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If you were fast enough this morning, you caught a new LCD Soundsystem song entitled “Drunk Girls” on YouTube. Unfortunately, team URB is on the West Coast, which means even being at the desk by 8:30 AM wasn’t quick enough to beat the copyright defenders at EMI who swiftly took down the clip. …MORE
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LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy has told NME.COM that his forthcoming new album may be his last under that moniker.
In an interview, the New Yorker also admitted that the next LCD Soundsystem tour (as-yet unannounced) “should probably be the last” one. He added that in order to move on musically he needs a change, though also admitted that it’s not the first time he’s made such statements.
Murphy gave URB a little tour of the Hollywood Hill mansion where recording of the upcoming LCD album took place this summer.
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By Andrew Parks
One Diana Ross track—”Love Hangover,” if you must know—is all it took for Pat Mahoney to see the light. And by the light, we mean the starry eyes of long lost disco balls.
“It all clicked after that,” says Mahoney, James Murphy’s tag-team DJ partner and the four-on-the-floor pulse of LCD Soundsystem. (He’s also hit the skins for Hot Chip and the original lineup of Les Savy Fav.) “There’s more to disco than Saturday Night Fever.”
Surprisingly, it wasn’t until early this century when Mahoney underwent his disco revelation. A punk rocker who got his start at age 14 as a 7 Seconds-style singer, pissing off skinheads in a hardcore punk band called Distorted View (featuring Joe Sirois of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones on drums, no less), Mahoney hadn’t even caught the disco fever when he sat …
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