Grow Up Like a Rock Star  LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds
his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses  LCD
Soundsystem Sound of Silver (#1 album) "All My Friends" (#3
single) "Someone Great" (#14 single) "North American Scum" (#22
single)  The "rock star," as we traditionally think of it, is
scarce on this year's Pazz & Jop ballots. The mega-famous icon
clutching a guitar and singing about heartache or fucking or
partying or escape or revolution; the prophet whom we come to
for concrete answers instead of riddles and viral videos and
cryptic website codes. Maybe there's a dearth this year, given
the lack of new offerings from Dylan, Beck, Green Day, System of
a Down, U2, or Johnny Cash. Or maybe we're prisoners of our own
self-awareness.  The message was clear in 2007: Being a "rock
star" is gauche at best, silly and anachronistic at worst.
Twenty years ago, Run-DMC wrangled to be the "King of Rock," but
now, the Shop Boyz only want to live vicariously. "Party Like a
Rock Star" treated rock mus