Matador 21 Live Stream: Liz Phair, Guided By Voices, More

Couldn't make it to Las Vegas for Matador 21, the three-day bash celebrating the venerable indie label’s anniversary? We’ll have a live stream right in this spot, showing every set as it’s played. (The video will repeat the next morning.) Check out the full schedule below, which we’ve listed in Eastern Standard Time. And look to rollingstone.com all weekend and on Monday for more video, reviews by Rob Sheffield, interviews with the artists, photo galleries, and reports on everything else that’s going down.

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Song Stories

“Time to Pretend”

MGMT | 2008

Listening to MGMT’s breakthrough song, one might interpret it as being about the excesses of rock stardom, but it’s actually about the duo’s pet praying mantis. Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden told Rolling Stone they got the idea from the insect's jerky movements. The mantis died, but the two bandmates kept the egg sack and allowed the hundreds of eggs to hatch. “We tried to name them all, but they died after a day,” said Goldwasser, with VanWyngarden chiming in, “But the praying mantis dance inspired us.”

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