Andrew Vanwyngarden: Last News

MGMT are set to return with new music this year, according to frontman Andrew VanWyngarden.The New York-based duo last released an album with 2018’s ‘Little Dark Age’, which NME named one of the best albums of that year, writing: “After more than a decade of insularity, MGMT have thrown open the doors and welcomed you back into their world. In doing so, they’ve had to engage with our messy, unpalatable reality.”Since then, the band have been largely quiet, though appeared in feature spots on The Avalanches‘ star-studded recent album ‘We Will Always Love You’ and ColaBoyy’s track ‘Kid Born In Space’.In a new post on his official Reddit account, VanWyngarden has appeared to confirm that the band’s “drought” will end this year, and that they’re on the way back with new music.After a fan on the MGMT Reddit page guessed at a title for their forthcoming fifth album, VanWyngarden replied: “We have a working title!”Of progress on the record, he added: “There are irons in the fire and we have been busy.

Cola Boyy has sadly passed away.

MGMT’s Andrew Vanwyngarden has recorded a cover of Tones & I’s global hit ‘Dance Monkey’ – you can hear it below.It comes after the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist promised a “super special prize” if Memphis radio station WYXR was able to hit a target of $2,000 in donations during a pledge drive.After the station reached its target, Vanwyngarden revealed the prize he promised: a moody, psychedelic rendition of ‘Dance Monkey’, which he shared on the Time Passage radio show on WYXR. You can listen to the cover below.VanWyngarden has had a busy 2021, starting in January with the release of a new song under his solo moniker Gentle Dom called ‘I Miss Dancing In New York’.VanWyngarden also produced Cola Boyy‘s psychedelia-tinged

Cola Boyy has shared a new track called ‘Kid Born in Space’ featuring MGMT – you can listen to it below.The California artist and NME 100 alumni – real name Matthew Urango – today (April 29) offered up the first taste of his forthcoming debut album, which will be released via Record Makers/MGMT Records.Produced by MGMT frontman Andrew VanWyngarden, the psychedelia-tinged ballad “is the culmination of a true friendship” between Cola Boyy and the psych-rock duo, completed by Ben Goldwasser.“In 2018, MGMT​ invited me on their tour, during which we became very close.

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