LCD Soundsystem announce 20-date residency at Brooklyn Steel

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”. The Brooklyn-formed electronic rockers have formally ended their break by announcing their first run of live shows since June 2018.

Their 20-date residency at Brooklyn Steel will begin next month and run through December 21. The shows will take place on November 23, 24, 29, and 30, and on December 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21.

LCD Soundsystem’s latest release was 2019’s Electric Lady Sessions, an album of live studio recordings from the lineup that toured behind the 2017 reunion album American Dream.

Tickets for all 20 shows will go on general sale next Friday (October 8) from here, while a fan pre-sale will begin on Wednesday (October 6).

DFA Records — the New York label co-founded by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy - underwent a significant behind-the-scenes shake-up last summer when Murphy dismissed label head and founding partner Jonathan Galkin after almost 20 years. The news was revealed in a new conversation published this month between Galkin and writer Shawn Reynaldo, which saw Galkin discussing his relationship with Murphy, DFA’s history and the start of his new label, FourFour Records.

“One day I came to work and the DFA building’s locks were changed,” Galkin told Reynaldo. “It was a really sad day, and the only information I got was that the partnership—of which I was part as a minority owner—had made the decision to cut off the label. And then it got ugly, with lawyers involved.”

Galkin claimed that after he was ousted from the label, he was “barred from communicating with anyone”: “It felt like a wrestling move, where you get into the ring and are immediately stunned by your opponent,” he said. “There was no conversation, literally nothing.”