{"id":1849,"date":"2009-07-06T23:38:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T03:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2022-11-05T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T00:03:08","slug":"mgmt-live-in-brooklyn-july-1-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/mgmt-live-in-brooklyn-july-1-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"MGMT live in Brooklyn, July 1, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The electronic\/disco\/pop\/rock group MGMT has made a huge splash, earning spots on tours with no less than Paul McCartney and Beck. The wildly catchy “Time to Pretend,” “Electric Feel,” and “Kids” (the latter featuring a truly deranged music video<\/a>) are not out of keeping with the rest of their repertoire in terms of style and instrumentation, but the infectious hooks do stand apart from the forgettable rest. At their Celebrate Brooklyn concert in Prospect Park on July 1, they debuted a few new songs set for their forthcoming sophomore album that didn’t immediately grab me either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MGMT live in Prospect Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For a band called “synth-hippies” by Pitchfork<\/a>, they all looked rather clean-cut to me (but they evidently have a very young and boozy audience – one kid passed out and literally collapsed on our feet only a few songs into the concert). Their sound may be very electronic and a throwback to disco, but their live instrumentation is very rock guitar oriented. The only exception being “Kids,” for which the band put down their analog instruments and let the synthesizers and sequencers take over, even recreating a live fadeout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The electronic\/disco\/pop\/rock group MGMT has made a huge splash, earning spots on tours with no less than Paul McCartney and Beck. The wildly catchy “Time to Pretend,” “Electric Feel,” and “Kids” (the latter featuring a truly deranged music video) are not out of keeping with the rest of their repertoire in terms of style and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[611,612,613,1691,616,570,610,615,614,98],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-stars","category-music","tag-andrew-vanwyngarden","tag-ben-goldwasser","tag-celebrate-brooklyn","tag-concerts","tag-disco","tag-live","tag-mgmt","tag-pop","tag-prospect-park","tag-rock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mgmt-stage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-tP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":721,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/blue-man-group-the-complex-rock-tour-live\/","url_meta":{"origin":1849,"position":0},"title":"Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour Live","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"March 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This blogger may have to burn his Rock Snob card, for I just watched and enjoyed the Blue Man Group concert film The Complex Rock Tour Live. 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