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February 9th, 2010 at 10:09 AM
MGMT Set Release Date For ‘Congratulations’
Good news for MGMT fans. The duo announced today it will release its brand-new album, Congratulations, on April 13. The follow-up to 2008’s wildly successful Oracular Spectacular is a collection of “nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence.” The album was produced by the duo—Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser—and Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 fame last year in Brooklyn, Malibu and upstate New York. Royal Trux frontwoman Jennifer Herrema contributes guest vocals on one track. “We’ve been lucky enough to meet and work with some of our all-time musical heroes,” gushed Vanwyngarden. “It’s so great to be around such amazing and unusual musical minds.” The band is now accepting pre-orders on their website.
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February 8th, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Bad Lieutenant Busts Into America: Coachella and U.S. Tour
All the diehard New Order fans who have spent the last several years in a state of constant candlelight vigil awaiting another album (advice: Don’t hold your breath) were given a new reason to get up in the morning when New Order frontman Bernard Sumner debuted his new band, Bad Lieutenant, who released their debut album, Never Cry Another Tear, last October. Those faithful followers — not to mention the rest of the world at large — must have done a double take upon first hearing, as the album leaves the electro-dance New Order sound behind in favor of peppy, guitar-based pop tunes, but tracks like the single “Sink Or Swim” proved so damn infectious that no one was left wanting.
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