In Depth by Al Horner
James Murphy is many things to many people: frontman to now defunct electro icons LCD Soundsystem, label boss to the influential DFA Records, producer, DJ, coffee entrepreneur, watch manufacturer, comedian, budding novelist and now with the release of Shut Up and Play The Hits, a two hour document of his band's final show at Madison Square Garden, a film star. With so many strings already to his bow, is there anything he can't do, asks Al Horner.»
In Depth by Krystina Nellis
A few weeks back DiS' Krystina Nellis set up home in the O2 for three days, in the name of Sundance London, the new branch of US indie cinema's annual pilgrimage to Utah. »
In Depth by Krystina Nellis
Shut Up and Play The Hits is Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern's attempt to chronicle the melange of mayhem that was the last 48 hours of LCD Soundsystem. Maybe not that big a band, maybe not that big a gig, just another night in New York. And yet, somehow, Madison Square Garden on April 2nd 2011, dominated by our generation's answer to David Byrne, became a strange musical Mecca for the web 2.0 generation.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
DiS' records of the year twenty ten. After a week of teasing, confusing and enraging some of you, our countdown of the albums we have loved the most in 2010 concludes with this top 10.»
In Depth by Luke Slater
Edition #67 in our weekly round-up of content, morphed into the form of a playlist.»
In Depth by Nick Neyland
The first thing that struck me when I moved to Brooklyn in 2002 was how many anglophiles there were everywhere. I’d been to New York a few times prior to actually making the city my home, and on those trips I’d often connected with blowhard music fans»
In Depth by Gideon Brody
For those that only know about Oxegen, Electric Picnic is the other major Irish festival and the country's closest answer to Glastonbury. Sure, it has little of Worthy Farm's tradition (it only began in 2004), but that needn't preclude it from feeling special. It has a similarly well-balanced mix of music, culture/arts, fun stuff and pretty decent food. The Stradbally Estate setting is beautiful, and there's a decent crowd of beery lads'n'lasses and middle class wine-quaffers to make things lively, but never rowdy.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
I didn't have the attention span to stick to one genre, so in my headphones and on this playlist, there's some lazer-guided missles of misery and really-silly raps and utterly ridiculous bits of yoddelling (O HAI GWEN STEFANI!). This is my voyage through these dizzy digital days and the "solo" artists who pixellated my heart... »
In Depth by Luke Slater
DiS packed its bags and headed North, to Oslo's Øya festival, a festival with a line-up so rammed to the rafters with pure high-quality that we thought we might have trouble containing ourselves. We just about did...»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Les Eurockeennes: A Diary - Day ‘Trois’
On the last day of a festival, especially one in a foreign land, it is customary to feel a little low, a little humdrum. And I am no exception, for I wake on Sunday a little sadface that it will soon be over, »
In Depth by Simon Jay Catling
Glastonbury Part 4: Sunday
Simon Jay Catling: Well, well, well…christ I'm knackered. Revelling in the sun is Hard Work. Your heart bleeds I’m sure. Anyway, the last proper morning with Team Hospitality becomes eminently more comfortable when most of »
In Depth by William Grant
The continued adventures of Alex Baker and William Grant at Sonar 2010.»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Eurockéennes, or ‘Les Eurocks’ (should you wish to appear down with les Fronch) is a music festival in Belfort, near the Swiss border. Jay-Z, Missy, Fuck Buttons, Hot Chip, The XX, Janelle Monae, LCD Soundsystem, Health and Mr. Julian Casablancas will be there. Here's why you should join them. »
In Depth by Wendy Roby
This week's dispatch is late because poor old Wend has been Unwell. And though it is not 'unwell' in the Jeffrey Bernard sense, we are going to talk about drunkeness. Also stalking, wisdom, Aladdin lamps and Zoetropes. Yay!»
In Depth by Luke Slater
The fourty-second Spotify playlist is a little like the fourty-second President of the USA in that it's a bit of a dark horse. And is quite long. It features Rolo Tomassi, Rusko, Blood Red Shoes, HEALTH, Dark Dark Dark, Summer Camp and an awful lot more. That Rusko track absolutely demands your attention, though. »
In Depth by Chris Power
DiS' Chris Power gets a first listen to LCD Soundsystem's forthcoming untitled album.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
Welcome to the 30th Spotifriday, compiling the week on DiS as a Spotify playlist. What an eventual week it's been, I'll cut to the chase and explain as I go along.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
It's Friday and on DiS throughout 2009 that meant we did a Spotify playlist to compliment our editorial (archived here). Yeah, it is not unlike a covermount cassette wot you used to get on Melody Maker (RIP). Simply CLICK THIS LINK and you'll be whisked to the founder and current editor of this websites top 40 songs of the year playlist. They're not in any particular order per se, more-so organised into a listenable flow - yeah, not unlike a proper mixtape, just without all that pause button bashing ballache. »
In Depth by Luke Slater
More Spotify based fun, featuring Panda Bear, Frightened Rabbit, Liars, Hot Chip, Field Music, LCD Soundsystem, Hefner and a bag more.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
DiS chats with James Murphy about the forthcoming LCD album, Free Energy and a soundtrack he's been working on.»
In Depth by Luke Slater
This week on DiS as a Spotify playlist featuring Michael Jackson, Efterklang, Richmond Fontaine, Daniel Johnston, Paramore and Cougar.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
DiS is still mulling over the decade that was and pondering who the most important acts were, what the best gig was and which labels/events/moments really truly mattered. To soundtrack my thought process, I've compiled this playlist of my favourite songs of the decade and thought I'd join the opensource revolution and share this playlist with you all.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
Yeah, THANK GOD/DOG/F*CK IT'S FRIDAY! It certainly was the easiest day to pick random tracks for which feature the name of the day in the title. In fact just searching for 'Friday Night' brings up a whole array of interpretations of "party night". Hopefully this playlist goes some way to summing up and soundtracking at least one part of your Friday night frolicking and if not, what says Friday to you? (comment below)»
In Depth by Sean Adams
DiS likes to end the week with Spotifriday. It's a weekly Spotify playlist which linkedly runs down the best bits from this week on DiS. This is the 11th time we've done it and you simply download the free Spotify software and then click here to listen whilst reading the below stuff or doing whatever you please. »
In Depth by Richard MacFarlane
Festival fever starts early in 2008 as DiS heads south... further... bingo... for the annual Big Day Out festival in Australia. Our man on the Gold Coast takes in Arcade Fire and Björk while dodging questionable domestic rock acts and wrestling rugger thugs. Spirits are high and rising»
In Depth by Mike Diver
It’s been a slog – we’ve been arguing over this list for what feels like forever – but we’re here. The summit. The zenith. Et cetera. The best five albums of 2007 in detail and our full 50 in order, as ranked by the DiS editorial team from contributor nominations»
In Depth by Mike Diver
Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team. Now we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007»
In Depth by Mike Diver
We’ve had our albums of the year and our tracks of the year, and here DiS bids you adieu for 2007 with our favourite features of the past twelve months, for your instant-click consumption and eye-aching reading pleasure. Starring Animal Collective (pictured), LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Panda Bear, M.I.A., Gallows, Beirut, Björk and more»
In Depth by zzzzzz zzzzzz
DiS spends some time with James Murphy, the man behind NYC’s LCD Soundsystem, to talk touring, time management, and how he came to create our album of the year, Sound Of Silver»
In Depth by Mike Diver
With Christmas now peeking over the horizon, DiS invites its readers to vote for your top ten of 2007, from our editorially selected shortlist of 50. Choose five of your favourites here. Voting, it will close this Friday, December 7, with the results running December 14»
In Depth by Kev Kharas
It's been pretty miserable at times - heavy, pluvial skies pathetic fallacy for debut all-dayers and long weekenders that have sometimes spluttered rather than flown out of the traps. The weather and the times - to an extent at least - brightened last weekend, with the traditional sign off from music in the sun that is Reading and Leeds. And that, I suppose, is reason enough to break from cynicism just this once. It was a bind, but there were finer times. Time to gather thoughts and lighten brows...»
In Depth by A bunch of drunk DiS writers
DiS heads to Barcelona for the second time this year - following Primavera at the end of May - for Summercase. What we find: a drunk Lily Allen, a chilled-out Chemical Brothers, and some dodgy scotch...»
In Depth by A bunch of drunk DiS writers
T’other weekend, London’s Hyde Park played host to the now annual (and twin-site) O2 Wireless Festival. DiS was on site to catch some of the acts. Not literally, you understand – that would require a net too large for men of our stature to handle...»
In Depth by Mike Diver
Six months into 2007 (almost...) and there’s already a not-so-proverbial shit-tonne of albums in contention for the coveted Album of the Year ‘gong’ at DiS – again, the winner will be selected by you, the readers, from a shortlist compiled by us. Yup.»
In Depth by Gareth Dobson
DiS's Gareth Dobson meets LCD Soundsystem head-honcho James Murphy to discuss the genesis of DFA Records, The Rapture's ascent to fame, and Daft Punk... almost.
"I think I’m lucky – I understand what I’ve gotten myself into and I’m not stressed about it. I’m given a lot of freedom, and I don’t know that I have to worry a lot about what the rules are… because I’m not all that obsessed with what the results are"»
In Depth by Mike Diver
Every year is made up of twelve months. This, any modern Roman Calendar will tell you. What said flap of paper full of boxes and reminders to call mum and book a visit to the dentist will also tell you is that every month is made up of four or five Mondays. And some other days, too, but mainly Mondays. They’re all that matter, really, as it is on Mondays that our record stores are full to bursting with new releases...»
In Depth by Gareth Dobson
James Murphy, the ears behind LCD Soundsytem and DFA records talks about NYC, Reading Festival, sh*tty record labels, great record labels, songs that erase albums, and how they'll decide to be the worst or greatest live band in the world... depending on how complimentary you are... a genius interview indeed... read on.»
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