MGMT are the latest group to appear on the insightful music podcast Song Exploder, and the indietronica duo pulled apart their beloved breakthrough single “Time to Pretend” — both the original EP ...

MGMT is an indie electronic band formed in 2002 by Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser while they were students at Wesleyan University. The band is renowned for its dreamy, experimental sound, ...

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 ...

On the podcast "Song Exploder", Hrishikesh Hirway asks artists to break down their songs and discuss how they're made. The latest episode features MGMT talking about their Oracular Spectacular track ...

LYRICALLY, MGMT’s debut seems like a noble (but doomed) attempt to condense the tragicomic life of the rock star, the idealism of youth and the frailty of the human condition into three and a half ...

This Wednesday night, MGMT plays the Showbox SODO and tickets are all sold out. If you have never seen MGMT live and love their radio hits like “Kids,” “Time To Pretend” or “Electric Feel,” you might ...

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 ...

The creation story behind “Astro-Mancy,” MGMT’s rhythmic freakout on its self-titled new album, is instructive when considering the duo’s oblong output over the years. A band best known for its string ...

Seated in the library of an upmarket hotel, MGMT's Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden are anxious to talk. The Grammy-nominated duo not only single-handedly raised sales of fluoro body paint ...

GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 27: Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT performs on The Pyramid Stage during Day 4 of the Glastonbury Festival on June 27, 2010 in Glastonbury, England. This year sees the 40th ...