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London’s Hot Chip move 
up in New York

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats

HEAD RUSH

TVOTR are back!

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 >>

Liquid Liquid Haven't Lost Their Edge

New  York City's punk-funk godfathers still make music to move you by

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 >>

'LCD Soundsystem Preparty Presents Shit Robot+the Juan Maclean'

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

MEMORY MACHINE

The Plan are back

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

FIXED Presents Pantha Du Prince+Dada Life

Week in Review: Uniformly Awful

In yr face. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

PRETTY IN PINK, THE SEQUEL

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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 >>

Disco Inferno 2.0: A Slightly Less Hedonistic Comeback

Charting the DJs, labels, and edits fueling an old new craze

DO THE MESS AROUND

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

Best New Dance Floor: Santos' Party House

Grow Up Like a Rock Star

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

Everyone's Gone to the Dentist

Downtown kids chill out, kick back, discover yacht rock, soak in the good life

Status Ain't Hood's Quarterly Report: The Year's Best Singles

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Stuff you need to know to avoid cultural ostracism

'My House' Is Not a Home

Parisian robots and NYC hipoisie sketch for the tweakers

Harmonies and Abysses

Across the sky sheet the impossible birds in a steady illiterate movement homewards

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