MGMT To Perform Unique “Musical Experience” at the Guggenheim
This just in from P4k Media Corps: The MGMTs, apparently desiring a change of pace from Bowery Ballroom and MHall Williamsburg, will be performing two unique “musical experience” performances at the...
View ArticleBeavis & Butthead on MGMT: “Is this Sixteen and Pregnant?”
America’s premier Dumbass Duo is back, just in time for a double dose of 1994 all up in your Halloweekend. Season 8, Episode 1 premiered last night—the first new episode since 1997—and brought with it...
View ArticleUSA Today on Wes Bands, Eclectic, Elmo Costumes
User comment of the year: “AWE SWEEETTTT! Music mucho bien. TRolOlOlololol” Guys. We’re famous. Again. Remember that time Wesleyan became the “epicenter of surrealist Brooklyn pop”? The Village Voice...
View ArticleScenes From the Tent Party: The Heems-Miranda-MGMT Alumni Complex
Q: What’s more Wesleyan than a Commencement Eve Tent Party featuring cameos by Das Racist’s Himanshu “Heems” Suri ’07, playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02, and a wedding-style funk cover of “Kids”? A:...
View ArticleBand with Hard-to-Pronounce Name Will Release Hard-to-Understand LP in June
“We’re not trying to make music that everyone understands the first time they hear it.” This just in from Rolling Stone: Andrew VanWyngarden ’05 and Ben Goldwasser ’05, known collectively as MeGa-MeTa...
View ArticleMGMT Releases Cassingle “Alien Days” for 4-20/Zonker Harris/Record Store Day
The first single off of the hard-to-understand third LP of a band with a hard-to-pronounce name was released today— in the form of a cassette tape. We get it, guys, the ’90s were a cool time, but stop...
View ArticleZonker Harris Day
Zonker Harris Day is a music festival-art smorgasbord-spring time-event for all. On Saturday, April 19th, 9 bands will play in the WestCo Courtyard from 11:30 AM to ~7 PM. Specially-selected...
View ArticleSalon Loves Our Sex Parties, But Is Salon Liberated and Free?
The first image that came up when I googled “hispter party.” C/o The Peanuts Gang Benjamin Winterhalter ’07 really wants you to know that he’s cool—but not, like,...
View ArticleHenry Hall ’14 Breaks Out in the NYC Music Scene
Since releasing his vibey single “Fake Words” last week, Henry Hall ’14, of Grand Cousin fame, has been on the move navigating the New York music scene and post-grad life. I chatted with Hall to...
View Article10 Spectacular Oracular Years
Last week the world celebrated the 10th year of MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular. (Almost) straight out of Wes graduation, Andrew VanWyngarden ’05 and Ben Goldwasser ’05 hooked us Kids—you know The...
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