To mark the occasion of Ronen Givony’s new book, Us v. Them: The Age of Indie Music and a Decade in New York (2004-2014), Roulette presents a two-night event highlighting the Brooklyn music scene and DIY community of the early aughts.
Night one celebrates the DIY venue Silent Barn with performances by David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors), Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux), Mal Devisa, Mutual Benefit, and the Wordless Music String Quartet, preceded by a short discussion and reading from Us v. Them (panelists to be announced).
Presented by Wordless Music and BrooklynVegan.
Choose the ticket level that feels right for you. All proceeds from the evening support Roulette’s programs and mission to present and preserve extraordinary experimental music, movement, and media—and above all, support artists.
$35 — General Admission
$65 — General Admission + 2 drink tickets
$95 — General Admission + 2 drink tickets
This is a special benefit to support Roulette. Member and Patron benefits do not apply—thank you for your support!
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
David Longstreth Since 2002, when David Longstreth began self-releasing critically-acclaimed albums from his college dorm, DIRTY PROJECTORS has grown to be one of the most innovative bands in indie rock, pushing sonic boundaries and blazing unexpected paths. Dirty Projectors’ list of collaborators include Bjork and David Byrne, and Longstreth has co-written/produced with Solange, Bombino, and Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney on the worldwide hit “FourFiveSeconds.” The band has played at most of the major music festivals in the world, and countless venues, big and small. The most recent album, Song of the Earth (2025) was recorded by Dirty Projectors with the chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e. The Los Angeles Philharmonic performed the piece’s US premiere in a sold out show at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2024. Longstreth scored two Hollywood films in 2025 — the orchestral score for The Legend of Ochi, and a piano score for Love Me. Longstreth is currently at work on two Dirty Projectors albums and scores for percussion quartet and chamber orchestra.
Haley Fohr is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her fifteen-year career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. She is most distinctly identified by her 4-octave voice and unique style of 12-string guitar. Her recent works include an original soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s silent film Salomé (1923), commissioned by Opera North, her critically acclaimed 2021 album -io, and two LPs under the mysterious moniker of Jackie Lynn.
Mal Devisa is the songwriting, liberation, and poetry project of multifarious artist Deja Carr. Starting in 2014 and breaking through with 2016’s Kiid, Mal Devisa’s work spans a self-made spectrum of sound from gravitic, soulful rock to soliloquy to unabashed hip hop. Although known for her unmistakable, smoldering voice and loop-based, bass-forward compositions, Carr’s talents also extend to reaches of spoken word and production, paralleled by aspirations to start both a youth foundation and Afrobeat orchestra. Such boundless inspiration is a central facet of Mal Devisa’s work, whose sonically and narratively unrestrained passages teem with empathy and liberatory visions for a better world.
Mutual Benefit is the adventurous chamber folk project of Brooklyn bandleader Jordan Lee. For fifteen years, his lush songwriting has been grounded in the zen-like combination of simplicity and depth and animated by a deeply collaborative spirit. As a writer for The New Yorker heard it, “Bells and flutes and strings blend with basic rock instruments; vocal arrangements pulse and flow, and the result shimmies beyond the fence of the familiar.”
Wordless…
