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MGMT: "We want to scare the squares"

Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 20 February 2008

MGMT make "future '70s" music, want to be produced by Barack Obama and have played gigs as giant snowmen. Confused? You should be, says Dave ...

MGMT: Oracular Spectacular (Sony BMG)

Review by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 7 March 2008

THIS IS THE first great pop record of the year, a fizzing cherry-bomb that sparkles with energy, ideas and a huge love for music in ...

MGMT: Electric Dreams

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 4 December 2008

Elvis Presley's vintage tune 'Old Shep' was written about a pet canine, Michael Jackson's 'Ben' was an ode to a rat and The Beatles' 'Martha ...

MGMT: Congratulations (Columbia)

Review by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, February 2010

THESE BRAINY Wesleyan alums remain just as ironical about their rock star dreams than ever, despite a year in which they garnered a Grammy nod ...

MGMT: Congratulations

Review by Johnny Sharp, bbc.co.uk, 13 April 2010

After a debut of sing-along hits, the duo takes refuge in druggy experimentalism. ...

MGMT: Coming Up

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Q, June 2010

They're the button-pushing psychedelic pranksters who count Paul McCartney and Jay-Z among their admirers. Step into the weird, wired world of MGMT. ...

MGMT: Inheritors of the Head-expanding Hippie Ethos

Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 25 June 2010

FEW OF THE BANDS playing Glastonbury's 40th anniversary this weekend fit the consciousness-expanding ethic of the festival at its best as well as MGMT. They ...

MGMT: Somerset House, London

Live Review by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 10 July 2018

The fake plastic shrubs on stage have more charisma than Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser in this understated, underwhelming set. ...

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