MGMT is an indie electronic band formed in 2002 by Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser while they were students at Wesleyan University. The band is renowned for its dreamy, experimental sound, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“This is our decision/To live fast and die young/We’ve got the vision/Now let’s have some fun.” Those words, taken from MGMT‘s 2008 breakout single “Time to Pretend,” have become a rallying cry of ...

Charlie Hickey is back with his first release of 2023, and it's a cover of MGMT's "Time To Pretend". Hickey's cover of MGMT's 2007 huge track "Time To Pretend" follows his appearance on ella jane's ...

LYRICALLY, MGMT’s debut seems like a noble (but doomed) attempt to condense the tragicomic life of the rock star, the idealism of youth and the frailty of the human condition into three and a half ...