Coming out of SXSW with a lot of buzz, MGMT's album Oracular Spectacular had its best sales week to date, scanning 5,341 units which brings the 9-week total to 39,696 and all but guarantees the total will be significantly higher than the 40k total I predicted six weeks back http://tinyurl.com/3d38wc .

MGMT will be heading out on a brief tour in a week or so, starting briefly in New England with a show at Higher Ground in Burlington, VT where I imagine they're huge with UVM students, then into Canada with a show at the Mod Club in Toronto before playing a string of dates on the West Coast:

Apr 13 2008 7:30P Higher Ground Burlington, Vermont
Apr 15 2008 8:00P The Mod Club Toronto, Ontario
Apr 17 2008 8:00 Third Thursday at Tempe Marketplace Tempe, Arizona
Apr 22 2008 8:00P Doug Fir Portland, Oregon
Apr 24 2008 8:00P Slims San Francisco, California
Apr 26 2008 12:00P Coachella Indio, California
Apr 21 2008 9:00P Chop Suey Seattle, Washington
Jun 12 2008 12:00P Bonnaroo Manchester, Tennessee

The accompanying video is from their Urban Outfitters performance at SXSW.