Brooklyn Vegan — Jimmy Cliff will be playing the first free Celebrate Brooklyn show at the Prospect Park Bandshell this summer. Dirty Projectors will play the first-announced pay show on July 10th. Tickets go on AmEx presale Wednesday at noon. General sale begins... more info

Stereogum — For Record Store Day (April 21), Domino and Ribbon will put out the multi-media Smugglers Way Flexi-Disc Zine, a release that combines a 24-page zine with five flexi discs of unreleased material by the likes of Real Estate, Dirty Projectors, Cass McC... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ava Luna are one of SPiN's favorite new bands of the moment, a beaming mix of ice-cool vintage '80s no wave grooves and extra-lush three-part girl group harmonies. Touch points include TV on the Radio, Dirty Projectors, and Yeasayer, but tha... more info

Impose Magazine — NNA Tapes earned our good favor long before Co La, Laurel Halo and Hubble. It's a trusted label in our circle. We're going to listen to this Ryan Power dude if NNA Tapes is handling the pressing and they are. The uneasiness comes from the mu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Rapture at CMJ 2011 (more by Bryan Bruchman) The American Museum of Natural History's One Step Beyond series, which just had Dirty Projectors last month, is continuing on February 17 at Rose Center with DJ sets by Prefuse 73... more info

Stereogum — Extra Life is a New York Band To Watch whose frontman, Charlie Looker, is an elementary school teacher with connections to Dirty Projectors, ZS, Mick Barr, Glenn Branca, and all sorts of other experimental-music heavyweights. They’ll soon release D... more info

Stereogum — Dirty Projectors capo Dave Longstreth’s been on the lam since his band’s triumphant Bitte Orca (and its Björk-bolstered sibling Mount Wittenberg Orca), spending time in more rustic locales quite literally shedding on a new record. We don’t kno... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Dirty Projectors at FFF Fest 2010 (more by Tim Griffin) The American Museum of Natural History's One Step Beyond series continues on Friday (1/20) in the Rose Center with a headlining DJ set by Dirty Projectors with support from DJ... more info

Stereogum — Last year, Dirty Projectors member Nat Baldwin released his solo album People Changes. Today, he gives us a truly great music video for the album track “Weights.” If I describe much of director Willy Berliner‘s video, I’ll give too much away.... more info

Impose Magazine — Matt Bauer may have one of the most chilling voices in folk. The simple yet entrancing new music video for "Flowering Deer", the closing track off The Jessamine County Book of Living (Crossbill), is haunting to say the least. The track features vocal... more info