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James Murphy is doing a terrible job at retiring. The restless leader of electro-dance band, LCD Soundsystem called it quits last year and celebrated with a final show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which has now been turned into a documentary called Shut Up and Play the Hits (hitting theatres next Wednesday). But since retiring last April, Murphy has decided to open a coffee shop, gone on countless DJ tours and even plans on reuniting the band to record a mystery cover for a film that he refuses to reveal.

Last night, Murphy appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to discuss his post-retirement life, how he passed on an opportunity to write for Seinfeld (random!) and even took a few minutes to jump off and jam with The Roots. He tells Fallon, “If you have an opportunity to play a song you like with The Roots, you do it. I haven’t played guitar in a band in about twenty years so I thought it would be a good idea to do it.”

Watch the interview and jam session below.

Tags: james muprhy, jimmy fallon, LCD Soundsystem, News, shut up and play the hits, the roots

Posted on Thursday, July 12th, 2012 at 11:39 am by Melody and is filed under Blog, News, The Wedge.

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