PHOTOGRAPH_Book_1_150915-920x610.jpg' alt='Something New The Beatles Rarest' title='Something New The Beatles Rarest' />James Murphy on LCD Soundsystems Return. When LCD Soundsystem called it quits in 2. Madison Square Garden, it seemed as if the bands mastermind James Murphy had achieved that rarest of music world maneuvers the graceful bow out. But just underneath the meticulous dance grooves and hyper self aware lyrics of LCDs music was always a deep vein of punkish restlessness. Thus, perfect endings be damned, the bands forthcoming reunion album, American Dream. I shed any ambivalence about coming back a while ago, says Murphy, squinting against the sun pouring in through the window of a Williamsburg hotel room. Whether or not other people have, I cant say. Moscow The Power Of Submission Download. How much of stopping LCD Soundsystem back in 2. It wasnt so much that. One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which Ive become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous. Id met a decent amount of famous people and thought, This is not a life that I want to live. The life I wanted was what I imagined the life of a respected scientist was like. I wanted to be able to get on a plane and have no one give a shit unless they were also a scientist Thats so and so. Henry-Grossman-and-the-.jpg' alt='Something New The Beatles Rarest' title='Something New The Beatles Rarest' />He invented a particular molecule. How awesome. Is that the life you have The life I live in this band is the best possible life of all the options for being a musician. Everyone in the band likes each other. We all like our crew. The Beatles Autographs Website Frank Caiazzo is the Number One Authority on Beatles Handwriting in the World Buy from the BestWere fortunate enough to play where we want, within reason. We have great agents who are also our friends. Auto Map Of Europe there. Something New The Beatles Rarest' title='Something New The Beatles Rarest' />Psychedelic music, Exotica, Soundtracks, Russ Meyer, Betty Page. Theres nostalgia in the air for the early 2000s New York music scene that LCD came up in. Does the city still carry any of the sense of creative possibility that. In which readers ask Greil Marcus questions and he answers them. To submit your own question, email admingreilmarcus. Ask Greil. In concert, in the studio, at home, on the radio, on TV, its all here. Click the Back Cover Track List image for track lists. For more information on a title. Something New The Beatles Rarest' title='Something New The Beatles Rarest' />A newsletter of all the latest happenings in The Artist ShopEven in just an emotional perks kind of way, how much did you miss being in LCD Soundsystem I didnt. I had a great fucking time in the years between the Madison Square Garden show and now. I got married, had a baby, made a film, worked with David Bowie, co produced an Arcade Fire record. Theres a lot of stuff I got to do that I really enjoyed that wouldve been absolutely impossible if Id been in LCD. I only missed it when I would go see another band, but thats a competitive thing. Id be like, Oh, theyre just playing a fucking track from a laptop. Theres nostalgia in the air for the early 2. New York music scene that LCD came up in. Does the city still carry any of the sense of creative possibility that it did for you back then Not really. How come Its just how I feel. The city doesnt feel interesting. Its too expensive. Theres a lot of really normal people here which is fine, but when I moved here from New Jersey in the late 8. Youre fucking crazy. Nobody thinks youre crazy for moving here now. Like, zero people. Instead theyre like, Oh, thats interesting. Why are you moving Well, I got a job with Schwab. So where would the 2. I dont know. The internet means it doesnt matter if you fucking live in New York. Why would you live someplace you cant afford Also, locality doesnt seem to matter as much anymore. A scene is not a scene of people who know each other and borrow each others van. A scene is a style. You can be from the suburbs somewhere and be like, I make dubstep. Okay, great. That just means youre working in a genre, not a scene. Its a different kind of thing. But if I had to, I guess Id tell a kid to move to Berlin. Thats where everyone seems to be going. Isnt there something good about being able to feel a part of a scene or a genre or whatever you want to call it even if you live in a suburb in the middle of nowhere There is, and I think its a phenomenon that started to happen in the 9. Thats when you started to get people in Vermont or wherever identifying as a D. C. band because they wanted to make music that sounded like it was on Dischord. That was the beginning of the end of locality the end being you share things on Bandcamp and it doesnt matter where you live at all. I always wonder about the relationship dynamics after a band breaks up. Was there ever any interpersonal pressure to get back together You hear stories about the Grateful Dead going on for years longer than they wanted to just because they felt responsible for everyones livelihood. I dont like the Grateful Dead but that feeling is a real fucking thing. You have people on the crew whose jobs are working with you, and you know that those jobs are good ones but I wouldnt tour endlessly and kill myself with a drug habit just because I wanted to make the people that worked for me happy. As far as the people actually in the band, keyboardist Nancy Whang would laugh and say, You just one day said we werent doing it anymore so I thought, Okay, I have to figure something else out. But everybody did things. Bassist Tyler Pope DJs and has his own label. Drummer Pat Mahoney has his own band and DJs. Nancy plays in the Juan Mac. Lean. Guitarist Al Doyle is in Hot Chip and has his own band. Synthesizer player Gavin Russom has a totally other career as an artist. Multi instrumentalist Matt Thornley became a coffee roaster. People were psyched to get back together, but I dont think it was like, Save me from economic doom. This is probably a nave question So why go to the trouble of breaking up the band at all Why not use those magical words going on hiatusYoud get all time off you needed without any of the second guessing. For the rest of my life, now matter what happens in this band, well never break up again. One day well just stop making music, but no one is going to say a fucking word about it ahead of time. Going back to the subject of nostalgia, though 2. In 1. 97. 7, you could by all means have thought 1. Its just as valid of a thing to, today, be interested in 2. Im sure in 1. 97. Is anything getting missed or distorted in how people remember the years in New York when LCD and DFA Records were getting started I was just talking to Nick Zinner about this, about how everybody thinks their time was important because it was their time. Most of the time people are wrong because they cant separate themselves from their time but I dont think we were wrong. New York at that time was special. There was something going on. Its as valid a cultural era as the late 7. Dont you think that it remains to be seen whether the records and bands that came out of that period will feel important over time in the way that, say, the Ramones or Parallel Lines still do Karen O was talking to me once about how shed read an old article in Creem or something about Blondie and Johnny Thunders and all the New York stuff, and the gist of it was, Is this real Isnt this just hypeIm sure if you asked that same journalist today, hed say, Yep, it was real. That was the time. But people had the same skepticism about the early 2. Strokes. Well, fuck that. No. What happened was real. There was special shit going on. I dont doubt it but how does someone ever know that theyre not just idealizing their past Theres always a good way to tell how much special shit was really going on at a given time, and thats by how many bands self destructed. Because if theres nothing special going on, bands dont self destruct, they just break up and everyone goes and gets a day job. Lots of 9. 0s bands didnt self destruct guys in indie bands just stopped being guys in indie bands because what they were doing didnt matter they didnt freak out and ruin themselves. Instead after awhile they just were like, You know, I dont want to do this. But a lot of the early 2. The Liars completely changed direction. The Strokes kind of self destructed. The Rapture kind of self destructed.