James Murphy

Gorillaz releasing track with Andre3000

Music Gossip

9 Feb 2012

Gorillaz are releasing a new single with Andre3000. The cartoon band have joined with the Outkast star and former LCD Soundsytem frontman James Murphy for 'DoYaThing', available to fans as a free download from shoe company Converse's website later…

LCD Soundsystem on Hot Chip, Glasgow Barrowland and breaking the cycle - James Murphy interview

'I don’t know what’s going to happen for the first time in five years. It’s exciting to be confused'

3 Nov 2010

‘There’s a right way and a wrong way to play Glasgow,’ says LCD Soundsystem founder and frontman James Murphy. And he should know. His band’s excursions to the Barrowlands (‘my favourite venue in my favourite city in the world’, the New Yorker assures…

Greenberg

10 Jun 2010

(15) 107min The worst thing about a mid life crisis? You are only half way through. Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is 40 years old, unemployed, house-sitting for his rich brother and a minefield of mildly autistic behaviour. Obnoxious…

LCD Soundsystem

Barrowland, Glasgow, Wed 24 Apr

4 May 2010

Much has been made of James Murphy’s love for the Barrowland, so it stands to reason that any show here by Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s most astute musical export should be nothing short of incendiary, right? Handy then that LCD Soundsystem brought the…

LCD Soundsystem play Glasgow dates

15 Apr 2010

‘You wanted a hit,’ sings James Murphy on his new song of the same name, ‘but maybe we don’t do hits. I try / and try / it ends up feeling kind of wrong.’ Through the entirety of LCD Soundsystem’s much anticipated third record This is Happening, it’s…

Sonar 2009, Barcelona, Thu 18 to Sat 20 Jun

3 Jul 2009

After months of agonising waiting it was finally upon us – Sonar 2009! Arriving at Barcelona’s supercool Sonar Village in the complex of Centre de Culture Contemporanea de Barcelona (CCCB) near Las Ramblas on Friday afternoon, we were like kids on…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Tennent’s Mutual

18 Sep 2008

Don’t worry if you’re still scratching your head at the concept of Tennent’s Mutual – the ‘experimental’ new ‘co-creative’ music initiative, which launched its first line-up earlier this month – you’re in good company, and even Tennent’s’ Senior…

LCD Soundsystem - preview

LCD Soundsystem

28 Feb 2007

ELECTRO-ROCK Not many people have created as distinct a sound as James Murphy. As half of production duo DFA, Murphy launched The Rapture, The Juan Maclean and Black Dice, then remixed the hell out of the likes of Gorillaz, Justin Timberlake and Nine…