#lcd soundsystem

Summer Like The Season Makes a Timely Return with Premiere of "Root Mean Square" Video

Summer Like The Season - a.k.a Summer Krinsky, Scott Murphy and Liam McNitt - has a way of creating its own little world. Krinsky, who explains that texture and rhythm serve as the guiding forces of her songwriting, meticulously builds this world, brick by brick, using field recordings she’s...

Sara Barron

NEWS ROUNDUPYoko Ono's "Imagine" Credit, LCD Soundsystem Shows and More

Yoko Ono To Receive Songwriting Credit For 'Imagine" In a 1980 BBC interview, John Lennon admitted that his wife Yoko Ono deserved a co-credit for one of his most beloved solo songs, "Imagine," since much of the ideas and lyrics came directly from her poems. He denied her important role in its...

Emily Daly

NEWS ROUNDUPBK Steel Opens, Synth Pioneer Dies and More

RIP Ikutaro Kakehashi Ikutaro Kakehashi passed away last Saturday at age 87. He founded Roland in 1960, meaning without him, we’d be way behind in drum machine and synthesizer technology. After leading the company for decades, he founded the electronic instrument company ATV Corporation in 2014 and...

Emily Daly

NEWS ROUNDUPLCD Soundsystem, Andrew Bird and Wolkoff

LCD Soundsystem Is Playing NYC This Weekend! Guess the breakup didn’t last too long- after announcing plans for a new record and festival dates, the band will be playing at Webster Hall 3/27 and 3/28. Tix are first come, first serve, so you’ll have to enter a lottery to even get the chance to buy...

Emily Daly

AUDIOFEMME PRESENTSEnd of Summer Fling @ Baby's All Right, 8/18

AudioFemme is having a party. Naturally, there will be a bounty of great music. Tuesday, August 18th at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right we'll be dancing with some fabulous bands. To get you as excited as we are, here's a preview of our favorite things about our delightfully odd musical guests. We feel...

Sophie Saint Thomas

LIVE REVIEWThe Juan MacLean @ Union Pool

I’ll be honest: when I hear the genres “house,” “techno,” or “dance” being used to describe a band, I picture a couple of dudes posturing behind laptops. But when The Juan MacLean took the stage at Union Pool on Thursday, I knew this show would be different. John MacLean, the core of the project,...

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWMuseum of Love @ The Wick

Even as it evolved from dance-punk singles played in hip clubs to the extravagant, sold-out MSG finale show with a multitude of guest performances, LCD Soundsystem was always James Murphy's thing. Though Murphy enlisted a host of musicians to fill out his production and tour lineup, he remained its...

Lindsey Rhoades

TRACK OF THE WEEKMuseum of Love "In Infancy"

Decade-defying, dance-inducing electronic music has always been LCD Soundsystem’s signature calling card and it’s an ethos that obviously extends to the latest collaborative project from founding member Pat Mahoney and The Juan MacLean’s Dennis McNany. Dubbed Museum of Love, the duo channels a...

Sandra Song