LCD Soundsystem

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The final debut on the Billboard TOP 200 in the top 10, at #10, is the second effort from indie-dance punks LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening, which moved 31,000 copies.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1640072/20100526/rolling_stones.jhtml

 

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One Touch!

 

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LCD Soundsystem Perform Energetic Glastonbury 'Swansong'

If it really is LCD Soundsystem's swansong , then they know a hell of a good way to say goodbye.

Sunday night at Glastonbury is when they last pockets of energy, held in reserve over the long weekend, finally get released for one last hurrah. On Sunday night, James Murphy and his hipster collective were the ones to let it out of the box. There are many elements which combine to make the band's music so infectious. Paramount among them is Murphy's ability to make people dance, but better still is his knack at cherry-picking the best bits of over 40 years of music and making them all seem uniquely his own.

So it is that David Bowie collides with Talking Heads, Can and the Fall in a beat-driven electronic stew. 'Us v Them' and 'Drunk Girls' make early appearances, with the band's breakneck momentum maintained until the band played a special reading of 'All My Friends' that may well prove to be the lingering memory from this festival.

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Awesometastic. LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip, DFA labelmates and two of the greatest live bands in dance music today, are hitting the road together. They're currently in Australia together and recently announced a few co-headlining dates in the UK in November, but LCD and Hot Chip are also planning a U.S. trip. So far, the only announced show is October 22 in Milwaukee, but more shows should be revealed shortly. LCD just added a show at the Hollywood Bowl on October 15 as well.

Dates below.

LCD and Hot Chip:

07-29 Melbourne, Australia - Festival Hall *
07-30 Woodford, Australia - Splendour in the Grass *
08-01 Niigata, Japan - Fuji Rock *
10-22 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave *
11-10 London, England - Alexandra Palace *
11-12 Cardiff, Wales - International Arena *
11-13 Sheffield, England - Magna Arena *
11-15 Manchester, England - Apollo *

LCD Soundsystem:

07-29 Melbourne, Australia - Festival Hall *
07-30 Woodford, Australia - Splendour in the Grass *
08-01 Niigata, Japan - Fuji Rock *
08-11 Helsinki, Finland - Flow Festival
08-12 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-13 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-14 Copenhagen, Denmark - DR Koncerthuset Store Foyerscene
08-17 Ibiza, Spain - Ibiza Rocks Festival
08-27 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-29 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-31 Tel Aviv, Israel - Heineken Music Festival
09-04 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic
09-10 Berlin, Germany - Berlin Festival
09-12 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-25 Columbia, MD - Virgin Mobile FreeFest
10-09 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10-15 Hollywood, CA - Hollywood Bowl
10-16 San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island Festival
10-22 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave *
11-10 London, England - Alexandra Palace *
11-12 Cardiff, Wales - International Arena *
11-13 Sheffield, England - Magna Arena *
11-15 Manchester, England - Apollo *

* with Hot Chip

 

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Caught this show last year. Murphy is a phenomenal performer and his band was tight. The floor was shaking and the roof was on fire. Dance yourself clean indeed. if this is the swan song for LCD Soundsystem, they went out with a pow pow pow pow pow pow pow!

 

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LCD Soundsystem — The Finale

James Murphy accepted his fate while sitting in a van outside a club, in a city he can’t remember, on a tour taking him nowhere. He was 26 and traveling as the sound man with a couple of punk acts, Six Finger Satellite and Thee Hydrogen Terrors. But on this particular night in 1996, Murphy was talking with Six Finger’s frontman when he came to a conclusion that most of us reach early and a sad few reach too late: I will never be a singer in a rock ’n’ roll band.

So when the tour was over, Murphy — having rid himself of any lingering frontman aspirations — went back home to New York City and threw himself into producing and engineering, including a record by the gleefully abrasive art band Les Savy Fav. He bonded with the drummer, Pat Mahoney, and with Murphy on bass, the two goofed around in their spare time, playing music designed for dancing rather than thrashing. Despite not venturing out of the Knights of Columbus Hall in Williamsburg where they practiced, Murphy and Mahoney cared enough about this lark to give it a name: LCD Soundsystem.

Around this same time, 1998, Murphy met an opinionated Londoner named Tim Goldsworthy, also a producer, who’d recently arrived in New York expecting to live his own 1981 downtown freakout — to step inside a Keith Haring mural; to see break dancers on every corner. Instead he went to clubs and found a gray mass of bored and boring kids dancing to faceless, feckless music. So Murphy and Goldsworthy decided they had to do something good. They’d host good parties, invite good people, play good music — spinning artistically impeccable bands like ESG and the Fall and Can — and guarantee themselves a good time. (For Murphy, this also involved gobbling heroic amounts of Ecstasy.) So they began hosting sweatily transcendent parties in their West Village office, featuring live sound precisely calibrated for maximum sonic whomp, with Murphy and Goldsworthy as D.J.’s.

Right around 2001, though, Murphy was looking for a track he couldn’t find. He wanted a sprawling disco drum concoction to help him bridge key moments in his D.J. set. By this point, they’d also started a record label—dubbed DFA, or Death From Above — so Murphy decided to put out his own 12-inch. Mahoney would play drums.

For the B-side, Murphy cooked up eight minutes of punk-funk weirdness he called “Losing My Edge.” The track consisted basically of Murphy tapping out a skittering rhythm on the cymbals while yelling a fading hipster’s anxieties into a microphone. The song was credited to LCD Soundsystem. In hindsight, it seemed slightly embarrassing to Murphy — he worried he was revealing too much of himself — but a couple of his friends really liked it, so he thought, What the hell, and released it as an A-side. After all, he wasn’t a singer in rock ’n’ roll band. What did he care?

David Marchese is an associate editor at Spin magazine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/magazine/mag-27readmore-t.html?_r=1

 

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LCD Soundsystem - Live Alone (Franz Ferdinand Cover)

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SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS Trailer

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http://www.shutupandplaythehits.com/

On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance to tears of joy and grief, with NEW YORK magazine calling the event "a marvel of pure craft" and TIME magazine lamenting "we may never dance again." SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is both a narrative film documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.

Directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace

http://www.pulsefilms.com/

 

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A new clip from the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits is now available to check out. It features an excerpt of the Madison Square Garden performance of "North American Scum" as well as James Murphy being asked to what extent his age played into his ending the band.

The film will be released later this year.

SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS (EXCLUSIVE CLIP)

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Shut Up and Play the Hits: Theater Dates

LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean

Date City Theater
07.18.12 Albany, NY Spectrum
07.18.12 Albuquerque, NM Guild- TICKETS ON SALE @ BOX OFFICE
07.18.12 Annapolis, MD Harbour 9
07.18.12 Asheville, NC Fine Arts
07.18.12 Athens, GA Cine
07.18.12 Atlanta, GA Landmark Midtown Art- 9:30 SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Atlanta, GA AMC Mansell Crossing 14
07.18.12 Austin, TX Stateside Theatre- 7/20 SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Austin, TX Alamo Drafthouse Village- SOLD OUT!
07.18.12 Austin, TX Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar- SOLD OUT!
07.18.12 Austin, TX Alamo Slaughter Lane- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Baltimore, MD AMC Owings Mills 17
07.18.12 Baltimore, MD Landmark Harbor East- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Baton Rouge, LA Rave Mall of Louisiana
07.18.12 Beavercreek, OH Rave The Greene 14
07.18.12 Bellingham, WA Pickford Cinema
07.18.12 Berkeley, CA Landmark Shattuck- SOLD OUT! 7/19 SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Bethlehem, PA Arts Quest
07.18.12 Boston, MA AMC Loews Boston Common 19
07.18.12 Boston, MA Landmark Kendall Square- SOLD OUT!
07.18.12 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
07.18.12 Brooklyn, NY BAM Rose Cinemas- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Buffalo, NY Market Arcade
07.18.12 Burlington, VT Palace 9
07.18.12 Calgary, AB Commonwealth
07.18.12 Charleston, SC Terrace
07.18.12 Chattanooga, TN Rave East Ridge 18
07.18.12 Chicago, IL AMC River East 21
07.18.12 Chicago, IL Music Box - 7/23 SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Cincinnati , OH AMC Newport On The Levee
07.18.12 Cincinnati, OH Contemporary Arts Center
07.18.12 Claremont, CA Laemmle Claremont 5
07.18.12 Cleveland, OH Cedar Lee
07.18.12 Columbia, SC Nickelodeon
07.18.12 Columbia, MO Ragtag
07.18.12 Columbus, OH Rave Polaris 18
07.18.12 Columbus, OH AMC Lennox Town Center 24
07.18.12 Dallas, TX Angelika Film Center
07.18.12 Dennis, MA Cape Cinema
07.18.12 Denver, CO Landmark Mayan
07.18.12 Detroit, MI Main Art
07.18.12 Detroit, MI AMC Livonia 20
07.18.12 Dubuque, IA Mindframe
07.18.12 Duluth, MN Zinema
07.18.12 Durango, CO Back Space Theatre
07.18.12 Durham, NC Rave Southpoint 17
07.18.12 Eugene, OR Bijou Art Cinemas
07.18.12 Fairfax, VA Rave Fairfax Corner 14
07.18.12 Ft. Collins, CO Lyric- TICKETS ON SALE @ BOX OFFICE
07.18.12 Ft. Wayne, IN Rave Jefferson Point 18
07.18.12 Ft. Worth, TX Rave Ridgmar Mall 13
07.18.12 Grand Rapids, MI AMC Star Grand Rapids 18
07.18.12 Grand Rapids, MI Urban Institute Contemporary Arts
07.18.12 Greensboro, NC Lyndon Street Artworks
07.18.12 Hartford, CT City Cinema @ Palace
07.18.12 Hartford, CT AMC Loews Plainville 20
07.18.12 Hoboken, NJ Clearview Hoboken
07.18.12 Honolulu, HI Kahala 8
07.18.12 Hoover, AL Rave Patton Creek 18
07.18.12 Houston, TX Landmark River Oaks- SOLD OUT! STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES
07.18.12 Huntington, NY Cinema Arts Center
07.18.12 Huntsville, AL Rave Valley Bend 18
07.18.12 Indianapolis, IN Landmark Keystone Art- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Indianapolis, IN AMC Showplace Indianapolis 17
07.18.12 Iowa City, IA Englert
07.18.12 Ithaca, NY Cinemapolis
07.18.12 Jackson, WY Pink Garter Theatre
07.18.12 Jacksonville, FL AMC Regency 24
07.18.12 Jacksonville, FL Sun-Ray Cinemas
07.18.12 Juneau, AK Gold Town NIckelodeon
07.18.12 Kalamazoo, MI Rave City Place 14
07.18.12 Kansas City, MO Tivoli
07.18.12 Kansas City, MO AMC Town Center 20
07.18.12 Las Vegas, NV Rave Town Square 18
07.18.12 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
07.18.12 Lincoln, NE Mary Riepma Ross Film Center
07.18.12 Little Rock, AR Market Street
07.18.12 Long Beach, CA AMC Marina Pacifica 12
07.18.12 Long Beach, CA Art Theatre
07.18.12 Los Angeles, CA Rave 18- LTD # OF TICKETS AVAILABLE
07.18.12 Los Angeles, CA Landmark Regent- SOLD OUT!
07.18.12 Los Angeles, CA ArcLight Hollywood- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Los Angeles, CA Cinefamily- 7/19 SHOWS ADDED
07.18.12 Louisville, KY Rave Stonybrook 20
07.18.12 Macon, GA Cox Capitol
07.18.12 Madison, WI Sundance Madison
07.18.12 Manchester, CT Rave Buckland Hills
07.18.12 Miami, FL Tower Theater- LTD # OF TICKETS AVAILABLE
07.18.12 Milford, CT Rave Connecticut Post 14
07.18.12 Milwaukee, WI Landmark Downer- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Milwaukee, WI AMC Mayfair Mall 18
07.18.12 Minneapolis, MN Landmark Lagoon- SOLD OUT! STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES
07.18.12 Missoula, MT Wilma
07.18.12 Mobile, AL Crescent
07.18.12 Montgomery, AL Rave Festival 16
07.18.12 Montreal, QC Phi Centre- TICKETS ON SALE @ BOX OFFICE
07.18.12 Nashville, TN Belcourt
07.18.12 New Haven, CT Criterion
07.18.12 New Haven, CT AMC Loews Danbury 16
07.18.12 New York, NY AMC Empire 25
07.18.12 New York, NY IFC Center
07.18.12 New York, NY Landmark Sunshine- SOLD OUT! 7/25 SHOWS ADDED
07.18.12 New York, NY Clearview Chelsea- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 New York, NY Museum of Moving Image, Astoria- 2 SHOWS- JUST ADDED!
07.18.12 New York, NY 86th Street East- LTD # OF TICKETS AVAILABLE
07.18.12 Norfolk, VA AMC Hampton Towne Centre 24
07.18.12 Norfolk, VA Naro
07.18.12 Omaha, NE Film Streams
07.18.12 Omaha, NE AMC Oakview Plaza 24
07.18.12 Orlando, FL AMC Loews Universal Cineplex 20
07.18.12 Orlando, FL Enzian
07.18.12 Ottawa, ON Mayfair
07.18.12 Oxford, MS Lyric
07.18.12 Palo Alto, CA Landmark Aquarius
07.18.12 Pasadena, CA Laemmle Playhouse
07.18.12 Peoria, IL Rave Grand Prairie 18
07.18.12 Philadelphia, PA Rave University 6- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Philadelphia , PA AMC Neshaminy 24
07.18.12 Phoenix, AZ Harkins Valley Art- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Pittsburgh, PA Manor
07.18.12 Pittsburgh, PA AMC Loews Waterfront 22
07.18.12 Plano, TX Angelika Film Center
07.18.12 Pleasantville, NY Jacob Burns Center
07.18.12 Portland, ME Space Gallery- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Portland, OR Hollywood
07.18.12 Providence, RI AMC Dartmouth Mall 12
07.18.12 Providence, RI Cable Car- LATE SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 Reston, VA Reston Town Center 13
07.18.12 Richmond, VA Movieland @ Blvd. Square
07.18.12 Rochester, NY AMC Loews Webster 12
07.18.12 Rochester, NY The Little
07.18.12 Sacramento, CA AMC Showplace Manteca 16
07.18.12 Sacramento, CA Crest
07.18.12 Salt Lake City, UT Tower Theatre
07.18.12 San Diego, CA Landmark Hillcrest- SOLD OUT! 7/19 SHOW ADDED
07.18.12 San Francisco, CA AMC Van Ness 14
07.18.12 San Francisco, CA Landmark Embarcadero- SOLD OUT!
07.18.12 San Francisco, CA Balboa- SOLD OUT!
07.18.12 Santa Clara, CA AMC Mercado 20
07.18.12 Santa Cruz, CA Del Mar Theatre
07.18.12 Santa Fe, NM CCA
07.18.12 Schenectady, NY Movieland 6
07.18.12 Seattle, WA Cinerama
07.18.12 Silver Spring, MD AFI Silver Theatre
07.18.12 Spokane, WA Magic Lantern
07.18.12 Springfield, MO Moxie
07.18.12 St. Louis, MO Landmark Tivoli
07.18.12 St. Louis, MO AMC Chesterfield 14
07.18.12 Stamford, CT Majestic 6
07.18.12 Toledo, OH Rave Franklin Park 16
07.18.12 Toronto, ON Bloor
07.18.12 Tucson, AZ The Loft
07.18.12 Tulsa, OK Circle
07.18.12 Vancouver, BC 5th Ave
07.18.12 Voorhees, NJ Rave Ritz Center 16
07.18.12 Washington, DC Landmark E-Street - SOLD OUT!
07.18.12 Washington, DC AMC Loews Georgetown 14
07.18.12 West Chester, OH Rave Westchester 18
07.18.12 West Nyack, NY AMC Loews Palisades Center 21
07.18.12 West Springfield, MA Rave West Springfield 15
07.18.12 Wilmington, DE Theatre N
07.18.12 Winston-Salem, NC Aperture
07.18.12 Ypsilanti, MI Rave Ann Arbor 20