Rock Docs Podcast: Shut Up and Play the Hits with Luca Morganti

It’s been a quiet couple of months, but after some well-earned rest, Rock Docs is back with another new episode.

Your hosts, Andy Keatts and David Lizerbram, are back to talk about Shut Up and Play the Hits, a 2012 film about the final, uncontroversial, conclusive, never to be reversed ending of LCD Soundsystem directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace.

Shut Up and Play the Hits, of course, is about LCD’s 2011 retirement show at Madison Square Garden. The documentary features an interview with LCD mastermind James Murphy and journalist Chuck Klosterman, some backstage stuff before and after the show, and James Murphy’s French bulldog. And perhaps more Arcade Fire than one would expect or prefer from the vantage point of 2025.

Does this era of music and culture hold up? Is it too soon? Is LCD’s dramatic conclusion and subsequent reformation the most (or least) interesting thing about the band? When will they finally put out their new album? All this and more in this episode of Rock Docs.

Our guest today is self-professed LCD superfan and New York guy living in LA, film director Luca Morganti.

Also, the Rock Docs gang suggests you give a read to the Treble 100 entry on LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver.

Hear the latest episode below, and watch the trailer for the film.

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