Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Beyoncé, Grateful Dead • Beck & Clapton: The New Issue • Plastic Ono Band Return With Special Guests • Axl Rose Refutes Rumors in Supersize Tweet • Watch Ke$ha Ask Ke$ha the Tough Questions • Sade Return With Best-Selling ... more info

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NME — Cosmic duo get surfy for their new album art more info

XFM.co.uk — It's Sonic-goes-surfing as the US psychedelicists reveal the artwork to ‘Congratulations'. more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — My sleep schedule is fucked up right now. Totally slept passed the press email about the album artwork for MGMT’s Congratulations. Check out the artwork above, but it’s not like you read this before you glanced at it. It’s pretty damn trippy, a... more info

The Red Radio — Uh, not what we expected. As everyone else has pretty much stated today, it's very Sonic The Hedgehog meets Felix The Cat. Not sure what to think of it, but there's no denying a nice retro vibe. Not boring anyway.... more info

Perez Hilton — The indie rock band MGMT has just released the cover of their upcoming sophomore album, Congratulations, and it's pretty…interesting? Is that the word? Maybe they were on a burn ride with Mush Mush when they all came up with the Sonic the Hedgehog... more info

Stereogum — What MGMT's forthcoming album definitely won't have: a "Kids" or a "Time To Pretend," according to Ben Goldwasseer. Instead, you should expect recording by ex-Spacemen 3 member Pete Kember, mixing by David Fridmann, vocals from charismatically dis... more info

Idolator — MGMT member Andrew Vanwyngarden wasn’t kidding last week when he said the duo’s new album is “definitely going to shock people.” While the cover of their debut Oracular Spectacular was hardly a masterpiece, the just-revealed artwork for sopho... more info

Rolling Stone — The purple-and-pink checkboard background, the flood of turquoise and the two-headed chimpanzee surfing out of the mouth of an icy wave shaped like a Sonic the Hedgehog character: The above image couldn’t be anything else but the cover of the next ... more info