Under Appreciated Band: MGMT

For the list of my most favorable bands ever, MGMT is close to the top. They are a indie-rock band that is extremely psychedelic and formed from Wesleyan University in the beginning of the 2000s. 

They named themselves MGMT after they originally called The Management back in 2005. 


I'm obsessed with their music, and their songs are just so happy and insane. Electric Feel, one of their biggest hits from Oracular Spectacular album, is probably my favorite song of all time. The hook and beat is just crazy and unmatched. I really have no idea what that song is about, but its amazing. 

With lyrics that make no logical sense and beats that are poetic and psychogenic, MGMT is one of the best undiscovered bands ever. 

Oracular Spectacular, their first major album, was ranked from the Rolling Stones to be the 494th best album of all time, and is one of my absolute favorites. 

I started to listen to MGMT a few years back, and I fell in love the first time i heard their hit single "Kids".

My celebrity crush is Andrew Vanwyngarder, one of the members of the band. I adore the whole free spirit, hippie aspect of the band, something I never was interested in before I listened to them. 

I'm going to go see them live in May in the Cleveland Masonic Auditorium with my friends, and words cannot describe how excited I am to see them live. 

Under-Appreciated Artist: The Weeknd

I know that I say this quite a lot, but my absolute favorite artist for my generation has to be The Weeknd.   

Born Abel Tesfaye in Ontario Canada, he began with mixtapes just three years ago. Since than, he has gain recognition for his new album "Trilogy"

What stood out to me about the Weeknd is the amazing voice he has. What he sings about makes it so much better because of his amazing voice. 

His music seems similar to dark R&B, and that's really different from that type of music being created in R&B. Majority of his music involves pain, breakups, and drugs. What I like about his music is the amount of truth that he creates.

Even though he sings about relevant situations for the current day and age, the way that he sings it is beautiful. 

His songs are so slow and relaxing, and it's much different than music popular now. 

Currently, he has been involved with rappers such as Drake and Cleveland's Juicy J. 

I don't really know how I was first introduced to his music, probably was just from tumblr, but I am so happy that I started to listen to him. 

I absolutely love his music and I would love to see him succeed in the music industry. 

Under-Appreciated Artist: Captain Murphy (Flying Lotus)

A recent artist that I have come across lately is Captain Murphy, a cartoon musician otherwise known as Flying Lotus. 

This artist is Flying Lotus's alter ego, and was a hidden identity until Lotus recently relieved that he was Murphy.

Flying Lotus is popular for mainly his unique beats, and Captain Murphy is no exception of that.    

Captain Murphy incorporates a mixture of music that can be observed as crude and distasteful, but that is exactly why I like him. Murphy incorporates actual cult audio, such as Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Planetary Evacuation

  I recently downloaded his album Duality, and it features other artist like Earl Sweatshirt, who is one of my favorite rappers of this current generation. 

   My favorite song from his mixtape would have to be Mighty Morphine Forskin; the mixture of different sounds in that particular song really interests me greatly.

 I am really into the bright colors and sounds that he can just create in his beats,which draws me so intrigued by Duality. My boyfriend, who introduced me to Duality,and I have been listening to his music a lot lately. I would be very happy to continue following Captain Murphy and listen to more albums if he releases any.