Two years ago, LCD Soundsystem main brain and DFA Records co-founder James Murphy told SPIN that he was leaving his beloved band behind in part because, “There are other things I haven’t been able to do because of it…
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“We were a band, and these pictures make it clear we were a band,” James Murphy writes in new photo book.
Last month, LCD Soundsystem screened their swansong, Shut Up and Play the Hits — a touching documentary filmed in 2011 covering highlights from their final gig and James Murphy’s immediate readjustment to real life — at various movie theaters around the U…
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A scientific breakdown of the tear-jerking film documenting James Murphy and Co.’s last-ever concert at Madison Square Garden.
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More than a year after LCD Soundsystem played their emotional last show, James Murphy has been making the interview rounds lately in support of his final-gig documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits, which hits theaters on July 18…
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Beck, Fiona Apple, Kid Cudi, Modest Mouse, James Murphy and more: who handed out the best swag and turned out the least inspired sets.
In addition to shooting off a few e-mails just before going onstage for his band’s last-ever show at New York’s Madison Square Garden, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy had to make 100 percent sure everyone was in the wings, ready to go — this much we know from watching the second trailer-ish clip to drop from the band’s documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits (via Click Here to Read Entire Story!
This year’s HARD Summer festival in downtown Los Angeles grabbed so many talents, its organizers had to add a second date to what has been, for the past four years, a one-day blowout. This time, HARD touches down August 3-4, and invites Skrillex back as a main headliner with Bloc Party and a Miike Snow live set filling out the top slots…
It’s been just two years since Light Asylum began peppering the web with a near-constant stream of eye-opening, body-warming, dimly-lit electronica. In that time, the Brooklyn darkwave duo of Bruno Coviello (who’s provided vocals for !!! and Telepathe) and Shannon Funchess have cultivated a devout following, one that even includes former LCD Soundsystem frontschlub James Murphy, who once said the idea of being able to produce for them was reason enough to break up his much-missed outfit…
On the one-year anniversary of LCD Soundsystem’s final show at New York’s Madison Square Garden, James Murphy’s band is back in the news again. Shut Up and Play the Hits, the film documenting the band’s final days, will get continent-wide distribution this summer via a series of “special one-night-only engagements” thanks to Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, whose four-year-old film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories will be handling the release…
