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Dirty Projectors: Balancing Head And Heart

The experimental rock band based in New York draws on early vocal music, modern soul and other sources, defying categorization in the process. According to critic Will Hermes, the band's new album, Bitte Orca, is a breakthrough.

Dirty Projectors: Balancing Head And Heart

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Live in Concert

'Dark Was The Night' From Radio City Music Hall

In a year of great music, the Dark Was the Night compilation ranks near the top. Now comes Dark Was the Night: The Concert, a truly mammoth undertaking. Members of The National curated the May 3 event to benefit AIDS research with performances by David Byrne, The Dirty Projectors, Feist, Bon Iver, Sharon Jones and My Brightest Diamond.

'Dark Was The Night' From Radio City Music Hall

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Thursday

SXSW 2009: Dirty Projectors

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SXSW Music Festival

SXSW 2009: Dirty Projectors

David Longstreth, the visionary behind Dirty Projectors, has a knack for deconstructing music and then reassembling it with distinct guitar-and-vocal arrangements.

SXSW 2009: Dirty Projectors

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Bryant Park Project Video

BPP Jukebox: Dust Off the Dirty Projectors

We put a quarter in the BPP Jukebox, and out came this single from the Dirty Projectors, the band that reworked Black Flag's punk classic, Damaged.

BPP Jukebox: Dust Off the Dirty Projectors

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Song Of The Day

Remaking a Punk Classic from Memory

Dirty Projectors' songs mix controlled cacophony and catchy melody. Those extremes dominate the band's new Rise Above, on which it attempts to reconstruct and remake Black Flag's 1981 album Damaged.

'Rise Above' by The Dirty Projectors

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