Lines grew outside independent record stores all across the U.S. and the world this past weekend as vinyl enthusiasts and music lovers waited, sometimes for hours, to purchase limited edition vinyl records on the 5th anniversary of Record Store Day. Since its beginning in 2008, the annual Record Store Day event has become bigger, and [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

Como ya te contamos , la banda liderada por Wayne Coyne va a lanzar un disco de colaboraciones con motivo del Record Store Day, que se llevará a cabo el próximo 21 de abril en Estados Unidos. A continuación mirá el video de Girl, You're So Weird , un adelanto de este material. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends es el título de este disco doble, edición limitada, que contó con la participación de artistas como [...]
Naked girls jumping, peeing, spraying colored smoke and doing all sort of crazy things, a disco ball, neon colors are just a part of the visual weirdness in The Flaming Lips' and New Fumes' new NSFW video for their absolutely matching song titled "Girl, You're So Weird". The track is a part of The Flaming [...]

The Flaming Lips' Record Store Day Double LP, The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends , is probably the RSD release I'm most interested in. Featuring collaborations with Bon Iver (" Ashes In The Air "), Yoko Ono , Erykah Badu, Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt, Ke$ha and many more, the new LP promises to have something for everyone. The Flaming Lips have released a video for their collaboration with New Fumes, "Girl, You're So Weird", that features some NSFW nudity. Watch the video below. Read more »

Sumándose a los diversos lanzamientos que serán hechos durante el próximo Record Store Day (21 de abril), los Flaming Lips editarán un LP doble llamado The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends que contendrá 13 tracks. En esta producción contarán con la participación de una cantidad increíble de personalidades de la música como Bon Iver, Chris Martin de Coldplay, Neon Indian, Nick Cave, Yoko Ono, Ke$ha y más de ese calibre. Algunas canciones estuvieron incluidas en el EP colaborativo que la banda sacó el año pasado, pero el resto [...]
Tweet vaso link The Flaming Lips have unveiled their duo with Bon Iver, taken from their upcoming Record Store Day release, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. The album, which also features collaborations with Ke$ha, Neon Indian, Nick Cave, and Erykah Badu, will be released on April 21st, and will feature the blood of some of the performers in the limited edition packaging. If you didn't already know, The Flaming Lips are weird dudes. "Ashes In The Air" is [...]

I'm really liking the new Flaming Lips/Bon Iver collaboration "Ashes In The Air". The song is part of the Flaming Lips upcoming Record Store Day release, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , that includes blood from all the collaborators infused into the picture disc. Those Flaming Lips always come up with something to top what you get from everyone else on RSD. Listen to "Ashes In The Air" below. Read more »
On April 21st, The Flaming Lips will be releasing a compilation comprised of an incredible amount collaborations for Record Store Day titled The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , with a reportedly small number of the vinyls being pressed for the release including the blood of several the contributing artists. One of the artists included on the compilation, although we're unsure whether or not his blood has been harvested, is none other than the golden boy of 2011, Jusin Vernon. The collaborative effort between The Flaming Lips and the Bon [...]

The Flaming Lips and Heavy Fwends is undoubtedly one of the more exciting releases coming to us on Record Store Day next month. Far from any bog standard vinyl re-release, it's a full-sized compilation album featuring guest appearances from artists all the way from Nick Cave to Ke$ha - and here we have the first look at one of the brand new tracks off that album. With a guest appearance from Bon Iver , this track is very much Justin Vernon adapting to the style of Coyne and co, rather [...]

Check out the Record Store Day collab.

Oh God, I'm more excited now about Record Store Day , April 21st, than I was when we found out about the Bon Iver - THE FLAMING LIPS collaboration. Why? Because the gossip turning around the rumour mill was true. The Flaming Lips are making music with everyone's drunken guilty pleasure, Ke$ha. And here's the full track listing for the album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. Our very own psychedelic rockers Tame [...]

As previously reported , The Flaming Lips are compiling their various collaborations from the last year or so for a special Record Store Day release. Today, the band formally detailed the compilation. Available April 21st, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends contains 13 collaborative tracks, many of which are previously unreleased. In addition to previously-heard efforts with Neon Indian , Prefuse 73 , and Lightning Bolt , the compilation packs new collaborations with Coldplay's Chris Martin, Bon Iver, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Nick Cave, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, [...]
Photo By Erik HessThe Flaming Lips at SoundTownIf anyone can pull off this mad concoction it's the Flaming Lips. As if their idiosyncratic sound and the unhinged musical themes of their past albums
Apologies for the sporadic appearance of these recap posts. But now that SXSW has come and gone, it's back to business for everyone here at CoS. A lot's happened since everyone making music right now packed up and left Austin. So let's not waste anymore time. Here's a round-up of last week's biggest news items to send you off into next week. - Want to know what went down at SXSW this year? You know you do. With that in mind, we put together a little recap of the festivities. And what about news [...]

As Pearl Jam continues to celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2011, the seminal Seattle rock band's lead singer, Eddie Vedder, has announced plans to release a new solo album and live DVD that will feature Vedder exclusively playing the ukulele. The aptly titled Ukulele Songs will hit stores on May 31 and mix decade old Vedder originals that have only been performed live, as well as covers and a take on Pearl Jam's 2002 tune Can't Keep. The companion DVD - Water On The Road - will feature selections culled from a pair of August 2007 [...]
Come Talk to Me - Bon Iver (Originally Peter Gabriel) Early March 2010 Peter Gabriel released an album of covers, Scratch My Back, in which he did the songs of many artists he loves, which will be reciprocated by these artists doing covers of his songs. The first to reciprocate, as far as I am aware, [...]

Is this supposed to be irony? Why is it all of a sudden cool/popular to cover Peter Gabriel ? Whatever the reason we have recently been inundated with Peter Gabriel meets the indie world news and we're a bit confused by it all. It started with Gabriel's own album of covers, Scratch My Back , which included melancholy covers of tunes by Bon Iver , Arcade Fire , Radiohead , and The Magnetic Fields [...]

Easily: Come Talk To Me (Peter Gabriel) - Bon Iver In the swirling curling storm of desire Unuttered words hold fast With reptile tongue the lightning lashes Towers built to last Darkness creeps in like a thief And offers no relief Why are you shaking like a leaf? Come on, come talk to me I got the split 73 of Peter Gabriel and Bon Iver [...]

Out of the dozens of Record Store Day releases unleashed last Saturday, Bon Iver and Peter Gabriel's split 73 was the one I lusted after most. The single featured Justin Vernon covering Peter Gabriel's "Come Talk To Me", a returned favor for Gabriel, who covered Bon Iver's "Flume" for his underwhelming covers album, Scratch My Back . Justin Vernon and co. give "Come Talk To Me" the typical Bon Iver treatment, giving it a fragile and lucid vibe that define what Bon Iver is all about. [...]
bon iver - come talk to me ( peter gabriel cover) [oh my gosh, this cover is just simply blissful. released in conjunction with record store day , bon iver recording was part of a double AA 7" in which peter gabriel did an interpretation of iver's "flume". i can lose myself in this song... sigh!] http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wo ngiesMusicWorld