New Old Andrew VanWyngarden (Of MGMT) - "Supervolcano"

MGMT currently possess some pretty fancy hair and an album, Oracular Spectacular, that NME considers the best of the year. Just three years ago, though, Andrew VanWyngarden was still a student at Wesleyan, penning songs about volcanoes for an Earth & Earth Science class. Instead of Ben Goldwasser by his side, it was Ethan Leinwand (also Wesleyan '05), and the exact name of the class was (we think) "Hazardous Earth: Stuff That Will Kill You." Crazy liberal arts schools. Take a listen. This was b...

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