up to SCALE: MGMT

I just bought the MGMT (pronounced Management) album Oracular Spectacular and I am currently considering how I can take it intravenously. I really enjoy groups that take specific reference from music past and play them off one another, which to me is the prevailing force on Oracular Spectacular.
The Brooklyn based Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden started the band when they were freshman at Wesleyan and took a spin down noise rock and electronica before forming their own brand of psychedelic pop. Psychedelic is the first word that I thought of when I first heard them, they have a very seventies rock vibe to them that comes out in the vocals and use of electric guitars. MGMT’s other influences come out in how they layer synth and pop on top of this to create a more ambiguous, yet not any less enjoyable, sound.

Eric Harvey of Pitchfork said, "Knowing
that the Almost Famous notion of stardom doesn't exist anymore (if it
ever did), the duo of Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser realize they're
"fated to pretend." It's a charming idea-- making a career out of fantasizing--
and on Oracular Spectacular, they not only accept their playacting destiny, they
demonstrate that, just maybe, it's a path more people should take."

They have been on tour with of Montreal and have worked with the same producers of The Flaming Lips. Oracular Spectacular came out in October and they are one of Rolling Stones “Artists to watch in 2008”. You should buy their album, it looks like this.

What is SCALE

SCALE has been an idea that has been kicking around my head for the past month or so. It came from my want to one day work in journalism plus my lack of time for journalistic experience times me reading that a blog is actually a legitimate form of journalism. So one night a while ago I started thinking about what I could write about and what I would name it. I started to think names and I eventually sparked on SCALE which stands for Style, Culture, Art, Living, and Entertainment.
These are the five things I will talk about on here, basically in the context of what I like and what I think guys and girls like me will like as well. There seem to be very few outlets for people who have diverse, albeit excellent, taste in all things currently relevent and I hope that this will become an outlet for me to share cool things I have found and likewise with the reader.
I don’t want this to be an advice blog or an irate and ranting blog. Hopefully it will be laid back and interesting, informative and cool, and always up to SCALE.