James Murphy

BLITZKRIEG BOP

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs! are back

The Comedy: Look at This Fucking Movie

Satirizing hipsters in ways they'll likely enjoy

CEREMONY

A Re-reunited New Order
Play Roseland Ballroom

MAJOR RAGER

Festival season comes to Randalls Island

DO IT AGAIN

Dance all day at Dekalb Market

Kid Cudi Added To Governors Ball Lineup

The Governors Ball—taking place at Randalls IslandJune 23 and 24—has added another headliner to its lineup, which is already led by the likes of Passion Pit, Beck, and Fiona Apple. Kid Cudi, the recently alt-rock-water-testing rapper from Chicago, will play on Saturday, which will also h ... More >>

March Madness: Will LCD Soundsystem (9) Lose Their Edge Against The Talking Heads (8)?

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is a little jam-packed today, with six matches on the docket. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full ... More >>

Great GoogaMooga Announces Initial Food Lineup: Prepare To Salivate

This morning the organizers of Great GoogaMooga—the "amusement park of food and drink" set to take place in Prospect Park on May 19 and 20—announced the first chunk of the food lineup for the festival, and not to kill a cliché or anything, but it looks like the park's greenery will be t ... More >>

Benoit & Sergio+Justin Miller

The Rapture Come Home

The band that launched DFA Records returns to its roots after a major-label detour

Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Caribou, Frankie Knuckles, Trouble & Bass, Night People, and, Uh, LCD Soundsystem

There's no getting around it, this is LCD Soundsystem week. Buy your tickets on Craigslist and be scorned by James Murphy forever if you must--sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. But hey, other things are happening this week too! Tropical dance fete Que Bajo?! has relocated to a new home fo ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem, Remembered

Cool but never cold, funny but never ironic, a great New  York band bids adieu

LCD Soundsystem Shows Take Longer Than 15 Seconds To Sell Out, As Twitter Rejoices

LCD Soundsystem have finally succeeded at getting tickets into the hands of people other than scalpers. The group's four warm-up gigs at Terminal 5 went on sale this morning at 9 A.M. and, to the delight of many a James Murphy fan, took almost an hour to sell out completely. While this may seem li ... More >>

Kanye West Wins One For the Douchebags

Our poll winner and his runner-up James Murphy turn their private flaws into public triumphs

MEMORY MACHINE

The Plan are back

Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"

Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dude​So TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>

Zach Baron's Top 10 Albums of 2010

Guess who? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Alright, let's do this, before I change my mind. With apologies to The-Dream, Sleigh Bells, Ted Leo, Kylesa, Swans, Zola Jesus, Marnie Stern, and all other vestiges of my punk rock past, and especially you Nicki Minaj, who missed both of my lists this year. ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? LCD Soundsystem and Nostalgia's Creeping Scourge

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! James Murphy, pulling no punches.​Dear fellow illumin ... More >>

Live From The Bizarre But Much-Improved Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards

Mia Moretti, co-winner, Best DJ (seriously). Pics by Puja, more below.​"There's nothing that says 'party' and 'class' like a bomb-shelter basement in Midtown," joked drag comedian Murray Hill last night. "This is bullshit!" It was one of the many loving jabs taken at the sixth-annual Paper Mag ... More >>

Week in Review: Sit Down, Man

​​​​Behold the amazing talents of Ryan Dombal.​In the week someone introduced us to the term "rap sabbatical," we got investigative, bringing news of the newfound hip-hop ban at Savalas (which sent DJ Ayres packing), HARD Fest's harsh words for M.I.A., Lil Wayne's prefe ... More >>

Warm Up Presents Gavin Russom, Alden Tyrell & the Crystal Ark

THE WARMTH OF THE SUN

Have an arty party

Live: Holy Ghost Wake Up All The Folks DJ Neon Indian Put To Sleep At Le Poisson Rouge

The DJ duo, radically expanded. Pic by Puja.​Coming off a month-long tour with LCD Soundsystem, DFA's Holy Ghost celebrated the release of their own Static on the Wire EP with their first-ever "headlining show in NYC" at Le Poisson Rouge last night. Stretch Armstrong (head of the electro/disco ... More >>

Behold, the Long-Awaited Sleigh Bells Workout Video

​Megan Clark (2nd Miss Aloha Muscle 2003) is the diesel, foxy doyenne of SOHI Fitness, a Hawaiian-based weight loss bootcamp for "achieving your desired level of physical health and well-being." She's also a bit of an alt-rock fan--Tristeza and the Killers have both taken turns soundtracking h ... More >>

Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!

Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>

James Murphy Squashes His Beef With Michael Musto: "I Think He Gets It"

Thanks for reading, James.​To recap: LCD Soundsystem's "Pow Pow," from their in fact very excellent new record This Is Happening, deigns to take an explicit shot at our very own Michael Musto, i.e. "Eat it Michael Musto/You're no Bruce Vilanch." We interview Musto, who responds with "Suck it, ... More >>

Week in Review: We Are A Viking Raiding Party of Good Will and Intention

These Are Powers, Secret Project Robot, Confetti. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week that everybody finally went outside for the summer, we hung out on a few rooftops ourselves. Twin Sister? Rooftop. The SFNY party? Rooftop. Good Co.? BBQ, outdoors, ground floor. So yeah. The rain drove us in ... More >>

Tonight! LCD Soundsystem, Dorian Wood, El Haru Kuroi, Mi Ami, And Ben Folds

"Yeah, this is English Breakfast tea. No biggie."​James Murphy, a/k/a the Musto-bashing raconteur known as LCD Soundsystem, takes over Webster Hall tonight for yet another "secret show." Should you fail to snag a ticket, head to Le Poisson Rouge for the quivering break-up folk of Dorian Wood ( ... More >>

I # NY: LCD Soundsystem vs. Michael Musto?

​Today, in our daily Twitter roundup, there're lots of people getting shitfaced in New York for St. Patrick's Day, and...we could care less about them, here. More important is the beef we smell cooking up between a familiar gossip columnist and a familiar New York rock act. Where is it? And wh ... More >>

Listen: LCD Soundsystem's Cover of Alan Vega's "Bye Bye Bayou"

​That James Murphy cover of Alan Vega's "Bye Bye Bayou," destined for a LCD Soundsystem 12" single pegged to November 7th's Vinyl Saturday? Hear it here.

PARTY ANIMALS

DJs roam free at the Electric Zoo

YACHT Releases See Mystery Lights Today, Plays Santos Tonight

​ YACHT, the duo led by former the Blow member Jona Bechtolt, had a good portion of their lunch eaten earlier this year when Discovery released LP, the laptop r&b record Bechtolt and his Portland cohorts had been trying unsuccessfully to make for years. But a lot's happened since 2007, when Y ... More >>

On Free Energy's "Dream City"

Free Energy, the DFA-signed, mysteriously polarizing (witness the back-to-back-to-back Brooklyn Vegan triptych of "could someone set fire to the brush under these guys feet..PLEASE?"/ "bands like this make me lose all hope for the future of music"/ "if i saw these idiots crossing the street i would ... More >>

Kid Cudi Raps Over LCD Soundsystem's "Someone Great," For Some Reason

Seems like there's a consensus on the internet that we're just not going to talk about Kanye-cosign Kid Cudi rapping over LCD Soundsystem's "Someone Great." I'm totally cool with that. "Can I Be" also bears an optimistic "production" credit from Ryan Leslie, who will surely be seeing the back of J ... More >>

DO THE MESS AROUND

The B-52's keep the party crunk, '00s-style

Best New Dance Floor: Santos' Party House

Juan Maclean Moby at Santos Party House

Going Farming at P.S.1's Warm-Up Parties

This year's museum jams will feature a pool, fresh produce, and spy capability. Sweet.

Get in the Ring

Someone should've kicked dance-punk DJ-producer-bandleader James Murphy's ass by now. No one can.

Dance-Punkers Rule Dancefloors Via Nonsense Syllables

Bearded DJ Freaks Screw Up Frequently, Royally, Splendidly

'My House' Is Not a Home

Parisian robots and NYC hipoisie sketch for the tweakers

House of Zealous Rockers

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

Culture Club: Surveying the Current Creative Landscape

Hopelessly Devoted

Polly Jean Harvey, you're my star; Volume gets a visit from the city

Busted in Brooklyn

Altered States

Ex-Shamen DJ Conjures Up a New Image

Listings

Prophecy Fulfilled

The Rapture Is Coming

Disco Still Not Disco

New York Rockers Remember How to Dance