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Hip Replacement.(LCD Soundsystem)
About five years ago, indie rockers began to rediscover the pleasures of rhythm. Punk funk, as it was called in the seventies and early eighties, made a return, and New York bands like the Rapture and their production team, the DFA, started making tense, repetitive dance records that drew from both disco and rock. In 2002, James Murphy, half of the DFA, released a record under the name LCD Soundsystem called "Losing My Edge," a comic monologue told from the viewpoint of a hipster who knows too much about music for his own good. "I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978," Murphy sings. "I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties." While the DFA started getting big commissions--including an unfinished collaboration with Britney Spears--LCD Soundsystem became a real band and started playing live. And something funny happened: LCD Soundsystem turned out to be more than a joke.
Live, LCD Soundsystem is sweaty and aggressive, anything but ironic. Murphy shouts his catchphrases and plays ...
- Kansas State U.: CD REVIEW: LCD Soundsystem exceed expectations for debut album.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 28, 2005 700+ words
...The first disc is LCD Soundsystem's proper debut...second disc compiles all LCD Soundsystem's ground-breaking...s first single, "Losing My Edge," where Murphy...ride. It is one of LCD Soundsystem's greatest songs...
- U. Massachusetts: CD REVIEW: LCD Soundsystem finds balance with 'Sound of...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 27, 2007 700+ words
...James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem can do no wrong...2002 single "Losing My Edge" was...entries in the LCD Soundsystem catalogue by...almost as if "Losing My Edge" never...different than other LCD Soundsystem releases...
- U. Notre Dame: CD REVIEW: LCD Soundsystem redeems modern music.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 17, 2005 700+ words
...party-starters on the LCD Soundsystem's debut record that...package. Behold as the LCD Soundsystem conjures the living...accessible track. LCD Soundsystem's sublime power rests...singles, including "Losing My Edge, " James Murphy...
- Dartmouth: CD REVIEW: LCD Soundsystem gets serious with new dance-rock album.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 27, 2007 700+ words
...the man behind the pop-dance group LCD Soundsystem, recently asked his fans for a favor...decision. "Sound of Silver" is LCD Soundsystem's second full-length album release...and Nine Inch Nails, Murphy formed LCD Soundsystem, a one-man dance punk band. His...
- U. Minnesota: CD REVIEW: LCD Soundsystem creates seamless blend of rock, dance...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 30, 2007 700+ words
...this period of slight cabin fever was LCD Soundsystem's latest offering, "Sound of Silver...nosed acts like !!!, but also LCD Soundsystem's eponymous 2005 debut. The difference...strut and plunking percussions as LCD Soundsystem's big hit "Daft Punk Is Playing...
- Hot Chip's Al Doyle: LCD Soundsystem have not disbanded.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire November 19, 2008 700+ words
...foot our of his mouth to explain that LCD Soundsystem will not be splitting up. Writing...appeared ... quoting me as saying LCD Soundsystem is over. I would like to clarify...is clearly not the same as saying LCD Soundsystem is no more, but we've already moved...
- LCD Soundsystem: Tribulations.
- Magazine article from: Music Week September 17, 2005 700+ words
LCD Soundsystem Tribulations (DFA/EMI DFAEMI2151) Perhaps the most electroclash-sounding track on LCD Soundsystem's excellent debut album, this Italo-tinged club hit now sees a full release. Festival gigs at Glastonbury, T In The Park...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 23, 2005 700+ words
...Keeping the beats going, headliner lcd soundsystem will kick off the second leg of the...live performance DJs in the world. Lcd soundsystem, whose sound is shaped by its frontman...Jessie Street (415-625-8880) lcd soundsystem OCTOBER 11 PORTLAND: WONDER BALLROOM...
- The Kansas City Star, Mo., Timothy Finn column: LCD Soundsystem's main (and...
- News wire article from: Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) September 27, 2007 700+ words
...performing DJ, a record producer and the sole founder of the Grammy-nominated, dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem. Last week LCD Soundsystem (Murphy plus his backup band) began a tour with the Arcade Fire that will stop Friday at Starlight...
- LCD Soundsystem.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Thrasher Pulver, Sarah September 1, 2005 700+ words
JAMES MURPHY, WISE-ASS MASTERMIND behind dance-rock punk-funk LCD Soundsystem and DFA Records, makes cowbell-laced disco-infiltrated tracks that are making people move on dance floors around the world...
