Stop what you’re doing, ’cause Coast Modern have covered MGMT’s “Electric Feel” and it’s about to turn wherever you are into a dancefloor.
Electrifying screens with acid-trip psychedelic visuals zooming in and out of focus, a band so high on energy it seemingly got lost in its own momentum and a raucous crowd defined Saturday’s MGMT show at Merriweather Post Pavilion.
Get ready for the most melancholy trip to Urban Outfitters ever.
Congratulations is a very heady trip indeed, featuring 12-minute songs about surfing in Siberia, jittery odes to Brian Eno and the first single, a kitchen-sink affair called “Flash Delerium”.
The ninth annual Sasquatch festival, held every year at the picturesque Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wa., revealed its full lineup during a party at Seattle’s Crocodile Café.
“Our album hopefully will be coming out in April,” Andrew Van Wyngarden said. “Maybe after you hear it, you’ll be saying, ‘Congratulations.’ That’s the whole wordplay of the thing.”
NEW YORK – Jay-Z will bring his “Empire State of Mind” to the West Coast for Coachella this year.
Psych-pop duo MGMT has finally unveiled the video for its Oracular Spectacular track “Kids” nearly 10 months after it was released as a single. The 2008 Artist To Watch and last year’s Hot Band Everyone Wants To Be In has assembled a true labor of love: a six-minute video starring Joanna Newsom as a mom who totes around a toddler who sees monsters worthy of GWAR’s percussion section everywhere he looks. (The band insists no children – and presumably no monsters or harpists – were injured during the shoot.) MGMT said that the video has been in the works for… Read more »
PARIS — Alternative act MGMT has beef with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “No time to think of consequences/Take only what you need from it,” sings American psychedelic indie rock band MGMT in its popular anthem “Kids.” This was exactly what French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party did when it used the song without the band’s permission. Now the ruling UMP party, which faced the threat of a lawsuit, has agreed to pay a financial compensation to the band, MGMT’s French lawyer said on Tuesday. Asked if the settlement fee amounted to 30,000 euros ($39,050), a sum cited by France Info… Read more »
