Ef það er eitthvað sem ætti að verða til þess að þeir örfáu miðar sem eftir eru á Iceland Airwaves seljist upp, þá er það fréttatilkynningin sem barst Rjómanum í dag. James Murphy mun koma fram á Iceland Airwaves tónlistarhátíðinni í haust! Það þarf vart að kynna Murphy fyrir tónlistaráhugafólki en hann hefur verið fyrirferðarmikill sl. áratug bæði á sviði útgáfu (DAF) og sem listamaður í ýmsum verkefnum þó frægastur sé hann án efa fyrir sólóferil sinn og hina mögnuðu sveit LCD Soundsystem . Það verður dansað alla nóttina þegar James Murphy [...]
Hey, you, scummy hipster. How are you enduring without LCD SOUNDSYSTEM since the retirement? This shot-for-shot lego recreation of LCD SOUNDSYSTEM's "All My Friends" is hands down the coolest thing I've seen since the Muppets performed "Dance Yrself Clean in the streets. "All My Friends" is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. Hope you enjoy! And hit the jump for the original video if you haven't seen it drink the kool aid:
Ladies and gentlemen, I present you exhibit 14,560,503 that the Internet is basically the greatest thing us humans have ever committed to in our quest for entertainment: An LCD Soundsystem fan named Michael J. Green has gone ahead and made a LEGO-centric shot-for-shot remake of LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" video. You will be hard pressed to find anything in your life that will cause you as much joy as this today. Just the absolute best. Watch: And the original:
There are few bands I would be willing to travel half way around the world to see, LCD Soundsystem are one. So like many people I've spent large amounts of time this week wrestling with the blackhole of the music industry that is Ticketmaster, and like many people this week found myself totally gipped. But as I say there are few bands I would be willing to travel half way around the world to see, and things like this are why LCD Soundsystem are one. 4 extra 'fuck the scalpers' shows at Terminal 5 (good venue New [...]

I shall not lie, over the past few days I was unsure if the 100th mark would be reached, never mind broken. However, I have decided to prove myself wrong, and write on! The reason for this uncertainty, initially, was due to me being unsure how long more I could stay in America for, on this current visa. With under 2 weeks left on the visa, I was weighing up another spring break trip to Mexico or Canada. My episode was good to go, being passed around, I was heading back to L.A in order to get a scene or two made, [...]

This past Monday, I finally graduated from college and received my university diploma. The four years leading up to it seem both very long and incredibly short at the same time. All the ceremonies were generally good. Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking was the Class Day speaker and gave a hilarious, touching, and overall awesome speech, which you can see the text of here . Many times we graduates were told that the weekend wasn't really for us, but instead for the parents, grandparents, and other friends and relatives who had [...]
Sometime LCD Soundsystem guitarist and Hot Chip mainstay Al Doyle recently revealed that James Murphy might retire the LCD Soundsytem band name. Speaking with BBC 6Music Doyle hinted at LCD Soundsyetm's "retirement": "I don't think James is going to do anything more under that name [LCD Soundsystem]. I think he'd like to do something with the same personnel possibly next year." Though I'm a sentimentalist, the band name was pretty naff so I'm not that sad to see it go. When I first heard of LCD Soundsystem, [...]
At this point, I don't think there is much left to say about "All My Friends". It's a really great track. One of James Murphy's best qualities as a producer is his unbelievable patience. He's more than willing to have a track grow over nine minutes. He's willing to let the first two or three minutes start slowly and to let it build into a beast, as he does with "All My Friends". Just a great, great song. [...]
Girl About Town tackled our favorite songs of the year, and now it's time to move on to our top 5 favorite Albums of the year. Here's what we loaded out iPods with in 2007.... Anne's Top 5: 1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (Capitol) 2. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living for the Living [...]
Here it is, the end of this week-long list of songs. The Top 50 can now finally be complete. In case you missed some days, feel free to click the links at the bottom of this thing for the rest of the songs. Also, if you're looking for something with less clutter and writing, I'll have a regular text copy of the straight list (no mp3s, videos, descriptions, etc) once Listmas is done. So I hope you like these last 10 songs, and if you haven't heard some of them, check them out immediately! They're all well worth your time. [...]
So it's been almost four days since the LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire double headliner (nominally, at least) at Starlight Theatre, and everyone's forgotten about it and moved on, but, having spent a couple days snorting nasal spray, hacking up phlegm and listening to the trains go through the Bottoms, I have some thoughts to share. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM = awesome. (photos by Scott Spychalski; click here for more.) [...]
Two Times Higher with the Rock Clip of the Week this week - we're celebrating two great tracks titled "All My Friends", one by Brooklyn band The XYZ Affair and the other from James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem . The XYZ Affair plays live tonight at Union Pool in Brooklyn. Here's their debut video below from this past summer, called "All My Friends". It's five minutes long, but worth watching it all for all the yummy pop goodness and big chord hooks. See them tonight if you get a chance. All My [...]
Hey, it's Thursday already! That's a good thing!
In case you havent seen it yet... The first time I saw this video I was almost in tears... made what I originally thought to be a bland song into a very raw statement. I knew the lyrics, but the subtle visuals really made this song one of my faves on the Sound of Silver. Enjoy.
Normally when a band is from LA, it can go 1 of 2 ways: A band with a lot of hype that lacks anything special or a band with a lot of hype that actually gives your eardrum an eargasm. In the case of Earlimart , they tickle the auditory senses quite nicely while taking you to a place in your mind that evokes road trips, summer days by the lake and thoughts of your first love disappearing from your life. While I've yet to hear all [...]
What's more rock n' roll than shooting guns and taking tequila shots with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age ? A clown college.
Music Buzz Mondays.... It's a catchy name and a new weekly post from Badical Beats. Five links to stories of what's happening in the music business. From label mergers to rehab stories, we got it covered. Watch out Pirates! Universal Music's DRM-Free Mp3's to be Watermarked... Vinyl Saves the Indie Record Store... Universal Music Group Buying out V2 Records... Pitchfork Media Interviews Iggy Pop... [...]
DFA Records has a new spin-off label called Death From Abroad that is dedicated to releasing 12" singles in the USA from artists all over the globe. The first releases are scheduled for August 28th, and will consist of the single "K-Choppers" from the London based Mock & Toof , and the single "Max Motion" from ALTZ of Osaka, Japan. To follow up the first two releases, the UK production team Gucci Soundsystem will be releasing their single "Acarpenter" on September 18th. You can STREAM music [...]
The Swedish Indie Rock band Love Is All have a relatively new record out through what's your rupture? / parlophone called Nine Times that Same Song . It was recommended to me by a friend and I've been spinning it non-stop ever since. In its most basic form, one could describe the music as a Yeah Yeah Yeah 's meets Arcade Fire . The sound is fresh, raw, and energetic, and all the aforementioned attributes come from a very real place inside the minds of five Swedes who [...]