James Murphy

Reviews 4

Listen To It Now: LCD Soundsystem Live In Manchester

The Stakes Get Higher: LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream

Why In With The New Is The Best Policy: Sonar Festival 2011 Review

LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening track by track

Articles 7

Books

James Murphy On Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

The LCD Soundsystem mainstay reveals how Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's essential book on DJ culture became his bible in this exclusive extract

A Quietus Interview

Disco Infiltrated: An Early LCD Soundsystem Interview

As LCD Soundsystem announce their reunion for Coachella, John Doran delves into his archives for an early interview with James Murphy discussing their debut LP, DFA, and a musical Damascene moment

A Quietus Interview

Despacio’s The Place: James Murphy & Soulwax Discuss New Soundsystem

This week, James Murphy and the Dewale brothers bring their gigantic Despacio soundsystem to London for a three night residency. They tell Ian Wade all about their 50,000 watt disco Stonehenge

A Quietus Interview

Rudely Visionary: Planningtorock Interviewed

John Freeman talks to Planningtorock’s Janine Rostron about super-fan James Murphy, the quest to find her 'inner tranny' and new album W

A Quietus Interview

Interview: Beat Disconnection – James Murphy Says Goodbye To LCD

Thanks to our friends Dorian Lynskey and Mixmag Brazil for this excellent James Murphy interview, in this the first of our features on the best of 2010 at the half-way mark... Live picture by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net

Strange World Of...

The Strange And Frightening World Of . . . Fabric’s First 100

To celebrate the recent 100th release from Fabric (that's 50 each for its live and mix series) we look back on some of their best mixes. There's a bundle of ten albums up for grabs too

A Quietus Interview

This Is A Happy House: The Juan MacLean Interviewed

It's been a long and arduous road for John Maclean out of the punk doldrums into the rapturous house/classic synth pop cross over of The Juan Maclean. Barnaby Smith investigates

News 11

James Murphy Opens Cafe In Brooklyn

Daymoves is the LCD Soundsystem frontman's second venture into the restaurant industry

Things Learned At: Sonar 2018

As the venerable Sonar Festival reaches its 25th anniversary it shows no sign of losing its edge, as Ben Cardew discovers in a line-up packed with forward-thinking DJ sets, visual art, and space for defiant, marginalised voices. Photos by Alexandra Sans Massó

INTERVIEW: Despacio

We get an update from 2ManyDJs’ Stephen Dewaele on what he, brother David and James Murphy have planned when they bring their mammoth soundsystem back to London next month

WATCH: Despacio In Hammersmith

Clips of the James Murphy/2ManyDJs soundsystem's three-night stint last year ahead of two shows in Camden next month

PREVIEW: Quietus At by:Larm

tQ gear up for a showcase and talks at the excellent Norwegian festival

Bowie To Premiere Next Day Extra Tracks

Video for James Murphy remix and three new tracks from Next Day expanded version to air this week

WATCH: Arcade Fire – Reflektor

The band meet David Bowie and James Murphy on sprawling seven-minute new track

WIN: Shut Up and Play the Hits DVDs

We've got five copies of the LCD Soundsystem final concert film to give away

INTERVIEW: James Murphy

We caught up with James Murphy at last week's premiere of the new LCD Soundsystem film, Shut Up and Play the Hits

LISTEN: Gorillaz, Andre 3000 & Murphy

Albarn and his cartoon crew team up with LCD and Outkast men for 'DoYaThang'

James Murphy Blogs MTV Awards

LCD man talks ligging

Previously Read

Film

Roll Out The Barrel: The British Pub On Film Explored

Anna Coatman downs a new BFI DVD compilation of shorts about the nation's drinking establishments. Still from Michael Palin's 1970s trade film Henry Cleans Up

Baker's Dozen

Creation Of Worlds: Bok Bok Discusses 13 Favourite Albums

Ahead of his new EP Your Charizmatic Self, the Night Slugs co-founder meets Rory Gibb to discuss thirteen favourite albums, from pioneering R&B production to grime's sonic brutalism and the blossoming influence of labelmate Jam City

Black Sky Thinking

Satan’s Scapegoat: The Daily Mail & Blaming Metal For Murder

The Daily Mail has once more blamed listening to heavy metal as in some way contributory to the tragic murder of Ann Maguire, and a recent teenage suicide. Joel McIver explains why this argument needs to be challenged

The Quietus International

Rockfort: French Music For July With David McKenna

As well as providing a new mix, David McKenna explains why he prefers Fishbach to Foxygen and hails the return of the mighty France. Main picture by Jerome Favre

Film

A Shot in the Dark: 16mm’s Last Reel

Independent filmmaker Austin Collings laments the uncompromising rush to 'go digital' as 16mm film stock goes on the endangered species list.

Baker's Dozen

Moments In The Sun: Nite Jewel’s Favourite Albums

Nite Jewel takes us through the albums that inspired her latest record No Sun, from Miles Davis to Cluster, via digressions on the importance of bad karaoke and Nietzschean philosophy

Film

Vomit, Comets And Tantrums: Films Made In Extreme Conditions

With Roman Polanksi's _The Ghost Writer_ gearing up for release, David Bax looks at other movies made in, ahem, 'challenging' circumstances that nevertheless made it to the big screen

Film

Scorpio Rising: Kenneth Anger Interviewed

Experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger talks about porno, the occult and his former neighbour Elliot Smith as a collection of his early films _The Magick Lantern Cycle_ is released by the BFI.

Art

Wet Ware: 11 Fountains In Leeuwarden-Friesland, Capital Of Culture

As part of its tenure as one of this year’s European Capitals of Culture, Leeuwarden-Friesland, in the Netherlands, has commission eleven artists to build eleven Fountains

Film

Not A Lorre Laughs: Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Reviewed

Tristan Bath reviews a restoration of Fritz Lang's proto-noir masterpiece

Film

A Serious Man & The Greatest Story Never Told By Hollywood

The Coen brothers might have taken the Book of Job as the inspiration for their latest work but, asks Jeremy Allen, why does the Bible not inspire more filmmakers?

Film

Reality Bites: Writer Mike Carey On The Girl With All The Gifts

Nadia Attia interviews Mike Carey, writer of young adult zombie flick The Girl With All The Gifts, out in cinemas today

Books

The Room: An Extract From The New Novel By Jenny Hval

Norwegian singer-songwriter Jenny Hval follows her acclaimed debut novel Paradise Rot with Girls Against God, a "fugue-like feminist manifesto" wrapped up in a story about Norway in the 90s

Film

A Year On Film: Quietus Critics Pick Their Top Films Of 2018

No numbers, no ranking, just nine recommendations for the best films of 2018 – and not a superhero in sight

Film

Once More With Feeling: Philip K Dick And Blade Runner

With Blade Runner 2049 in cinemas now, Robert Bright looks back at the interior and exterior worlds of Philip K. Dick

Film

John Hughes Obituary and Ten Best Films

John Hughes was a comedy genius who perfectly captured the trails and tribulations of the American suburban teen. He created some of the most memorable films of the 80s including _The Breakfast Club_, _Christmas Vacation_, _Planes, Trains and Automobiles_ and _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_. Battleship Pretension's David Bax looks back on his legacy with a list of his top ten films.

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Reviews 4

Listen To It Now: LCD Soundsystem Live In Manchester

The Stakes Get Higher: LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream

Why In With The New Is The Best Policy: Sonar Festival 2011 Review

LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening track by track

Articles 7

James Murphy On Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

Disco Infiltrated: An Early LCD Soundsystem Interview

Despacio’s The Place: James Murphy & Soulwax Discuss New Soundsystem

Rudely Visionary: Planningtorock Interviewed

Interview: Beat Disconnection – James Murphy Says Goodbye To LCD

The Strange And Frightening World Of . . . Fabric’s First 100

This Is A Happy House: The Juan MacLean Interviewed

News 11

James Murphy Opens Cafe In Brooklyn

Things Learned At: Sonar 2018

INTERVIEW: Despacio

WATCH: Despacio In Hammersmith

PREVIEW: Quietus At by:Larm

Bowie To Premiere Next Day Extra Tracks

WATCH: Arcade Fire – Reflektor

WIN: Shut Up and Play the Hits DVDs

INTERVIEW: James Murphy

LISTEN: Gorillaz, Andre 3000 & Murphy

James Murphy Blogs MTV Awards

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Roll Out The Barrel: The British Pub On Film Explored

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