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March 29, 2012
Download: Bright Moments' Yacht Rock Gone Gypsy Punk Anthem "Tourists"
True to its name, Bright Moments is a big sunshiny explosion of optimism: joyous found sounds, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, Beach Boys harmonies, anime keyboards and big explosions of billowing brass. It's the demented brainchild of New Yorker Kelly Pratt, a multi-instrumentalist who's played horns for B ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Al Doyle Of Hot Chip And New Build Picks Three Noteworthy Spin-Offs
New Build will appeal to fans of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, if only because it's made up of members of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem. The trio—which will expand to a seven-piece (!!!) live band for its two sold-out shows at Mercury Lounge on Tuesday and Wednesday—counts among its membe ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
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 >>
Music
January 18, 2012
Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats
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 >>
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011
HEAD RUSH
TVOTR are back!
Blogs
March 29, 2011
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 >>
Music
March 23, 2011
Liquid Liquid Haven't Lost Their Edge
New York City's punk-funk godfathers still make music to move you by
Blogs
March 23, 2011
This Week in the Voice: The Fuzzy Math of Sex Trafficking
This week in the Voice, Nick Pinto examines some questionable statistics used to calculate juvenile sex trafficking rates. The numbers cultivated were used to convince Congress to force Craigslist to pull its adult classifieds section, and they are still being touted by major news outlets to ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 23, 2011
'LCD Soundsystem Preparty Presents Shit Robot+the Juan Maclean'
This week in the Voice, Nick Pinto examines some questionable statistics used to calculate juvenile sex trafficking rates. The numbers cultivated were used to convince Congress to force Craigslist to pull its adult classifieds section, and they are still being touted by major news outlets to ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
March 14, 2011
Hipster Trap in NYC Uses PBR, American Spirits to Lure Laughs We Had Years Ago
A street artist rendered a big bear trap out of cardboard and locked it to a New York City sign, according to a post on Reddit yesterday, using pink neon wayfarers, a pack of American Spirits, a fixed gear bike chain and a Pabst Blue Ribbon as bait. Maybe the piece is supposed to be considere ... More >>
Blogs
February 24, 2011
Top 10 Music Videos Starring Muppets
Have to love when the crowd erupts as the song kicks into overdrive. You may have seen the LCD Soundsystem "Dance Yrself Clean" Muppets video floating around today (that's it above) and wondered, "Hmm, what other bands have had their songs Muppetized?" First, that's probably not a word. Second, we ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Hear A New TV On The Radio Track, "Will Do"
TV on the Radio has debuted a new track on the radio, appropriately enough: Courtesy Seattle's 107.7 The End, please enjoy TVOTR's "Will Do," a remarkably airy, uncluttered, elegant semi-slow jam set to anchor the band's upcoming Nine Types of Light, due out April 12.
Blogs
February 15, 2011
The Strokes Are Playing Madison Square Garden The Night Before LCD Soundsystem
So there you go. The Strokes' new album, Angles, will be out March 22 (hear the first single, "Under Cover of Darkness," here), and to celebrate they'll invade MSG the following week, just one night before the LCD Soundsystem show there that's got everyone pissed off. Just remember, Julian, that i ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
February 11, 2011
Week In Review: We Didn't Get LCD Soundsystem Tickets, Either
'Twas a week of profound excitement undercut by crushing disappointment, all swirling around the same event: LCD Soundsystem at Madison Square Garden. It was announced. People got excited. A Wednesday-morning presale line wrapped around the Lower East Side. But a lot people got shut out. Then came ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
TV On The Radio Announce New Album, Show At Radio City Music Hall
Brooklyn's finest critically beloved art-rock institution are back at it: TV on the Radio have announced that their fourth album, Nine Types of Light, will be out this spring, no doubt a worthy follow-up to 2008's Pazz & Jop victor Dear Science. Plus no pesky comma issues to fuck with the typ ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Pazz & Jop Stats: On Kanye West's Dominance, And What The Poll Would've Looked Like Without Him
"If there was any way you could confirm Kanye's inevitable victory early, that'd be a big help art-department-wise." So began Pazz & Jop editor Rob Harvilla's first note to me after voting closed in late December. Inevitability is not a statistical quality, but the magnitude of My Beautiful D ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Week In Review: You Know We Were Kidding About That Best Year Ever Thing, Right?
A thing that happened. Photo by Phil Freeman.In the week we debated whether 2010 was the best year for music ever (you guys know that was a joke, right?), we pitted Chris Brown against Katy Perry, Titus Andronicus against LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift against M.I.A., and house music against h ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
My 10 Favorite Concerts Of 2010, Starring Jay-Z, Pavement, And Michael Bolton
Stephen Malkmus, at the first of Pavement's 50 shows here. Pics by Rob unless noted otherwise.The 100-plus shows I saw this year spanned from the Cake Shop to Radio City Music Hall, from Williamsburg block parties to Michael Bolton's house in Connecticut, the events that occurred therein all ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
The 10 Biggest Music Stories of 2010
Ah M.I.A., it just wasn't your year, was it? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In 2010, Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire both had #1 records. LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, MGMT, the National, M.I.A, and Sufjan Stevens all had albums debut in the top ten. Kanye West joined Twitter. Drake started a riot in New ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2010
Q&A: DFA's Gavin Russom on His New Project the Crystal Ark, Who Are Playing P.S.1's Warm Up Tomorrow
Only recently has it been revealed that the DFA's secret weapon is the studio and gear whiz Gavin Russom. He was responsible for Black Dice's weird guitar FX suitcase that defined the band's sound during their tenure there. He keeps the label's studio gear in shape. He's toured the world with ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
Week in Review: This Means Something
Hey, Marty. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week a former member of the Fugees declared his intention to run an entire country, despite his gross lack of qualifications for said job, we started a campaign against him. Sorry 'Clef, but this is ridiculous.
Blogs
June 25, 2010
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 >>
Voice Choices
June 15, 2010
FIXED Presents Pantha Du Prince+Dada Life
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 >>
Blogs
May 28, 2010
Week in Review: Uniformly Awful
In yr face. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2010
Week in Review: We Are A Viking Raiding Party of Good Will and Intention
These Are Powers, Secret Project Robot, Confetti. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn 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 >>
Blogs
April 14, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
April 12, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
April 9, 2010
New Hold Steady: "Barely Breathing"
So yeah, maybe the most baroque and/or emo deployment the classic scene reprimand, "No one wins at violent shows"? (LCD Soundsystem assayed some version of this precise sentiment last night at MHOW.) "The kids are all distracted," sings Craig Finn, and we can relate, with four Hold Steady son ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2010
Week in Review: THIS CAN'T BE GOOD!!
Figured this one deserved an encore.In the week Aimee Mann heard the phrase "Eat a hot bowl of dicks" for the first time, we made suggestions for her inevitable reconciliation with Ice-T, whose acting she at first did not sufficiently respect. Perhaps it'll involve Key Largo, Jon Brion, "Cop ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
March 17, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
January 25, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Thom Yorke????, Pavement, Etc
Lot of New York bands representing: LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Lucero, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Matt & Kim, Gil Scott-Heron, etc. Pretty fucking good show. Some other big ones--Public Image Limited, Grace Jones, Gorillaz, P ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Week in Review: Pajamas Are Pussified
Kylie! Photo by Santiago Felipe.In the week a tiny little boy named Falcon first captured America's heart and then threw up on that heart on live television and even rhymed about doing so in song, we swam feebly in the ocean of headlines involving both Michael Jackson and Paul Anka, DJ AM and ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2009
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.
Voice Choices
May 13, 2009
PRETTY IN PINK, THE SEQUEL
Here's your one chance to do it right
Blogs
February 19, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, the "Losing My Edge" Blog
This here Tumblr will evidently post a track from every band mentioned in LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge." One per day. Can and Suicide thus far. Feel free to start speculating on which Gil Scott-Heron track gets the nod. (I would suspect our good buddy Whiney Weingarten's hand in this, but he ... More >>
Music
November 19, 2008
Disco Inferno 2.0: A Slightly Less Hedonistic Comeback
Charting the DJs, labels, and edits fueling an old new craze
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008
DO THE MESS AROUND
The B-52's keep the party crunk, '00s-style
Blogs
October 17, 2008
Best New Dance Floor: Santos' Party House
The B-52's keep the party crunk, '00s-style
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January 15, 2008
Grow Up Like a Rock Star
LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses
Music
August 28, 2007
Everyone's Gone to the Dentist
Downtown kids chill out, kick back, discover yacht rock, soak in the good life
Blogs
April 5, 2007
Status Ain't Hood's Quarterly Report: The Year's Best Singles
Downtown kids chill out, kick back, discover yacht rock, soak in the good life
Music
February 20, 2007
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March 22, 2005
'My House' Is Not a Home
Parisian robots and NYC hipoisie sketch for the tweakers
Music
January 25, 2005
Harmonies and Abysses
Across the sky sheet the impossible birds in a steady illiterate movement homewards
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February 3, 2004
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Across the sky sheet the impossible birds in a steady illiterate movement homewards
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