Bjork, Dirty Projectors Play Benefit Show in NYC (Spin.com)
24 May
M.I.A., David Byrne, and more attend the two musicians’ experimental collaboration in a bookstore. SPIN’s Charles Aaron explains.
And with good reason. Last Friday’s intimate benefit show at Housing Works bookstore in New York’s Soho neighborhood was an acoustically nuanced, elaborately voiced performance by the Brooklyn-based indie-rock theoreticians Dirty Projectors featuring pop’s most likable experimentalist, Bjork. And everyone — most of all the patrons who paid $100-$400 a ticket — wanted to hear every carefully composed strum and croon and otherworldly hocket. So they shooshed. (…)
Meanwhile, the increasingly lubricated crowd was warming to the task of spotting musical “celebrities” amongst the crowd of 300 — M.I.A., David Byrne, St. Vincent, Evanescence singer Amy Lee, members of Vampire Weekend and the National. All right, so it wasn’t an Us Weekly field day, but still, a lively turnout, which reportedly raised upwards of $40,000 for Housing Works’ efforts to assist homeless, HIV-positive New Yorkers (read more..). More from this event: HousingWorks.org Huge thanks to EvanescenceVille for this find!
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