L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The band: Body Parts, an Echo Park solo project-turned-band. The sound: The band plays a wildly melodic brand of indie rock indebted to cerebral dance music makers such as Talking Heads and Dirty Projectors. Founder Ryder Bach’s voice is a... more info

Nialler9 — While we wait for Major Lazer to drop this lush-sounding Dirty Projectors’ Amber Coffman collaboration, this track from Elliphant, a Stockholm lady signed to the same publishing and production company Ten as Niki & The Dove and Icona Pop. Rather â€... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Purity Ring @ SXSW 2012 (photo by SRGN) Purity Ring, currently finishing a post-SXSW tour with Neon Indian in NC tonight, will open for Dirty Projectors at Celebrate Brooklyn on 7/10, as with Wye Oak. Tickets are still on sale.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — John Stanier w/ Battles at Treasure Island Music Fest 2011 (more by Autumn Andel) First it was Dirty Projectors, then The Rapture and Prefuse 73, and on March 16, the One Step Beyond series at American Museum of Natural History's... more info

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