Brooklyn Vegan — As mentioned, Penelope Spheeris' essential, long-out-of-print Decline of Western Civilization documentary trilogy is finally getting a DVD/Blu-ray release on June 30. The first one (the punk one) is also screening as part of BAMcinemaFest on June 19 ... more info

Stereogum — A month before Bitte Orca came out back in 2009, Dirty Projectors’ then bassist/vocalist Angel Deradoorian released her fantastic debut EP Mind Raft, which proceeded to get swept up in that album’s magnetic pull. It was both a gift and a curse: I... more info

Stereogum — Dirty Projectors ringleader Dave Longstreth has been pretty quiet for the past few years — though he did co-write “FourFiveSeconds,” of course — but he recently composed a piece of classical music for Le Poisson Rogue’s Ensemble LPR. His fo... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Dirty Projectors in Chicago in 2013 (more by Stan Golovchunk) André de Ridder of Berlin collective Stargaze will be conducting Ensemble LPR at their homebase, LPR aka Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday (3/11) for the premieres of two new... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Low City is the project of producer Abe Seiferth (who did the last Yeasayer record and is in Tippy Toes) and composer Jeremy Turner (who's worked with yMusic and others). The project also features guest performances from... more info

Stereogum — Tomboy is the musical moniker of NYC residents Sarah Aument and Will Shore, longtime friends who finally joined forces last year. The duo’s spacious electro-pop references everything from Björk to Chairlift to Dirty Projectors to Purity Ring. “M... more info

Stereogum — The Leeds Band To Watch Adult Jazz specialize in a way-out art-pop sprawl, like Dirty Projectors if they were even less tethered to earth, or like Talk Talk if they’d spent some time on the warehouse weird-pop DIY circuit. The nine songs of the ban... more info

Stereogum — Midnight Masses is the side project of Autry Fulbright and Jason Reece of … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead who will put their new album Departures out this month. Now you can watch the video for “Broken Mirror” a duet between Fulbrig... more info

Stereogum — Eliot Krimsky and Michael Johnson have been making music as Glass Ghost since the late 2000s, but they’ve slowed down lately for understandable reasons. Johnson is the drummer for Dirty Projectors these days, and Krimsky spends most of his time wor... more info

NME — Dirty Projectors member among "revolving door" of musicians working with US band more info