Finding an unlikely middle point between Suicide's hostile proto-electro punk art noise and the sardonic, studied, but ultimately pop-friendly sound of the Flaming Lips, MGMT started as electroclash musical terrorists but quickly transmogrified into an eclectic, brainy pop group with heavy 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. At first the band was 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 was augmenting its live sound with backing musicians. Upon graduating, the duo released an electro-rock EP, Time to Pretend, on the tiny indie Cantora Records in 2005. Good reviews, especially for the title track, 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 for a major long-term deal in 2006. Regrouping in Brooklyn, the duo enlisted producer Dave Fridmann to create the entirely different-sounding Oracular Spectacular, a far more musically expansive album. MGMT were Of Montreal's opening act for their extensive 2007 tour, during which Van Wyngarden and Of Montreal leader Kevin Barnes began sketching out ideas for a new collaboration called Blikk Fang. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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| MGMT | Thu, Oct 30 6:30p | Webster Hall, Manhattan, NY |
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| MGMT | Thu, Oct 30 8:00p | Webster Hall, Manhattan, NY |
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| MGMT | Fri, Oct 31 8:00p | Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY |
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| MGMT Amazing Baby / Violens / Francis and The Lights / Boy Crisis | Fri, Oct 31 9:00p | Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY |
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| MGMT | Wed, Nov 5 7:00p | Carling Academy Leeds, Leeds, England |
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| MGMT, Amazing Baby, Violens | Wed, Nov 5 9:00p | Leeds Academy, Leeds, England |
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| MGMT | Thu, Nov 6 7:00p | Rock City, Nottingham, England |
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| MGMT | Fri, Nov 7 6:30p | Carling Academy Bristol, Bristol, England |
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| MGMT | Sun, Nov 9 7:30p | Barrowland, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| MGMT | Mon, Nov 10 7:00p | Carling Academy Birmingham, Birmingham, England |
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| MGMT | Tue, Nov 11 7:30p | Manchester Academy, Manchester, England |
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| Mgmt | Tue, Nov 11 7:30p | Manchester University, Manchester, England |
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| Mgmt | Wed, Nov 12 8:00p | Olympia Hall, Paris, Ile-de-France |
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| MGMT, A Place to Bury Strangers | Sat, Nov 15 9:00p | Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| Mgmt | Tue, Nov 18 8:00p | Live Music Hall, Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia |
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| MGMT, A Place to Bury Strangers | Sat, Nov 22 9:00p | Kesselhaus, Berlin, Germany |
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| MGMT | Mon, Nov 24 9:00p | Backstage Club, Munich, Germany |
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| MGMT | Thu, Nov 27 7:00p | Kentish Town Forum, London, England |
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| MGMT, A Place to Bury Strangers | Thu, Nov 27 9:00p | The Forum, London, England |
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| MGMT | Fri, Nov 28 7:00p | Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, England |
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| Mgmt | Fri, Nov 28 7:00p | Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, England |
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| MGMT | Tue, Dec 9 8:00p | Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, New South Wales |
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| MGMT | Wed, Dec 10 8:00p | Tivoli Theater, Brisbane, QLD |
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| MGMT | Thu, Dec 11 8:00p | Festival Hall, Melbourne, VIC |
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