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Kraftwerk have announced that they’ll be heading out on a North American tour in 2022.It comes after the German electronic music pioneers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame on Saturday night (October 30).They were inducted by Pharrell who delivered a video speech presenting them with the award.

Kraftwerk have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame – you can watch the moment below.They were inducted by Pharrell who delivered a video speech presenting them with the award. This was later followed by a video tribute from artists including Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, the Human League’s Philip Oakey and Run-DMC’s Darryl McDaniels.You can see some footage from the event here:Pharrell Williams inducts Kraftwerk pic.twitter.com/zFfXDLHQsb— Dr.

LCD Soundsystem will return to the live stage later this year for a run of 20 gigs in New York City.The news arrives just a few months after frontman James Murphy said that the band were “on a full hiatus”.This afternoon (October 1), however, LCD Soundsystem have formally ended their hiatus by announcing their first live shows since June 2018.The band will play 20 shows at Brooklyn Steel in New York, starting on November 23.

LCD Soundsystem frontman co-founded the label with Galkin and Tim Goldsworthy in 2001, with Galkin running DFA “whole hog” in recent years, according to Murphy.In a recent interview with writer Shawn Reynaldo for his weekly First Floor newsletter, Galkin revealed that he was dismissed by Murphy last summer.“One day I came to work and the [DFA building’s] locks were changed,” Galkin recalled.

LCD Soundsystem are currently “on a full hiatus”.The Murphy-led band have been inactive since releasing their live in-studio album ‘Electric Lady Sessions’ in February 2019, while they last played a show together back in June 2018.Speaking on the latest episode of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Murphy confirmed that LCD had not resumed action recently.“We’re not rehearsing,” Murphy told Maron when asked about the possibility of the band playing any post-pandemic shows.

LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy has reflected on his experience collaborating with the late David Bowie on his final album ‘Blackstar’, revealing that it “broke his heart” that he wasn’t able to fully integrate himself into Bowie’s set-up.Murphy contributed percussion to Bowie’s final studio album, which was released in January 2016 – two days before Bowie’s death.Speaking on the latest episode of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Murphy recalled his first encounters with Bowie which led to him

LCD Soundsystem have announced a 10th anniversary repress of their long out-of-print vinyl boxset ‘The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live At Madison Square Garden’.The album recording is an unabridged version of the band’s near four-hour farewell gig, which took place on April 2, 2011, at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden.The same gig was also documented in the Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace-directed film Shut Up And Play The Hits, which followed frontman James Murphy over a 48-hour

LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy has presented a show on NTS Radio, spinning key songs that soundtracked the early days of the independent record label he co-founded in 2001.Titled DFA Presents: James Murphy, the show hears the electronic musician guide listeners through tracks he said unified the brains behind DFA Records (himself, Tim Goldsworthy, Jonathan Galkin, and others).

LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy has spoken in support of the campaign to save independent music venues in the US during the coronavirus crisis.The National Independent Venue Association are spearheading efforts to get the bipartisan Save Our Stages Act passed, which would create a $10 billion small business association fund to help those small venues that are struggling or being threatened with closure due to the effects of the pandemic.Murphy joined New York Senator Chuck Schumer and a number of

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn simpler times, it wasn’t uncommon to see Brooklyn-born New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer out and about in the city — but it was a little surreal to see him standing outside the indie mecca Baby’s All Right, located in the city’s hipster-centric Williamsburg neighborhood, on Tuesday afternoon, alongside LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and several of the owners or managers of the city’s top independent venues.The senator was stepping up to show his support

Chemical Brothers, Arca, THE BLAZE and Carl Cox are among over 100 acts set for this year's edition of Barcelona’s iconic Sonar Festival. The lineup, which encompasses performers representing over 20 nationalities, loosely classified as i