New Jersey's finest punk-anthem makers dropped this new single, hip-hop style, in a free mixtape posted to their Tumblr (it will also surface on a split seven-inch single with their charmingly-named buds, Diarrhea Planet). It's a boozy free-for-all with backing hollers by kindred spirit Alex Levine of the So So Glos – the kind of nearly-falling-sideways stomper that the band’s recent tour mates The Pogues do so well. When, in lieu of a chorus, everyone shouts "built to last" fourteeen times in the song's middle, you best believe them. 

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“Time to Pretend”

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.”