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MGMT is a Grammy nominated American band based in Brooklyn, New York, consisting of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. On November 14, 2007, Rolling Stone pegged MGMT as a top 10 "Artist to Watch" in 2008. MGMT was named 9th in the BBC's Sound of 2008 top 10 poll. MGMT were also named as Last.fm's most played new artist of 2008 in their Best of 2008 lists.

MGMT settled a legal dispute with the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy in May 2009, receiving a settlement payment that they plan to donate to a charity to help musicians with similar legal battles. The song "Kids" was used on several occasions without permission (in 2008), at a party conference and in two online videos. The party paid a standard fee of €53 to the French music licensing party, but this license did not cover all uses of the song. The UMP, Sarkozy's political party, admitted that the song had been used without permission and offered a symbolic compensation of €1. The band rejected the offer, claiming it was "insulting".The band's lawyer commented that "we are dealing with acts of counterfeiting, with infringements of intellectual property".

MGMT was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and their track "Kids" was nominated for Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocals. These are the first Grammy nominations for the band. Their next album, Congratulations, is due to be released on April 13, 2010. The album was leaked onto the web on March 19. Because of this, MGMT put all of the songs available as streams from the official MGMT website.

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Mgmt Congratulations (2010)

MGMT's Congratulations was released on April 13, 2010. The band, including Matthew Asti, James Richardson and Will Berman from the live band, spent the summer of 2009 in Malibu recording the album with Pete Kember aka Sonic Boom, ex-Spacemen 3 and Spectrum, serving as producer/guru, and long-time friend, Billy Bennett as engineer. MGMT debuted three new songs titled "Congratulations", "It's Working", and "Song for Dan Treacy" at recent shows.

MGMT have suggested that they may not release any singles from the album. The album cover art for Congratulations was created for MGMT by Anthony Ausgang and the overall design of the packaging is by Josh Cheuse of Sony Entertainment. On Tuesday March 9, 2010 MGMT released the song "Flash Delirium" for free download on their official website. On Saturday, March 20, the band allowed users to stream their new album from their website.

The band stated that they weren't trying to make an album about fame and success but realized it was inevitable as that's all they've been doing for over a year. The album is expected to be much more commercially successful than the bands first album, having reached number 1 on the itunes top 10 albums in the UK as well as USA.

MGMT started their latest tour on April 12, 2010, in San Francisco, California, at the Fillmore
theater. They performed on April 23, 2010 at Brown University's Spring Weekend, on April 27, 2010 at Yale University's Spring Fling, on April 30, 2010 at the University of New Hampshire's Spring Climax, and on May 1, 2010 at Fordham University's Spring Weekend. They performed on Saturday Night Live on April 24 and are scheduled to perform on Late Show With David Letterman on May 11 for the promotion of their new album.

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Mgmt History

Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden formed the band while attending Wesleyan University during their freshman year. "We weren't trying to start a band", remarked Goldwasser. "We were just hanging out, showing each other music that we liked." They experimented with noise rock and electronica before settling on what David Marchese of Spin calls "their current brand of shape-shifting psychedelic pop."

They graduated in 2005 and toured extensively in support of the Time to Pretend EP, opening for indie rock band Of Montreal.The band first started with the name "The Management", but since this name was already being used by another band, they later changed it to MGMT. The new name MGMT was given by Alexa, a friend of VanWyngarden. MGMT is pronounced M-G-M-T.

In the autumn of 2006 Maureen Kenny signed the band to Columbia Records. The duo recorded with Flaming Lips/Sleater-Kinney music producer Dave Fridmann in 2007 for their major label debut, Oracular Spectacular. MGMT opened for Of Montreal on tour in autumn 2007 as a five piece touring band including Matthew Asti (bass), James Richardson (guitar), and Hank Sullivant (guitar). In November 2007 they performed for the first time in Europe supporting Asobi Seksu and The Courteeners at Koko in London. After March 2008, Hank Sullivant left the band to pursue his own band Kuroma. Will Berman joined as the new drummer, James Richardson switched from drums to guitar, and Matthew Asti remained on bass.

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Mgmt Introduction

MGMT is an American band based in Brooklyn, New York, consisting of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. Formed at Wesleyan University and originally with Cantora Records, they signed with Columbia Records and Red Ink in 2006.

On October 5, 2007, Spin.com named MGMT "Artist of the Day". On November 14, 2007, Rolling Stone pegged MGMT as a top 10 "Artist to Watch" in 2008. The band was named 9th in the BBC's Sound of 2008 top 10 poll. They were also named as Last.fm's most played new artist of 2008 in their Best of 2008 lists.

Their first album as MGMT, Oracular Spectacular, debuted at number 12 on the UK album chart and number six on the Australian ARIA Charts, and hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. It has also been named the 18th best album of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine. It was named the best album of 2008 by NME. MGMT also appeared prominently in Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 2008, coming in 2nd with "Electric Feel", 5th with "Kids" and 18th with "Time to Pretend".

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