Lykke Li, Antony Hegarty and ZZ Top also feature on new compilation

Lately, MGMT have been recording songs for a new album with Dave Fridmann, the Flaming Lips/Mercury Rev producer who mixed their difficult sophomore records Congratulations. On Friday, the band played the Festival Estereo Picnic in Colombia, and they debuted a new one called “Alien Days.” It’s a starry-eyed six-minu...

Band included track in their set at Columbia's Festival Estereo Picnic

Even after yesterday’s high-profile protests from Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, and Tumblr, and even after many of the two bills’ initial architects are withdrawing support, debate still rages over SOPA and PIPA, the two invasive internet-piracy bills currently facing Congress. And now a number of popular artists have signed a...

A little while ago, we pointed out that the resurrected Beavis & Butt-head had twice taken time out of their busy schedules to crack inane witticisms about MGMT videos. And in another recent of the show, they’ve got a new target: Battles. Actually, “target” isn’t quite the right word. Battles&...