Guardian Music — This week, Erykah Badu strips off where JFK was assassinated, while Shakira gets sweaty with a Wimbledon championErykah Badu – Window SeatThe trouble with our virally interconnected, YouTube-dominated world is that a perfectly average song can... more info

Reuters — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Psychedelic pop act MGMT has followed up its celebrated first album by departing from the sound that grabbed the music world's attention and offering something more timeless, and less dance-friendly. more info

Let There Be Night — Another weekend of madness is upon us, and though some of us are unable to attend (namely me) others are lucky enough to experience one of California's premier music festivals. Sweat in tents tho they might, if you love music, then you love Coachella... more info

Rolling Stone — Before MGMT’s second album Congratulations even hit stores, it was being hailed as the Most Polarizing Album of 2010. The LP’s aesthetic is a galaxy away from the electro-pop of Oracular Spectacular’s hits “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” �... more info

Pitchfork — Other than a wicked sunburn, heat stroke, and getting tangled in some hippie's dreadlocks, the most troubling thing about Coachella can be the constant feeling that you're missing the best set of the festival. There are a lot of great acts playing ac... more info

Rolling Stone — Muse or MGMT? LCD Soundsystem or Echo & the Bunnymen? The end of Pavement’s set or the beginning of Thom Yorke’s set? These are just a few of the grueling decisions festivalgoers will have to make at this weekend’s Coachella festival now that t... more info

KEXP Seattle — All systems are go on perhaps the biggest album out this week: MGMT’s sophomore effort, Congratulations, on which the Brooklyn band veers away from creating dancey pop singles to more experimental, spacey territory. Produced by space rock pioneer P... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — After delivering a left-field hit with 2008's "Oracular Spectacular," MGMT earned its license to dive off the deep end. And lo, did it take its label up on it. more info

DrownedInSound — Congratulations plumbs a musical theatre-indebted vein of psyche pop that brings to mind the Beatles’ latter years, a bigger budget version of former tour mates Of Montreal, Syd Barrett, and even The Libertines. Read the full story on Dr... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — MGMT meets needs we never knew we had. For instance, who guessed America craved a jazz flute in an odd-metered pop single? That one-finger synth riffs can adequately replace chorus hooks? Or that a duo weirder than any peers in... more info