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Tomorrow, Dirty Projectors release their outstanding, prematurely beloved new LP Swing Lo Magellan . Tonight, the band performs a release show at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, and streams it live to YouTube at 10PM EST. And right now, we're presenting the transcript of a conversation I had with principal Projector David Longstreth in Greenpoint a few weeks back. We talked about Swing Lo and its process and particulars of course, but it's most triumphant moments are when we deviate from the press-junket parlance and go in on chillwave, Pharoah Sanders, Instagram, the beauty [...]

Stereogum Tomorrow, Dirty Projectors release their outstanding, prematurely beloved new LP Swing Lo Magellan . Tonight, the band performs a release show at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, and streams it live to YouTube at 10PM EST. And right now, we're presenting the transcript of a conversation I had with principal Projector David Longstreth in Greenpoint a few weeks back. We talked about Swing Lo and its process and particulars of course, but it's most triumphant moments are when we deviate from [...]

Dirty Projectors' Swing Lo Magellan is officially released next week, though the band's streaming the record in its entirety, right now, over at NYTimes . This is great news. Open a tab, press play, let's discuss. For those who've been following along, this is one of the year's most anticipated records. For those new to the conversation, there's never been a better time to join. Swing Lo is the first full-length in three years from a band that prides itself on shifting conceits between albums. We left off in 2009 with [...]

Stereogum Dirty Projectors' Swing Lo Magellan is officially released next week, though the band's streaming the record in its entirety, right now, over at NYTimes . This is great news. Open a tab, press play, let's discuss. For those who've been following along, this is one of the year's most anticipated records. For those new to the conversation, there's never been a better time to join. Swing Lo is the first full-length in three years from a band that [...]

On Friday, just as the weekend was getting set to jump off, Dirty Projectors left us with their surprisingly smooth new single " Gun Has No Trigger ." And today, the band announces all the details behind the album that'll accompany it. This one, the follow-up to 20092s great Bitte Orca , is called Swing Lo Magellan , and it's coming 7/10 in America and a day earlier in the rest of the world, via Domino . Leader Dave Longstreth, in a press release, calls it "an album of songs, an [...]

Well, the full-length followup to 20092s best album is imminent, as indicated by a fresh new Soundcloud upload by Domino Records. "Gun Has No Trigger" is the name of the first single from Dirty Projectors' new LP, and rather than take a moment to digest it we're going to point you to it ASAP so we can all consume together. Like a family. Hear it at dirtyprojectors.net or Soundcloud . Hails.

It's ten years since Michael Azerrad first published his defining DIY '80s scene portrait Our Band Could Be Your Life , which covered an independent music culture that changed irrevocably a decade before that with the release of Nevermind . Round anniversaries make apt opportunities for retrospectives, and in the case of Our Band , this year has been a sort of meta-reflection: between a panel at SXSW, and last night's show at Bowery Ballroom, 2011 has seen a few organized moments of the present "indie" culture celebrating and reflecting on how the blueprint Michael [...]