Year of the brats
MGMT once sang to annoy. Now they're winning acclaim.
As freshmen at Wesleyan University, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser first bonded over a perverse dream: Writing what they considered bad songs - on purpose, no less - and then performing them on campus with the intention of alienating as many people as possible. (Full article: 774 words)
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