I feel like pop music gets a bad rap by critical music listeners these days. I mean granted, Lady Gaga is crazy, Ke$ha spells her name with a dollar sign, and Katy Perry makes me vomit in my mouth a little, but I can only listen to so much introspective-afro-acoustic-shoe gazer-alt country-electro surf rock before [...]

MGMT’s new album “Congratulations” doesn’t release until April 13th, but thanks to my super exclusive pre-release copy, I’ve been listening to it for a while now.  (Or the album leaked and you can listen to the entire thing on MGMT’s website.  Believe what you want.)  First let me say, I totally jumped on the “Oracular [...]

A couple weeks ago when I was sequestered to the couch wondering if I was fighting H1N1 or just the regular flu, I stumbled upon a show on the Sundance Channel called “Live From Abbey Road“.  I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before, but 1. I rarely channel surf and 2. when I do, [...]

MGMT (pronounced “management”) is my new I’m-completely-obsessed-with-you band. There are more musical styles on their first full length album titled “Oracular Spectacular” than you could count, yet somehow it comes across as a unified sound. Since I’ve been struggling for days to figure out how to describe their sound I’m just going to throw some [...]