Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

With the release of their debut album in 2005, New York City’s LCD Soundsystem changed the face of dance music, combining equal parts punk, soul, and disco. Their devoted fan base steadily grew, bolstered by Grammy nominations and recognition as one of the best live bands in the world. In early 2011, touring to support their first Billboard Top 10 debut, LCD Soundsystem announced its largest gig to date—Madison Square Garden—and that the concert would be their last ever.

With fly-on-the-wall access, Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s concert film captures the final 48 hours of a band in complete control of its destiny. Packed with high-energy farewell performances, narrated by a frank conversation on success and rock stardom between bandleader James Murphy and writer Chuck Klosterman, SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS proves that if you’re hearing about LCD Soundsystem just now, you’ve already missed the party.
- C.R.

Whitney Kimmel
510-432-4590
www.shutupandplaythehits.com

Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace are directing partners whose work spans commercials, music videos, live music, and feature documentaries and includes artists such as Elbow, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, The Kills, The Fall, Richard Hawley, Jack White, Lemmy, and Björk. Their 2011 feature documentary on the band Blur—No Distance Left to Run—was nominated for a best long-form music video Grammy and shortlisted for a Grierson documentary film award in 2010. SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is Southern and Lovelace's second feature film. Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace are directing partners whose work spans commercials, music videos, live music, and feature documentaries and includes artists such as Elbow, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, The Kills, The Fall, Richard Hawley, Jack White, Lemmy, and Björk. Their 2011 feature documentary on the band Blur—No Distance Left to Run—was nominated for a best long-form music video GRAMMY and shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson cinema documentary award in 2010. SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is Southern and Lovelace's second feature film.