MGMT's Critically Acclaimed Debut Album, 'Oracular Spectacular' Breaks the SoundScan 100K Mark NEW YORK, July 14
NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brooklyn-based futurist rock/pop
ensemble MGMT will follow the group's sizzling summer concert schedule opening
for Beck on the post-modern musical collagist's forthcoming autumn tour
beginning September 19 in San Diego (please see full MGMT/Beck itinerary
following).
Presale tickets for the MGMT/Beck concerts will be made available on the
band's website (www.whoismgmt.com) in advance of the public on-sales for the
shows. Presale alerts and further information may be found at the MGMT
website.
2008 has provided a number of watershed events for MGMT, whose
critically-acclaimed debut album, Oracular Spectacular, hit #1 on the
Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and has recently broken the SoundScan 100K
sales mark. The group has been honing its live show through a series of
headline gigs and mind-bending festival performances including South By
Southwest, Coachella and Bonnaroo in the states and the UK's mythic
Glastonbury extravaganza. MGMT -- who opened for Radiohead in Manchester on
June 29 during an extensive tour of the UK and Europe -- will perform with
Columbia Records labelmates The Ting Tings at the JellyNYC Pool Party at
Brooklyn's McCarren Pool on Sunday, July 27. The group is scheduled to play
Lollapalooza in Chicago on Saturday, August 2.
Pegged as one of Rolling Stone's "Best Rookies In 2008" in the "Best Of
Rock" issue, MGMT is proving especially popular with fans and critics in the
UK where Oracular Spectacular entered the UK Albums Chart at #12 while the
band came in at #9 in the BBC's Sound of 2008 Top 10 poll. Oracular
Spectacular debuted at #5 on Ireland's Top Album Charts.
In addition to the acclaim surrounding Oracular Spectacular, MGMT has been
amassing critical raves for its concert performances. "MGMT's show on Thursday
night was my SxSW highlight," wrote The Sunday Times music writer Dan Cairns,
"it's a long time since I have been at a gig that has so transported and
unified an audience."
"In what was one of the hottest tickets in Austin," observed the NME,
"MGMT performed an impressively tight set, complete with an awesome light
show. The band's David Bowie-meets-Pink Floyd performance saw hundreds of
festival-goers left out of Stubb's BBQ as the venue reached capacity shortly
before they took to the stage."
The band's recently launched website, www.whoismgmt.com, offers an
innovative interactive exploration of the MGMT aesthetic and experience
including an MGmtSRCH function, a 3-D version of the "Time To Pretend" music
video and much more. MGMT's new video for "Electric Feel" is building an
online presence with pickup from more than 65 tastemaker and DJ blogs.
The MGMT single, "Time To Pretend," has been picked up by more than 35
radio stations coast-to-coast while the group's track, "Kids," is featured
prominently in the upcoming zeitgeist documentary, "American Teen," directed
by Nanette Burstein ("The Kid Stays In The Picture").
MGMT has received more than 5 million profile views on the group's myspace
page (www.myspace.com/mgmt).
MGMT has been lauded as THE band to look out for in 2008 by publications
ranging from Rolling Stone and Spin in the states to the UK's NME who recently
called MGMT "The Best New York Band About" as well as "one of the most feted
bands on earth right now." As reported by Nylon
(http://www.nylonmag.com:80/?section=article&parid=1627) and other outlets,
MGMT was recently feted by Gucci as the label's creative director Frida
Giannini dedicated her latest menswear show to the band with "Time To Pretend"
providing a soundtrack for the runway finale.
MGMT/BECK TOUR DATES
9/19 San Diego, CA Street Scene
9/20 Hollywood, CA Hollywood Bowl
9/22 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
9/23 Albuquerque, NM Kiva Auditorium
9/25 El Paso, TX Abraham Chavez Theatre
9/27 Austin, Texas Austin City Limits Music Festival
9/29 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre
9/30 Minneapolis, MN Wilkins Auditorium
10/2 Chicago, IL Aragon
10/3 Chicago, IL Aragon
http://www.columbiarecords.com
http://www.whoismgmt.com
http://www.myspace.com/mgmt
SOURCE Columbia Records
