MGMT: Congratulations

MGMT's sophomore album "Congratulations" drops on April 18th. Apparently influenced by:

a recent trip to Malibu (+ some serious psychedelics)

Looks fun!
I'll be listening.

Thanks Consequenceofsound

MGMT Live

I find it weird that I've known about this band and really enjoyed them for about 2 years now but I've never seen any of their live music before. That being said, check out these two live performances of their songs Kids and Electric Feel. Pretty cool stuff but from what I have heard they still aren't really too good live. I hope they get better and their next album is as good as the last. (you know, try to avoid the ole "Sophomore Slump")

New Beck Project "Record Club"

This news came out a few days(or weeks?) ago but I felt as though it was/is still newswor...blogworthy:

Beck's new project, Record Club, will consist of:
(from Jambase)

a regular meeting of various musicians to record an entire album in one day. Due to the time constraints involved in recording a record in a day, an album will be chosen to be covered and used as a framework for the proceedings. Nothing will be rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track from these sessions will be uploaded once a week on Beck.com, as well as through the web sites of those involved in the project.

Record Club will be an ongoing experiment. Visitors to the site will be able to follow progress from week to week.

The first album attempted - one of the few everyone could agree on - will be The Velvet Underground & Nico.

This seems like a really cool idea and I hope they continue on with it. I can definitely foresee some really interesting stuff coming out of this.

HERE is a video of the first session/song. I think it sounds great.

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico 'Sunday Morning' from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.