NYLON - March 2008 - (Page 154) STRANGE MAGIC MGMT have elicited hosannas from pretty much every music magazine on the planet. The surprising thing is, they actually live up to the hype. By Fiorella Valdesolo. Photographed by Winona Barton-Ballentine Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Vanyngarden, otherwise known as The Management or MGMT, are feeling pretty strange. When I meet the blearyeyed, scruffy-faced pair outside a fluorescent-lit pizza parlor hawking stale slices on a stretch of Union Square that is swarming with a dizzying procession of NYU students, it is the day after their performance on Late Night with David Letterman (the duo and their backing band all wore matching capes). And the daze doesn’t seem to have worn off quite yet. “Letterman is such a weird atmosphere,” says Goldwasser as we settle into the back corner of a coffee shop. “They keep the studio really cold so our instruments had a kind of condensation on them. And the stage is much smaller than it looks on TV, and you’re very clustered together and David Letterman is sitting right next to you at his desk. It’s just really hard to imagine the whole thing looking good on screen because it feels so awkward. When I got home and watched it later I thought it was really funny… I just couldn’t stop laughing.” Over the course of our interview both Goldwasser and Vanyngarden are repeatedly prone to these bursts of incredulous laughter—as it turns shot at eclectic encore/eclectic props.com http://www.encore/eclecticprops.com
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