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Future Entertainment, Video Hits, Channel [V], Nova, The Brag, Beat, and Faster Louder present...
SUPPORTED BY POND
CONGRATULATIONS AUSTRALIA: FUTURE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE MGMT HEADLINE SHOWS!
For MGMT's loyal legion of local fans, news that the band were headlining the massive Future Music Festival 2011 was the best news they'd had all year ... until now, that is ... because Future Entertainment is pleased to announce that the dynamic psychedelic-pop duo band will be playing two intimate headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney in March 2011.
Breaking onto the global scene out of Brooklyn, New York in 2007, it's taken a few...
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Short Biography
Future Entertainment, Video Hits, Channel [V], Nova, The Brag, Beat, and Faster Louder present...
SUPPORTED BY POND
CONGRATULATIONS AUSTRALIA: FUTURE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE MGMT HEADLINE SHOWS!
For MGMT's loyal legion of local fans, news that the band were headlining the massive Future Music Festival 2011 was the best news they'd had all year ... until now, that is ... because Future Entertainment is pleased to announce that the dynamic psychedelic-pop duo band will be playing two intimate headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney in March 2011.
Breaking onto the global scene out of Brooklyn, New York in 2007, it's taken a few short years for MGMT to have firmly established themselves as one of the most sought-after, captivating and innovative bands.
Comprising the rare musical talents of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden, MGMT's debut album Oracular Spectacular in 2008 spawned a string of chart-topping hits including the likes of Kids, Electric Feel and Time To Pretend - all of which quickly became anthems and forged the soundtrack for an entire generation of music lovers, worldwide.
At the conclusion of 2008, the planet's biggest and most respected taste-making magazine, NME, awarded Oracular Spectacular the #1 Album of the Year - while Kids was deemed the #1 Single of the Year. As if that sort of praise wasn't enough, the mag went on to name Time To Pretend the #2 Single of the Decade.
Released in early 2010 to critical acclaim, their follow-up album Congratulations features tracks like Flash Delirium, It's Working, the title track and the epic highlight Siberian Breaks. Congratulations effortlessly topped today's most coveted chart, the iTunes Top Ten Best Album list, in a matter of weeks and ended 2010 across as many critics' and fans' year-end lists as Oracular Spectactular.
Blending the eclectic sounds of psychedelic pop, synthpop and alternative rock to create a fresh new sound all of their own; this barnstorming pair of shape-shifting sonic wizards is at the very forefront of the new wave of musical legends in the making.
And to finish this dream announcement, Future Entertainment is also excited to announce that Perth- based psychedelic rock band Pond, who also happen to be 3/4 of chart-topping Tame Impala, will be supporting MGMT on both shows.
So get ready for two unforgettable nights that will surely leave you with an "Electric Feel"!
MELBOURNE, Tuesday March 8, The Palace
Tickets on sale Monday January 24th at 9am
In-depth Biography
Finding an unlikely middle point between Suicide's hostile, proto-electro punk art noise and the sardonic, pop-friendly sound of the Flaming Lips, MGMT started as electroclash musical terrorists but quickly grew into an eclectic, brainy pop group with psychedelic overtones. MGMT first formed in 2002, during Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden's freshman year as art students at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. The band was initially known as the Management, and its shows consisted mostly of backing tapes, synthesizers, and prerecorded vocals playing as Goldwasser and Van Wyngarden engaged the audience in a manner somewhere between performance art and good old-fashioned punky hostility. By their senior year, things had toned down considerably on-stage and the duo began augmenting its live sound with backing musicians.
After graduating, MGMT released an electro-rock EP, 2005's Time to Pretend, on the tiny indie label Cantora Records. Good reviews (particularly for the title track, which would later crack the U.K. Top 40) and extensive touring brought the duo to the attention of British producer Steve Lillywhite in his role as an A&R executive for Columbia Records, which signed the band to a major long-term deal in 2006. Regrouping in Brooklyn, the duo partnered with another producer, Dave Fridmann, and recorded Oracular Spectacular, a far more musically expansive album that was released digitally in late 2007. A traditional CD release followed in January 2008, and Oracular Spectacular ultimately enjoyed both critically approval and commercially success, with the album selling over 500,000 copies in the U.S. and going platinum in Australia, the U.K., and Ireland.
MGMT served as Of Montreal's opening act for their extensive 2007 tour, during which Van Wyngarden and Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes began sketching out ideas for a side project called Blikk Fang. Although Blikk Fang planned on releasing an album in 2009, touring commitments kept the members of MGMT busy, and all side projects were temporarily shelved as the band spent the better part of two years on the road. In 2009, MGMT began working with producer Sonic Boom on their second album, Congratulations, which was released in the spring of 2010. The following year, the band dug deep into their record collections to curate and installment of the LateNightTales mixtape series. ~ Stewart Mason & Andrew Leahey, Rovi
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