Dirty Projectors live in concert.
ON TOUR

Dirty Projectors

96
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

80
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Critic Consensus

Based on 96 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Dirty Projectors is rated as a remarkable live performer, with worthwhile shows overall. Dirty Projectors concert reviews describe live shows and performances as playful, polished, amazing, rhythmic, noisy, consistent, and eccentric.

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Latest Release

On And Ever Onward (Live From Housing Works 2009) (18 April 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Brooklyn, United States (2002 - present)
Bio
Dirty Projectors are an experimental pop group led by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dave Longstreth which formed in 2002 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Has Performed With
Deerhunter, yMusic, Wye Oak

Critic Concert Reviews

Exclaim (Canada)

July 29, 2019
90
%
To be honest, while I have always appreciated them technically, even their most lauded studio recordings have never really hit home with me, but seeing them perform live put their catalogue in a whole new context. They don't need to rely on studio trickery.

Spectrum Culture (USA)

July 21, 2019
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There was a time when a double bill of Brooklyn pop weirdos Dirty Projectors and Atlanta dream-pop shredders Deerhunter would pack a building twice the size of the 1,400-capacity Roseland.

Berkeley B-Side (USA)

November 9, 2018
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Longstreth's newest formation of the Dirty Projectors still puts on a good show

Pass The Aux (USA)

November 8, 2018
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Dirty Projectors take minds off midterms at Zebulon

musicOMH (UK)

August 25, 2018
90
%
Or at least it is in this underground corner of Shoreditch, in this near-capacity, windowless Victorian coalstore.

The Skinny (UK)

August 20, 2018
100
%
David Longstreth and his current six-piece ensemble emanate a sense of pure joy tonight – this may be the best version of Dirty Projectors yet

Spectrum Culture (USA)

June 24, 2018
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I was introduced to Dirty Projectors through their 2005 album The Getty Address, a bizarre glitch opera about Don Henley.

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