MGMT

MGMT is an American band from New York Indietronic. It was founded in 2002 by musicians Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser.

History

VanWyngarden and Goldwasser met at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in the study of experimental music know and began to implement their shared vision together in brief appearances before studentischem audience. They called themselves The management, then only MGMT. During her university degree in 2005 they brought out about a company founded by fans students label an EP with six tracks and toured only once. When they had actually given up again, was Rick Rubin from major label Sony / Columbia attention to the EP of the two and took them under contract.

It further songs were produced, launched a promotional tour and finally completed the LP Oracular Spectacular. The title song EP Time to Pretend was the first single. With appearances on David Letterman and Jools Holland it was made known in the USA and the UK. In addition, it was found in, which started in spring 2008 film 21 as Eröffnungsliedauf the soundtrack again, ran in the British television series Skins - Skin and located, as well as Of Moons, Birds & Monsters, the soundtrack of the computer and console title Shaun White Snowboarding by Ubisoft. " Electric Feel " is a remix of the group Justice on the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles to hear from Rockstar Games. Single and album rose from March 2008 internationally in the charts. Furthermore, " Kids" soundtrack of the football game FIFA 09 from Electronic Arts. The same song is also on the soundtrack of the snowboard film " That's It, That's All " and on the ski film " Reasons".

Jon Salmon from Los Feliz turned with his fellow Abby Fuller and Rafael Pulido a video clip for the song Kids, which reached over 47 million hits on YouTube (June 2013).

Besides VanWyngarden MGMT has a side project called Blikk Fang started with Kevin Barnes of the band Of Montreal, musicians for whom they had already been on tour.

The next album, entitled "Congratulations " was released on April 9, 2010. Already on 22 March 2010, the band had the full album provided as a free stream on their website, after the album had appeared in various file sharing. This album has mostly been very well received by the critics, the magazine Music Express has named "Congratulations " even to her album of the year.

On September 17, 2013 MGMT released the album of the same name, after it had been made ​​a week earlier on Rdio available for streaming.

Others

In February 2009 it was announced that the band wanted to sue the party of French President Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP ) due to a copyright infringement of recovery. The party has, without the consent of the band whose song " Kids" is used several times during the campaign, only the fee for one-time use has been paid. A symbolic compensation from the PR firm Sarkozy of 1.25 euros rejected the band.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations

EPs

Single chart positions

Music videos

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