Music Review: Dirty Projectors’ 'Swing Lo Magellan' | Seven Actors Who Were Nearly in a Spider-Man Film | Spoek Mathambo

7/10/12   Movies | TV | Music | Video | Books | Theater | Art Trent Reznor Composing Call of Duty Theme Song He loves multiplayer. Music Review: Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan Is Radical in Its Simplicity The band's latest ranks among the most straightforwardly beautiful albums of the year so far. Cillian Murphy on Red Lights, Psychic Powers, and His Rumored Dark Knight Rises Cameo He won't confirm or deny it. Run-D.M.C. to Reunite in Austin Congrats, people of Texas. Noah Baumbach Didn’t Finish Corrections Pilot Oh, well. Stream the Dark Knight Rises Soundtrack Where are you when we need you, Seal? ADVERTISEMENT Start at nymag.com. News, Politics, Entertainment, Food, Fashion, and more. Our homepage is only the beginning. Start here and discover the depth of our coverage. Babies and Runaways: New Music From M.I.A., the Killers, Nas Oooh, it's the Kelis song. Katie Holmes Gets 'Primary Custody’ of Suri [UPDATE] Says the AP. Compare Harry Potter Books vs. Movies Alan Rickman FTW. Kanye Makes His Awkward Keeping Up With the Kardashians Debut Kimye hits E! Theater Reviews: Alan Cumming Talks to Himself; Tom Murphy Speaks to Us We watch this Macbeth with deep interest, with great admiration, but not with much concern. Seven Actors Who Were Nearly in a Spider-Man Film Each of the following actors came this close to starring in their own installment of the web-slinging series. Frank Ocean Played Fallon Last Night, Too And it was great. Savages Author Don Winslow on Getting Confused for a Porn Writer and Working With Oliver Stone "I know [he] called me strange in the New York Times ... Just arbitrarily." Billy Campbell Cast As Bill O’Reilly’s Lincoln We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this TV movie. Last Night on Late Night: Rose Byrne, Jimmy Fallon Spoofed a Cheesy Lawyer Commercial Plus: Tom Waits took absurdly cool pleasure in showing off his new, grisly medieval rat trap, and more, on our daily late-night roundup. Green Day Will Accompany Triple-Album With Two Documentaries Busy dudes. Tony Hale Joins Paul Feig’s New Comedy Buster Bluth and the Bridesmaids director. You Can Buy Frank Ocean’s Debut Album Now, a Week Early Channel Orange just showed up on iTunes. Chris Cooper Eyeing August: Osage County Great news. Janis Joplin Biopic Lands Its Director and Star Venus in Fur's Nina Arianda and Martha Marcy May Marlene's Sean Durkin. ADVERTISEMENT   Spoek Mathambo South Africa’s Spoek (''Ghost'') Mathambo comes from that mixed-up multi-hyphenate place-- I think it’s called ''Earth''-- where the buzzing circuitry of dance music and hip-hop constitutes a kind of sonic lingua franca, and a container for any mind-set, dialect, or musical tradition you like. His cerebral approach to music-making only stirs the pot further: Singles like '''Put Some Red on It'' match corroded technology and ghostly vocalizing with a deep, earthy pull. MORE TODAY: nightlife  Dirty Projectors art  Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective reading  John Dramani Mahama Find: Movie Tickets & Showtimes » Events by Date » Theater Reviews & Tickets » Concert Listings » Gallery Listings » Museum Schedules » Free Events » More nymag.com newsletters: Daily Intel Digest » Grub Street Digest » Fashion Alert » Shop-A-Matic » New York Travels » Sign up now » Subscribe to New York

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