THURSDAY, JUNE 18
There are some whose ambition cannot be contained even in
the broad, liberal confines of Ivy League schools. Bill Gates is the classic
example. Then there’s Dave Longstreth, the virtuosic frontman of the
Brooklyn-based avant-rock outfit Dirty Projectors. Since
dropping out of Yale, he’s forged a music career so successful that icons like
David Byrne have been happy to collaborate with him. Most recently, the band
played an intimate fundraiser in New York headlined by Bjork, who performed
songs Longstreth wrote for her. He has a knack for taking hardcore punk riffs,
distilling them down to their melodic essence, and building from there with
everything from West African picking pattern
