“We’re all going to die someday, so you change your mind,” James Murphy responded to a fan’s concerns regarding LCD Soundsystem’s (LCD) 2016 reunion. This type of casual wisdom has defined the frontman’s work ever since the group’s first single “Losing My Edge’s” tongue-in-cheek jabs at hipster culture: “I hear[Read More…]
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Pop Rhetoric: Drop the cynicism and get excited for LCD Soundsystem’s return
Remember when the reunion rumour was solely in the domain of the great fossils of rock’s mesozoic era? When the ravenous rumour mill of music journalism (read: Rolling Stone Magazine) was content to feast on reports of fabricated Zeppelin tours and that time that Pink Floyd got back together for[Read More…]
Deep Cuts: Spike Jonze music videos
Most people today tend to know Spike Jonze as the director of critically-acclaimed films such as Being John Malkovitch, Where the Wild Things Are, and Her; however, before his foray into feature films, Jonze was one of the most sought after music video directors of the ‘90s, working with everyone from[Read More…]