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SXSW Diary: Solange & Kendrick Lamar Start The Party, Foxes & St. Lucia Take It To The Wee Hours

Sat, March 16 2013 11:54pm - Source: Idolator

My blood, it's officially more pork than plasma.

Dirty Projectors Release New Song "There's a Fire"

Fri, March 01 2013 11:43pm - Source: ArtistDirect

The Dirty Projectors have shared a new song called "There's a Fire." Blazing! 4/19: Portsmouth Singer-Songwriter Festival - The Music Hall 5/10: 5/17-5/19: Hangout Festival 5/24-5/27: 6/6: Columbia MD: 6/7: 6/8-6/9: 6/10: 6/11: 6/12: Beachland Ballroom 6/13:

Dirty Projectors Cover Usher's 'Climax -- Video

Fri, January 25 2013 5:09pm - Source: Spinner

The Dirty Projectors constantly outdo themselves.

Marc Ruxin: The Best Tunage 2012

Tue, January 22 2013 9:49pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

This year, building a music discovery platform called TastemakerX, I was looking harder than usual at new music.

2012 Top Ten List Spotlight: DJ El Toro

Fri, December 14 2012 6:46pm - Source: KEXP 90.3 Blog

For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown , as voted on by our listeners!

Major Lazer

Sun, December 09 2012 2:59am - Source: unpiano: music

This new Major Lazer track (off the new album Free The Universe ) is killing me right now.

Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Solange, Miguel and Dawn Richard: The new talents pushing the limits of R’n’B

Sat, December 08 2012 12:38am - Source: The Independent - Music

His rise to prominence began with a mixtape (February 2011's Nostalgia, Ultra) that leant heavily on its alternative music samples of MGMT and Radiohead, conjuring up an utterly unique sonic and lyrical world in the process.

KINGBLIND TOP 15 ALBUMS OF 2012 (#10-6) (PART 2 OF 3)

Wed, December 05 2012 9:01am - Source: kingblind

Here is what you have all been waiting for.

Local Natives – Breakers

Tue, November 27 2012 6:18pm - Source: All Things Go

L.A. four-piece Local Natives are back with new music after extensive touring in support of their excellent 2010 debut, Gorilla Manor.

AlunaGeorge – Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London 22/11/12

Tue, November 27 2012 11:10am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Watching AlunaGeorge , the London-based duo made up of Aluna Francis and George Reid, play live to a sold-out crowd at the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen is like watching a 40-minute long TLC music video.

NEWS: Dirty Projectors Play 'Letterman,' Bikini Kill's History & More

Thu, November 15 2012 9:46pm - Source: Spinner

Led Zeppelin 's concert film "Celebration Day" is all about the band's last reunion show back in 2007.

Iceland Airwaves 2012

Wed, November 07 2012 6:08pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

After Superstorm Sandy caused chaos in north America, he travelled north, hitting Iceland on Friday 2 November, the middle of the five-day Airwaves music festival.

Dirty Projectors – The Roundhouse, London 17/10/12

Wed, October 24 2012 10:26am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

2012 has seen the Dirty Projectors become an increasingly approachable band.

Reyka Vodka Brings Blouse to Iceland Airwaves

Thu, October 04 2012 7:23pm - Source: Death + Taxes

Blouse emerged from the Portland music scene last September with their self-titled debut, a dreamy pop-romp laden with synth hooks and effervescent vocals.

Brooklyn Songwriter Will Stratton Battles Unexpected Cancer at 25

Thu, October 04 2012 5:12pm - Source: Spinner

The second time I interviewed Will Stratton , I sat next to his hospital bed while he received chemotherapy through IVs.

Review: David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant

Wed, September 12 2012 6:45pm - Source: Pretty Much Amazing

For fresh, upcoming experimental rock artists, a David Byrne collaboration is the holy grail of musical success.

Dirty Projectors' 'Hi Custodian' Inspired by 'Die Hard,' Says Dave Longstreth

Fri, September 07 2012 6:42pm - Source: Spinner

Short-shorted hip kids stood anxiously in line outside New York City's Landmark Sunshine Theater, humming the asymmetrical melodies of the Dirty Projectors.

Dirty Projectors – Dance For You

Fri, August 24 2012 1:28pm - Source: One A Day

Dirty Projectors are a band that might be more famous for things other than their own music but 'Dance For You', the first single from their seventh studio album since frontman David Longstreth started the enterprise as a freshman at Yale, proves that there is more to the Brooklyn outfit than the peripheral material which, until a few weeks ago, made up the preponderance of my knowledge about the band.

TVD Ticket Giveaway: Dirty Projectors at the 9:30 Club, 8/18

Wed, August 15 2012 9:07pm - Source: The Vinyl District

The Dirty Projectors are in high-demand here in the nation's capital.

TVD’s 9:30 Club August Concert Preview

Tue, August 07 2012 10:13pm - Source: The Vinyl District

It's August, summer is entering its homestretch, and it's only a matter of time until the fall season is upon us.

Progress Report: Purity Ring

Wed, July 25 2012 3:47pm - Source: Stereogum

Corin Roddick discusses success, Shrines , and the perils of building your own instruments.

Shorties (Elton John's New Memoir, Toni Morrison, and more)

Tue, July 17 2012 2:34pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

The National Post profiles author Sheila Heti and her new book, How Should a Person Be?.

Dirty Projector's Amber Coffman Talks 'Swing Lo Magellan' and How Bjork Likes to Party

Sat, July 14 2012 3:03pm - Source: Spinner

The Brooklyn band's latest record, Swing Lo Magellan, is just as fun as their breakout hit, Bitte Orca , but with a few key differences.

Michael Azerrad

Tue, July 10 2012 11:14pm - Source: Under The Radar Magazine

The book took on an unexpectedly morose relevance in the annals of rock bios after Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994, but is still a superb read, and the tapes Azerrad culled for the book are chronicled on AJ Schnack's 2006 film About a Son , which couples the pairs' conversations with stark, impressionistic imagery of sights endemic to Cobain's life, which unravelled like sepia snapshots of Seattle, Olympia, and Aberdeen.

Review: Arc In Round | Arc In Round

Fri, June 22 2012 2:36am - Source: clicky clicky music blog

Philadelphia-based Arc In Round 's forthcoming full-length collection ensconces the progressive dream pop heroes within the pantheon of top-tier, contemporary shoegaze acts while further illuminating aspects of its craft.

Popping Up: POP ETC

Wed, June 13 2012 1:02pm - Source: Idolator

Popping Up is our recurring look at new artists making noise on the music landscape.

NXNE 2012 Best Bets: Flaming Lips, Rich Kidd, Black Belles, Purity Ring, Raekwon

Mon, June 11 2012 7:48pm - Source: Spinner

By now you've probably heard about Spinner AOL's big free NXNE party featuring a headlining set by the Flaming Lips at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto.

Reptar Talk "Body Faucet"

Tue, May 29 2012 3:05pm - Source: ArtistDirect

"We didn't want to make a boring record," declares Reptar drummer Andrew McFarland.

Everest – On Approach (2010)

Sun, April 08 2012 12:18pm - Source: Something Else!

Over that past few decades, the consolidation of radio and record label ownership has had an "interesting" effect on record releases — they have become quite a bit more homogeneous , much like the companies that help to produce them.

Ava Luna: Ice Level

Thu, March 22 2012 5:36am - Source: Pitchfork Media

On the first couple passes, Ava Luna 's Ice Level seems an almost impenetrable mess, charting a dizzying course between the itchy art-funk of the Dismemberment Plan , Tim-and-Aaliyah's future-perfect R&B, Dirty Projectors ' forays into slip-sliding harmonics, and a generous helping of funky old soul.

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