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Dirty Projectors played New Years (After the Jump) & NPR
Dirty Projectors @ Knitting Factory, NYC - New Years Eve, 2007/8 (CRED)
BV contributor Nick Masi was there, and he sent me this quick review:
They were great, of course. It was cool seeing them at Knitting Factory and Longstreth seemed to be in the best spirits I have ever seen him. They went on around 11:40 and played til about 12:20! That was the worst part of the show. I was kind of shocked. Especially because they didn't play "Rise Above." They missed the countdown, like everyone always does, but they made up for it. They stopped "Gimme Gimme Gimme" to do the countdown, and then went right into "New Attitude" to start 2008!More pics and video @ Stereogum.
Dirty Projectors were also recently featured on NPR where the comments indicate they are as controversial there, as they are around here.
Posted on January 3, 2008 4:09 PM
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that's it? 40 minutes? haha. and I love Dirty Projectors, but that seems a bit scant, for a NYE show.
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 4:19 PM
40 minutes?! That sucks. Even though I like them, that is just piss.
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 4:23 PM
Rise Above, Gimmie Gimmie, Gimmie? are they a black flag cover band?
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 4:46 PM
I must confess, I indulged a little too heavily that night (resulting in Tuesday afternoon's rerun). I kept shouting for "China Cat Sunflower" and dancing like it was the summer of '73 all over again! I know its the perfect song for these guys, but I'll let them come to it on their own. Thanks Allison, for bringing these guys into the studio. I owe you one, bitch!
Posted by Terry Gross | January 3, 2008 4:54 PM
"Rise Above, Gimmie Gimmie, Gimmie? are they a black flag cover band?"
for real? why don't you just go ahead and ask why the singer for deerhunter is so skinny.
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 4:54 PM
to answer anon 4:46 non-sarcastically, I believe their most recent album Rise Above was a track-for-track re-imagining of Black Flag's Damaged. not everyone knows who the Dirty Projectors are anon 4:54.
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 5:07 PM
Rise Above, Gimmie Gimmie, Gimmie? are they a black flag cover band?
hahahaha
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 6:31 PM
40 minutes and no encore is kind of underwhelming since my last nye show experience was flaming lips throwing thousands of gigantic balloons at me and wilco covering judas priest, but DP were pretty good nonetheless.
care bears on fire were entertaining while drunk, but thinking back its pretty pathetic that a gimmicky band like that gets a shot at such an audience while more talented older bands with non-rich parents don't. that whole "kid rock" scene is so ridiculous; it's like soccer-parents but for music. how punk.
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 7:54 PM
My New Year's resolution is to be more vehement in my out of hand dismissal of any rock band featured on NPR. I remember hearing about that black flag "re-imaginging" on NPR and quickly turning off the radio before the very idea turned me psychotic with rage. Pretentious. Damaged is the most over-rated punk album of all time. Rollins isn't even one of the top three Black Flag singers and basically any song he touched turned to shit (that's why they called the album Damaged. He fucked up the classics.) Now Joanna Newsom interpreting "No Values" or even "Nervous Breakdown," that I could almost tolerate.
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 10:06 PM
only ten posts on this dirty projectors thread? what happened to all the rage and vitriol
I was really looking forward to reading another 100 comments here
Posted by Anonymous | January 4, 2008 10:12 AM