From 17 Dots:
“Our drummer, Brian… R.I.P.” Thus spoke Dirty Projectors leader Dave Longstreth as he and his remaining two bandmates stood on chairs against one wall of a dark, sweaty, overcrowded storefront show the other night in Williamsburg. A stunned murmur went through the crowd – the excellent and affable drummer of the best new band in New York was no more. “He died?” the guy next to me said. “That’s horrible.” But Longstreth had meant M.I.A., not R.I.P. As the band’s bass player quickly clarified, “Ummm… He’s in Mexico.”
