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Music: Rock/Pop MGMT w/ Howlin Rain

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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. Local openers Howlin Rain play a loose-limbed brand of guitar rock, a few notches mellower than frontman Ethan Miller's other band, Comets on Fire.

– Max Goldberg

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