LCD Soundsystem

Programme revealed for Sundance London Music and Film Festival

Robert Redford and Tricky scheduled for talks and performances

9 Mar 2012

The programme has been revealed for the inaugural Sundance London Music and Film Festival, to be held at The O2 from Thu 26–Sun 29 Apr. The festival is centred around the screening of 14 films from Robert Redford's annual Sundance independent film…

The top albums of 2010

LCD Soundsystem, Washed Out, Robyn, Errors, Arcade Fire

17 Feb 2011

LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening (DFA/ EMI) James Murphy and co’s last album also features one of the year’s most tantalisingly misleading album intros. It’s over three (very mellow) minutes into ‘Dance Yrself Clean’ before the proper beats…

LCD Soundsystem play more farewell shows

Music Gossip

14 Feb 2011

LCD Soundsystem are to play four more farewell shows for "the people who want to see them". The dance act - fronted by James Murphy - announced earlier this month that they were disbanding but would be playing one last gig at New York's Madison…

LCD Soundsystem to retire after New York show

Music Gossip

8 Feb 2011

LCD Soundsystem have announced they are to split. The American dance group - fronted by James Murphy - say they will play their last ever gig at New York's Madison Square Garden on April 2. In a statement released on their website, the band said…

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…

LCD Soundsystem and Fever Ray highlights of Electric Picnic 2010

Stradbally, Ireland, 3-5 Sep 2010

15 Sep 2010

The Picnic is one of two major events bookending the Irish festival season, and it feels like all of Ireland has turned out for summer’s last gasp. Which, as it turns out, is a rather wet one. But no matter, for the craic is good, the pies are hearty…

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 - This is Happening

6 May 2010

(Parlophone) The cover art of LCD Soundsystem’s third (and seemingly final) album speaks volumes. It’s a striking, iconographic hybrid of David Bowie’s swaggering icon on Lodger (the final dispatch in his Eno-heavy Berlin trilogy); and Bryan Ferry’s…

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…

Optimover: The end of Optimo - A legendary club night

15 Apr 2010

Somehow, phrases like ‘the end of an era’ seem too melodramatic for Optimo (Espacio), a club which just cut the crap and got on with defining Glasgow’s Sunday night. For the past thirteen years, its residents JD Twitch and JG Wilkes (aka Keith McIvor…

Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise

27 Jan 2010

(Rough Trade) Hendrick Weber’s third album, the follow up to 2007’s acclaimed This Bliss, is equally laden with his signature digital bells, chimes, dings and tings. It’s also full of brilliant examples of the more recognisable elements of minimal…

The Juan Maclean

A reminder of just how exhilarating live music can be

18 Aug 2009

This was always going to be good one. ‘Jesus, this place is small’ says production lynchpin John Maclean confronted by a wall of 100 bodies in a packed-out Sneaky’s. With four people, a drumkit and half a dozen synths crammed onto a tiny stage, and…

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…

Also Released - Music

15 Nov 2007

• LCD Soundsystem > 45:33 (DFA/EMI) James Murphy and Pat Mahoney Fabriclive: 36 (Fabric) A pair of LCD related mixtapes emerge within weeks of each other, the former an extended jam Murphy recorded for Nike which gets a physical release while the latter…

Hitlist - The best rock, pop, jazz & folk

18 Oct 2007

• LCD Soundsystem James Murphy (pictured) is no stranger to these parts and this welcome return visit comes hot on the heels of their Stateside tour supporting Arcade Fire... Barrowland, Glasgow, Mon 22 Oct. (Rock & Pop) • Arcade Fire... who, luck…

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…

Singles and downloads

Singles and downloads

13 Feb 2007

An almighty Single of the Fortnight has this reviewer’s eager digits already itching to rattle off their glowing textual praise. But first credit where it’s due to some of the largely stiff short-playing competition coming your way in the next 14 days…