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(via)Dirty Projectors‘ 2005 album, “The Getty Address,” is far more a contemporary chamber opera than indie-rock. It uses woodwinds, brass, strings and orchestral percussion; its music has dissonances and complexities galore, and only fitfully settles into a steady beat…

McKay first discovered Doris Day in high school while attending a protest at the National Aquarium in Baltimore (she remains an ardent animal-rights activist)…

Back in 2005, an earlier iteration of the Dirty Projectors released their concept album , which Pitchfork’s Jason Crock called “a modern opera about post-9/11 America, the destruction of our natural wilderness, the confrontation between Hernan Cortes and the Aztecs in the early 16th century, and a protagonist named after Don Henley…

“St Vincent brought out David freaking Byrne!!” – Kari For the second week in a row, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) performed together at a NYC show…

As those keeping count already know, Dirty Projectors played four NYC shows in November with Tune-Yards. Two were at Bowery Ballroom. Two were at Music Hall of Williamsburg…

Black Cobra @ The Charleston on November 18th (more by Chloe Rice) tonight in NYC * Hannibul Buress @ Pianos * Whiplash @ UCB Theatre * Darmstadt: In C @ Galapagos * Sloan, Magenta Lane @ Maxwell’s * Rev…

Lincoln Center‘s acclaimed series American Songbook returns in January for its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song…

Coleman calls his approach harmolodics: “a theory, not a style.” But it’s not even a theory, really, it’s more of a philosophy, emphasizing equality of voices, freedom, spontaneity and participation — not just for the musicians, for the audience, too…

Both the Chatham piece and Liquid Liquid were just perfect. (And a nice contrast btw LL’s ‘less-is-more’ and Chatham’s ‘more-is-more’ respective approaches…

Liquid Liquid Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars For club-music mavens, the return of New York’s seminal breakbeat artistes Liquid Liquid is a reminder that in the beginning freestyle dancers romped and stomped to the rhythms of percussionists…