MGMT "event' at Glasslands today & other secret "events"...

How about they don't play there?

everyone will be at broken bells already

this was kinda of organized poorly. A nice try at using social media but.....fail.

yeah.

FAIL WRITTEN ALL OVER IT.

fail.

I have to work but wish I could chase the psychedelic cat

I doubt they're playing these shows - sounds more like a record listening party

No Miami Florida?

The rules on the site say no recording devices and they will take your cell phone :)

note: just found out for sure this is NOT a show.

No Miami Ohio?

stoner van party:

Thirty-Six (36) to Sixty (60) validated Winners will each:

Have the opportunity to ride in a specially adapted passenger van in and around his or her Contest Location (“MGMTmobile”) and have the opportunity to be a part of a unique MGMT fan experience; and
Receive a limited-edition “I WAS CAPTURED BY MGMT” tee-shirt.

lame. not a show. fuck that.

In order to board the MGMTmobile, Winners will be required to relinquish any cell phones, PDAs, flip cams and any and all other audio, video, or audio-visual devices or equipment to Sponsor’s representatives at the Contest Location

Is this a joke? seriously? this has to be the most retarded thing ever.

Gosh, I loved "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" too!

Even if it was a show, FUCK that

MEHGMT

Okay, so the deal is you show up in your ride outside glasslands and the car with the best tint gets to drive MGMT to their next gig.

so mgmt lured people into a rape van.

MGMT is a gaywad

thank god they're NOT playing, they're just awful live

i dont want to get raped by chick dudes in head bands and their fans. no thanks.

they suck

they just lost a fan.

Anon 5:08 thank you

Where's Poochie and Mickey?

I am proudly post-buzz

The van already left, but they're giving away FREE BUTTONS to everyone else who shows up. FUCK YEAH FREE BUTTONS!!!

who cares
mgmt suck nuts anyway

Look at all these people poo-pooing MGMT when not more than a year ago you would have been clawing your way to see them with your retarded sunglasses and dipshit tshirts

i dont think they suck live at all-- they were really really good at the pool 2 years ago.

sounds like some jonas bros. fan club shit

they never played the pool!

Anon 5:41 you're an idiot.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/07/mgmt_mccarren_p.html

Yeah want to tell all these people in this photo it wasn't MGMT playing at the pool that day.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/2710321433_be725d7fe7_o.jpg

MGMT stole this idea from the New Pornographers http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/03/09/the-new-pornographers-announce-the-sxsw-together-shuttle/

they make it so easy to hate them, it's just not fair..

Have you heard the new MGMT single? Almost as lame as the parking lot "festival" they're playing in Jersey next month.

I hear you have to be under 13 to get into that festival.

Wow, what a bunch of whiny little bitches in this thread. "MGMT didn't do exactly what I want so now I HATE them!!!" Are you stomping your feet when you post? If they had done NOTHING you would be fine but because they aren't playing a show you make a bunch of emo posts?

And BV, just because you fucked up and posted bad info in an effort to be the first to break the news doesn't mean that the event isn't exciting to those who got to participate. Grow up.

the Black Eyed Peas are playing a super secret extra special sauce show in NY right now too!

LMAO, I bet you had a lot of fun in that van.

Jonas bros fan club shit is right.

MGMT's van event is about as cool as Rachel Ray's husband's shitty band that she books to play her SXSW party every year

Where's Fluffy now, bitches???

I WENT THERE, CAME ALLLLL THE WAY FROM NJ

WAS 7 OR 8TH IN LINE

WAS MESSED UP I DONT EVEN KNOW MY WAY AROUND BROOLKYN BUT SOMEHOW, FOUND MY WAY. I WILL HAVE TO GIVE IT TO THEM THAT AT LEAST THE SECRET LOCATION WAS THE 1ST SUBWAY STOP INTO BK.

6 PEOPLE WENT INTO A BLACK TINTED OUT VAN AND THEY PLAYED THEM THERE NEW ALBUM AND DROVE AROUND...

LAME.... LAME SHOULDA DONE A SURPRISE SHOW, I WAS HYPED THAT IT WAS GONNA BE AS SUCH, BUT HOW COULD 6 PEOPLE GO TO A SHOW?!

GOOD NEWS FOUND OUT THAT B4 THE FESTIVALS THEY ARE PLAYIN SOME SECRET SMALL SHOWS IN NY AND ELSEWHERE, STAY TUNED,... SEP FROM THE LAME CONTEST! PS IF ANYONES GONNA PARTISPATE IN THE CONTEST, NOT WORTH IT, BUT IF U DO, THE CODES ARE GPS COORDINATES, JUST GOOGLE IT

DIRECT FROM TOUR MANAGER

6:00 PM if your gonna blame BV (by far the best thing on the internet when it comes to letting people know about these type of things) for the lamest excuse for bullshit buzz building ever, then you should get off this website now and renew your subscription to SPIN.

was there weed in said van?

OMGHi2U6:43!!!!!!!!1!one!

Not my problem.

we still love you beev

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

Ovaltine?

A crummy commercial?!?

And by the way, the 'wild new single' sounds like a new genre that I'm going to dub 'progressive Ocasek'

mgmt=jonas bros, but worse

CUZ MGMT ARE LAME!

the jonas brothers are good

MGMT's good music is limited to Kids, Time To Pretend & Electric Feel....the three singles. EVerything is utter garbage. This psychedelic stuff is really not good at all. Stick to the dancey songs guys. Seeing them live was painful b/c i was just waiting for those 3 songs & everything else was shit. That was how pretty much the whole crowd felt too, you could tell by the reactions to songs and everyone's body language.

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i wonder if brookyn vegan would ever use the word "lame" to describe one of the bands at his heavily promoted shows at sxsw and elsewhere.

I went to this. If it was 1969 they would've swept us up with a dose and taken us to a show. Instead I had to dose later and eat cheez itz in a van with 50 colored pencils paid for by the label. Still beats being a soldier, though....

@ 12:09

I was so sure I was going to feel the same way about the first LP-- that it was the hyper catchy singles plus meandering filler. After putting off actually listening to it until this winter, I was surprisingly into it all the way through.

I know they're sorta an easy target with their cheezy visual aesthetic, but that first record was surprisingly awesome. I don't know if the new one will be too, but I'm at least gonna give it a chance, rather than dismiss it based on this admittedly goofy event/gimmick.

This is a fun stunt! At least it's different...

12:09 dont forget "The Youth" and "Weekend Warriors" also good one

Word up 12:09. I would call refer to them more as attempts, regardless the rest of the album is poorly written and to call it psychedelic really does a disservice to the forebears of the genre.

SHUT THE FUCK UP ALL YOU FUCKING CONFORMIST DOUCHE FUCKS WHO ONLY LISTEN TO 3 SONGS BY MGMT, THEY ARE PROBABLY THE BEST BAND IN AMERICA THE ONLY REASON EVERYONE IN LIVE SHOWS DONT LIKE IT IS BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE THERE WAS A FUCKING DOUCHE WHO LISTENS TO FUCKING AKON AND BLACK EYED PEA AND KESHA

MGMT=WIN

AND HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU EVEN COMPARE THEM TO THE JONAS BROTHERS ALL YOU SHOULD JUST KILL YOURSELF THE DISNEY CHANNEL WRITES THE MUSIC FOR JONAS BROTHERS .NOW IF YOU CALL THAT MUSIC, JUST KILL YOURSELF

10:53, you're deeply confused. Also, the caps lock key is a privilege not a right.

^^12:09 nailed it on the head. I felt the exact same way at that Jelly Pool show 2 years ago.

Anyone who tried this is an idiot...

look at what they got (if someone hasn't reported this yet..)

Update: And here's a report from someone in the van. "I was captured, we drove around listening to congratulations then they gave us tshirts. The album was surfy psychedelic." He continued, "it was literally a white van with a random limo driver, two girls running the whole thing and me +8 other people that showed up."

anon 10:53-how old are you? you can't possibly be older than 17...no way. using phrases like MGMT=win? jesus christ. go jack off with your mother's panties, you fucking basement dwelling dipshit. telling people to go kill themselves? you are a fucking dweeb.

So in my humble opinion MGMT is an excellent band! I have a great deal of respect for them, they always keep it interesting. The Kids video was a risky concept as is doing a record very different from their first but they did it because they wanted to, it was their artistic vision not some label guy telling them what to do. They take chances and sometimes get shit on but at least they are constantly looking to evolve as artists visually and musically, you might not love everything they do but at least they make an effort. This band will be around for a long time, i promise you. xo

so check this out...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300405544813&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_924

Worm around ticketmaster.com and you'll find an event that will leave you Smirking. (aka go buy tickets to the MGMT secret show before they sell out!)

what's the p'word

@anon 10:25

password is the common name for a single Gryllidae. it is 7 letters long.

thx - i figured it out. also a popular sport in many parts of the world...

Bamboozle festival.

Password: curling

Thanks, BV!

Fuck Buttons

shitty. totally thought it was a show. "bullshit buzz building" for sure. they need a new PR staff.

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

look, to everyone who's saying "fuck this it's not a show"- if you really were fucking mgmt fans you wouldn't be dissapointed with these "secret events", personally i would grow a dick and give it up to even be part of this. also...if anyone here stilll thinks mgmt apologized for their new song...that wasn't a fucking apology...they're trying to get rid of all the little "i love kids! i love time to pretend!" fans. mgmt did not fail, you all did. and
HAHAHAHA
time to pretend, kids, and electric feel- if you really think those are the only good ones,
then get the fuck off this page.
mgmt is trying to get rid off fans like you.

mgmt changed my life.
if it weren't for mgmt i would still be listening to the radio.
and if you don't like mgmt, we don't want to hear your bullshit.
you guys belong on this shitty planet,
the rest of us are going to the 4th dimension.
in the words of mgmt- "we don't care"

FINALLY! Thank you so much erica! I completely agree. All these haters are just the tools who thought they were cool because they listened to kids. Maybe if you actually appreciated good music you would have realized how amazing the rest of the album is and im not talking about time to pretend and electric feel. If you are an asshole, jock, and/or toolbag, dont listen to mgmt, if you know something about music, enjoy. I look forward to everything this band creates.

Yupp Yupp!! Erica Is Right.., If You Guys Are Real MGMT Fans You Will Like Almost All Of There Songs Not Just The Singles!MGMT Is One Of The GREATEST Bands On The Planet! If You Wanted To Go To This Secret Event Or Went Youu Aren't Idiots You Are True Fans! (: Well Yeaa MGMT All Thee Wayy! Fuckk Haterss :D

erica said it for me...mgmt changed my music landscape too..before them only good music i knew was some classic classic rock...i was too dumb to dig any deeper...they dug my hole

i like Adam. he's so dreamy! lolz.

MGMT--- jesus i want to meet you guys
great job at making all the little posers stop beating off to your facebooks. new album is TOTAL TRIP. erica, lets get it on to this music.!! :P and haters--- go listen to vampire weekend

love the spelling error in the MGMT ad up top. whoops. also, why would they advertise a red rocks show on BV? annnnnnnnnd, can they actually sell out red rocks?!

This is old news. We all read or saw Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, and it was old news then. Get a new publicity stunt and get it now. Dum. Also, that artwork is kinda meh.

Guggenheim billed it as a performance piece and it was just an installation. Resultingly, the crowd simply waited for the "show" to start, limiting anyone's ability to freely explore the space (the ground floor was packed with indian-style seaters, and the balconies were lined with people holding onto their spots like grim death.

it makes no sense for them to deconstruct the entire TD North venue to play a show the next night ~50 miles south at an amphitheater (which probably would require a different stage setup anyway). They'd play Providence or Mohegan Sun before that (and I think those are both highly unlikely).

I saw the pictures on Youtube about this event, it looked really fun. Hope I can be there next time.

Great, "secret" events. Last time I went on a "secret" event, it sucked so hard that I wasted 20 bucks for nothing.

No thanks.

Dee

Not all secret events are bad. There are some, but the majority of them are quite good. And AWESOME as well.

Why was it a big fail by the way? I feel sorry for them. I hope it will be successful next time.