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James Murphy and Shut Up and Play the Hits Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem

Shut Up And Play The Hits And James Murphy's Legacy: A Friendly Chat

Nick Murray: So we're here today to talk about Shut Up and Play the Hits, the new film (out tomorrow and tomorrow only) that captures LCD Soundsystem's final concert and follows the band's frontman, the inimitable James Murphy, as he embarks on what his British, kind of corny manager might have at o ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem Pulls The Plug On Itself

Last night, I saw Shut Up And Play The Hits, a new doc in which we see LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy talking to a reporter about the group's dissolution in between filmed songs from their final concert. And why the breakup? Did someone cheat? Was a band member afraid that Scientology would harm t ... More >>

What Should James Murphy Call His New Store?

Sound Of The City associate Ryan Dombal has an interview with former (sigh) LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy over at Pitchfork. It's a good read, filled with all kinds of intriguing hints for what we can expect from the multi-hyphenated Murphy in the future.

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FDA Gets Into Gluten-Free; Food Is the New Rock

​New research suggests that babies develop their palates in the womb and that what a woman eats while pregnant could affect her child's tastes later in life. [NPR] The FDA will soon start to regulate gluten-free foods. Currently, a gluten-free label doesn't necessarily ensure that a product a ... More >>

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Live: James Murphy And Pat Mahoney Spin For James Franco And Other Beautiful People

​ Special Disco Version (James Murphy and Pat Mahoney) Museum of Modern Art Monday, May 23 Better than: Watching James Franco's "Actors Acting" clip over and over (and over and over) again. It wasn't too long ago that James Murphy said his goodbyes as the frontman of LCD Soundsystem. Accordi ... More >>

Live: LCD Soundsystem Say Goodbye, For Once and For All

Got three hours and 41 minutes? LCD Soundsystem, Liquid Liquid Saturday, April 2 Madison Square Garden Better Than: Seeing the Strokes there on Friday. Midway through the evocative "Someone Great," James Murphy wiped his cheek with his hand. Maybe he was crying. Or maybe he was sweating. It could ... More >>

The 10 Best Original Songs From 21st Century Films

Earlier today, the National released a video for the song "Think You Can Wait," from the "quirky" Paul Giamatti film Win Win. The video is a misguided combination of film dialogue transposed over a staged performance (the YouTube comments have already begun trashing it, and Matt Berninger's voice ... More >>

Live: Shit Robot Starts LCD Soundsystem's Dance Party on Night Three

photo by Rebecca SmeyneLCD Soundsystem in Baltimore, September 2010 Better Than: A really good laugh-cry. It's the third of LCD Soundsystem's final five shows, all leading up to the band's final hurrah at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, when we're almost positive that the stadium will spontaneo ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem Farewell Week: Frontline Reports from Terminal 5 Night Two

And the grand-goodbye continues. LCD Soundsystem played their second of five farewell shows, or their fourth-to-last show ever, last night at Terminal 5. Monday saw a Reggie Watts guest appearance, rude dudebros, and ultimate catharsis. Last night apparently featured a very similar set list and so ... More >>

Live: LCD Soundsystem Prepares Us For the End of the World at Terminal 5

Reggie and James LCD Soundsystem Terminal 5 Monday, March 28 Better than: The rest of those Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Thinks We are gathered here in New York City's Terminal 5 to say goodbye to one of the most impeccable music projects of our adult lives. ... More >>

Watch: Baths Covers LCD Soundsystem, Joins Tradition of "All My Friends" Reinterpretations

Baths cover LCD Soundsystem Let's face it: "All My Friends" is a nearly flawless song that could stand alone as the best track from LCD Soundsystem's three studio albums. That fact, however, has not stopped about a thousand different cover versions from hitting the internet, from professionals and ... More >>

The Great LCD Soundsystem Ticket Fiasco

James Murphy and StubHub face off as the band's MSG farewell sells out instantly

LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey Add Terminal 5 Dates

​Yes, the Great LCD Soundsystem Retirement Show debacle took another turn over the weekend: Given the profound likelihood that an appalling percentage of the tickets for their April 2nd Madison Square Garden gig are now in the hands of scalpers, the band has announced four Terminal 5 shows to ... More >>

Scalped LCD Soundsystem Tickets At Madison Square Garden Are Now Available For $1,500

You have no choice to admire the chutzpah of someone who'd hop on Stubhub and offer $1,500-a-shot tickets for a show that isn't even technically on sale yet. And yet here we are. Whether this is serious or performance art or what we couldn't rightly say, but let us politely suggest that you wait u ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem Will Play Their Last Show Ever at Madison Square Garden

​For our money: there have been few New York acts in the last decade as consistently exciting and rewarding as LCD Soundsystem. It was James Murphy who best chronicled the ecstatic rise and befuddling fall of the early aughts NYC creative class; and, with last year's This Is Happening, he help ... More >>

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LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy Is Doing a Surprise Halloween DJ Set Tonight at Le Bain

​One more addendum to our already overstuffed slate of Halloween-related nightlife insanity: the great James Murphy will be DJing tonight at the Standard Hotel's Le Bain, flanked by pals Rub-N-Tug and Gavin Russom's the Crystal Ark. For free. 10 p.m.-4 a.m., and wear a costume, of course. Flye ... More >>

Live: James Murphy DJs Hudson Hotel, Momentarily Pulling Us Away From the Lower East Side

You want the Go-Go's, James Murphy will play the Go-Go's. Pics by Puja, more below.​When you hear that James Murphy is DJing a Fashion Week party, you go. You just go. Noting that we had to be back downtown at midnight ("We'll just go for an hour, guys, it's James Murphy!"), we rallied our A t ... More >>

James Murphy Is DJing For Free at the Hudson Hotel Tonight

DFA Records have been curating Wednesday nights at the incongruously uptown Hudson Hotel since the end of August, but label boss James Murphy has been away, playing big deal European festivals with LCD Soundsystem. They go on tour again (with Sleigh Bells!) starting next week, but in the meantime, ... More >>

Download New Order's Set At Paradise Garage July 7, 1983

​Here, for your stultifying Friday-afternoon perusal, is an excellent ripped-straight-from-vinyl bootleg of New Order back in 1983, regaling the paste-eating American masses. (Seriously, soak in the anti-U.S.A. sentiment in this article about the tour, featuring lyrics changed to "How does it ... More >>

James Murphy Walking Back The No-More-LCD-Soundsystem-Albums Threat One Step At A Time

​So James Murphy has frequently intimated that this year's excellent This Is Happening would be the last LCD record, but this looks more and more to be Jay-Z style retirement: Having recently hinted at the potentially rejuvenating powers of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, Murphy is now flat-out tel ... More >>

This Weekend! LCD Soundsystem, Malaikat dan Singa, Fuck Buttons, Starscream, Truman Peyote, Beach Arabs, NY Eye & Ear Fest (w/ Blank Dogs and Effi Briest), Eric Copeland, And Previously On Lost

Since the weekend's LCD Soundsystem ticket shortage has us just as weepy and beat-crazed as Mr. James Murphy himself, we must seek eclectic alternatives: 1) Tuvan throat-singing via punk-rock ranters Malaikat dan Singa at Death by Audio; 2) the Beets, a couple of deadbeat lo-fi dudes that an alt-b ... More >>

Live: LCD Soundsystem And All Their Friends Settle In At Terminal 5

​ I was there when they dropped balloons at the LCD show. Pics by Puja Patel.​LCD Soundsystem (Night #1) Terminal 5 Thursday, May 20 "We're here for four days -- tonight I will sleep in my own bed, and wake up and have coffee in my own house," announces James Murphy, with palpable relie ... More >>

Big-Whoop LCD Soundsystem Afterparty Going Down Saturday Night At Highline Ballroom

​Flier pretty much says it all: Every relevant party DJing late Saturday night, after the fourth and last of LCD's gala sold-out Terminal 5 run. If James Murphy seems to be playing entirely break-up tunes, our own Zach Baron has a few theories as to why.

I'm in 'Gatecrasher' Today

James Murphy​I'm still getting mileage out of that semi-pseudo yet somehow very real feud with LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy. Every time he chants "Eat it, Michael Musto/You're no Bruce Vilanch" in some song or other, I get a big media ka-ching out of it. Today's "Gatecrasher" column in The ... More >>

Fewer 808s, More Heartbreak: LCD Soundsystem's This Is Happening

On James Murphy's sardonically devastating new record

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LCD Soundsystem Swap One "Drunk Girls" Video For Another

Though the initial, anonymously-made video for "Drunk Girls" was a kind of atrocity of date rape and Girls Gone Wild creepy college hedonism, and surely drove James Murphy crazy with its irony-free take on a song that is nothing if not joyfully sarcastic, at least the unofficial video's brief exis ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem Battle Back, Leak This Is Happening Themselves

​"Just let me put it out when I want to put it out," James Murphy pleaded the other night at Webster Hall, begging the audience not to leak the forthcoming LCD Soundsystem record. "Have a heart," he said. But the damage was already done--This Is Happening had slipped out onto the internet hour ... More >>

Live: LCD Soundsystem Return to New York City and the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Photo via underwhelmer's photostream​LCD Soundsystem Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, April 8th With Karen O decamped for LA, playing foil to Spike's Wild Things, and the Strokes figuring out whether they're still a band or not, James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem have become the best Classi ... More >>

Update on My Feud With James Murphy!

​When LCD Soundsystem's song "Pow Pow" was leaked and turned out to include the lyric "Eat it, Michael Musto/You're no Bruce Vilanch" I was simultaneously thrilled, appalled, and confused. Confused mainly because I couldn't for the life of me figure why singer James Murphy was pissed at me, a ... More >>

Michael Musto to LCD Soundsystem: "Suck it, James Murphy!"

​"Eat it Michael Musto: you're no Bruce Vilanch!" So goes James Murphy's pernicious insult of our dearly beloved and long-serving nightlife columnist on "Pow Pow," one of two partial tracks to leak last night from LCD Soundsystem's much anticipated, yet to be titled third record, due in May. ( ... More >>

Free Energy Played Letterman Last Night

Free Energy's James Murphy-produced Stuck on Nothing, which finally got a digital release last week, will almost certainly make it to some tall spot on our year end list; that said, caterwauling singer Paul Sprangers live, sans Murphy, is still the best argument for the studio genius of the LCD fr ... More >>

Hey New Passion Pit Video, And/Or I Am Totally Starting The Rumor That The Other Four Dudes In This Band Are Identical Quintuplets

​Behold the "Little Secrets" clip, up o'er at MTV. Seriously, throw as much confetti and smoke and whatnot in the mix: Everyone in the band who is not the lead singer is the exact same guy. It's like James Murphy fronting a band of Clark Kent impersonators.

The Story Behind the California Mansion In That LCD Soundsystem Video That James Murphy Just Posted

First Vampire Weekend make an ostensibly California-themed record, and now it seems clear that the primary mythology of the new and upcoming LCD Soundsystem record will focus heavily on the awesome California mansion in which it was recorded. New York, rep for your own! Anyway, for the record, the ... More >>

Two Years Later, LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" Makes It To the Screen

For a song that was described by an awful lot of people as "cinematic" when it came out two years ago, it sure took a long time for someone to actually put James Murphy's "All My Friends" on film. The song scores the trailer to Noah Baumbach's newest, Greenberg, due out early next year. The film l ... More >>

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Grow Up Like a Rock Star

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses

James Murphy & Pat Mahoney's Fabriclive 36

Ethereal, euphoric disco from a restless muse

Live: LCD Soundsystem is Really That Good

LCD Soundsystem Weekend: After-Party Info For Saturday

Diplo and Bonde De Role at Studio B: Tix on Sale Now

Chubby Joggers of the World Unite

How Nike's bizarre union with LCD Soundsystem worked out so perfectly

Turning Gunk Into Fluff

Juicy dance veins and chic lobby minimalism from DFA

House of Zealous Rockers

James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy of local label DFA reconstruct post-punk for a whole new dancefloor

Busted in Brooklyn