For All You Fashionably Aware: NYMag's Fall '10 Review

Just as the weather starts to turn a tad warmer and you gradually fill The Guide to Menhattan's mold of "Every City Girl Ever" I implore you to check out NYMag's Fall 2010 Fashion review. Despite the fact that the clothes were somewhat demure aka classic (nothing wrong with something that lasts people: it's called recession chic) the best part about the entire video is when it is acknowledged that fashion is starting to catch up to the real world. It is simply modern, more streamlined and livable. Less frou-frou (ahem, Uncle Karl). These are clothes that you can buy and wear this year and next. 

Note: Except for the Snookie poof at Vera Wang. You cannot wear that unless you are from West Texas or New Jersey {insert NY's Gov. Patterson's lisp-y SNL voice here: hilarious}. 

New MGMT, You Know You Are Excited.

I'm pretty excited about MGMT's new album that is set to release April 13th. Mostly because the last one kept me quazi-sane during my first year out of college and in the working world. "Time to Pretend" and "Kids" had the ability to transfer me from my makeshift Elfa desk back to the glorious Saturday afternoon of ACL where they truly were the show of the weekend (if you were there than you know what I am talking about). But when I read below that they are moving away from songs like those I am perplexed to say the least. Will the album be as good?  We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, the in between time, see what Flavorwire's Andrew Whang has to say about it and their weird infomercial...

In preparation for their highly-anticipated sophomore release Congratulations, trendsetters MGMT have released a 21-second “informercial” about what comes with the unique packaging of their new album. For just $13 you get a scratch-off cover, a custom metal coin, and a 32-page booklet of photos and lyrics. Sure, the description on the order page could have sufficed, but why settle for bullet points when you can have an ’80s-infused slideshow?

Ben Goldwasser told NME back in January that the upcoming release is less about standout singles than their debut: “We’d rather people hear the whole album as an album and see what tracks jump out rather than the ones that get played on the radio — if anything gets played on the radio! There definitely isn’t a ‘Time to Pretend’ or a ‘Kids’ on the album. We’ve been talking about ways to make sure people hear the album as an album in order and not just figure out what are the best three tracks, download those and not listen to the rest of it.”

UPDATE: Listen to some of the new tracks in their entirety here.