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Watch MGMT’s 1980s Styled Performance of “Me and Michael” on “Stephen Colbert”
Plus They Did "Electric Feel" with House Band Jon Batiste & Stay Human
Feb 27, 2018
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MGMT (Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser) released a new album, Little Dark Age, earlier in the month via Columbia. Last night they stopped by The Last Show with Stephen Colbert to perform “Me and Michael.” Befitting the album’s 1980s vibe, the performance was filmed and edited to resemble a TV performance from the greed-is-good decade, complete with VHS static and cheesy wipes. Then the band did a web-exclusive performance of their early hit “Electric Feel,” backed by The Late Show‘s house band, Jon Batiste & Stay Human, complete with a horn section. It was a great, almost jazzy, take on the song. Introducing “Electric Feel,” Colbert said it was a song he played every night for his audiences in between commercial breaks on his old Comedy Central show The Colbert Report. Watch both performances below.
Previously they shared a gothic video for the album’s title track, “Little Dark Age,” along with another song from the album, “When You Die,” via a trippy video that starred actor Alex Karpovsky (Girls) as a struggling magician. Then they shared another song from the album, the relaxed “Hand It Over,” via a psychedelic lyric video. Then they shared a video for another song from the album, “Me and Michael.”
Little Dark Age was produced by MGMT, former Chairlift member Patrick Wimberly, and long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, who has worked on all three of their previous albums). The album is the follow-up to 2013’s MGMT.
MGMT Tour Dates:
03-02 St. Paul, MN - Myth
03-03 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
03-05 St. Louis, MO - Peabody Opera House
03-07 Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom
03-08 Austin, TX - ACL Live at Moody Theater
03-09 New Orleans, LA - BUKU Music & Art Project
03-11 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
03-13 Atlanta, GA - Coca-Cola Roxy
03-15 Washington, DC - The Anthem
03-16 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
03-17 Montreal, Quebec - MTELUS
03-19 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
03-20 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
03-24 Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre
03-25 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
05-07 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium
05-09 Calgary, Alberta - Big Four Building
05-11 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
05-12 Seattle, WA - Showbox SODO
05-15 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
05-18 Hollywood, CA - Palladium
05-19 San Diego, CA - San Diego Civic Theatre
05-20 Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
06-14-17 Dover, DE - Firefly Music Festival
06-29-07-01 Beuningen, Netherlands- Down the Rabbit Hole Festival
07-06 Hérouville Saint Clair, France - Festival Beauregard
07-12 Madrid, Spain - Mad Cool Festival
07-17 Milan, Italy - Milano Summer Festival
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