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Does this make anyone else sad that LCD Soundsystem is retiring? Pitchfork has the rip for the new video for a Holy Ghost! remix of LCD Soundsystem's excellent single 'Drunk Girls.' The remix itself is excellent, way more propulsive than the (already thrilling) original, but married to super cool visuals involving tall-bike jousting?

When celebs like Kim Kardashian bitch-tweet about their travel troubles, we only have so much sympathy for them. But when people we truly love, like LCD Soundsystem, experience traveler's trauma, we feel their pain.

LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin) Few musicians can tease a pop song for three minutes and keep it interesting. On This Is Happening, the third offering from LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy pulls it off. “Dance Yrself Clean” tiptoes gently across Murphy’s analog vocals for the length of most pop songs, before an eruption of deep synths and LCD’s trademark cowbells. On “I Can Change,” Murphy bellows, “I can change/ If it helps you fall in love,” but it’s precisely because he doesn’t change—while doing what he does best—that we love him in the first place. Happening is another classic of the dance-rock genre from the man who helped create it. —Ben Barna

P.S.1 art space is once again cultivating life in Long Island City. This month began the tenth anniversary of the museum’s popular dance music series Warm Up, attracting both dance aficionados and those that just like beer and hot indie girls. (Ladies, a note: If you’re seeking straight men, hanging around the bar is your best bet). This year’s impressive schedule is sprinkled with names like DFA’s James Murphy and Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem), Au Revoir Simone, Metro Area, and Kelley Polar, ensuring numbers surpassing the weekly average of 4,000 in attendance last year.

Reader, If I could impart one piece of nightlife advice it would be the following. Don’t start off a night with a terrible hangover when the BVLGARI Diagono Watch Collection, and Rock & Republic “Summer at The Beatrice Inn” are on the itinerary. Furthermore, it’s best not to attend an event celebrating anything having more than two consecutive consonants in its name with said terrible hangover, espcially if it's being held at Frank Gehry’s sleek IAC Building. The elegance of it all will make you feel like the tuna tar-tar being passed around. Instead, don your best Proenza Schouler with the prior knowledge that you’ll be bumping into beautiful people like Sean Avery, Simon Spurr, and New York Jets center Nick Mangold, and that later at the Beatrice, you’ll be dancing with Kirsten Dunst, Sia, Emma Snowdon-Jones and May Anderson. A cautionary tale.