Random music news for Monday, September 25, 2023
This jacket keeps you cool in the heat by using beer. No, really. Moving on to music news for September 25, 2023… BONUS: The CIA has secretly been keeping tabs on both Adam
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MGMT
Ongoing History Daily: The MGMT attitude problem
When MGMT released their Oracular Spectacular album in 2008, they had no idea that it was going to be such a big hit. In fact, they now insist that the record consists of
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Ongoing History Daily: MGMT facts
Here are a few things that you may have missed about MGMT. Their original name was The Management, but when they found out that someone else had dibs on that, they just shortened
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New Music From The Inbox: City and Colour, Soccer Mommy, Orlando Weeks, and more!
Artist: City and ColourSong: MurdererEP: Low Songs City and Colour can’t possibly go wrong with vocals as divine as Dallas Green’s. Before hitting other streaming services his new two song EP is exclusively available
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 869: The golden age of synths (as told by OMD)
There have been many, many times over the last one hundred years when technology has changed the way we make music. Take the microphone, for example, Before it came along, singers had to
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AJoMT’s Mat picks the best albums of 2018
Because late is better than never, right? 2018 to me felt like the year of new emotion. It seems like political turmoil, social progression, generational turnover, environmental degradation, normative upheaval, taboo breaking, and
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No consonants allowed: A brief history of band names without vowels.
There’s a passage in James Joyce’s 1939 novel, Finnegan’s Wake, that employed what he called “disemvowelling.” He was culping for penance while you were ringing his belle. Did the kickee, goodman rued fox,
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New Music from the Inbox: MGMT, Jesse Saint John, Skott, and more!
Artist: MGMT Song: Me and Michael Album: Little Dark Age Me and Michael from MGMT’s brand new album ‘Little Dark Age’ is enchanting and anthemic in a spacey, chill, psych-synth sort of way.
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New Music From The Inbox – Tuesday Edition! (Dec 19, 2017): MGMT, Tricky, Bully, and more!
Artist: MGMT Song: “When You Die” Album/EP: Little Dark Age The story goes that MGMT’s unbelievably popular debut Oracular Spectacular was actually their sell-out-on-purpose album. After the psych rock band struggled to get any traction with
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MGMT Returns with a New Song: “Little Dark Age”
MGMT has been mostly AWOL since the release of their 2013 self-titled album and frankly, a lot of us weren’t sure if they were still a thing. But last week’s rumours of new
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The Ongoing History of New Music Encore Presentation: Spectacular Acts of Self-Destruction
You probably know someone like this: A guy (or woman) who, though having loads of talent or tons of luck (or both!) have become tremendously successful. They have everything anyone could ever hope
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