’ “Runaway.” The entire group stars, and the aesthetic is definitely a blown-out extension of the “Gun Has No Tri...

Philadelphia’s inaugural Made In America festival took place over the weekend, touting an eclectic Jay-Z-curated lineup of Pearl Jam, Skrillex, a reunited Run-D.M.C., D’Angelo, Dirty Projectors, Santigold, Drake and many more. While there was potential for disaster — a Philly-native friend told me that this was the ...