MGMT short for MANAGEMENT pictured here FEATURING MGMT COACHELLA e l e c t r i c q u i z Should you come to Coachella to see MGMT live? When at a party you: You would describe your music taste as: a) sit around and talk to friends a) country y’all! content. b) never stop dancing! b) anything you can dance to! c) party? what’s a party? c) i hate music. quiz. 1 Your opinion of outdoor music festivals is: Your opinion of MGMT: interview. a) wouldn’t be caught dead at one a) who is that? 2 b) AMAZING! i want to see them live b) bring it on! i practically live at Coachella history. 3 c) eh, i’d only go if my friends were going c) i hate music. etc. 4 IF YOU ANSWERED “B” THEN YOU NEED TO SEE MGMT LIVE AT COACHELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL artwork at coachella Bamboo Art An Interview with MGMT’s Biggest Fan Sam: What music festival did you see MGMT perform at? What style of music is generally played 18-wheeler trucks there? Michelle: ACL or Austin City Limits festival. ACL allows for some of the best variety of music. from local bands to big headliners, for example, The White Stripes, Muse, Bjork, Pearl Jam, and Bob Dylan. The styles of music can range from reggae to country twang, from acid rock to alternative. Even a few metal bands have been thrown into the mix some years. The only way you can classify the type of music festival ACL is by just thinking “variety and diversity” as well as the phrase “and now for something completely different”. There is also an Austin “kiddie” limits that takes place at the same time in its own section of the festival grounds where “the wiggles” have been known to put on a show. Lighting Structure S: How did you and the rest of the audience respond to their performance? Did their performance fit in well with the rest of the musicians? M: MGMT was in as little words as possible spectacular. I have never been to a concert where a band playing in the middle of a hot afternoon at that, has gotten such feedback from the audience. Whether there were the hard core rocker types jumping up and down and throwing their fists into Treehouse the air(and sometime each other) or the laid back type who swayed low to the ground with their heads entranced in the beauty of being alive at that moment listening to MGMT. S: What made their performance stand out from the rest? M: I feel it was the type of music specifically because theirs is one that will bring out so many different kinds of people like I said earlier. When you put all of those people and the ones in between together in a place that for the hour or so is on its own planet, you can have one of the most memorable musical experiences. The audience in short I feel is what sealed the deal for making that one of the most epic concerts I have been too. As cliché as it seem there was so much love between strangers and euphoria for the music that was playing and the vibrations running through you body as if that was the only way your blood was too keep pumping. S: What aspects made their live performance so interesting compared to simply listening to their CD? M: The audience again. There was nothing special on stage i.e. lasers, flashy lights, trippy videos, mainly because if was three in the afternoon. Just the boys up there playing their hearts out. Michelle, MGMT fan S: How does MGMT compare to other electronic bands? M: MGMT brings a more alternative style to their electronic genre say in comparison to another electronic band who I feel are at a very similar level as them, Fischer Spooner. S: How would you categorize your personal music style? M: My personal music style ranges from classical music to everything. Even a little bit of country and rap. At the moment I am completely content with my Brian Jonestown Messenger and my Blitzen Trapper but every now and then I’ve got to have a taste of some Rodrigo y Gabriela or some of The Exies (rock). S: How did you find out about MGMT? M: The first time I heard MGMT was in my friend’s car and they were referred to as management still. That was a year before I saw them in concert. MGMT IS: Andrew Vanwyngarden and music and formed a label, Ben Goldwasser, two modern- Cantora Records, in order to put age “hippies” paths first crossed out the very first MGMT paths at Wesleyan University in commercial release called “Time Middletown, Connecticut in to Pretend,” a six song EP that’s 2002. When they first became available on iTunes. Following friends, they immediately found the release of “Time to a connection in their shared love Pretend,” Andrew and Ben took of psychedelic and electronic 6 months off. They later sounds. They began playing a reconnected in Brooklyn and series of live began recording shows on what would campus. They eventually evolve never planned into their first full on recording or length album, In 2008, MGMT played distributing “Oracular their music, but Spectacular.” The at COACHELLA. it kind of fell album opens with a In 2010, MGMT is the into their laps. song from their first HEADLINER. “We weren’t trying to start a EP, “Time to Pretend,” and UPGRADE band,” Ben remembers. “We closes with “Future Reflections.” were just hanging out, showing In between are songs that each other music that we liked.” portray “the essence of the past, Their first live shows consisted of promises, and portends the unique techno loops and future, and offers an absorbing arrangements they created, and transformative experience their setup consisted of “a between the molecules in the turntable plugged into some pulsations of the present.” Don’t guitar pedals, a radio, and a miss MGMT live at Coachella tape player.” A group of NYU 2010. students got a hold of MGMT’s COACHELLA 2010. BE THERE. who: MGMT what: music festival. where: san diego, california. when: saturday april 18th 2010 10:00 pm ages: 1-150 website: [email protected] it won’t be time to pretend for long... get your tickets today. $0.88 POSTAGE SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA MUSIC FEST 2010 Joel Overall Writing as Argument Class Fort Worth, TX coachella.