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The Rapture is back. The Brooklyn “dance-punk” band that made waves in the early 2000s indie rock scene has announced that they’re getting back together for an international tour throughout the fall of this year.

Led by Luke Jenner, the band hasn’t performed live since March 2020, when they played at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, just before the pandemic shut down shows and events. This will be the group’s first proper tour since 2011.

Best known for 2003 album, Echoes (Dfa), The Rapture stormed indie rock dance floors with their signature single, “House of Jealous Lovers,” produced by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, and Tim Goldsworthy. The band went on to produce two more full-length albums: Pieces of the People We Love in 2006, and In the Grace of Your Love in 2011.

The Rapture’s 2025 tour kicks off September 16 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, winding across North America through early October.

San Francisco’s Portola has unveiled its 2025 lineup led by LCD Soundsystem, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, The Prodigy, Moby (performing his album Play in full), Christina Aguilera, Peggy Gou, and Dom Dolla.

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Organized by Goldenvoice, the San Francisco-based dance and electronic festival returns to Pier 80 on Saturday, September 20th and Sunday, September 21st. Other notable acts featured on the 2025 lineup include Anti Up (Chris Lake & Chris Lorenzo), Dev Hynes’ Blood Orange, Mau P, The Rapture, Arca, Caribou, Duke Dumont, 2manydjs b2b Erol Alkan, The Blessed Madonna b2b Tiga, Magdalena Bay, Rico Nasty, The Dare, Brutalismus 3000, Bob Moses, Kelly Lee Owens, Boy Harsher, Kreayshawn, and Ravyn Lenae, among others. Plus, Despacio, the high-powered sound system and immersive audio experience designed by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and David and Stephen Dewaele of 2ManyDJs, will be on site at Portola for its San Francisco debut.

Mr Loverman and Mr Bates vs the Post Office were key winners at the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards, which were handed out in London on Sunday evening. Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer, which had led the nominations with eight, followed by Disney+ series Rivals, AppleTV+ hit Slow Horses and ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office with six each, earned one honor on Sunday.

Other shows earning trophies include The Traitors, Industry, Gavin & Stacey: The Finale, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light and Shrinking.xxx

In the performance categories, 21 of the 44 nominees had received their first BAFTA TV Awards nomination, including Nicola Coughlan (Big Mood), Bilal Hasna (Extraordinary), Christopher Chung and Jonathan Pryce (Slow Horses), Jessica Gunning, Richard Gadd and Nava Mau (Baby Reindeer), Lolly Adefope (The Franchise), Marisa Abela (Industry), Mckinley Belcher III (Eric), Nabhaan Rizwan (Kaos) and Ariyon Bakare and Sharon D Clarke (Mr Loverman).

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The great and the good of the U.K. TV industry have descended on London’s Royal Festival Hall for the British small screen’s biggest night of the year, the BAFTA TV Awards.

Among the shows up for awards are Netflix’s smash hit “Baby Reindeer,” Apple TV+’s acclaimed spy series “Slow Horses,” HBO/BBC financial series “Industry,” Disney+’s raunchy comedy “Rivals” and its Ira drama “Say Nothing” and the ITV drama “Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office.” On the performance front, the likes of Gary Oldman, David Tennant, Richard Gadd, Marisa Abela, Nicola Coughlan and Danny Dyer are nominated.

Hosted by Alan Cumming, the ceremony began with “Baby Reindeer,” “Slow Horses” and “Rivals” already leading the pack with two awards each from the BAFTA TV Craft awards held two weeks earlier.

See the list of winners as they’re updated below.

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Tom Holland and Zendaya have long been raging as one of Hollywood’s most beloved power couples to date, ever since they first sparked romance reports while working on their Spider-Man film series. And now, after almost a decade of being linked together romantically, it seems like the fan-favorite couple is all set to take things to the next level.

Although quite a few rumors and reports in between tried to claim that the pair had split and parted ways, the two dashed those rumors with engagement reports that neither of them tried to hide. Since then, rumors of their wedding plans have been going on, and now reports claim they might follow in Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s footsteps with their wedding.

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Dave Grohl appeared and performed at Oakwood Live, a school benefit and auction that took place at the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles over the weekend. He played a five song set, including a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House.”

Grohl was joined by his fellow Foo Fighters member Rami Jaffee, as well as drummer John Lousteau and bassist/vocalist Wiley Hodgden for the set. For “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,” Grohl happily took the lead vocal, and even busted out some auxiliary percussion. Though Grohl has expressed admiration for James Murphy’s project before — including adding “Drunk Girls” to his pandemic playlist in 2020 — it’s the first time the Foo Fighters frontman has covered an LCD Soundsystem song.

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In addition to “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,” the quartet performed renditions of The Knack’s “My Sharona,...

A trio of the biggest British streaming hits have secured numerous nominations for the BAFTA TV Awards 2025, while BAFTA has recognized a stellar year for ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office.

Baby Reindeer leads the charts across the BAFTA TV and Craft Awards with eight nominations including Limited Drama, Leading Actor for creator Richard Gadd and two Supporting Actresses in Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau. The latter becomes the first openly transgender nominee at the BAFTA TV Awards, several weeks after Karla Sofía Gascón achieved the same in film.

Apple TV+’s Slow Horses and Disney+’s Rivals have six nominations apiece, with Gary Oldman for the former and David Tennant for the latter doing battle in a crowded Leading Actor category, which also features Lennie James (Mr Loverman), Martin Freeman (The Responder) and Toby Jones (Mr Bates vs the Post Office). Danny Dyer, who was expected to secure a nom for Rivals,...

Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer is leading the nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards and the BAFTA Television Craft Awards, unveiled on Thursday, just a little more than a month following the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony. It earned eight noms, followed by Disney+ series Rivals, AppleTV+ hit Slow Horses and ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office with six each.

Baby Reindeer earned nominations in the categories of limited drama, leading actor, supporting actress, director fiction, editing fiction, sound fiction and writer: drama.

Other shows earning nominations include The Traitors, Industry, Gavin & Stacey: The Finale, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light and Shrinking.

In the performance categories, 21 of the 44 nominees received their first BAFTA TV Awards nomination, including Nicola Coughlan (Big Mood), Bilal Hasna (Extraordinary), Christopher Chung and Jonathan Pryce (Slow Horses), Jessica Gunning, Richard Gadd and Nava Mau (Baby Reindeer), Lolly Adefope (The Franchise), Marisa Abela (Industry...

Djo, the indie act fronted by Stranger Things star Joe Keery, hit The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night (January 28th) to perform his new song “Basic Being Basic.” Watch Keery and the band play the cut below.

The lead single from Djo’s upcoming album The Crux (pre-order here), “Basic Being Basic” sees Keery making like James Murphy, wryly dropping cultural references over a percussive, synth-forward instrumental. For the Tonight Show performance , the polymath brought along an army of a band, including backup singers and two full drum kits. Still, the spotlight shines on Keery as he struts about the stage and all but winks at the camera while he delivers the cheeky lines.

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In addition to singing “Basic Being Basic,” Keery also sat down for a chat with Fallon. The two discuss the viral celebrity look-alike contests, the background of The Crux,...

“We all do things that we wish we hadn’t done,” Alex Kapranos purrs at the end of the new Franz Ferdinand album, but it sounds like his regrets are too few to mention. The Scottish mod rogues are back with their best album in 15 years, a resurgence for the craftiest, most clever U.K. guitar band of their era. The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood.

Franz Ferdinand conquered the world in the early 2000s with their gloriously frenetic art-punk dance-whore sound,...

James Murphy has officially confirmed that a new LCD Soundsystem album is on the way, and released the band’s new song “x-ray eyes” to DSPs.

After a busy year playing music festivals around the globe, LCD Soundsystem originally premiered “x-ray eyes” on Nts Radio DJ Anu’s “Soup to Nuts” show last month. Once LCD Soundsystem was revealed on the lineup for Primavera Sound 2025 last week, the festival confirmed that they’d be appearing with a new album in tow.

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Now, James Murphy has offered a statement confirming that a new LCD Soundsystem album is in the works, which will serve as their first full-length effort since 2017’s American Dream. Read his full statement below.

“so there’s a new lcd song now called x ray eyes.

it’s the first single of what’s shaping up to be a new album. don’t ask me when that is,...

Good news and bad news for LCD Soundsystem fans. The band officially released their latest single, “X-Ray Eyes,” but revealed that a new album isn’t as imminent as the Primavera Festival suggested.

In late October, the dance-rock band’s surprise new song “X-Ray Eyes” was played without warning on an Nts Radio show and was later streamed on the band’s official website. On Friday, the single was formally uploaded onto streaming services.

Days later, the Primavera Festival announced that LCD Soundsystem would perform at the 2025 fest and that...

Listeners who tuned into the Nts Radio show Soup to Nuts w/ Anu this afternoon were the first to hear LCD Soundsystem’s new single “X-Ray Eyes” — and unless others are interested in digging through the show’s broadcast archive, they’ll be the only ones to have heard it. For the time being, the record is not available on any streaming services or available to purchase digitally.

“X-Ray Eyes” premiered around 20 minutes into the program, which broadcasts out of London. The track features one verse, on which frontman James Murphy sings: “Every busboy,...

One of the most celebrated American novels of the 21st century may finally be coming to the screen, and it’s bringing one of the most celebrated American actors of the 20th century to help tell it.

Meryl Streep is set to star in a series adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 novel “The Corrections,” which Franzen himself will adapt for television. Franzen will also executive produce, as confirmed to IndieWire by a person with knowledge of the project.

The series is being set up at CBS Studios with executive producers Mark Roybal and Nicole Clemens. “The Corrections” doesn’t yet have a network or streamer attached, but the producers are bringing it to market soon.

CBS Studios declined to comment.

This particular version of “The Corrections” was originally slated to be at Paramount Television Studios, but amid Paramount layoffs, the entire Television Studios division shut down in August 2024.

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LCD Soundsystem have announced they are returning to Los Angeles this fall for an eight-date residency split between two venues.

James Murphy and company will kick off their LA run on October 31st with four consecutive nights at Shrine Expo Hall, followed by a string of concerts at Hollywood Palladium from November 7th through 10th.

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An artist pre-sale (register here) will begin on Wednesday, June 5th ahead of the general on-sale kicking off Friday, June 7th via Axs for the Shrine Expo Hall dates and Ticketmaster for Hollywood Palladium.

Once tickets go on sale, you can find deals at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Before LCD Soundsystem head to the West Coast, they will spend the summer touring the UK and Europe.

Idles stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their recent single, “Gift Horse.” The punk-tinged song, released last month, is an intense rock number that is even more so live.

“Gift Horse” will appear on the U.K. group’s forthcoming fifth LP, Tangk, out Feb. 16 via Partisan Records. The LP was produced by Nigel Godrich, Kenny Beats, and Idles’ Mark Bowen, and follows the band’s 2021 LP Crawler. The band previewed the album with “Dancer,” a collaboration with LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy and Nancy Whang.

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The songs in The Marvels are chosen with clear purpose and intention, adding to the fun, action, and humor of the movie. The soundtrack reflects the bright and action-packed tone of the movie, featuring a variety of songs from different artists and time periods. The movie also includes original musical numbers and classic scores from the X-Men films in its post-credits scene, hinting at exciting possibilities for the future of the MCU.

Warning! This post contains Spoilers for The Marvels.Here's every song in The Marvels, the exciting sequel to 2019's Captain Marvel starring Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel, and Brie Larson as Carol Danvers' Captain Marvel herself. An incredibly fun and action-packed new chapter of the MCU, the songs in The Marvels definitely add to the fun, action, and humor, with each one having been chosen with clear purpose and intention.

LCD Soundsystem have mapped out a brief North American tour for Spring 2024.

“Kinda Tour 2024” kicks off on March 21st with a pair of dates in Guadalajara, Mexico ahead of multi-night stands in Seattle and Chicago, as well as stops in Bend, Oregon, and Minneapolis. The trek also includes a previously announced date in Mexico City and a headlining appearance at Kilby Block Party.

A Live Nation pre-sale will begin on Wednesday, January 31st (use access code Spotlight) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, February 2nd via Ticketmaster.

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Following the North American run, James Murphy and company will cross the Atlantic for dates in Dublin, London, Paris, and more.

Idles have extended their previously announced 2024 international tour with new dates across North America, Mexico, the UK, and Ireland.

Following the band’s already scheduled European shows in March, they will kick off a North American run in May and June featuring stops in Los Angeles, Austin, and New Orleans. The following month, they’ll hit the UK for a handful of dates before returning to North America to play shows in Atlanta, Chicago, Toronto, and more. After that, Idles will head to Mexico for a trio of concerts and close out the year with dates in the UK and Ireland. See the full itinerary below.

Fans who pre-order Idles’ forthcoming album, Tangk, will receive access to pre-sale tickets ahead of the general on-sale kicking off Friday, December 8th at 9:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

Find deals for Idles’ upcoming North American tour dates via StubHub or international shows through viagogo.

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Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens will get to see LCD Soundsystem several times later this year.

On Monday, the group announced a 12-date Tri Boro tour in New York City, starting on Nov. 16 at Brooklyn Steel. The city “tour” will see the group perform four nights at each venue, including Manhattan’s Terminal 5 and Queens’ Knockdown Center.

One show at each venue will be reserved for American Express cardholders only.

The new run of shows comes several months after the group went on their Play Around the U.S. in 2023 tour in June,...

As promised, LCD Soundsystem are keeping their residency tradition going: James Murphy and company have announced a 12-night run of shows in New York City for late 2023, which they’ve dubbed the “Tri Boro Tour.”

Beginning November 16th, LCD Soundsystem will perform four nights in a row at Brooklyn Steel, marking their 60th performance at the venue. From there, they’ll go on to four nights at Terminal 5 in Manhattan, followed by four nights at Queens’ Knockdown Center, wrapping up on December 10th.

Fans can now register here for pre-sale ticket access, which begins next Wednesday, October 11th at 10:00 a.m. Et. Remaining tickets for all 12 shows will go on sale to the general public beginning Thursday, October 12th at 10:00 a.m. Et. Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where your order is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect Program.

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Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee have just announced news of their debut album Los Angeles due out 3rd November via Play It Again Sam and available to preorder here. The album features an astonishing castlist of guest vocalists and musicians including James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, Bobby Gillespie, The Edge and many more. To accompany the announcement the band have shared the album’s title track and first single which features vocals from James Murphy. The track comes accompanied by a video directed by John Liwag which features skateboarding icon Mason Silva, a crew of goth cheerleaders led by Sydney Love, Lol and Budgie drumming and lip-synching, and shots of historic Los Angeles.

The three-way Los Angeles collaborative long-player was born out of a curiosity which just wouldn’t die. Made up of two of the most illustrious and inventive drummers of the post-punk era, The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst,...

Legendary post-punk drummers Lol Tolhurst (formerly of The Cure) and Budgie (formerly of Siouxsie and the Banshees) have joined forces with producer Jacknife Lee for a new collaborative project called Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee. The trio will release their debut album, Los Angeles, on November 3rd through Play It Again Sam.

Across the album’s 13 tracks, the group is joined by a number of high-profile guest contributors, including U2’s The Edge, Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Idles’s Mark Bowden, Lonnie Holley, and Mary Lattimore. LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy also pops up on two tracks, including the album’s title track / lead single. Check it out below.

Tolhurst has also announced a new book, Goth: A History, which promises “a fascinating deep dive with stories and anecdotes from Tolhurst’s personal memories as well as the musicians, magicians, and artists...

David Byrne, “This Is a Life”

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The former Talking Heads frontman, who won the best original score Oscar 35 years ago for The Last Emperor, teamed with Son Lux’s Ryan Lott (who curated Everything’s soundtrack) and the Grammy-nominated Japanese artist Mitski for this end-credits tune.

Drake,”Time”

Amsterdam

Drizzy penned the closing number of David O. Russell’s film, on which he was a producer, in collaboration with rising star Giveon Evans (who sings it), 2020 song Oscar nominee Daniel Pemberton (who also scored the film) and Grammy-winning producer Jahaan Akil Sweet.

Lady Gaga, “Hold My Hand”

Top Gun: Maverick

This Oscar’s winner for A Star Is Born’s “Shallow” is back with another power ballad — written with Michael ‘BloodPop’ Tucker — for the year’s biggest blockbuster. Already up for Critics Choice, Golden Globe and Grammy awards, Tom Cruise has called it “the heartbeat of our film.

Gold House and Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) have released their third annual Gold List to guide voters ahead of the awards race by spotlighting and honoring outstanding work by Asian filmmakers and talent in the past year, as voted on by the community’s top creatives and leaders.

A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” tops the Gold List with five honors, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director (Daniels aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Best Performance in a Leading Role (Michelle Yeoh), Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Ke Huy Quan) and several honorable mentions.

“It has been an incredible year for Aapi stories pushing the boundaries of expectations for what an Asian American story can be,” said honoree Daniel Kwan, writer-director of “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “Through films like ‘Turning Red,’ ‘After Yang,’ ‘Umma’ and many more, we are getting a taste...

Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) debuted the third annual Gold List to guide voters ahead of the awards race by spotlighting and honoring the work of Asian filmmakers and talent in the past year, as voted on by the community’s top creatives and leaders.

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads with wins for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director (Daniels), Best Performance in a Leading Role (Michelle Yeoh), and Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Ke Huy Quan), with several honorable mentions.

Rrr and Decision to Leave garnered five honors each across the major categories, with Rrr winning Best Original Song for “Naatu Naatu.” Pixar’s Turning Red earned Best Animated Film; David Siev’s Bad Axe leads for Best Documentary; Dolly De Leon and Stephanie Hsu won for Breakout Performance, and Joyland rounded out the list with Breakout Independent Film.

In a year where Asian-helmed...

“Sounding good and having a good time.” On Thursday, Utopia released the trailer for Meet Me in the Bathroom, an upcoming Showtime documentary inspired by Lizzy Goodman’s book of the same name, about the wild alt-rock music scene that blew up in New York City in the early 2000s.

“People went crazy for it,” says one voice in the trailer. “Suddenly, there were events everywhere. It all happened so fast,” adds another.

The documentary captures the rise of bands including The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Moldy Peaches,...

White Noise director Noah Baumbach with stars Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, composer Danny Elfman, and James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola and May Nivola (Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children), Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lars Eidinger, and Barbara Sukowa was the Opening Night selection of the 60th New York Film Festival.

Noah Baumbach on the costumes by Ann Roth for White Noise: “That sort of real and unreal thing. Jess Gonchor, the production designer, same thing. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The last time I spoke with Noah Baumbach was for While We're Young and I asked him about his working relationship with the Oscar-winning costume designer Ann Roth. At the press conference the afternoon of the premiere of White Noise the incomparable...

James Murphy, Flying Lotus, Carl Craig, Skrillex, 2 Chainz and Maya Jane Coles are among the artists set to perform at Detroit’s Movement Festival. Held at Hart Plaza over Memorial Day Weekend, May 28-30, this year’s dance music extravaganza will feature more than 100 acts. Tickets are available now. Typically held annually in downtown Detroit, the fest marks its return for the first time since 2019, with its 2020 and 2021 editions canceled due to the pandemic.

Kevin Saunderson (appearing under his alias E-Dancer), Jon Hopkins, the Martinez Brothers, Duck Sauce, and...

Gavin Russom, the percussionist and synth player for the legendary dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem, has come out out as transgender at the age of 43. Russom, in interviews with both Pitchfork and Into, described her transition and her life-long battle with the concept. Her transition comes at a time of rebirth for her band, who, after retiring in […]

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While we will remember David Bowie for his songs and the eye-catching way he chose to perform them, his legacy isn't limited to his own art. In addition to being a creator and a performer, Bowie, who died this week at age 69, was also someone who inspired many people, both famous and not. Today, we're celebrating Bowie’s legacy by looking at some of the artists who've covered his songs. 1. "Space Oddity" by Chris Hadfield No, Hadfield didn't chart with this track, but that's because he's not a singer. He's an astronaut, and while aboard the International Space Station in...

While we will remember David Bowie for his songs and the eye-catching way he chose to perform them, his legacy isn't limited to his own art. In addition to being a creator and a performer, Bowie, who died this week at age 69, was also someone who inspired many people, both famous and not. Today, we're celebrating Bowie’s legacy by looking at some of the artists who've covered his songs. 1. "Space Oddity" by Chris Hadfield No, Hadfield didn't chart with this track, but that's because he's not a singer. He's an astronaut, and while aboard the International Space Station in...

While rumors of that LCD Soundsystem reunion turned out to be sadly untrue, the James Murphy-lead band just released a new song, to the surprise of everyone. "Christmas Will Break Your Heart," a piano-driven ballad of the same sad vein as "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down," is the first new LCD song in five years. They previously released "Oh You (Christmas Blue)" as part of the soundtrack for the film Greenberg in 2010. They broke up in 2011. The group posted this note on Twitter, explaining how the song had been rattling around in Murphy's head for eight years: Merry Christmas.

James Murphy & Co. blew out the end of their influential dance-punk act LCD Soundsystem in 2011 by playing their biggest show ever, headlining Madison Square Garden and generally making every sad bastard in the place dance until they forgot that their favorite band was no more. The whole thing was filmed, too, for the great rock doc Shut Up and Play the Hits. It felt like the perfect way for one of New York's finest to go out on top, not because they were at one another's throats, but because it was just time after a decade of intense touring. (How mature.)So it came as a surprise this afternoon when Consequence of Sound quoted multiple "sources" saying LCD Soundsystem would reunite, just five years after disbanding, for a performance at next year's Coachella. Aaaaaand that rumor is false, reps from Murphy's label tell Vulture. “LCD Soundsystem is not reuniting at...

Sometimes the soundtrack to a Noah Baumbach movie can be more exciting than the film itself. He, like his contemporaries Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson, is obsessive about making sure the music in his films carries the story. This is especially true of While We're Young, his new film about 40-somethings who realize the stuff of their childhood is now considered "vintage," starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, and Ad-Rock. The music in While We're Young is some of the most eclectic you'll hear on any Baumbach soundtrack, as it pits the old against the new — what was kind of lame then, but totally cool now. Baumbach reunited with LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy to put the soundtrack together, and on an unseasonably cold spring day in New York, he told Vulture about the prized possessions in his personal collection, and what movie soundtrack makes him cry.

While We’re Young

Written and directed by Noah Baumbach

USA, 2014

Noah Baumbach’s last few films have been about protagonists doing nothing, or at least trying to give the illusion of doing something. Ben Stiller’s Greenberg said as much, even while slowly building a doghouse for his brother. Greta Gerwig’s Frances Halloway was a professional dancer who didn’t dance to the point that it made her “undateable”. Baumbach’s latest film While We’re Young is about yet another form of stagnation: middle age. A married couple of forty-somethings encounter a married couple of twenty-somethings, and that illusion that they’re doing everything they’re meant to be doing at this age quickly fades away.

This sort of generational crisis fits Baumbach’s mentality like a glove, or perhaps a stylish, hipster fedora. Though While We’re Young feels like more of a studio project in comparison to Frances Ha,...

Believe it, kids, you're gonna get old. And when you do, you might feel like Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in "While We're Young," wanting to recapture that youthful vigor, even if your bodies aren't up for staying out all night or hip hop dancing, and your brain has moved on from watching kitschy movies on VHS. But as Noah Baumbach's film points out, if you start hanging out with those younger kids again, some of your friends might not be so understanding. And two new clips from the movie have landed, and it's a nice taste of what's coming. You'll get a glimpse of Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, one half of Stiller and Watts' bestie couple, who has started making assumptions about what kind of crowd his pals want to hang with. Next, some health issues get very real. After that, check out James Murphy's cover of...

James Murphy has shared a solo track online.

The LCD Soundsystem star unveiled 'We Used to Dance', taken from the soundtrack to upcoming Ben Stiller movie While We're Young.

Lionel Richie and Haim are among the other artists who feature on the soundtrack.

The movie stars Stiller and Naomi Watts as a couple who feel stifled by middle age.

LCD Soundsystem released their final album This Is Happening in 2010.

While We're Young opens on March 27 in the Us and April 2 in the UK.

Watch the trailer for While We're Young below:...

Noah Baumbach should ask James Murphy to score all of his films, because, at this point, the duo can do no wrong. Their latest collaboration is the soundtrack for While We're Young, a film about old couples who can't remember what life was like before it became terminally boring, starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Driver, and Ad-Rock.Murphy selected songs from artists like Haim, Paul McCartney, and A Tribe Called Quest for the album, but the real joy is hearing the original music he wrote for the score. The beautiful "We Used to Dance," released today, is a gorgeous instrumental that sounds like it could have been plucked from Brian Eno's Another Green World (or an early Human League album). Murphy recorded two other songs for the soundtrack, including another original, "Only the Stars Above Welcome Me Home," and his take on David Bowie's 1976 classic "Golden Years.

The anxiety of aging has been a theme in James Murphy's work since he mulled his inevitable obsolescence on LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge." While he's dispatched the reference-laden lyrics, the same neurosis is still apparent on the instrumental, "We Used to Dance," which premiered on IndieWire and will appear on the Murphy-helmed soundtrack for While We're Young, the latest film from Noah Baumbach.

"We Used to Dance" doesn't boast a thumping four-on-the-floor invitation to dance yourself clean, but instead finds Murphy crafting a gorgeous ambient number anchored...

In James Murphy, Noah Baumbach has found a perfect musical voice to channel middle-aged angst. The brain behind the now defunct LCD Soundsystem scored Ben Stiller's crisis in "Greenberg," and he reunited with Baumbach for "While We're Young." And again, it's an ideal match, with Murphy bringing the same observations of anxiety, insecurity, and coolness featured in songs “Losing My Edge” and "All My Friends" to his score work here, and today we have a great exclusive song from soundtrack. Titled "We Used To Dance," this isn't one to get on the dance floor with. Instead, it's a beautifully ambient little number, touched with a sense of sadness, that insistently burbles and simmers, but never boils over. It's a nice compliment to the film starring Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, and Amanda Seyfriend, about an older couple who befriend a younger couple in their 20s, and experience something of a youthful renaissance,...

Ben Stiller tries to recapture his youth in a new trailer for While We're Young.

The upcoming comedy reunites Stiller with writer-director Noah Baumbach, with whom he previously collaborated on Greenberg.

While We're Young stars Stiller and Naomi Watts as a couple who are feeling stifled in middle age.

They become reinvigorated when they befriend a much-younger couple (Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver).

Aside from its four main leads, While We're Young also features Charles Grodin and Beastie Boys member Ad-Rock in supporting roles.

While We're Young, which includes music from LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, opens on March 27 in the Us and on April 2 in the UK.

Filmmaker Noah Baumbach is having a hell of a year, a hell of a few years, actually. “Frances, Ha” kicked off a mini renaissance in 2013, and this year, the director has two films done, in the can, and out to the world. At Sundance last week, Baumbach showed off his latest, “Mistress America,” which boasts an awesome ‘80s synth score by ex-Luna members Dean & Britta (read our review). But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Baumbach has another film coming out first. This one’s called “While We’re Young” and features a score by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, who already scored Baumbach’s “Greenberg.” Starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Driver, and even Beastie Boys' musician Ad-Rock, “While We’re Young” focuses on a pair of older, 40-something artists (Stiller, Watts) and the younger, 20-something millennials (Driver, Seyfried) who recharge their creative juices and give...

Never has staving off the inevitability of old age looked as simultaneously charming and cringeworthy as it does in the trailer While We're Young, the latest film from Noah Baumbach. The film centers around Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts, two fortysomethings who befriend a Brooklyn-hipster couple, played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried.

The film also stars the Beastie Boys' Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz as a friend trying to keep Stiller and Watts in check: "We're worried about you guys," he says at one point. "What's with the hat? You're...

The line-up for the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival has been announced, and as usual, that means news of other creative types involved in some of your most anticipated films of the year. And usually, the reveals are music related. Yesterday’s announcements were not much different and unveiled a plethora of good talent involved in upcoming Tiff pictures. According to the Tiff site, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy has scored Noah Baumbach’s upcoming dramedy “While We’re Young” starring Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts among others (first look photos are here). This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise for fans of the filmmaker or Murphy. The musician scored the director’s 2010 comedy “Greenberg” and even had a little walk-on blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo. In case you’ve forgotten, that score was the opposite of Murphy's electronic/dance music work and more in the vein of Baumbach’s beloved Ram album by Paul McCartney.

In 2012, Tim Heidecker stepped out of his Tim and Eric bubble to make The Comedy with writer and director Rick Alverson. It’s a strange and powerful film that finds humor in the uncomfortable and pathetic depiction of an aging hipster and his friends galavanting around Williamsburg to avoid their responsibilities. While a far departure from the Awesome Show, Great Job! aesthetic, the film features some of the usual suspects alongside Heidecker, like Eric Wareheim, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, and Gregg Turkington (aka comedian Neil Hamburger, Heidecker’s cohost at On Cinema At The Cinema). Now, according to Deadline, Heidecker and Alverson are teaming up again to create a vehicle for Turkington. Called Entertainment, the movie will have Turkington play a struggling and aging entertainer known only as “The Comedian,” who travels across the Southwest on a long and winding road trip to track down his estranged daughter and rekindle his failing career along the way...

While Arcade Fire's still (frustratingly) unreleased, Oscar nominated score is key ingredient to the melancholy romance of "Her," from the outset, Spike Jonze had a different idea about what he wanted for the music in his film. "I was initially thinking I would get a bunch of different artists to write music," the director told Digital Spy. "I could get people like James Murphy, Mia, Karen O, Arcade Fire, get all these bands that I love to write three or four pieces of music that's like music from the future, and what music is gonna sound like in 20 years. There'd be heartbreak songs, love songs, all these different songs, melancholy songs and I'd give them themes to write about. But then once I'd written the script I was like 'Actually this isn't that kind of movie, it's not a movie where you can just drop songs in. ' " And good thing,...

It was only 2011 when LCD Soundsystem ended its run with an epic Madison Square Garden concert, but for fans of the dance-rock band, that seems like an eternity ago. Luckily, that show will yield an official live album, which James Murphy told Rolling Stone is set for release in early 2014. Immortalizing that last show, which was chronicled in the 2012 documentary "Shut Up and Play the Hits," has been a laborious process for Murphy. "Jesus, the f*cking live album," Murphy lamented in the interview. "It’s killing me. That's been just murder. I mixed it significantly differently than...

Since LCD Soundsystem disbanded in 2011, frontman James Murphy has crafted a presence for himself in the cinematic medium. The band's final show became the subject of the acclaimed doc "Shut Up and Play the Hits," and Murphy played a supporting turn in Rick Alverson and Tim Heidecker's "The Comedy." Stepping behind the camera for the first time, Murphy has directed a short film as part of Canon's Project Imagination, an initiative headed by Ron Howard in which public figures in another realm of creativity try to express themselves through the lens. Entitled "Little Duck," the 16-minute piece chronicles a man's return to his native Japan after his brother gets into trouble with the law. You can check out the film below -- to find out more about Project Imagination and watch the other films, head over to their website.