MGMT

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This heat sucks … we know. So what better way to beat it than by dancing yourself into a sweaty mess surrounded by hundreds of your under-hydrated peers in a shadeless pool? That’s the question JellyNYC poses all summer long with its free weekend "Pool Party" shows at McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg. If you’ve missed any of the fantastic acts (Liars, the Hold Steady) that have already performed this season, be sure to catch Brooklyn’s MGMT (It’s pronounced “M-G-M-T,” not “management,” by the way) and England’s fashion-pop duo, Ting Tings, this Sunday. MGMT's debut, Oracular Spectacular, is a pop intellectual’s feast—a giddy mix of disco beats, glam guitar and baroque synths.  read more »

When trance-rock duo MGMT—pronounced management—make their last stops before their European tour promoting their debut full-length album, Oracular Spectacular, to play the Bowery Ballroom on Feb. 13th and the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Feb. 14th, it will put the finishing touch on an unlikely success story.

“It's kind of weird,” said Ben Goldwasser, 25, who met the other half of MGMT, Andrew Van Wyngarden, 24, during their Freshman year at Wesleyan. Almost straight out of college, they signed a deal with Columbia Records in late 2006 based on only the six-song EP, “Time to Pretend.” “We all felt guilty that there’s so many bands and so many friends of ours that are working so hard to get noticed by a label and make it, or whatever. We definitely were not trying at all. We were just kind of doing our own thing.”  read more »