Portland crowd: “Kids! Kids! Kids!”
Andrew: “No, not Kiss. We’re not Kiss. We’re MGMT.”
(via mysterydisease)
The creative risks the band takes with its newer work are weird and wonderful.
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Stephanie McKay, The STARPHOENIX
Review of MGMT Saskatoon show.
(via hereslala)Can we remember this beautiful gem of a moment from the Geneseo MGMT concert please
Crowd: *chanting* Kids! Kids! Kids!
Andrew: Adults! Adults! Adults! … This is a song about young people!
Crowd: WOOOO
*They start playing The Youth*
(via abyssalmystic)
MGMT are getting even weirder on their follow-up, tentatively due out in June. Instead of using their live band, as they did on Congratulations, the core duo recorded alone, cherry-picking the best parts of their free-form jams to construct tracks that reflect the Aphex Twin and house records they’ve been listening to lately.
—Rolling Stone (via wild-eyed-kid)
(Source: mysterydisease)
Swirling electronic highlights include “Mystery Disease” and “Alien Days” – which VanWyngarden explains is “about that feeling when a parasitic alien is in your head, controlling things.
—Rolling Stone (via wild-eyed-kid)
(Source: mysterydisease)
MGMT talking about 2012, 4 years ago
Rusty Miller’s Byron Bay surf school has been named in the top 10 surf schools in the world, according to National Geographic Traveler. Rusty, who has been surfing since 1953, has had a long list of celebrities join his school including MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden.
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(Source: byronnews.com.au)
We saw Spectrum perform with them a couple of years ago and it made our faces melt. A good light show helps guide people into unfamiliar musical territory and increases their attention spans.
—Ben Goldwasser on the Joshua Light Show / Rolling Stone, 9/13/2012
Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser from MGMT are just two of the special guests on the upcoming album of upstate New York-based poet and singer-songwriter Cheval Sombre. Called ‘Mad Love’, it’s out on November 5 via Sonic Cathedral, and also features guest appearances from former Spacemen 3 man Sonic Boom.
—NME
(Source: nme.com)
There was a chance to see it all tie together as singer Andrew VanWyngarden showed a vocal similarity to a young Mick Jagger while performing the classic track ‘Angie,’ with the audience helping out a little along the way.
—Ultimate Classic Rock
(Source: ultimateclassicrock.com)
And best, and strangest, is MGMT’s nine-minute, album-closing version of “Future Games,” the title track of a Bob Welch-era album.”It’s like music from outer space, really,” said Poster of MGMT’s version, and Mac’s influence, “and it does speak to how these songs evolve, and live on, and are filtered through another sensibility.
—TimesNews
(Source: timesnews.net)
MGMT bring the vocoder weirdness on ‘Future Games’, written by Fleetwood Mac’s most underrated bod, Bob Welch. It swirls about in Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden’s rainbow spirals before collapsing in a heap of bleeps and fuzz.
—NME
(Source: nme.com)
I mean, everybody’s a nice guy, you know? George Bush, he’s probably a nice guy…but I don’t like him
—Andrew VanWyngarden (x)
MGMT was another kind of surprise billing. The sound was tiny, and the vocals were kept loud and clear. There were some signs of being out of practice (false start on “Song For Dan Treacy”, apology after “Time To Pretend”) but the goofs, and the banter, made the set feel unmistakably playful and casual. They covered the Rolling Stones’ “Angie”, and turned the refrain into a joke afterwards: “They can’t say we never tried to cover that song.” They ended with a new song called “Alien Days”.
—Prefix
(Source: prefixmag.com)
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
