MGMT predestined its current suffering with its first single: The East Coast band’s big, bouncy 2008 smash, “Time to Pretend,” turned two art-rock kids into festival headliners. The songthree jubilant ...

Every so often I run by the McCarren Park Pool and wonder what happened to MGMT, a band that blew up so big in 2008 and 2009 that they purposefully made a second album that no one would buy. That ...

Sometimes, timing is everything. MGMT began with two college students who mocked rockstar clichés on their single, “Time to Pretend.” They wrote Let’s make some music, make some money, find some ...

When Vanwyngarden and Goldwasser, the visionaries at the helm of MGMT, met at Wesleyan University back in 2002, neither of them could have expected a four record, six figure deal from Columbia Records ...

For as long as pop music exists, "Time To Pretend" by MGMT will be a soundtrack for moments of youthful ecstasy as well as nostalgia for those times. The ambivalence, which courses deep in every facet ...

“I wonder how far we can go with our silly music?” pondered a bobbleheaded likeness of MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser onstage at Los Angeles’s Just Like Heaven festival Saturday. “Do you think we could ever ...

These aren’t very new, but the duo MGMT has been getting lots of hype lately, so it makes me think they must be good, or at least cool. These are my favorites that I’ve heard from them, all off of ...

When the synth-pop duo MGMT released their début album, “Oracular Spectacular,” in 2007, three of its songs became instant hits. “Electric Feel” was an arboreal psychedelic sex anthem that could have ...

The charm of Saltburn strikes again. After Sophie Ellis-Bextor found herself reborn as a global darling in the wake of Barry Keoghan giving his undercarriage a flamboyant airing to “Murder on the ...

MGMT, the indie rock duo made up of singers Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, will be performing live for the first time in nearly four years. The band is slated to take the stage at the annual ...

Black Country, New Road released their debut album, For The First Time, last week — it’s our reigning Album Of The Week — and they also recently got together to record a cover of MGMT’s nostalgic hit ...