LCD Soundsystem

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James Murphey is a god

 

[miaedu]

James Murphey is a god

He's a cute cub too, lol.

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[miaedu]

looks like the release of the full length is getting pushed back to April at the earliest.

"this is the kind of high-octane, quality crap you can expect from this here webthing.

basically, the record is still swimming swimmingly, and hopefully coming in april. though that’s not official yet. i mean, what the crap kind of source is this for information? it’s just the band website.

if you didn’t come to the dfa knees up on saturday night, you missed it. snow did not keep people from their appointed rounds. it was, as we say, dope."

http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/

 

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Last night prior to watching A Single Man (a terrific movie BTW) this was one of the previews.

Check out the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s upcoming film entitled Greenberg, starring Ben Stiller and scored by LCD Soundsytem/James Murphy. The trailer features LCD’s “All My Friends” and even a glimpse of Murphy walking on the street (see if you can catch it). Judging from Baumbach’s other movies’ scores and soundtracks (Squid & The Whale, Margot At The Wedding), you can bet we’re in for some good stuff. The film is set to be released April 10th, 2010.

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Last night prior to watching A Single Man (a terrific movie BTW) this was one of the previews.

Check out the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s upcoming film entitled Greenberg, starring Ben Stiller and scored by LCD Soundsytem/James Murphy. The trailer features LCD’s “All My Friends” and even a glimpse of Murphy walking on the street (see if you can catch it). Judging from Baumbach’s other movies’ scores and soundtracks (Squid & The Whale, Margot At The Wedding), you can bet we’re in for some good stuff. The film is set to be released April 10th, 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=059skh1bn8Y

The new Noah Baumbach film is called Greenberg and it features a score by LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy. The soundtrack boasts 11 Murphy solo pieces and one new LCD Soundsystem song, along with tunes by Nite Jewel, Albert Hammond, Galaxie 500, the Sonics, and Duran Duran.

Talking about the soundtrack to Drowned in Sound recently, Murphy said it "sounds NOTHING like LCD, really. it's made to fit the movie, not be 'my record'." Segue: LCD Soundsystem's new album is due out later in the Spring.

The Greenberg soundtrack is out in the UK March 22 on DFA/Parlophone. The Greenberg movie is out in select U.S. cities March 26.

A list of songs on the soundtrack awaits:


Greenberg Soundtrack:

01 James Murphy: "People"
02 Nite Jewel: "Suburbia"
03 James Murphy: "Sleepy Baby"
04 James Murphy: "Thumbs"
05 Albert Hammond: "It Never Rains in Southern California"
06 James Murphy: "Plenty of Time"
07 James Murphy: "Photographs"
08 James Murphy: "Gente"
09 Galaxie 500: "Strange"
10 LCD Soundsystem: "Oh You (Christmas Blues)"
11 James Murphy: "Birthday Song"
12 James Murphy: "Dear You"
13 The Sonics: "Shot Down"
14 Duran Duran: "The Chauffeur"
15 James Murphy: "If You Need a Friend"
16 James Murphy : "Please Don't Follow Me"
17 James Murphy: "Photographs (Piano)

 

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LCD Soundsystem's follow-up to 2007's remarkable Sound of Silver is due in the UK May 17 courtesy of DFA/Parlophone and May 18 in the U.S. on DFA/Virgin.

The nine-track album runs 65 minutes. Murphy says his label is currently deciding between two tracks called "Drunk Girls" and "Change" for the first single. Check out the names of the tracks that will appear on the album below:

Dance Yrself Clean
Drunk Girls
One Touch
All I Want
Change
Hit
Pow Pow
Somebody's Calling Me
What You Need

 

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Win a Greenberg sampler soundtrack containing 6 new tracks by James Murphy.

http://www.premiere.com/Contest/Greenberg-Giveaway

 

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Greenberg Original Motion Picture Soundtrack:

01. The Steve Miller Band – ‘Jet Airliner’
02. James Murphy - ‘People’
03. Nite Jewel - ‘Suburbia’
04. James Murphy - ‘Sleepy Baby’
05. James Murphy - ‘Thumbs’
06. Albert Hammond - ‘It Never Rains In Southern California’
07. James Murphy - ‘Plenty Of Time’
08. James Murphy - ‘Photographs’
09. James Murphy - ‘Gente’
10. Galaxie 500 - ‘Strange’
11. LCD Soundsystem - ‘Oh You (Christmas Blues)’
12. James Murphy - ‘Birthday Song’
13. James Murphy - ‘Dear You’
14. Sonics - ‘Shot Down’
15. Duran Duran - ‘The Chauffeur’
16. James Murphy - ‘If You Need A Friend’
17. James Murphy - ‘Please Don’t Follow Me’
18. James Murphy - ‘Photographs (Piano)’

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LCD Soundsystem's 'Drunk Girls' and 'Pow Pow' leak (just in time for the weekend)

Here's a song to pitch you headlong into the weekend, made for dancing while you stand in the eternally long bathroom lines of Los Angeles. "Drunk Girls," a ticking little rager with a big bass underbelly, is one of the first leaks from LCD Soundsystem's new, still untitled album dropping May 18 on DFA/Virgin.

According to James Murphy, who recorded part of his third album at a Los Angeles mansion (funny, that's where the Pop & Hiss headquarters are too!), drunk girls are endowed and blessed with all sorts of qualities and gifts you may not have known about: the patience of saints, invitations from nations, the knowledge that "love is an astronaut." Drunk boys, on the other hand, are pure trouble, stealing from cupboards. True, we might be listening with a bias, but those are some of the lyrics.

"Drunk Girls" isn't as hellbent on capturing a generation's party moment -- or the never-ending game of musical one-upmanship -- as "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House," but to listen more than a few times is to plant yourself at someone's ramshackle house in the Silver Lake hills with a red beer cup in hand, asking to bum an American Spirit off a cute boy.

Not that we'd know anything about it!

The other track blazing around the Internets is a snippet of "Pow Pow," a cyclical mix of frosty "Remain in Light"-era funk crossed with druggy disco ready for David Mancuso's Loft.

In addition to scoring the new Noah Baumbach movie "Greenberg," LCD Soundsystem will play the penultimate slot April 16 at Coachella. There's probably some joke to be made here about the inverse of Murphy's Law, but we're not clever enough to think of it.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/lcd-soundsystems-drunk-girls-.html

 

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The new LCD Soundsystem album is called This Is Happening, according to DFA. That's the Robert Longo-inspired cover up there.

The album is due out May 18 in the U.S. on DFA/Virgin (May 17 in the UK on DFA/Parlophone). First single (and Best New Track) "Drunk Girls" is available for listening now. LCD are going on tour this summer, including a set at the Pitchfork Music Festival.

http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening.html

 

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too funny this thread popped up now! LCD was just playing when i picked up my Chipotle (I HEART Chipotle) and i thought to myself "wow! LCD soundsystem! i haven't heard this in like forever!!! i love it!!!".... now i have to figure out how get it off my old computer to my new one......hmmmmmmmm

 

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LCD Soundsystem Announce North American Summer Tour Dates

As anyone who saw them during their Sound of Silver tour can tell you, the LCD Soundsystem live show is a uber-tight dance-a-thon that must not be missed. And now several North American cities will get the chance to act foolish along with James Murphy and his gang this spring. The band's full itinerary is below.

LCD Soundsystem:

04-16 Indio, CA - Coachella

04-20 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod *
04-21 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod *
04-23 London, England - Brixton Academy *
04-24 London, England - Brixton Academy *
04-26 Birmingham, England - Academy *
04-27 Leeds, England - Academy *
04-28 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands *
04-29 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands *
05-01 Manchester, England - Academy
05-02 Bristol, England - Academy *
05-04 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso *
05-05 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique *
05-06 Berlin, Germany - WMF *
05-07 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Den Atelier
05-08 Paris, France - Bataclan *
05-09 Paris, France - Bataclan *

05-20 New York, NY - Terminal 5
05-21 New York, NY - Terminal 5
05-24 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
05-25 Toronto, Ontario - Koolhaus
05-26 Chicago, IL - Metro
05-29 Portland, OR - Roseland
05-30 George, WA - Sasquatch Festival
05-31 Vancouver, British Columbia - Malkin Bowl
06-03 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
06-08 Austin, TV - Stubb's
06-09 Dallas, TX - Palladium
06-11 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival

06-17 La Coruña, Spain - Sonar
06-18 Barcelona, Spain - Sonar
06-19 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival
06-20 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-22 Zagreb, Croatia - InMusic Festival
06-24 Ferrara, Italy - Bands Apart Festival
06-25 St. Gallen, Switzerland - Open Air Festival
07-01 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-03 London, England - Wireless Festival
07-08 Novi Sad, Serbia - Exit Festival
07-10 Lisbon, Portugal - Alive Festival

07-15-16 Mariaville, NY - Camp Bisco
07-17 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival

08-12 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-13 Gotenberg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
09-12 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival

* with YACHT

 

[just_mills]

I've seen LCD Soundsystem and was blown away. Musically and visually, not an act to miss, if given the chance to see live! I also saw James Murphy DJing solo as a warm up to the Dance Arena @ Reading Festival, on one of the many years I've been!

 

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LCD Soundsystem / April 13, 2010 / New York (Webster Hall)

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Many great moments, and a few transcendent ones -- so went the second of two LCD Soundsystem "secret" shows, the latter Monday night (Apr. 13) at Webster Hall. The high point came midway through the night, when frontman James Murphy launched into "All My Friends," his late-2000s, "my-God-I'm-an-adult" anthem and proof that the big chill freezes the hippest of us. The thirty-somethings in the crowd who had to go to work the next morning fist-pumped along, not caring about the consequences.

Backed by his band, which now includes Gavin Russom of Delia and Gavin, Murphy started the set with "Pow Pow," from LCD Soundsystem's forthcoming album, "This Is Happening." Murphy delivered the vocals with his characteristic flatness, almost veering into Lou Reed territory, but his band's pulsing beats managed to propel him along. He then performed "Yr City's a Sucker," from LCD's 2005 self-titled debut, followed by "Us V. Them," from 2007's "Sound of Silver."

LCD Soundsystem's new single, "Drunk Girls," inspired any number of the actual drunk girls to flail around on the floor, and, later in the set, another new track called "I Can Change" sent iPhones aloft, with the crowd swaying along. At one point, Murphy got down on his knees and begged fans to refrain from leaking his new album, telling them they could leak it as soon as it came out, but asking for patience before then. (His pleas went unheard, it seems, as "This Is Happening" has since leaked.)

The show closed an hour and forty-five minutes after it began, with "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down," summing up Murphy's love/hate relationship with his adopted hometown. On this night, the crowd seemed to come down squarely on the side of love.

Here is LCD Soundsystem's setlist:

"Pow Pow"
"Yr City's a Sucker"
"Us V. Them"
"Drunk Girls"
"Losing My Edge"
"All My Friends"
"I Can Change"
"Tribulations"
"Movement"
"Yeah"
"Encore"
"Someone Great"
"Daft Punk Is Playing at My House"
"New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"

http://www.billboard.com/#/events/lcd-soundsystem-april-13-2010-new-york-webster-1004082734.story

 

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Directed by Spike Jonze, the clip subjects LCD frontman James Murphy and his bandmates to various degrees of abuse, from a playful dusting of confetti to violent removal of pants and shoes, after which the members are bound with duct tape. Over a period of four minutes, Murphy, Nancy Whang and others attempt to keep on singing as though they're not being blasted with fire extinguisher foam, eggs, and even champagne.

It's a fittingly chaotic video for a party jam as quirky as "Drunk Girls," and Murphy's deadpan expression while a blonde wig and make-up are forcefully applied onto him will no doubt provoke a chuckle or two.

 

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LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening Now

Just days after LCD Soundsystem's new single, "Drunk Girls," leaked online, a companion video of sorts hit YouTube. As the first taste of the band's third album, the song had already set tongues wagging, from Pitchfork awarding it a "Best New Music" tag to Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield hailing it as an early contender for single of the year.

Clocking in at an uncharacteristically short 3:44, "Drunk Girls" is LCD's most straightforward rock song yet, with an unembarrassed "Heroes"-era Bowie guitar line, "Pump It Up" drums and a perfectly catchy low-brow refrain. Some longtime fans heard it as an unbecoming grab for jock-jam status. And the video, a conspicuously well-produced compilation of Facebook-profile-pilfered photos and camera phone videos of the extremely inebriated, seemed to reinforce those fears, especially given the clip's professional-level edits. Was this LCD mastermind James Murphy's meta-version of viral marketing?

"That repulsive video of throwing-up college girls gone wild?" Murphy asks the next week, emphatically denying his team's involvement. "No. That's kind of everything I loathe."

While he recognizes that the song could become a misogynistic frat-boy cheer, he remains unapologetic when it comes to his original intent. "I just wanted something dumb," he says. "I like dumb, short stuff."

No one can accuse Murphy of being dumb. In the 10 years since he founded DFA Records and formed LCD Soundsystem as a one-off Williamsburg, Brooklyn, party band, he's created the most compelling and witty rock'n'roll dance music to come out of New York since David Byrne put the big suit in mothballs. And without meeting any of the benchmarks bands once used to gauge success-LCD has only average record sales and negligible airplay-the group is in a powerful position heading into the May 18 release of "This Is Happening" and the start of a year-plus touring cycle, including a plum spot at last week's Coachella and top billing at many summer festivals in Europe.

Commercially, the fist-pumping "Drunk Girls" may prove to be the song that threads the needle, bringing Murphy's hipster piss-take to the masses with its official, hilariously chaotic one-take Spike Jonze-directed video and a serious push for new fans by EMI.

Norm Winer, PD of Chicago's venerated triple A WXRT and a staunch supporter of LCD Soundsystem, added the track out of the box. "LCD's music, their energy...they're just magnetic and automatic," he says. "They connect to our audience. The decision to put this song on the radio was reflexive."

"This Is Happening" is an album lover's album, its nine songs running nearly 70 minutes long. Other than the rollicking "Drunk Girls," its tracks hew closely to the signature LCD sound: analog synthesizers, processed guitars, expertly programmed beats and layers of live drums and percussion. But Murphy's songwriting and singing have matured in the three years since the "Sound of Silver" album was released. And while "Happening" feels, at times, like an extended homage to Brian Eno's greatest production hits, it showcases Murphy's studio perfectionism that has kept LCD's sound so consistent through the years.

"It's mood-altering," says Rob Stevenson, president of Virgin Records in the United States and Murphy's point man at EMI. "It gives the feeling of the records that got me into this business in the first place, like the Pixies' 'Doolittle' or R.E.M.'s 'Fables of the Reconstruction.' I would listen to those from start to finish, and they didn't sound like anything else; you just felt cool listening to it. And that's what this record does."

But more than anything, it's LCD's live show that keeps the people coming back for more. Now touring as a seven-piece, the band has added an official new member-Gavin Russom, who built the two synth rigs that anchor the tours-and a new guitarist, the Melvins' David Scott Stone, has been added into a rotation that includes Hot Chip's Al Doyle and !!! guitarist/bassist Tyler Pope (who recently rejoined the band after a three-year absence). They augment longtime percussionist Matt Thornley, keyboardist/vocalist Nancy Whang and LCD's secret weapon, drummer Pat Mahoney.

Goldenvoice president Paul Tollett began thinking about a prime-time, main-stage slot for LCD as soon as the band appeared at Coachella (which Goldenvoice promotes) in 2008. "It's exciting to see how huge this band is without hits on the radio," he says. "They are the perfect Coachella band for that reason. Luckily, nowadays there are so many different types of success; it shows that you can fully do it with or without mainstream radio airplay. You can decide not to do that and be playing the tops of festivals too."

Onstage at Coachella 2010, dressed in a white suit under a giant spinning disco ball in front of a polo field teeming with hands-in-the-air dancing fans, Murphy proved to be as compelling a frontman as any of the rock stars whose oeuvre he both studies and mocks. Generous to his band and self-deprecating to a fault, onstage he plays the role of a jaded hipster with a heart of gold, your all-knowing best friend from high school done good. He takes on songs from all eras of the LCD songbook, from new tunes like "I Can Change" and "Pow" to a recharged "Losing My Edge," with the confidence of a man fronting a band firing on all cylinders.

"This is the pinnacle of what this band is going to be," Murphy says. "By the end of this touring cycle, I think we'll be as good as we get. I don't see us getting better."

But just as LCD is a top-tier act, and a serious draw, for mainstream festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza, the band is equally revered and courted at more specialized events, from the indie-rock epicenter of Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival to the day-glo, jamtronica weekender Camp Bisco in upstate New York.

"There aren't going to be a lot of people there who don't know who LCD Soundsystem is," Pitchfork editor in chief Scott Plagenhoef says in anticipation of LCD's set closing Saturday night of this year's Pitchfork. "A lot of the in-jokes, and a lot of the communal aspects of the songs, will be shared in an environment like that. I can't imagine a better moment than hearing 'All My Friends' at the closing on Saturday after spending the whole day drinking with all your friends."

Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein, who recruited Murphy to DJ and curate an all-night dance tent at last year's festival, sees this year's live LCD show as a chance to expand the musical horizons of his younger fans. "LCD is one of the biggest bands in America, in terms of what they can accomplish going out on tour," Brownstein says. "It's a major, major dance party. It's fun, upbeat and high energy. It's going to work really well at Camp Bisco."

But just as LCD seems poised to break through to a wider audience, Murphy has already set the countdown to the end of the line. As he first announced during a BBC interview last month, he fully intends to wind down the band at the end of this touring cycle, which will run a minimum of 18 months.

"I love this band," Murphy says. "I love what we do, I love everything about it. But at a certain point the only reason to repeat yourself instead of trying something new is money. And that's just not a good enough reason. There are other things that are important to me, like the label and production and working with my friends.

"I'm 40," he concludes. "I like doing other stuff too."

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/lcd-soundsystem-this-is-happening-now-1004086050.story

 

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