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MGMT Warns Mamas: “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Wear Headbands”

noah | June 4, 2009 9:30 am
noah | June 4, 2009 9:30 am

kidzSmooth synth outfit MGMT have finally premiered their video for “Kids,” which was initially released in 2005 and was the source of a nice chunk of change thanks to its unauthorized use by French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The clip follows the adventures of a bawling baby who sees monsters everywhere he looks, while his mother (played by Joanna Newsom) hauls him around like a particularly unwieldy handbag–even going so far as to dump him off at one point, which leads to him being placated by the band’s aluminum-foil-plated members long enough to be outfitted with a piece of their merch. Synergy! Clip after the jump. More »


Chris Cornell Is Going To Prove His Worth To You In 63 Tracks

noah | May 18, 2009 2:30 pm
noah | May 18, 2009 2:30 pm

cornellscreamskeemixtapContinuing his efforts to prove to fans that the club and the rock show can, indeed, coexist, Chris Cornell has released a mixtape in conjunction with DJ Skee based on his new solo album Scream. In addition to the Fray’s American Idol-enshrined cover of “Heartless” and a version of “Outshined” credited to Audioslave, the 63 tracks include a selection from that Jay-Z/Linkin Park album, a mashup of the “Lollipops” wielded by Lil Wayne and Framing Hanley, “Kids” so as to fulfill the required-in-2009 MGMT quotient, songs from a few bands that played Bamboozle, and a remix of Nirvana’s “Love Buzz” cover. There is also something called “Trent Reznor Speaks,” which I am going to guess is some sort of meta-Twitter dis. (The zipped version is 219 megabytes, so it’s taking a while to leech from the Internet.) Full track listing after the jump. More »


Weezer Provide The Missing Link Between MGMT And Lady Gaga

noah | May 18, 2009 10:45 am
noah | May 18, 2009 10:45 am


Also performing at the T-Mobile party that hosted the first concert in four years by blink-182: Weezer, who had a tweaked lineup (with Josh Freese on drums; wonder if Rivers Cuomo got a copy of his solo album when the hire went through?) and a cover of MGMT’s highly bloggable “Kids” that interpolated a bit of Lady Gaga for good measure / extra viral impact. The two songs mesh pretty well, although I do wish they’d thrown a bit of an old folk tune in there for good measure. [YouTube] More »



UK Paper Spends 3,099 Words Reminding People That TV Sells Records

noah | February 16, 2009 3:30 am
noah | February 16, 2009 3:30 am

Yesterday’s Observer had a piece on the musical tastemaking enterprise within the UK TV show Skins, which chronicles the debauchery-filled lives of nihilistic kids who represent “Broken Britain.” The good thing for the music business: They’re partying to the likes of Crystal Castles as they spiral ever downward! Which may mean record sales, or at least that elusive currency known as “awareness.” Sure, the whole thesis of the article can be summed up by one statement about five-sixths of the way down—”In the UK, we’re coming round to the notion that instead of another doomed attempt to make music TV popular, a more profitable use of time would be trying to fit music to TV that already is popular”—but there were some other choice lessons along the way.

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The Pre-Grammys: Justice And MGMT Win “Most Bloggable” Award (Sort Of)

noah | February 8, 2009 4:50 am
noah | February 8, 2009 4:50 am

We’re about three hours away from the televised… More »


“Suck” Blows (Up): Clarkson’s Comeback Could Make It To The Top Of The Pops

Chris Molanphy | January 23, 2009 3:30 am
Chris Molanphy | January 23, 2009 3:30 am

The most interesting news on Billboard’s Hot 100 isn’t at the summit, where the entire Top Five has been static for the last couple of weeks. It’s in the basement, where a flotilla of new songs—many by established acts—debuts.

We could talk about the return of Eminem to the Hot 100, for the first time in nearly three years, with his 50 and Dre-supported “Crack the Bottle,” at No. 76.

Or the third single and first ballad from the omnipresent Katy Perry, one notch below. (More on her in a minute.)

Or a couple of all-star duets—mellow twosome Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat (“Lucky,” No. 84) or smoove pair Jamie Foxx and T-Pain (“Blame It,” No. 98).

But all of these budding hits are overshadowed by the single that debuts quietly at No. 97—a song that could well be the chart’s next No. 1 and finally put some distance between Kelly Clarkson and the other American Idol finalists who’ve been chipping away at her crown all these years.

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Why Is One MGMT Dude Cooler Than The Other?

Dan Gibson | November 4, 2008 11:30 am
Dan Gibson | November 4, 2008 11:30 am

The nearly completely useless NME Cool List hit the internet today and while most of the list is predictable (M.I.A. and Lil Wayne are cool? This is entirely new information!), one inclusion/exclusion seemed a bit odd. Most people have likely made up their minds about MGMT at this point–especially since their music has been difficult to avoid in late 2008–and their inclusion in an arbitrary list makes sense. But what made Andrew VanWyngarden the “cool” half?

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“Spin” Tries To Expand On MGMT

anono | October 24, 2008 11:00 am
anono | October 24, 2008 11:00 am

Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who’s contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Spin:

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Dan Gibson | September 23, 2008 4:00 am
Dan Gibson | September 23, 2008 4:00 am

A note to Phoenix New Times Music Editor Martin… More »



MGMT: Bringing Smooth Jazz To The Underground?

noah | September 9, 2008 12:00 pm
noah | September 9, 2008 12:00 pm

While I was in Los Angeles, a song that sounded like it had somehow escaped from the Muzak of the late ’70s, and subsequently been grunged up by being loose on the streets during the intervening 30 years, kept entering my field of hearing–on car radios, in-hotel Muzak, ambient music in restaurants. (Somehow it didn’t crack the playlist of the two Rite Aids I visited during my visit (I always forget something when I got away), but that could have been the timing.) The track was fine at first, and it slowly grew on me thanks to its sleazy end-of-the-night vibe; by day four, the thing was lodged in my brain, and I wasn’t really minding all that much. As it turned out, the track in question was not from some lost album from the ’70s, but rather “Electric Feel” by the commenter-section-igniting MGMT. More »