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  LISTEN: LCD Soundsystem's Entire New Album

  April 14, 2010 – After months of buzz, leaked tracks, and a pair of excellent "practice" gigs, LCD Soundsystem's This Is Happening has arrived -- over a month before its official May 18 release -- courtesy of the Brooklyn dance-punks themselves, who posted their third album to their official website Wednesday. Listen right here. Pulling a page from MGMT's book, Murphy and Co. …
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  LCD Soundsystem Play Surprise NYC Show

  April 13, 2010 – With apologies to Hot Chip's Joe Goddard, there aren't many artists who can force a room full of jaded New Yorkers to dance with sloppy abandon while looking like he's ready to fix their sinks afterwards. Focusing on James Murphy's disarming everyman schlubbiness may be no more respectful than dwelling on, say, Hayley Williams' kittenishness, but it's essential to LCD Soundsystem's snowballing appeal. …
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  Tour Updates: Against Me!, LCD Soundsystem

  April 6, 2010 – AGAINST ME!The Floridian punk outfit have just announced a 21-date North American trek in support of White Crosses (out June 8), their high anticipated follow up to SPIN's 2007 Album of the Year New Wave. The trek kicks off April 16 in Greenville, SC, and wraps up May 11 in San Antonio, TX. …
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  New LCD Soundsystem Album Due in May

  March 4, 2010 – James Murphy has announced a May 18 release date for the yet-to-be-titled third album from his dance-rock outfit LCD Soundsystem. …
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  Album Updates: LCD Soundsystem, Elbow

  January 14, 2010 – New York electro group LCD Soundsystem and Brit alt-rock band Elbow both have given updates on their upcoming releases. Get the 411 below. LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy is claiming that his band's upcoming spring release will be their last. And despite admitting that he's made similar claims before, he says this time he means it. …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  November 6, 2009 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! …
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  Hot New Band: Free Energy

  July 16, 2009 – Philadelphia quintet Free Energy's excellent debut single, also called "Free Energy," is a perfectly tart, semi-glammy, Thin Lizzy-style nugget of summery rock'n'roll, the kind of tune the kids in Dazed and Confused might play loud, with the top down, on their way to party at the moon tower. Free Energy's core members -- guitarist Scott Wells and singer Paul Sprangers, formerly of similarly retro-minded Minneapolis outfit Hockey Night  …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  June 19, 2009 – We've showered up, washed the mud out of our shoes, and properly detoxed -- yep, this year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival is a wrap. We saw great sets from MGMT, Bruce Springsteen, Phish, NIN, Phoenix, and many others. …
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  Devo to Collaborate with LCD Soundsystem Frontman

  June 16, 2009 – Devo have recruited LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy to collaborate on their new album. How did the two come together? …
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  Listen: Hot Montreal Band Covers LCD Soundsystem

  December 23, 2008 – When a new band covers a better-known contemporary, it's usually either an attempt to gain some quick recognition or a genuine act of homage. Montreal quartet Winter Gloves' version of LCD Soundsystem's "Someone Great," off 2007's Sound of Silver, feels like the latter case. …
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