Well, it’s that time of year again, in which we all flood towards Chicago for all the same bands we saw at Coachella now Rubiks-cubed with a handful of other acts and headliners for three days of music, humidity, and wildly overpriced bottled water and pizza.  It’s time for Lollapalooza 2010.

And while Beatcrave will be offering up a list of the Top 5 bands you must see at this year’s Lolla, I thought I’d slip you a handy primer of the five bands you must avoid at all costs if you’d like to have a pleasant time in Chicago this weekend (and if you have good taste).  From hipster blog golden calves to appallingly plastic pop divas to ’90s rock jokes, these are the bands whose sets you can miss in order to nap, grab a slice of $20 pizza, or take an annoying picture of yourself in crowd with a band onstage behind you for your Facebook profile pic.  Just remember — you’ve been warned.

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MGMT stopped by local Columbus, Ohio radio station CD101.1FM last week to play several acoustic tracks from their latest album, Congratulations.  Settling comfortably in “The Big Room,” an intimate set up the station has put in place to give listeners an informal, up close listen to their favorite artists, the boys gave a clean performance.

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Hello Beatcrave readers! We are here to bring you some great deals on MP3 albums that are available right now at Amazon. Enjoying music shouldn’t be at the expense of your paycheck, so stop paying too much for the music you love.  This week all of our choices are BeatCrave Favs so if you have not purchased their albums as of yet, what are you waiting for? Here is your chance to get them at a cheap price.

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Vinyl fans it is time to rejoice–Record Store Day is upon us tomorrow, that special day when our favorite artists release a dizzying array of obscure or unreleased material on vinyl for their hardcore fans and record fetishists.

Rolling Stone took time out from obsessing/ cultishly worshiping (with goat sacrifices and everything!) every retirement-age rock star within spitting distance to list a few late, but very exciting, additions to Record Store Day release lineup:
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Ok, festival kids, the Coachella set times are now up, and the inevitable queasy feeling in your stomach can now begin as you decide which favorite acts you’ll be missing, or only catching a part of, in order to watch MGMT suck for 50 minutes (kidding, kidding—but not really, as MGMT really do suck, guys).  Owing to a slightly more spread-out schedule than in recent years, with (for myself anyway) fewer must-see bands clumped together, there aren’t as many conflicts as one might think.

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In support of their album, Congratulations, the uber-hipster and psychedelic pop duo MGMT will be going on a world tour. There are just as many dates crammed into this tour as there are crazy genre changes in their single, “Flash Delirium,” and it all starts today in Sydney, Australia at Metro Theatre. The tour will have them wrap around the globe as they come back to the west coast of the US, fly back over to Europe and end in Lisbon, Portugal in December.

Congratulations is officially slated for release on April 13th via Columbia but you can listen to the entire album at their official website. Check the tour dates out below to see if they’re stopping in a city near you!

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MGMT has always been eccentric in their own way, but with their ever-popular album Oracular Spectacular we welcomed them with open arms with whatever songwriting idea they had. Now, however, we are a bit perplexed with their latest album, Congratulations. It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for new material – although it’s only really been three years – but we can’t help but feel different about their new approach with this album. You can stream over at their website in its entirety.

You all also told us that you were down with the new single, “Flash Delirium,” which has unexpected choppiness in terms of genres; so maybe you’ll like the video that goes along with it as well.

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The spirit of rock legend Freddie Mercury will be front and center when MGMT hit the road for their upcoming stretch of live shows.

According to a story on xfm, MGMT – aka the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based pop/rock duo of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser – plan to pay tribute to the legendary rock band Queen by tweaking some of their hits in a very Queen-ish style.

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Although most of you said you enjoyed the new MGMT track, there is still buzz going around about how it doesn’t sound like the MGMT arrangements we’re used to. As we previously mentioned, “Flash Delirium” combines a whole of of choppy material all under five minutes instead of the psychedelic falsetto melodies we like so much from the Brooklyn duo.

Well, it turns out that MGMT has read all our tweets and blog posts and basically apologized for the new song. Why are they apologizing for material they’ve proudly released under their name? According to Spinner, MGMT initially thought the song was hilariously ridiculous as well and assures us that it is not a single from their upcoming album, Congratulations.

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