Halloween Costume Photos: MGMT, Hold Steady, and More!

What did your favorite band dress as when they took the stage Oct. 31? Click here to find out!
The Ting Tings

Musicians took the stage Halloween night in costumes ranging from a mariachi band to the Kool Aid man. Check out photos of MGMT, Ting Tings, the Hold Steady, Drive-By Truckers, Portugal. The Man, and Ponytail.

Mariachi MGMT / Photo by Eric Nowels

MGMT, Live from New York!

The psychedelic SPIN cover boys played a festive Halloween eve show in Manhattan last night. Click here for photos and a review!
MGMT / Photo by Eric Nowels

The spirit of Halloween was in the air last night at New York City's Webster Hall: Fans were decked out in costumes that ranged from a vampire to a Viking.

12 Late Night Thoughts About CMJ

Let him count the ways…. SPIN's Charles Aaron on platinum dye jobs, bad coke, electro punk, and other aspects of the NYC festival.
Crystal Castles / Photo by Dan Epstein

1. A giddy sidewalk gossip girl runs up to you grinning ear-to-ear with the night's big celebrity sighting and it's…drum roll…(conspiratorial lean and whisper)…TODD BRIDGES! Huh? Whuuu…. Why? Where?

SPIN.com's Top 25 MGMT Remixes

A.K.A., "I Started a Joke (or Careful: MGMT at Play), Vol. 2." SPIN's Charles Aaron continues his epic look at Brooklyn's It-makers.
MGMT / Photo by Nick Haymes

Ever since Freelance Hellraiser got the Internet's nutz in a twist with 2001's "A Stroke of Genius" -- a seamless mash-up of the Strokes' "Hard to Explain" and Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" -- the ultimate, 21st Century tribute to the It rock band of the year has been an endless barrage of (mostly) unauthorized mash-ups, remixes, covers, and alternate ve

MGMT: Head Games

In two strange years, MGMT have gone from campus lark to psych-pop superstars and ragtag fashion icons. Now these merry pranksters have to figure out how to keep the career they didn't even know they wanted, without losing their minds.
Photographs by Nick Haymes

Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser are talking in hushed, hurried tones to a stuffed border collie. Crouching low, noses to snout, they take turns mumbling into a BlackBerry and then holding it up to the puppy's left ear. Their furrowed brows and tender pats suggest concern.

'Gossip Girl': The Music Grows Up -- OMFG!

The show has moved smartly from radio hits to indie discoveries. But SPIN's Abby Everdell says the new soundtrack album proves there's still room to mature.
The Cast of Gossip Girl

In anticipation of this week's episode of Gossip Girl, I spent a few minutes surfing its music channel on YouTube, where the featured songs of each episode are posted along with a short description of the various scenes (e.g. "Chuck and Nate lounge in grass").

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