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Music: Rock/Pop
MGMT w/ the Ting Tings

When

Sunday July 27 (2pm)

Where
McCarren Park Pool (Lorimer St & Bayard St)
Price
FREE
Details
http://www.mccarrenpark.com/#7-27
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It's been too long since we've had a good, weird pop band like Brooklyn's MGMT. Founded by Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser in a prankish mood, the group leaps between extremes — gigantic earnestness and eccentric nonsense; psychedelic overdrive and wounded prisms — leaving you wondering whether it's the product of geniuses or goofballs. That they might be both is what makes them so exciting. Garlanded with a Columbia Records contract, the band's debut, Oracular Spectacular, packages glam-inflected mega-pop in producer Dave Fridmann's typically lush, stretchable sonic architecture. The band hits today's pool party alongside psych-noiseniks Black Moth Super Rainbow and hyperactive UK dance-rockers the Ting Tings.

Max Goldberg