Dave Longstreth’s beard is gnarled and unkempt, the mark of a man who has forgone Western civilization to find himself in a backwoods cabin. It’s a misery beard in the lineage of all great misery ...

As the band’s primary creative force Dave Longstreth describes it, the new Dirty Projectors song “I Feel Energy” is a departure. It’s a song he’s wanted to make “for a long time, but it wasn’t until ...

Swing Lo Magellan is the Brooklyn band's most accessible work to date, even with a lead track translated into ancient Akkadian In April, the web page for the Egyptology department at Brown University, ...

The tranquil, blue surface of Song of the Earth lulls its listener into enjoying the album as an escapist jaunt into the natural world. Particularly for those listening within urban spaces – on trains ...

Thomas N. “Stretch” Longstreth, whose career teaching English and coaching at St. Paul’s School spanned more than four decades, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at an assisted-living facility ...

Björk and David Byrne are fans. Others hail him as 'inspirational'. Now Dave Longstreth and his band have made an album that lives up to the hype... Dave Longstreth has asked me to meet him in a ...

David Longstreth, the self-described musical “dictator” of the experimental rock group Dirty Projectors, was thinking back to the last show they did in support of the Brooklyn band’s sixth and, as of ...