MGMT predestined its current suffering with its first single: The East Coast band’s big, bouncy 2008 smash, “Time to Pretend,” turned two art-rock kids into festival headliners. The songthree jubilant ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were two distinct, dramatically different moods to MGMT’s set at the Fillmore, and let’s just say that those who came to hear MGMT’s breakthrough hits — bright and peppy synthpop tunes like ...

In 2007, MGMT released Oracular Spectacular to a surprisingly successful response. Singles “Time to Pretend,” “Kids,” and “Electric Feel” all went on to blast through the speakers of 20-year-olds’ ...