- Dirty Projectors has signed with Ground Control Touring (GCT) for live music and touring representation across North and South America, with agency co-founder Jim Romeo leading the booking.
- The band's prior live representation in the territory was held by THE·TEAM; Dirty Projectors continues with 13 Artists for worldwide representation outside North and South America.
- The signing follows Dirty Projectors' 2025 album Song of the Earth on Nonesuch Records and a run of 2026 dates, including an April performance with the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
Dirty Projectors, the Brooklyn art-pop project led by David Longstreth, has signed with Ground Control Touring for live music and touring representation across North and South America. Agent and GCT co-founder Jim Romeo will handle the band’s bookings in the territory, taking over from THE·TEAM.
Formed in 2002, Dirty Projectors built their following on albums like Bitte Orca before returning to a full band lineup with vocalists Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, and returning member Olga Bell. Their most recent album, Song of the Earth, an orchestral song cycle, arrived on Nonesuch Records in April 2025.
The momentum carried into 2026 with an April performance alongside the Austin Symphony Orchestra, while Douglass released a solo remix of “Shifting Shalestones” benefiting the Earth Percent climate charity. Longstreth also composed the score for A24’s The Legend of Ochi.
Outside North and South America, Dirty Projectors continues with 13 Artists, the London-founded agency run by Charlie Myatt.
Romeo’s own GCT roster already includes Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel, Superchunk, and Belle & Sebastian, making Dirty Projectors a natural fit for the agency’s indie-rock bench.
GCT has kept up a steady 2026 signing pace, welcoming longtime client Miniature Tigers back into the fold, adding New Jersey artist James Ivy for the Americas, and most recently bringing on hyperpop artist Joey Cash for worldwide bookings outside Europe and the UK.
Dirty Projectors’ arrival adds another critically respected, decades-running act to that expanding roster.
Takeaways
This one reads as consolidation, not reinvention. GCT’s roster already leans heavily on left-of-center indie institutions, so a 23-year-old shape-shifting project like Dirty Projectors slots right in.
Handing the Americas to a boutique, relationship-driven agency rather than a mega-agency suggests the band’s team is prioritizing focus over scale, and Romeo’s existing ties to acts like Neutral Milk Hotel and Belle & Sebastian could open doors to complementary bills.
Could this signing point toward a fuller North American touring push after a relatively quiet 2025 release cycle? Does pairing Dirty Projectors with Romeo’s veteran indie-rock clients hint at potential co-bills or festival slots?
