TAG: MGMT

Jun17

Free Summer Concert In Your Town

This Summer or Fall, you can catch performances by Gnarls Barkley, Justice, The Roots, MGMT, and many others without coming out of your pockets. Yes, that means free, people.

C3, the masterminds behind Lollapalooza has teamed up with Southern Comfort premium liqueur, to present music lovers with the SoCo Music Experience, a U.S. nationwide mega concert festival headlined by chart-topping musicians—at least 10 acts in one day. The only requirement is being at least 21 and having a vaild I.D.

Along with the concerts, visitors can partake in a host of extracurricular activities, food, video games and fashion vendors on site.

The SoCo Music Experience festival tour will touchdown in the following cities this summer:

Jun 28 – Denver, Central Parking Lot A, Coors Field
Featuring Gnarls Barkley, Blonde Redhead, …

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Apr21

Beaver Watch: Coachella Mixes

It’s not officially Coachella until we get that FedEx’d packages of Beaver mixes. Every year, this being the fifth installment, DJ John Beaver compiles day-by-day mixes of Coachella’s performers. Download each day’s mix by right-click-saving.

DAY 1-FRIDAY

1. Rogue Wave- Lake Michigan
2. Jack Johnson- Never Know
3. The Breeders- Cannonball
4. Spank Rock- Backyard Betty
5. Aesop Rock- None Shall Pass
6. Raconteurs- Steady As She Goes
7. Cut Copy- Saturday
8. Midnight Juggernauts- Road To Recovery
9. Madness- Our House
10. Fatboy Slim- Right Here, Right Now
11. Modeselektor feat Thom Yorke- The White Flash
12. Diplo- Work Is Never Over
13. Does It Offend You, Yeah?- We Are Rockstars
14. Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip- …

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Apr07

Tart-y Party Secrets Revealed, and this week’s WBDYTYI.

This past weekend marked my return to the Hanger Bar on East 3rd street. I brought my favorite tracks from the UK excursion, as well as a newfound love for the “What Band Do You Think YOU’RE In” game. Amazingly enough, one can play the game while shooting pool at HB. So it goes when a Friday night party attracts disgruntled locals (aka, starving musicians of the E.Vill.) and the women who love to grind em.

So here we are, a lil guide to my favorite singles of the moment:

1. “The Beginning of the Twist” – The Futureheads. Kudos to these guys for getting this single to number 20 on the UK charts without a shred of advertising money. The guys are iconic of the new business model, finding success on the merit …

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Mar28

Airwalk Revisits the Legendary Vic Velcro

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Originally introduced in 1987, the Vic was created to help skaters from blowing out laces during skate sessions. This year, Airwalk decided to bring back their legendary skate shoe and featured it at this year’s SxSw festival, creating only 100 pairs for bands and tastemakers. The limited edition Vic Velcro is one of the first re-releases for the brand and will not be sold to the public until Summer 08 at key retailers.

Here are a few images of bands posing with the Vic Velcro in good ol’ Austin:

(sidenote: im into MGMT right now)

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Feb14

MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (Review)

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Oracular Spectacular

Released by Red Ink/Columbia Records


Because of the overly dramatic nature of MGMT's vocals Oracular Spectacular necessitates and essentially thrives only with melodramatic musical accompaniment. This is meant affectionately. For the most part, the MGMT duo of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser come through. Opener "Time to Pretend" exemplifies this best, as the synths provide quirky cartoonish bounces to tales of fancy car whipping and coke snorting pipe-dreams. However, the record grows sluggish at certain points, particularly when they try to get super sentimental on that ass. The predictable guitar strums on "Weekend Wars" ...

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