When evaluating LCD Soundsystem's newest, we said This Is Happening opener “Dance Yrself Clean” gets things going perfectly. It's a great establishing shot, Murphy suggesting you laugh things off…   Read Story »

A ways back we filled you in on LCD Soundsystem’s Vinyl Saturday 12" featuring a cover of “the original Bye Bye Bayou” from M.I.A pal Alan Vega’s eponymous 1980 solo debut. Then you heard…   Read Story »

LCD Soundsystem's 10-minute tranced-out Paperclip People (aka Carl Craig) cover appears as a well-curated This Is Happening iTunes bonus track. (Thanks for the heads up, We All Want Someone.) The…   Read Story »

In case you're tired of "Drunk Girls" in This Is Happening form, LCD Soundystem city/labelmates Holy Ghost! have given it some vocal-submerging layers, including drums from the late Jerry Fuchs. You…   Read Story »

Having heard the rest of This Is Happening, we know "Drunk Girls" isn't the best the album offers, though it's a perfect party jam. So goes the official "Drunk Girls" video, which shows the band…   Read Story »

Four years into my Coachella career and I've never experienced an Indio spring so mild. It's a gift from the gods meaning Brooklynites like Scott and I can wear jeans all weekend, a blessing with the…   Read Story »

With all the recent track leaks, everyone knows that, yes, This Is Happening. If you trust ecstatic man-on-the-Tweet hyperbole, LCD Soundsystem's third album is the record catapulting James Murphy to…   Read Story »

If you're carefully tracking all things LCD Soundsystem these days, you know that just this morning two more songs joined the list of pre-release leaks from This Is Happening. If you're really up on…   Read Story »

You may know one of these from the post in which we talked about LCD Soundsystem mercilessly ravaging Music Hall Of Williamsburg last Thursday; regardless, both will come as a soothing balm to those…   Read Story »

Every so often there's a show in NYC so seismic that RSS and Twitter feeds become hostile places for anyone not lucky (or whatever) enough to be there. I'm aware of the phenomenon, and sorry to do…   Read Story »