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In 2011 James Murphy announced that he was retiring LCD Soundsystem.
The film Shut Up and Play the Hits even chronicled the last and final concert at Madison Square Garden. However, he and his traveling band performed at Coachella in 2016.
We now have two new songs: Call the Police and American Dream, from a yet unnamed forthcoming album.
Call the Police
American Dream
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is set to begin tomorrow for two long weekends in the desert in California.
The lineup is mammoth as always and Spin is offering a mixtape of some of our favorite indie bands.
Download your free Coachella songs here.
1. Shovels & Rope – “Birmingham”
2. Thee Oh Sees – “Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster”
3. Polica – “Dark Star”
4. Cloud Nothings – “Stay Useless”
5. White Arrows – “I Can Go”
6. Youth Lagoon – “Dropla”
7. The Descendents – “Cool to Be You”
8. Kill the Noise – “Mosh It Up”
9. Dog Blood – “Next Order”
10. SpaceGhostPurrp – “Starz”
Tupac Shakur, one of the greatest rappers of all time, was murdered died in 1996.
Amazingly, he made an appearance this past weekend at Coachella.
Pretty damn cool!
He materialized during the set with Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg as seen here:
Coachella, the annual weekend music and arts festival (and rite of passage), has begun in Indio, CA.
In celebration, Spin Magazine is offering a free download of 10 must-hear artists that will be performing.
These include !!!, Big Audio Dynamite, The London Suede, PJ Harvey, Wire, Glasser, The Chemical Brothers, Cut Copy, Lightning Bolt and Erykah Badu. Most are familiar names on this website.
This compilation, known as Whoachella, is yours for free here from Spin in exchange for your email address.
And listen below to a reunited Big Audio Dynamite!
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E=MC2 by Big Audio Dynamite
The official start of the summer festival season kicked off again in the California desert this weekend past. Well over 100 bands performed at the Coachella Festival, but for the first time in concert history a number of scheduled bands could not make the journey due to the volcanic ash emanating from Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland. Bad Lieutenant, Talvin Singh, Delphic, Hypnotic Bass Ensemble The Cribs, Frightened Rabbit and Gary Numan all had to cancel. The latter two are featured here.
Frightened Rabbit-“Nothing Like You”
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Gary Numan-“Down in the Park (reworked by Curve)”
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