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MGMT Flash Back To The 60s With “Flash Delirium” And “Congratulations”
12:14 PM on Tue Mar 9 2010 by Becky Bain
MGMT helped Kid Cudi achieve wacked-out goodness for his single "Purtsuit of Happiness," but can they work the same trippy magic for their sophomore album? Today we get to find out—two tracks from the band's upcoming LP surfaced, the title track "Congratulations" and the bizarre flower power opus "Flash Delirium." You can download "Flash Delirium" for free on MGMT's website, but why exert energy clicking away when you can just hop below and give it a listen?
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Kid Cudi Hits A High Mark With Alternate Video For “Pursuit Of Happiness”
10:50 AM on Tue Mar 9 2010 by Becky Bain
Kid Cudi has shared his affection for herbal refreshment in the mind-tripping music video for "Day 'N' Night," and filled his hotel room up with smoke in the silly clip for "Cudderisback", but his alternate vid for "Pursuit of Happiness" takes his love of bud (and other mind-altering hallucinogens) to the extreme. If the track's first video was much more of a hoppin' party (hey, even Drake was invited to the soiree!), Cudi's take two of "Happiness" is the sleepy comedown when the hangover starts to hit. Reminiscent of a Michel Gondry brain-twister, the clip is one hell of a hazy fantasy, and it's not to be missed. Check it out after the jump.
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Surf’s Up! MGMT Reveal The Album Cover Art For ‘Congratulations’
12:36 PM on Wed Feb 17 2010 by Robbie Daw
MGMT member Andrew Vanwyngarden wasn't kidding last week when he said the duo's new album is "definitely going to shock people." While the cover of their debut Oracular Spectacular was hardly a masterpiece, the just-revealed artwork for sophomore album Congratulations (see it after the jump) is conjuring up memories of the days when we lugged around our, like, totally rad Trapper Keeper in fourth grade.
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MGMT Inspired By Lady Gaga On Nine-Song Sophomore Album ‘Congratulations’
9:02 AM on Tue Feb 9 2010 by Robbie Daw
They didn't nab either of the two Grammys they were up for last week, but no matter—synthy hipsters MGMT are moving on to brighter things, like their sophomore album Congratulations.
"It's definitely going to shock people," Andrew Vanwyngarden, one half of the duo, told Spin of the new album (due out April 13). "We dropped any sort of irony that was on the first record, and Congratulations feels true to who we really are."
And who are they really? Apparently a band whose influences this time around ranged from surfing to Lady Gaga. More »
"It's definitely going to shock people," Andrew Vanwyngarden, one half of the duo, told Spin of the new album (due out April 13). "We dropped any sort of irony that was on the first record, and Congratulations feels true to who we really are."
And who are they really? Apparently a band whose influences this time around ranged from surfing to Lady Gaga. More »
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Grammy Awards 2010: Who Will Win Best New Artist?
1:36 PM on Tue Jan 26 2010 by Robbie Daw
Yesterday we offered our predictions for what will happen in all the major pop categories for the 2010 Grammy Awards, so today we turn our focus toward the list of hopefuls up for sometimes-cursed Best New Artist—i.e. the one field Beyonce and Taylor Swift aren't front-runnners.
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Grammy Awards 2010: We Pick The Pop Winners
2:59 PM on Mon Jan 25 2010 by Becky Bain
We're less than a week away from the 2010 Grammy Awards, and we're anxiously anticipating who will win what, which performance will be talked about the most the following day, and how many costume changes of Lady Gaga's will involve blood packets. (Our guess: two out of seven.)
This week we'll be highlighting the Big Four—Best New Artist, and Album, Song and Record of the Year—but for now, we present to you Idolator's picks for all the major pop categories. And no, we don't think Taylor Swift will be running to the stage as much as most pundits assume she will be:
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Catch Kid Cudi’s All-Star “Pursuit Of Happiness”
9:04 AM on Tue Dec 8 2009 by Robbie Daw
Kid Cudi may eventually “pull the Kanye” (oh, that’s what that means now?), but for now you can catch the Josh Hartnett-produced video for Cudi’s new single “The Pursuit Of Happiness,” which cropped up today. Cudi slows things waaaay down for a live-for-the-moment/toke-’em-if-you-got-’em anthem (which also features duo Ratatat and Kudi’s fellow Grammy nominees MGMT)—all to pretty potent effect. As he says, “Everything that shines ain’t always going to be gold,” and everything leaked on YouTube ain’t always going to avoid copyright enforcers, so let’s get to it.
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Weezer Still Really Good At Pandering To The Internet
6:15 PM on Mon Jul 13 2009 by Maura
Never one to let an opportunity for online virality pass them by, Weezer have released the hybrid cover of MGMT’s indie-kid fave “Kids” and Lady GaGa’s actual hit “Poker Face” that they premiered a few months back in Slightly Cleaned-Up, Officially Sanctioned Single form. Watch as Rivers Cuomo toasts 2008… in May 2009! Judge for yourself whether Weezer’s take on GaGa’s No. 1 track is better than Chris Daughtry’s! See if you can make it all the way through the clip’s five minutes and 36 seconds without wishing you were listening to “Say It Ain’t So,” or even “Beverly Hills,” instead! All these delights await you after the jump. More »
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MGMT Warns Mamas: “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Wear Headbands”
9:30 AM on Thu Jun 4 2009 by Maura
Smooth synth outfit MGMT have finally premiered their video for “Kids,” which was initially released in 2005 and was the source of a nice chunk of change thanks to its unauthorized use by French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The clip follows the adventures of a bawling baby who sees monsters everywhere he looks, while his mother (played by Joanna Newsom) hauls him around like a particularly unwieldy handbag–even going so far as to dump him off at one point, which leads to him being placated by the band’s aluminum-foil-plated members long enough to be outfitted with a piece of their merch. Synergy! Clip after the jump. More »
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Chris Cornell Is Going To Prove His Worth To You In 63 Tracks
2:30 PM on Mon May 18 2009 by Maura
Continuing his efforts to prove to fans that the club and the rock show can, indeed, coexist, Chris Cornell has released a mixtape in conjunction with DJ Skee based on his new solo album Scream. In addition to the Fray’s American Idol-enshrined cover of “Heartless” and a version of “Outshined” credited to Audioslave, the 63 tracks include a selection from that Jay-Z/Linkin Park album, a mashup of the “Lollipops” wielded by Lil Wayne and Framing Hanley, “Kids” so as to fulfill the required-in-2009 MGMT quotient, songs from a few bands that played Bamboozle, and a remix of Nirvana’s “Love Buzz” cover. There is also something called “Trent Reznor Speaks,” which I am going to guess is some sort of meta-Twitter dis. (The zipped version is 219 megabytes, so it’s taking a while to leech from the Internet.) Full track listing after the jump. More »
