The documentary film “Shut Up And Play The Hits” will premiere on Sunday January 22nd at the Sundance Film Festival. It follows LCD Soundsystem‘s frontman James Murphy on the days leading up to his farewell concert and definite break-up. It contains intimate interviews and concert footage. A documentary you shouldn’t miss, check out the trailer below and visit the film’s website for more.
Many of us didn’t have the opportunity to witness LCD Soundsystem’s final gig at Madison Square Garden this past Saturday night. But many of you still had the chance to watch the live stream over at Pitchfork. Still you may want to watch it over and over again, before they release an official DVD which I’m sure won’t take long, but before that happens check out the complete show on the video below:
Their last show featured surprise guests like Arcade Fire, Shit Robot and openers Liquid Liquid plus one hell of a crowd! Be patient with the video it may take some time to load.
As part of the A.V. Club’s list of 25 covers to be made by different artists we can now watch Baths cover the insane LCD Soundystem original All My Friends from the album “Sound of Silver”. In this version Will Wiesenfeld with the help of tour mate Dexter from the band Houses manage to strip down the song to it’s very core and leave us a melancholic romantic anthem. The opposite of the first cover in this sessions made by Iron and Wine to George Michael’s One More Try which you can check out here.
It’s been a couple of weeks since James Murphy claimed he was no longer going to perform or record under the name of LCD Soundsystems…… Yes, it’s such a shame, but hey, the guy must have his reasons, plus he left us their best album to make it thru. In these two videos we can see it didn’t take long for Kermit the frog to step up.
Filmed on a balcony in Brighton, directed by Javier Douglas: “Dance Yrself Clean” from their album This is Happening!
This was the first video of Kermit impersonating James Murphy on “New York I love You, but you’re Bringing me Down” from their album Sound of Silver!
Almost 6 months have gone by since we opened this page, it has been a thrill to enjoy the amazing music we have found this year and most of all to share it with all of you…. From new releases of bands like Stone Temple Pilots, The Dead Weather, The Black Keys, Band of Horses…. it has been hard to decide on only 5 especially when we have a list of about 35 tracks from previous months that we would love to add… we hope we can deliver a in June a 6 month playlist with the best 50 tracks of 2010.. Without further ado our monthly top 5 are: Read More
Classes are almost over and the dreams off the never-ending parties are all that keeps us going trough finals (yes, fuck I never actually learned shit). Childhood dreams come back to our head, we eagerly wait for lunch time to get our favorite snack, Bill Cosby comes to my head… To hell with that, and let’s get screwed up on jello shots, ‘cuz if you didn’t learn it before you won’t learn if for tomorrow. Read More
As Blur said on “Fools Day” their first release in 7 years: “called out by the sun, on the FIRST DAY OF APRIL…” we reach 1/3 of 2010. Spring developes, around the world seasons change, trees bloom, the world around us gets somehow greener. We here at LLHV have found many gems for this month, thanks to Record Store Day we received a hot new single from Blur, and thanks to April 20… well you know how it is….. lets just say we fell upon great new music that we would like to share with you. Read More
LCD Soundsystem a band focused primarily on dance and electronic rhythms with few but catchy vocals, surprise us with their upcoming album making it stand out from previous work due to its pop influence. From “This is Happening” the newest album to be released on May 17th comes the first, and best, track entitled “Dance Yrself Clean” Read More
We here at lowlights have no idea how this music festival had gone unperceived by us, and the majority of the world. It is right in the middle of Coachella and Lollapalooza, during May 29, 30, and 31. This magnificent music festival takes place in The Gorge Amphitheater in Washington!
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The lineup’s been announced; we here at lowLightshighVolume are dying to go to this years Coachella Festival @ Indio, California, from April 16 to April 18 we will experience music in the making. From bands that brought us the best songs of 2009 to the bands that will present us with their best material, winning us over, to land on our top tracks for the 2010…. Yes we are very anxious… So instead of wondering what to expect, we hope the playlists we will provide you with, will give all of those who have not made up their mind about going, make YOU want to go so badly that you’ll forget you ever doubted it… We will be providing you with playlists according to the mood that surrounds a song, so this way, YOU can relate with the extraordinary work of various artists… Enjoy
For all of those who like music that INSPIRES this is your playlist:
The Weird Fishes Are Dead 