After experimenting with three formats for the Monthly Mix - MP3 zip, Spotify playlist, Soundcloud set, etc. - in March we finally came upon a solution that pleased everyone: all of them. And so, for you, here is the month's music, whittled down to its very best, via each of the aforementioned mediums, limited only by its availability on said mediums. This means a 13-track zip, a 12-track Spotify playlist, and a whopping 54-track Soundcloud stream. And somehow, falling through all the cracks and not represented on any is one of the month's finest: The National's straight-to-Youtube " [...]
Snoop Lion recently released Reincarnated , the first album under his new animal moniker, solidifying that, yes indeed, the name is here to stay . "No Regrets" is one of the LP's bonus cuts and features T.I. and The Dirty Projectors ' own Amber Coffman . Produced by Major Lazer and Ariel Rechstaid, the jam's got a slow and simmering bounce. Listen to it below.
Luego de su presentación en Buenos Aires , Diplo se subió, junto a Jillionaire, al escenario de Late Night With Jimmy Fallon con Amber Coffman de Dirty Projectors, the Roots y Dave Longstreth para interpretar Get Free . Mirá este explosivo show, acá. Major Lazer estuvo en la Argentina el pasado 5 de abril en el Planetario. Asímismo, el productor del sello Mad Decent realizó un DJ set el mismo día a la medianoche en MSTRPLN. [...]
So Major Lazer this week release Free the Universe for widespread consumption, and today thus becomes a monumental day; a special event, and one which would surely be honoured with a polychromic carnival of Notting Hill depravity were it only that bit more engrossing, even from the off. For it has been postponed, put off and pushed from pillar to post (read: label to label) since it was first slated for liberation earlier on in the year. Of course it somewhat inevitably marks a change in the trajectory first traced by Diplo in the [...]
You know when you hit saturation point with that one song? You've heard it so many fucking times over – you know its every lyric and every intricate inflexion thereof; you can reproduce its slick lick round the back of your brain; know, and so too fear the exact second it'll end. That is, or rather was where I was at with Get Free – I foolishly believed I could immaculately reproduce Amber Coffman's elastane vocal; redo her squiggly guitar part, and as such I needed something; anything to rejuvenate the adoration. And one might set about questioning how it [...]
Major Lazer, The Roots y Dirty Projectors en Jimmy Fallon Ayer por la noche, Diplo llevó su proyecto Major Lazer al programa Late Night with Jimmy Fallo n, donde interpretó " Get Free " junto a The Roots y Amber Coffman y Dave Longstreth de Dirty Projectors . Checa la repetición a continuación. El segundo disco de Major Lazer , Free the Universe , saldrá a la venta la próxima semana vía Secretly [...]
Major Lazer got a bit of a facelift last night when they performed on Fallon. While their crazy live show with butt-shaking, crowd-surfing antics is great, this was a serious "best foot forward" move. Diplo and the rest of Major Lazer recruited Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors to sing on "Get Free" with The Roots [...]
If you caught any of Major Lazer's frantic, fun-as-hell festival-rocking live shows over the last few years, you likely saw girls twerking on speaker-risers, Skerritt Bwoy performing death-defying feats of daggering, and Diplo perched behind his DJ table, looking vaguely bemused at the whole spectacle. But the Major Lazer that appeared last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was a very different beast. Diplo, all suited up, played keyboard on the slow, sultry reggae song " Get Free " while Dirty Projectors singer Amber Coffman cooed on the mic, her bandmate Dave Longstreth held down guitar duties, [...]
It's not every night that DJs go out of their way to perform live on television, but then again, Major Lazer isn't any ordinary brand of DJ. Last night, Diplo brought his production project to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon , where he performed "Get Free" alongside The Roots and Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman and Dave Longstreth. Tune in below. Major Lazer's sophomore album Free the Universe is out next week via Secretly Canadian.
While never quite my favourite from Dirty Projectors' Swing Lo Magellan – which conversely just so happened to feature right up there among our favourite LPs of 2012 – The Socialites proved an intriguing hypothesis on reticence from David Longstreth et al., not least as they at least superficially seem a rather asocial ensemble themselves. Here, Hot Chip kingpin Joe Goddard gives it a reinvigorating spin, and perhaps inevitably readies it for those more explicitly sociable sorts of scenario – grubby dance floors, grimy house parties and the like. Though as [...]
All the best things happen in SXSW. This is a life lesson we will all eventually learn. Above is some footage of Major Lazer and Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors performing "Get Free" live for the very first time. It's interesting to see Major Lazer channel a completely different energy on stage here alongside the demure Coffman, as most of their material is substantially more upbeat. Instead, everyone both on and off stage just mellow out to Coffman's soothing vocals. Check out the performance above.
Dirty Projectors stopped by Conan's last night. Still riding high on last year's well received Swing Lo Magellan , the band performed the album's opening song, "Offspring Are Blank" on "Conan". Did the gingery host enjoy the Dirty Projectors ' live [...]
While January has effectively lived up to its London billing as a month as drab musically as it is meteorologically, they're having a topsy-turvy time of it down under if recent triple j Like A Version sessions are anything to go by. First there was dear ol' Sharon doing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' People Ain't No Good , and now there's this: David Longstreth's Dirty Projectors reinterpreting Usher's heady, chart-glooping Climax. Still swinging high off 'Magellan by the sounds of it, he's joined on the track by the band's [...]
Oresti Tsonopoulos The lights darken, a door off to the left cracks open, out steps David Longstreth solo. He calmly walks to the front of the stage of Carnegie Hall and begins a rendition of "Swing Lo Magellan" alone with his guitar. As the nucleus for the living organism of a band called the Dirty Projectors , Longstreth starting the show alone onstage with the title track of their latest record was the perfect, understated move. Playing with melody and phrasing like a cat pawing yarn, his yearning voice seemed to both [...]
Après avoir découvert les titres Get Free en collaboration avec Amber Coffman et plus récemment Jah No Partial avec Flux Pavilion , le duo Major Lazer se décide enfin à nous dévoiler la tracklist complète de leur second album Free The Universe . On retrouve une foule de featuring parmi lesquelles on découvre des artistes que nous apprécions particulièrement comme GTA , Santigold , Ezra Koenig de Vampire Weekend , Laidback Luke et bien d'autres. Bien que retardé, la sortie a [...]
Major Lazer has reveal the album artwork (above) and tracklist (below) for its guest-heavy new album, Free the Universe . As previously reported , the album features Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend , Amber Coffman of The Dirty Projectors , Wyclef Jean , Bruno Mars , Tyga , Flux Pavilion , Shaggy, Winter Gordon, and Dev. After a minor delay , Free the Universe will be out February 19th on Mad Decent/Downtown Records. Along with the tracklist, check out the new video for the Pavilion-aided "Jah No Partial" , which includes shirtlessness and [...]
Love for the Dirty Projectors isn’t about to die anytime soon. Domino, 2012 7.8 / 10.0 After releasing arguably their best album, Bitte Orca , in 2009, Dirty Projectors had some big expectations to live up to on Swing Lo Magellan. Fortunately, the band didn’t [...]
Featuring vocals by Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors and volumes of footage from Jamaica, Major Lazer 's video for "Get Free" was directed by So Me, who's also responsible for very artistically different (from this) video for Kanye West's "Good Life." Check it out:
Filed under: News , Video YouTube The night was young. Short-shorted hip kids stood anxiously in line outside New York City's Landmark Sunshine Theater, humming the asymmetrical melodies of the Dirty Projectors . They were there to see the band's puppet master Dave Longstreth and the premiere of his first short film, "Hi Custodian" -- a bizarre musical flick that swims through surreal scenes about death in front of a California backdrop.
On this edition of Audiography, we feature reviews of albums by Animal Collective - Centipede Hz , their hotly anticipated follow-up to Merriweather Post Pavilion - as well as the debut full-length by Poor Moon , yet another Fleet Foxes side-project; and the return of Tom Tom Club with Downtown Rockers , their latest EP of potential nostalgia. We also feature a conversation with Amber Coffman, guitarist and vocalist for Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors . As the band readied [...]
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