'This is Happening' out now, LCD Soundsystem kicks off 4 night Terminal 5 run tonight (win tix), afterparty Saturday (on sale)

LCD Soundsystem @ Webster Hall in April (more by Ryan Muir)

“New York likes art stars. When I was in DFA, we were seen as these crazy guys throwing these drug parties connected to some fashion show. That was cool to people. Now I’m just a guy in a band. I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool, but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it’s not really that I don’t want to be cool any more – it’s more like I’ve come to realise that coolness doesn’t exist the way I once assumed.”
[says James Murphy to Chuck Klosterman]

LCD Soundsystem kick off their four-night Terminal 5 run tonight (Thursday, 5/20). All four shows are opened by Holy Ghost! and are/were sold out (you can check Ticketmaster as they always release tickets to shows). We have one pair to give away for tonight. Details below.

LCD’s new album “This is Happening” is out (you can get it at insound and iTunes). AT iTunes you get a a bonus track – a cover of Paperclip People’s “Throw”. Reviews range from Best New Music to “LCD Soundsystem can do, and has done, much better” to “You wonder how he could share lyrics so half-baked” to “Despite occasional flashes of brilliance this is a patchy, derivative work.”

After the T5 show on Saturday there’s an after-party with DJs James Murphy, Pat Mahoney and plenty of friends at Highline Ballroom. Tickets are on sale. More details in the flyer, with the contest details and the new video for “Bye Bye Bayou” below…

LCD Soundsystem – Bye Bye Bayou (HD)

lcd soundsystem | MySpace Music Videos

TO WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO LCD Soundsystem THURSDAY NIGHT: email [email protected] (subject: LCD Soundsystem) with your first and last name. One winner will be picked at random and contacted.