This Friday, December 13, MGMT will be playing at Barclay’s Center in New York City, featuring Dinosaur Jr. as the opener.
Back in September, MGMT released their self-titled third studio album and have been busy touring ever since, including a month-long tour in the UK in October. In order to hype up fans for this Friday’s show, the band has been hiding one-of-a-kind autographed posters of images from the “Your Life Is A Lie” video in the New York tri-state area.
For “the artsy types out there,” MGMT is running a poster contest for the show via Instagram and Tumblr. The winner “will receive a one of a kind signed & framed print of their poster design hand decorated/enhanced by the band.” Designs are to be submitted with the hashtags #MGMT and #MGMTBrooklyn so that the band can find them, and the deadline is tonight at 11 PM EST. Multiple entries are allowed, and the winner will be notified via Instagram on December 14.
Dinosaur Jr. has been relatively quiet on touring this fall, with the exception of a J Mascis solo appearance at Mishka’s Brooklyn shop in October. Instead of shows, they’ve been busy with the release of a new book, Dinosaur Jr. by Dinosaur Jr. It’s the first official book to tell the story of the band and is chock-full of interviews and rare/unseen images. (J Mascis with short hair?…Yes.)
The combination of Dinosaur Jr.’s raw and distorted guitar solos with MGMT’s psychedelic synth-pop grooves is bound to make an interesting yet extremely exciting show. There’s no doubt that both bands will have their own and each other’s fans on their feet the entire time.
