Andrew Vanwyngarden: Last News

MGMT playing ‘Kids’ while still college students – check it out below.Back in 2003, the band’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser were calling themselves ‘The Management’ and one day while still students at Wesleyan University, the pair set up a gig on campus and played songs to their friends and peers.Footage from this performance has resurfaced this week and sees the band performing early versions of songs that would go on to become some of their biggest hits, like ‘Kids’ as well as a cover of Talking Heads‘ ‘This Must Be The Place’.The previously unseen videos of the set were uploaded to YouTube by user Rad Scientist, who said they found the footage “on an old drive” that they thought was “gone forever.”Other songs in the set included: ‘Money to Burn,’ later included on their 2005 demo album ‘Climbing to New Lows’ as well as ‘Funky Legal Beats’ and ‘I Am One of the Smartest Apes in the World.’Check out the videos here:MGMT spoke to NME back in February about their latest album, ‘Loss Of Life’, which came out on February 23.Vocalist Andrew VanWyngarden said of himself and bandmate Benjamin Goldwasser: “We’ve grown and changed a lot as people but I think our new album is proof that we have the same creative spark we had when we met.

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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.

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