TAG: MGMT

Oct02

Wolf Gang, The Royal Concept Live in L.A. (Photos + Remix Track)

Derived from the tightly knit gang of post-dance, post-punk London-based luminaries like Miike Snow and Florence Welch, Wolf Gang bestowed the polychromatic array of sounds from their 2011 debut “Suego Faults” on eager L.A. audiences last night. While taping segments of their performance for a later broadcast on The Carson Daly Show, the band had the attending audience on their feet for well over an hour. As they ran through their song catalogue, the musical numbers echoed everything from the sounds of hippie disco forefathers MGMT to the out-and-out boldness of power-poppers The Killers (or as some would point out, their own influencers: Big Star). Overall, the set was bold and proved why U.K. sound-makers are having a bigger impact on the whole of musical output today more …

Feb15

Bonnaroo 2011 Line-Up Announced: Roo Video Flashbacks from ?uestlove/ +Led Zeps JPJ + Ben Harper, David Byrne, Neon Indian, Erykah Badu and !!! (Video)

I’ve been dog-sick with a fever for most of this new year and only two things so far have gotten me seriously up: seeing Melvin Van Peebles at a live audience Q+A (up soon) and the announcement of the 2011 Bonnaroo line-up. Herewith, the first round of the line-up and a few flashback vids from from ?uestlove +Led Zeps JPJ + Ben Harper jamming, David Byrne, Neon Indian, Erykah Badu and !!!, with much more en route…WARNING: partial nudity, nipplez alert!

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Nov18

Chitchat: Andreas Nilsson, Director

Swedish Director Andreas Nilsson is the person responsible for creating music videos for people like MGMT, The Knife, Bright Eyes, Fever Ray. Andreas and I had a small convo via e-mail about being a creative in the 21st century, how he got into ‘film’ and his work with Karin Dreijer Andersson.

Oct12

10 Seriously WTF Music Videos

Is it just us, or are music videos extra weird right now? Then we stopped to think about it and realized that vids have always been pretty far out. Here’s 10 clips that left us scratching our heads—while watching them over and over again. …MORE

Sep28

MGMT Attacked With Pee + Label Orders a Leash Order on New Album

Being in a band, you constantly face a barrage of things on stage: from people looking bored, to possible riots and once in while fans throwing things at you to assault you or feel more connected to you. MGMT was playing in Manchester when someone threw a bottle of pee and it pelted Will Berman’s chest, I guess exploding all over him causing him to drown in the urine. So I mean as a regular human being, I would not want to come back onstage-especially because I was just humiliated. So the webs is saying how the band had to ‘plea’ him to come back and finish the set (which he didn’t forcing the band to finish the concert without him), because you know performers are robots and absolutely must ignore whatever ‘human emotions’ and let the crowd dictate what …