LCD Soundsystem

2002: The Year in Music — Yancey Strickler's annotated list

Guide by Yancey Strickler, Flak Magazine, 31 December 2002

Yancey's Tracks: 1. 'Losing My Edge' | LCD Soundsystem 2. 'No One Knows' | Queens of the Stone Age 3. 'Let's Push Things Forward' | The Streets 4. 'Soft ...

Liquid ecstasy: LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem (DFA/EMI) *****

Review and Interview by Rob Young, Uncut, February 2005

New York's disco infiltrators put the "cross" in crossover ...

LCD Soundsystem: Soundsystem And Vision

Interview by John Doran, Disorder, July 2005

"I'm losing my edge. To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin. I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed ...

LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

Review by David Stubbs, The Wire, March 2007

THE LYRIC to the title track of LCD Soundsystem's latest album is more of a mantra: "The sound of silver/Makes you want to be a ...

LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 9 March 2007

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM'S James Murphy is chiefly regarded as a man with a gargantuan record collection. ...

LCD Soundsystem: The Sound of Silver

Review by Jeff Weiss, Passion of the Weiss, 9 March 2007

JAMES MURPHY is the David Eckstein of music. He's an unassuming schlubby looking guy. The sort of dude you expect to see in line in ...

John Cale meets LCD Soundsystem

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 15 June 2007

They are both stars of New York's music scene – pioneers of the coolest pop, separated by 30 years. James Murphy and John Cale get ...

LCD Soundsystem: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 26 April 2010

HAVING VOWED to disband LCD Soundsystem when he turned 40, James Murphy – who reached that milestone in February – is currently on his (presumably) ...

Why Your Favourite Band Should Split Up

Overview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 19 August 2010

From the Pixies to the Zombies, Jude Rogers talks to the bands who chose to burn out, not fade away ...

A Trip To Oya In Oslo Via Pavement, Munch & MIA 


Report by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 20 August 2010

IF YOU GO for a cigarette on the fourth floor balcony of the hotel, you see cruise-ships and boats flanking a floating stage, upon which ...

LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip: Alexandra Palace, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 12 November 2010

LIKE AN indie-rock version of the Special Relationship, the New York disco-punks LCD Soundsystem and their London electro-pop soulmates Hot Chip are on a joint ...

Give It Up! Ten Reasons We Loved LCD Soundsystem

Comment by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, April 2011

On Saturday April 2, 2011, at Madison Square Garden, LCD Soundsystem gave it up for good. Here are Ten Reasons We Loved Them... ...

LCD Soundsystem: Madison Square Garden

Live Review by Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 3 April 2011

JAMES MURPHY is Irish, so why not a wake? Following his decision to kill off the LCD Soundsystem franchise, lead singer Murphy announced a last hurrah ...

Lizzy Goodman: Meet Me in the Bathroom – Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City, 2001-2011

Book Review by Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 8 August 2017

This oral history of New York's musical renaissance is vivid, informative and full of passion. ...

LCD Soundsystem: Manchester Warehouse Project

Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 17 September 2017

THERE ARE PLENTY of us who'd given up on ever seeing LCD Soundsystem again. In April 2011, the New York ensemble bowed out with a ...