where'd they get all the fans?

They paid $10 to anyone leaving the Bedford L that was willing to come to their show.

No Gaiys, "time to pretend" is an awesome song and video -- that's where they get fans.

I was like some of those people you see, behind a fence, but it was a pretty good spot. So many people were outside online waiting to get in.

I was there. Yes, it was insanely crowded outside, but I doubt it had that much to do with MGMT. When The Breeders played there it was a similar scene, even though you could easily find tickets to their much smaller and reasonably priced Webster Hall show in June. Unlike the past summers, this year McCarren Park Pool Parties are very crowded. It might have something to do with the fact that free shows appeal to people even more in this economy. It also has to do with the increasing popularity of "the scene" at McCarren Park Pool, this year being the last year of shows there.

It sucks that many fans of the acts playing there do not even bother going to McCarren Park thinking they probably won't be able to get in. It sucks even more for people who wait for a long time outside and end up not being able to get in. As usual, I've seen a lot of douchebags inside today, who weren't even listening to the music. Why provide a free show for these assholes? I would just make the shows with a bigger appeal cheap instead of free. This way people who really want to see the bands can get in instead of the freeloaders who are there just so that thay can say they were at the show. The money collected can also be used for a worthy cause.

But those assholes are more likely to support the sponsors their eyes were captive to the entire time they were at the venue.

Assuming that everyone who got into the show had to wait in excess of 2+ hours to get in, I think it's safe to assume that everyone who actually got into the show deserved to.

So shut up.

since when is the photo pit that crowded? i kind of figured it was for, you know, people taking pictures?

The photo pits at Siren were swarming with VIP fans too. Lately, it seems like anyone with a digital slr and a compelling online portfolio can get a photo pass.

people who showed up at 2 pm, did you get in?

i showed up at 3, and the line was basically all the way around the pool at that point. needless to say, we didnt get in. In hindsight only way in at that point was to be an asshole and crash the line or jump the fence.

i think i saw more sony point and shoot cameras in the photo pit than actual real dslrs.

I'm going to start requesting photo passes just to get in for free and have access to the front (ahead of the mortal geese that have to wait for hours and pay money). My point and shoot should be plenty and I've got a flickr account.

It sucks when a free show is 20 times the hassle of a pay show. It sucks that the Pool sucks this year, too much publicity. I guess it's good that it's the final year after all, it's not fun anymore.

hahaha get on the list next time fools.... free booze and no lines. just you know, hang out and get to know the right people or lose some weight and be cuter and then you can be where everyone else wants to

it's crowded because it's free and this band has a so so song on the radio

radio=fans

no matter how good or bad you are

2:25AM, people in this city even wait 2+ hours in front of the movie theaters for free screenings of movies they would not pay $10 to see. There's no logic to what people would go through to get something "free." It does not mean they are fans of who's playing.

For the last two years McCarren Park has been my favorite outdoors venue. Now I too am glad it's closing.

3:15AM, I also got in through the list, but facts are facts. One more thing. You might not know this yet, but you're going to have a very sad and depressive life.

3:40, you seem more depressed/melancholy than any of the posters, so I wouldn't cast the first stone if I were you....

Where'd they get all the fans?? MGMT is putting up some pretty decent numbers sales-wise and they sold out 2 shows in Boston, in Philly and in DC. These guys are about to break huge.

saw them before the hype, supporting Band of Horses, not bad but not even such a huge band...

check MGMT live in London on liveon35mm.com

Why do people crowdwatch so much at fucking shows? Who cares?

The bottom line is that MGMT were a lot better than they were at Music Hall. Aside from that dragging 14-minute number, they were pretty tight.

And a lot of people are also neglecting to mention the role The Ting Tings played in this whole situation. They're nearly as big as MGMT, and have a song in an iPod commercial.

got there at 2, and by 4 we could tell we weren't getting in.

Solution? Just walk up to the front of the line and cut in. Nobody cared.

I felt kinda guilty, but fuck it- survival of the fittest.

" When The Breeders played there it was a similar scene,"

The Breeders are a legendary band. MGMT are flavof of the month. Also, they aren't good.

for the first time I checked out some MGMT tunes and I cannot believe people are spending hours waiting in line for that. their music does not seem so great.

"got there at 2, and by 4 we could tell we weren't getting in.

Solution? Just walk up to the front of the line and cut in. Nobody cared.

I felt kinda guilty, but fuck it- survival of the fittest."

It's not survival of the fittest, it's called being a fucking piece of shit douche bag, who thinks he/she is more entitled to "get in" when you should have gotten there earlier. People like you are why Mccarren Park Pool concerts suck now!

2005: greatest karaoke band at north six.

2008: filling mccarren park pool to capacity.

the breeders show was even CLOSE to what it was for mgmt are you kidding me? i showed up at the breeders at 3:40 and got in within 20 minutes. i showed up to mgmt at 1:47 and had to join a 9 block long line and got in 3 FUCKING HOURS LATER. not the same deal at all. people who live in the area must have been pissed as hell. there were people lining up from like 10 am or something!

the people cutting the line were serious assholes. everyone was waiting in line for three hours or more and you just show up whenever and walk in? not cool, not cute. yeah people cared you jerk. anywhere else you would have gotten hit in your stupid little wayfarer wearing face.

not survival of the fittest.
more like survival of the douchiest.

I didn't just show up and walk in. I was in the line that ran up driggs and over to Graham.

It felt really great to wait in that line just to find out someone else started a different line that wrapped around the back of the pool.

So we finally came up with a plan - see if we can slip through the front of the line, and if there was any revolt or resistance, we'd go to Matchless with no hard feelings. Turns out Plan A worked.

All you tough dudes are like "if I saw you cutting the line I would have smashed your stupid face in brah," but would you really? How many people did you let cut in front of you while you sat there in the rain, arms crossed, waxing poetic about how the pool shows are bullshit and too hard to get into?

If it makes you feel any better, the food line was also unbearably long. I had skipped lunch thinking I'd get a burger in there. I had to wait until after the show to eat! Poor me!

It's the last summer of pool shows - fuck it.

hahahaha. you're all douches for going to see mgmt in the first place, so you deserved whatever you got. too bad there wasn't a lightning storm.

The Breeders are "legendary"?

glad the rain scared me off. did the MGMT singer take his shirt off?

blah blah blah, the line was long, blah blah blah, I hate people who cut, blah blah blah, i cut in line, blah blah blah, mgmt doesn't have that many fans, blah blah bah, i deserved to be in there more than you did.

I had a great time not seeing MGMT and the Ting Tings at the pool on Sunday. I didn't have to wait in a line for most of the day, nor did I have to contend with crowds, poseurs, or line-cutters. I didn't have to deal with obsessive picture-snapping fans, or Valley Girl twentysomethings whose every third word is "ohmigod."

How did I accomplish all of this? I followed a simple rule of thumb that I've learned for this city: If it's free, don't go. It will invariably be WAY more hassle than saving $20 is worth.

The person earlier who said something about people in this city will do anything for a free anything was right -- It never ceases to amaze me how people will stand in a 50-person line so that they can get a free Frappuccino or whatever.

well this is all well and done, what time are you guys showing up for Black Lips/Deerhunter next week? 12 noon, 10am, camping out overnight?

leave it to the parks dept to turn a fun weekly event into a running nightmare....

8:44 - I'll just show up on time and cut the line.

no disrespect to MGMT, but most people were there to see the Ting Tings. It was actually more crowded for the Ting Tings, it cleared out a lot by the time MGMT began. (Both bands were great.) Very Eurotrash crowd.

what sauce are you on. the place was at capacity for MGMT, people hadn't even gotten in yet when tings tings went on.

same here or get a vip pass from a friend!

In early 2006, MGMT was a mediocre opening band at a show at my college; if you quizzed me, I wouldn't have thought they'd even exist 6 months later. Now two and a half years later, they're filling McCarren to capacity?

Am I taking crazy pills??

the only good music was BMSR. everything else was mediocre dribble that high school kids eat up like lap dogs (no disrespect to lap dogs).

this was as close to beatlemania (or menudomania) as Ive ever seen the scene at the pool. the crowd was super loud even for ting tings (we listened from outside, never got in). but if you were inside it was only half the story. You had people scaling fences, 20ish girls in high heals climbing that big 10 foot chainlink fence and heroically making it inside, you had people in the playground climbing on the rock, on the monkey bars, there were people up on the fire escapes two blocks away. there was blood sweat and tears out there. even though we never made it in, seeing all this and listening from the outside still made for a memorable day. esp when they played "time to pretend". it was so moving to hear the people sing it under their breath. just an amazing amazing day. MGMT will be huge after this, mark my words.

I showed up there around 12PM, waited until 3:40 to GET IN (Nice job with the doors @ 2PM...really accurate). As soon as people came in, The Ting Tings began their set, which wasn't bad, but ridiculously short, I believed they played only 6 or 7 songs...oh and the weather was shitty. REALLY SHITTY. The crowd was...annoying to say the least, the group that I was close to kept jumping, smoking crack pipes and slashing beach balls with Swiss Army knives. Oh and they moshed to Black Moth Super Rainbow....yeah. So, about 3 songs into BMSR's set, my friend and I bounced. It was insane. We did see Kirsten Dunst though...WTF was she doing there?

Bottom line: Better weather, better crowd = better free shows at McCarren...unfortunately one of those things most likely won't change.

There's a reason MGMT is free and Wilco/Sonic Youth cost $$.

beatlemania is a nice reference. mgmt are hipter pinups, if there were any. *yawn*

good work killing thepoolparties.com, stupid hipsters.

the Hold Steady played a few weeks ago in the rain, and you could walk right in all day...I thought the rain would have the same effect on MGMT but I guess they have a lot more "international appeal." I can't believe so many girls showed and got so dressed up in the rain. I never heard MGMT before but I like them, they sound kind of like ELO.

really wanted to go, but got a call from a friend at 1pm and said it was way too long. =(

What a difference a major label makes.

I saw a hipster awkwardly and unathletically jump the fence, splitting his pants. No joke. Hilarious.

The "anyone would fill a free pool show" is off. The Hold Steady, who faced similar weather problems as MGMT, and Liars weren't nearly full.

And how on Earf do the Parks people justify not letting one person in for each person who left after it hit capacity? Did your public schooling not include math? Pull your head out of your ass.

yeah even that much hyped TV on the Radio last year was nothing like this. if you remember there was rain that day as well, and at 3 pm the place was practically empty, maybe couple of hundred people inside.

I've gone to a lot of shows here, ticketed and non, but I've never seen a crowd even close to this one. I thought it couldn't get more packed than the Breeders a couple weeks ago...

i don't like those shows.
you couldn't pay me to go.
love MGM. saw rhen at the masonic temple great show

my favorite mgm movie is the wizard of oz. what's your favorite mgm flick?

debbie does dallas

Tito, I saw that guy too! I was hoping that a bear trap was waiting on the other side for that douche.

and about the sponsors - i don't understand why people are complaining about sponsors this year. it's far less sponsored out than in the past. there's no more giant helio banners hanging from the stage, which is major, and the biggest sponsorship presence is actually for the open space alliance, an advocacy group. i think the fact is that a lot of the people who comment on this website are commenting on events they don't even go to, which is just kind of weird.

i had fun

"And how on Earf do the Parks people justify not letting one person in for each person who left after it hit capacity? Did your public schooling not include math? Pull your head out of your ass."

I'm sure they saw that people were climbing the fence to get in, shithead.

it's true andy rooney. just ask A Manhattan Not Brooklyn Asshole. he probably lives in kansas.

anyone see the old man who got nabbed by the cops trying to get under the fence by the port-a-potties?

HILARIOUS.

no one went to the hold steady because that band sucks.

I'm a huge fan of MGMT but I think their performance was mediocre at best. I think it had to due with the fact that it was still light out when they performed. If it was pitch black, and they had the lights on and all that, it would have been a different show. I think the fact that it was free had to do with the lack energy on their part.

The only song I saw people get excited for was Time to Pretend. Alotta people walking around, sitting down or leaving the show.

These new bands man...

MGMT just got back from touring the world for crowds 10 times as big. How could you expect them to be psyched about a free daytime show at the pool?

Comparing this show to the other shows at the Pool is stupid. I have been to all of them this year, and there were people yesterday that I haven't seen at any other Pool shows. 17 year old drunk girls and Jersey boys.

Any who really gives a shit. If you want to go, go and deal with the shit that comes along with living in NYC. If not, stay home. And if you stay home, bring me some goddamn beer and a pizza next time I'm waiting in line.

the people at this show sucked. told me to put down my umbrella, fuck that. seeing bmsr is not worth standing in the rain. to all the girls from long island, stop coming to pool parties.

I will recap my experience at the MGMT show at Mccarren Park Pool.
I arrived at a gentlemanly 2:15 and noticed two lines extending in opposite directions. I chose to walk towards the end of the line extending towards the western side of the park. After taking notice that the line wrapped around the block, I reflected for a second and thought to myself "fuck this, I aint waiting on this line." I then walked up to the very front of the line where there was no uniformity and the line became scattered. I proceeded to walk directly to the very front of this line, waited approximately 2 minutes for them to let the next group of people in and skipped in proudly.
Later in the day, when my friends arrived to a line that was surpassing 1/4 mile long, I instructed them to walk to the front. After several debates regarding the morality of such a choice, they decided to sell their souls to the devil of unresisted line-cutting to much ease and delight.
A few hours later, when the show was "shut down" by security, I had one last friend who showed up late. With the knowledge that I am more crafty then the whining hipsters in the area who were pathetically waiting on line, I approached the security personnel and explained to them that my friend had been unfairly shut-out after exiting just to retrieve something from her car. Security guard #3 opened the gate, grabbed said friend from the crowd of depressed onlookers and escorted her inside.
An average time was had by all.

I like BMSR. But just as a friend.

oh wow blah, you are so cool. like by far the coolest person there yesterday. i'm glad you wrote that essay long recap so we could all know how cool you were yesterday.

i thought mgmt were pretty energetic. i mean, for like a jam band. or whatever they are.

I went in only knowing who MGMT was, but The Ting Tings was the best performance of the day, in my opinion. The show progressively got worse and worse and worse. I was sooooo psyched after The Ting Tings, then Black Moth came on and everyone's energy level went a little down, then MGMT, who, except for a few select songs, were a huge disappointment.

Another star sighting: Agyness Deyn

I got there at 2pm and just walked right in... sorry you passive hipster morons sat in line all day, but if you knew anything about McCarren pool, you can go right in if you don't have a bag.

Anyways, I've been going to McCarren for a few years now, so don't give me the "You ruin McCarren now," because I've probably been there a few more times than you.

Why would people complain about the sponsors? You'd rather pay $25 for these pool parties versus having to grin and bear it with banners hanging around the joint? Hard knock life....

The cops mos def did not see the two people I saw jump the fence.

And the one out, one in comment referenced the entrance, not the fence jumpers. If the Parks Dept makes them stop letting people in when its at capacity and then one person leaves, how does that not open up room for one more person? Or were they admitting to having let too many people in to begin with?

The real lesson is that from a safety standpoint, the Warm Up parties at PS1 have got to be considerably less safe. Those damned things are shoulder-to-shoulder throughout.

I LOVE THE TING TINGS.

im glad i didnt go and im glad that you're glad i didnt go too. Consensus opinions during phone tagging at 1pm yesterday:

-it is going to be packed, probably wont get in
-weather sucks
-CANT WAIT FOR FELICE BROTHERS AND LANGHORNE SLIM

Agyness Deyn is considered a star sighting? That's sad...

checked out the eS demo on the miniramp at KCDC, then moseyed on over...

skipped the line, crashed the vip area. my compatriot swiped a full, unopened bottle of dewar's.

mgmt was pretty good. BMSR was the worst shit i've ever seen in my whole life.

we proceeded to smoke and drink.

Got there at 2, stood in line for the entire time, and never got in. By the end, I would have been happy just to get in to hear "Kids" during the encore, but the Jelly staff and various people in uniform were all being total assholes. It sucked watching hundreds of people stream out throughout the set while fans who actually wanted to see MGMT were treated like cattle outside.

Black Moth Super Rainbow was easily the most original music there. MGMT is decent but damn i felt old with all these young kiddies and their annoying disrespectful umbrellas. its raining. stop being a pussy. you aint gonna melt bitch

oh and to whoever said BMSR is worst shit ever. you clearly have no idea what your talking about. they were the only thing there that was recycled music with new production. get their albums take some mushrooms and then tell me what you think bitch

It's not like The Hold Steady show was empty. There was a decent sized crowd, but the place was a zoo yesterday. I drove in around a quarter past 2, and there were huge crowds for blocks.

anon 10:14 what's wrong with girls from long island?

Agnyess Deyn is not a celebrity. she's also a total asshole.

I walked over to mccarren, saw the line, felt the rain and turned right back around.

does anyone know why some gay dudes insist on making everyone within sight of them know that they're really into dudes? especially that fully grown man with the gold lamé ass shorts on. jesus christ. your buns aren't even firm, guy. fucking gross.

your sex preferences aren't any more interesting or less dull and boring than anyone else's.
i don't wear clothes that scream "i think vaginas are neat."

can't you just tone it down a bit? your hairy thighs are seriously gnarly.

more power to the rainbow, but maybe it'd be better if you didn't behave like a caricature of yourself.

just a thought.

"I got there at 2pm and just walked right in... sorry you passive hipster morons sat in line all day, but if you knew anything about McCarren pool, you can go right in if you don't have a bag.

Anyways, I've been going to McCarren for a few years now, so don't give me the "You ruin McCarren now," because I've probably been there a few more times than you.
"

Don't break something while you're trying so hard to appear 'cool' and 'in the know' and 'native'

10:50. i know what you mean.

the naked black dude on the slip and slide was really throwing himself out there.

"It sucked watching hundreds of people stream out throughout the set while fans who actually wanted to see MGMT were treated like cattle outside."

To 10:46, if you actually wanted to see MGMT as the true fan that you are, you would have shown up earlier.

MGMT songs sound just like their album live, and the album sucks.

"anon 10:14 what's wrong with girls from long island?"

they shot him down...

"10:50. i know what you mean.

the naked black dude on the slip and slide was really throwing himself out there."

i agree, but maybe the slip and slide is kind of just gross. should be for kids.

"It sucked watching hundreds of people stream out throughout the set while fans who actually wanted to see MGMT were treated like cattle outside."

more like sheep, wouldn't you say?

anyways i hopped a fence into the vip section which was the best part of the show. hope that same route works at the next paid show. bmsr was pretty good. the best part about the rain was that it considerably cut down the slip n slide line so i got to try all sorts of crazy slips n slides. mgmt was fairly average. the 14 minute encore jam was actually my favorite part. that line was absurd though.

^^ blah is a complete bitch and a whore. she embodies what has gone wrong with NY and music here. her and her friends will go to any length to have a good time. stupid rich hipster kids with no jobs and your parents pay your rent so you can snub your nose at other hipsters at shite music venues to be part of some shite scene. congrats.

i was with blah and we are stunning young men, each bestowed with well paying jobs

we tipped 6 bucks on top of the 6 dollar price of beer because we are filthy fucking rich

nvm the music, who won the dodgeball cup?

and btw yes i did notice, there were a lot of flamboyant gay dudes at the show. not that theres anything wrong with that, just saying. It was almost Daft Punk / Scissor Sisters level.

i was the hipster who ripped my pants climbing over the fence. i meant to do that.

i was the slow asshole cooking the burgers who left all the hungry people up shit creek without a shit paddle

So did they actually play Kids or just put the album on over the PA and pretend to play (as they've been doing at other shows this tour)?

It's ironic that I am pegged as a hipster-girl, when I am in fact the polar opposite...a non-hipster boy. The very reason i was able to get into the show without waiting is that I don't think/whine like a hipster. Rather, I thoughtfully surveyed the scene and took advantage of what it offered, which was a lack of organization at the front of the line and security guards who could be manipulated.
To those who suggest that I am an asshole for "cutting" the line, I will respond by saying that you are an "asshole" for seeing so many others doing it (hundreds of people got in that way) without either saying something or doing it yourself.

Is everybody who posts here an azzhole? This thread makes me think so.

" Don't break something while you're trying so hard to appear 'cool' and 'in the know' and 'native' "

Nah, just smarter than dumb hipsters... not too difficult.

But yes, I was born in NY... you?

11:14 they kicked the band off stage so they could do their little Lost Boys routine together.

the two main dudes seem very protective of the MGMT legacy, treating the rest of the band like session players (which they are, i guess)

MGMT and BMSR both brought the energy down considerably. MGMT did the best at totally sapping the fun from the crowd, with the exception of 'time to pretend'. And what about that 14 minute BORING encore they played and made us all endure just for Kids? fuck em.

Lets count how many girls were wearing that little Bat For Lashes-type colored string tied around their head to attain that 70's psychedelic hipster look shall we. Not that there's anything wrong with that...just sayin'.

I actually cut the line twice. Showed up at 2:15 and got right inside, then when it started raining me and my coworker left to get food. After eating we walked right up to the front of the line and got in to catch the end of the ting tings set.

Sorry if anyone's offended but I wasn't about to wait in that long ass line. If it makes anyone feel better, we do like MGMT and we did have a ton of fun at the show.

Remember how awesome the Ting Tings were? I wish they would have played longer...

That "14-minute encore" song was only 6 minutes long... would everyone quite bitching about it. He was just kidding about it being 14 minutes.

"I would just make the shows with a bigger appeal cheap instead of free." yes. this would help discourage showing up for the sake of showing up. it would also be good to raise revenue for jelly to put on future events as well as for the pool or the parks department.

...and to line cutters...you do realize that if everyone starts heeding your advice, there will eventually be more congestion...and eventually fights...at that front entrance.

Bart,
Self-righteous hipsters are the hip new definition of ironic. Way to pose, poseur.
Tito!

"...and to line cutters...you do realize that if everyone starts heeding your advice, there will eventually be more congestion...and eventually fights...at that front entrance."

This is the last summer for the free shows anyways... But I'd love to watch a hipster fight. Hilarious.

blckhat, fuck it, after reading these comments, I sure as hell am not standing in line for the rest of these shows next month. Apparently no one at the front controls anything, so you might as well go right to the front.

If someone questions me I will just say dude from jelly who is my friend just told me to go right in. or pull that line about getting something from the car. that should work.

I'd like to know where the rest of the photos are, especially since the dude takin' 'em promised to post those fish-eye shots of the girls next to me and myself.

i'm in shock that many people will go see that band.

check out all the kids with head bands and face paint!
OOOH
tribal

depressing

what was with that 14 minute song in the encore? a mixture of the who and rush methinks.

i thought they treated the other random dudes pretty nicely. like they let the one guy in a dress crack a joke.

can we all at least agree on one thing? Williamsburg... as a 'scene' or as a force for innovation in the arts and music, is a dead.

beyond these played out pool parties, I happened to be in B'burg on Sat night for a show. when I got out, I couldn't believe how cheesified and crappy the entire place had gotten. all I saw were fratboy goons, guidos, irish meatheads, and wanna-be-Sarah-Jessica-Parkers everywhere. oh, and lots of annoying asian kids from Queens listening to house music. and the occasional NYU wannabe hipster.

put all of them together and you have one played out scene. I wanted to vomit so I went home (to a secret, undisclosed location that is still cool which I refuse to publicize).

'(to a secret, undisclosed location that is still cool which I refuse to publicize)'

Bushwick?

@HiplikeAFox - Point noted but no need to get racial.

Tito,

You misused the term "self-righteous." If i was self-righteous, I probably wouldn't have cut.

Bart

Can someone explain why the line was so long?

This was the third Pool Party this year I've been to, say the Hold Steady and Liars as well. For both those shows I rocked up at 5pm and went straight in. Once inside whilst it wasn't as busy as it was Yesterday there were still a pretty large crowd for both those shows.

As I seem to understand it all that happens on the gate is your bag gets checked, ID if you want to drink and then you're in... Keep on letting people in until you hit capacity then stop letting people in. Why was it taking so long to get people through the gates yesterday?

I didn't mean to get 'racial', I was just citing my observations. and I always include members from my own ethnic group in such descriptions...

"Williamsburg... as a 'scene' or as a force for innovation in the arts and music, is a dead. "

if this is true, it's because of the brooklynvegan comment section

once people with jobs started to move to williamsburg, all the cool kids could tell that the end was nigh. williamsburg is dead as the center of hipster activity because i moved to bushwick. i never stay in a place long enough for it to get played out. as soon as i moved to bushwick, williamsburg stopped being hip. i define hipster. none of you qualify.

it's really boring to read people say that MGMT will "break" after this. frankly, i'm surprised they haven't "made it big" already. oh wait, my 13 year old cousin from queens who only listens to the radio likes them. he has since this winter. maybe they HAVE HAD THEIR BREAK! WHICH IS WHY THE POOL WAS CROWDED! OMG!

Hipsters don't have any right to declare anything dead of arts.

Hipsters are the most talentless and worthless (overall devoid of any positive aspects)people I've ever met. You have your parents buy you DJ equipment because "Guitar was too hard"... either that or you play guitar, just piss poorly.

I've never seen a piece of art from a Hipster and said, "wow... those are some strong emotions..." you wanna know why? It's tough to realize the emotions that bring about art when your rent is payed by your parents and you have no ambition but to sit around and experiment with drugs (which your parents bought too).

I have more musical/artisitic talent in my pinky than all hipsters in this city combined. Pathetic.

Ha...you definitely should have cut. I may be an asshole, but I got in and had a great time, and you got wet and waited on a line for nothing. Hope it was as fun for you as it was for me. Also...these are parties...not shows...feel free to not take yourself so seriously and just have a good time.

"I couldn't believe how cheesified and crappy the entire place had gotten. all I saw were fratboy goons, guidos, irish meatheads, and wanna-be-Sarah-Jessica-Parkers everywhere. oh, and lots of annoying asian kids from Queens listening to house music. and the occasional NYU wannabe hipster."

WELCOME TO NYC. IT'S AWESOME.

It is like 14 minutes, it's called "Metanoia" and it's pretty cool.

"MGMT and BMSR both brought the energy down considerably. MGMT did the best at totally sapping the fun from the crowd, with the exception of 'time to pretend'. And what about that 14 minute BORING encore they played and made us all endure just for Kids? fuck em." - par

j'agree. No motivation to dance. crowd was pretty dead as was the band. Not impressed by mgmt live show, but the record is fun.

And i also spotted Kirsten Dunst and her 6 chins. WTF?

"I happened to be in B'burg on Sat night for a show. when I got out, I couldn't believe how cheesified and crappy the entire place had gotten. all I saw were fratboy goons, guidos, irish meatheads, and wanna-be-Sarah-Jessica-Parkers everywhere. oh, and lots of annoying asian kids from Queens listening to house music. and the occasional NYU wannabe hipster."

Yep that pretty much describes NYC on a Saturday night. Bridge and tunnel people trying desperately to be hip and have fun. And, oh yeah, you were there too, weren't you??? If you call it "B'burg", you're one of THEM, believe it.

Williamsburg is still a pretty great place to live the rest of the week once all of you have left. But it's true, its a lot worse than it has ever been...waiting on the Bedford ave L train platform on a Fri or Sat night is like being at the worst frat party ever.

you probably didn't even go to the concert 1:01. get out of here.

Not all of the shows have been like this. The Liars the previous week was half full and awesome...Fantastic show..Chill crowd..great sound..

i feel like none of you have listened to mgmt's album. they're not a dance band. they have two dancey songs.

And you certainly don't live in williamsburg 1:13.

new jersey is the new brooklyn

i can see why Beck would have them open for him. Electric Feel is some good Prince shit. i usually tend to stay away from a the whole crop of the modern electropoppy buzz bands, but I think these guys are the real deal.

1:01 is in denial about the neighborhood. I will say, that grabbing a drink in Williamsburg on a weekday can be a relaxing depending on the bar... but any weekend night seems horrible.

btw, I was at the Music Hall for the Spiritualized show, something modern day hipsters, yuppies and other assorted Sarah-jessica-parker wannabes would know nothing about.

no woman can understand how it feels to have a raging woodrow wilson after seeing a chick with big thingys.

yeah I agree with who ever said MGMT is not a dance band. They have a couple songs that you can dance to but please, don't mistake them for vampire weekend.

@HiplikeAFox - And Spiritualized was a MONSTER weren't they! SPACEMAN!!!!!!

i don't get why everyone is questioning the giant line. this was probably the biggest band (sort of speak) that they booked this summer, of course there is going to be a giant line.

Agy would have to defy the laws of physics to be thwere as she was also at a polo match in Windsor UK.

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And as for all the comments ripping on chicks with those lace headbands... they were giving them out at the door you morons.