Oh, for a few more days of being under the influence and along-side the influencers.

This weekend, I made my way to the greater Baltimore area for what was predicted to be a very rainy, muddy Virgin Mobile Free Fest. Upon arriving at the airport, though, my driver (Yakov!!! I love you!!) pointed out that: “Is because you here, the sun come out!” And out it stayed! You’re welcome, Free Fest attendees!

After getting cleaned up, my friends and I headed towards DC (on a yellow schoolbus) for a little dinner and dancing, courtesy of the beautiful Mekanism team. The setting was the 9:30 Club, where we were supposed to have dinner and then watch Peter, Bjorn, and John play. But something happened and part of PB&J were injured, which isn’t funny, but is, because A) It’s Peter Bjorn and John..what were THEY doing to get injured? and B) Because PB&J. So, instead of getting a sensitive, light pop show, we got a fucking scorching ECLECTIC METHOD DJ set, rich with mind-warping video mash-up and altogether madness. This was my first EM experience, so forgive a n00b.
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I used to date a guy who was in charge of blinking at his animation firm. This shot for shot remake of LCD Soundsystem’s 2007 ‘All My Friends’ video, an “exercise in lip-syncing and digital effects,” is a lot cooler.

Miss LCD Soundystem’s farewell show at MSG? Yeah, us too. But here it is in its entirety. Enjoy and be extremely jealous of those who were there.

Oh LCD Soundsystem, let me count the ways…

Monday night, I paid a visit to the most dreaded of New York City venues, Terminal 5, to say goodbye to one of my favorite New York City artists, James Murphy’s dance incarnation, LCD Soundsystem. There has been much talk about James Murphy retiring LCD because its choruses hailing house parties and drunk girls didn’t exactly befit a man of his age any longer. Attending Monday night, I couldn’t help but shockingly, and sadly, feel the same way. There was something awkward hearing the 41 year old Murphy proclaim how much he liked drunk girls and how dearly he wished Daft Punk would play at his house. As well, there was something odd about myself singing along to it.

In 2007, I saw LCD at the Bowery Ballroom here in NYC. Here’s what I had to say:
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One of my greatest concert memories is seeing LCD Soundsystem at The Bowery Ballroom in New York four years ago so it is with significant groaning that we announce the end of the groups’ touring and a final, blow-out show on April 2nd at Madison Square Garden.

The end of touring, what does this mean? A very careful James Murphy has said of this announcement that he intends to release music as LCD Sounsystem in the future but right now, as this group, he will no longer be touring. This leaves Murphy free to perform in other capacities, such as the inevitable indie supergroup I’m sure he’ll one day join.
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Well, what can we say about 2010? It’s hard, you know, what with the mainstream sounding so bright and brash and ground-breaking and all. Whut, no. If all y’all kids were stuck on the knobs of pop radio, I don’t know what to tell you… But there was so much, too much to get caught up and in making this list, I felt like I was excising beloved children to the basement on Christmas Eve. Stay down there, Glasser, Lady Gaga, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.! Daddy will be down with a flashlight soon…

And with that my top 20 tracks of the year:

“I Can Change,” LCD Soundsystem: plaintive, yet sassy with that slippery beat, this track makes you want to shimmy up to a handsome stranger and please, please fall in love.

“Dancing On My Own,” Robyn: Robyn broke out of the gate with this track early in the year and set the bar precipitously high for every other pop star. Nothing has come close to knocking it from its rightful pedestal.

“USA Boys,” HEALTH: simply, a rolling thunderstorm of sex.
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Download the spectacular rearrangement at bottom.

LCD Soundsystem recently dropped by WXPN.

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MP3: LCD Soundsystem Versus Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize Yrself Clean

Their recent set featured:

I Can Change
Drunk Girls
All I Want

Stream the full playback here.

Catch LCD Soundsystem on their US tour.

MP3: LCD Soundsystem – Home (Loving/Good Mix)

All dates are as follows:

9-24 Philadelphia, PA – Naval Cruise Terminal
9-25 Columbia, MD – Virgin Mobile Free Fest
9-27 Burlington, VT – Memorial Auditorium
9-28 Boston, MA – Orpheum
10-1 Clinton, NY – Hamilton College
10-4 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
10-5 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock
10-6 Miami, FL – Fillmore
10-8 Houston, TX – Verizon Amphitheater
10-9 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
10-13 San Diego, CA – Rimac Arena
10-15 Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Bowl
10-16 San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Festival
10-19 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
10-20 Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
10-22 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
10-23 St Paul, MN – Roy Wilkins

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MP3: LCD Soundsystem – Home (Loving/Good Mix)

Pat Duffy, formerly of Pop Tarts Suck Toasted (RIP), checks in for us! Let’s just skip right on past the lackluster Panda Bear performance and put the focus where the focus is due – on LCD Soundsystem – who turned Union Park into a massive dance party last night, absolutely tearing the roof off of a roofless, outdoor venue. As day turned into night, and the mid-90s temperatures that had dominated the day cooled to high-80s temps, people were at a fever pitch for Saturday’s headline act. For hours, people camped out at the main stage, trying to inch their way closer to the creator of two of the best albums in the last five years. James Murphy and company would prove worthy of the devotion that left people wilting in the the heat, but still ready to dance like maniacs once the strains of “Pow Pow”, “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House” and “Dance Yrself Clean” came pouring out of the speakers. As the music blared, people who had spent the day sweating danced to a frenzy, sweating all over again and not giving a damn the slightest. It was a release unlike anything else we saw at the festival and LCD Soundsystem truly earned their headlining status throughout their hour long set. For the encore the band came out and tore the place down with an passionate rendition of “New York I Love You”. It didn’t matter that it was being played with the famed Willis Tower hanging in the background, because let’s face it – the same sentiments Murphy bestows on New York could be translated to Chicago effortlessly. LCD Soundsystem simply out performed everyone else that has taken the stage thus far at Pitchfork. As the headliner it’s what they were supposed to do, but following the lackluster Modest Mouse set it wouldn’t have been unexpected for LCD to simply sink under the pressure of wrapping the night. They didn’t and they were carried into the night in the memories of the thousands of people who waited patiently for them and then danced like they didn’t have a care in the world as the band played. Now if Pavement can bring some of that to Sunday’s festival closing set it will have been a very good weekend of music. Slutty Pop Tarts Rating: 9.2.

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