By Cat Schaupp April 30, 2013 Here at Muso's Guide, we got pretty stuck in to the build up for Record Store Day 2013 . In between vainly attempting to reduce our list of desired records from this year's releases down to a reasonable number, we got chattering away to record companies around the country about their involvement with the big day in the attempt to find out what life is like on the other side of the till. In addition to being a significant day for record stores wanting to increase their [...]
El 20 de abril de este año se realizará en Estados Unidos el Record Store Day , durante el cual los sellos y artistas acostumbran a lanzar ediciones limitadas de discos y vinilos. Algunos artistas ya divulgaron qué material van a editar: en esta oportunidad habrá discos de The Black Keys junto a Iggy and The Stooges , The Flaming Lips , Deftones , Gary Clark Jr ., entre otros. [...]
A Warner Bros. Records divulgou ontem alguns de seus materiais que serão lançados no Record Store Day 2013, que acontece no dia 20 de abril. Entre as principais bandas que participarão do evento, estão The Black Keys e Iggy and the Stooges , The Flaming Lips , Gary Clark Jr. , Deftones , Built To Spill e Iron & Wine . Os caras do The Black Keys e do Iggy and the Stooges lançarão um single em conjunto. O disco contará com a faixa No Fun , originalmente gravada pela banda de [...]
A list of new special releases has been announced for the upcoming international Record Store Day . Among these are reissues from the likes of White Stripes and Flaming Lips, new music from Surfer Blood and Iron & Wine, plus much more. This year's Record Store Day takes place on Saturday 20 April. Check a full list of newly-announced releases below: 10th anniversary double vinyl reissue of White Stripes ' Elephant . Flaming Lips re-release [...]
With Record Store Day 2012 now just seven weeks away (April 20th), a number of artists and record labels have begun to reveal their plans for music’s new favorite holiday. Here’s a recap of the some the more notable releases being released by Warner Bros. Records: - The Black Keys & Iggy and the Stooges will team up for the "No Fun" split 73, featuring The Stooges' famed track on one side and The Black Keys' 2002 cover on the flip side. It's pressed on orange and red sunburst vinyl, [...]
The Flaming Lips have announced via Twitter that they're prepping a vinyl reissue of 19972s Zaireeka for Record Store Day. The last of their guitar-heavy albums before the highly-lauded The Soft Bulletin , the effort was originally released as four separate discs, meant to be played simultaneously on different devices to produce a quadrophonic sound. In 2011, the band re-imagined the album utilizing four iPhones . The announcement of this Zaireeka reissue follows last year's Record Store Day offering of The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends , which [...]
Wayne Coyne has now revealed that ten copies of the blood-infused vinyl will be available for $2,500 each.
Wayne Coyne ( @waynecoyne ) of The Flaming Lips ( @theflaminglips ) is one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter. The band’s frontman and all around freak keeps a running diary of his everyday life through the various pictures and videos he almost constantly tweets. Lately he’s been keeping his followers apprised of the process of adding blood to a special limited edition vinyl pressing of their 2012 Record Store Day released The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends . The 13 track, double LP features a slew of guest artists who donated blood [...]
Yesterday, we published Volume 1 of IRC's Record Store Day 2012 recap coverage, featuring digital versions of limited edition vinyls from The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips with Bon Iver, Wilco, Beach House, J. Mascis with Built to Spill's Brett Nelson, Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and Real Estate. Just as with Vol. 1 - which [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
The Flaming Lips clearly have some great Heady Fwends out there, as evidenced by their Record Store Day release The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends ’ impressive list of collaborators: Erykah Badu, Nick Cave, Coldplay's Chris Martin, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Ke$ha, Biz Markie ; you name it, Wayne Coyne probably wrote them a nice tweet asking for vocal stems. You’re probably going to head straight for that Ke$ha track, “2012,” and we don’t blame you, because it is actually pretty good? Ke$ha sounds surprisingly at home over the [...]
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
Listen to The Flaming Lips and Chris Martin collaboration from The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , "I Don't Want You To Die", below. Read more »
Listen to The Flaming Lips and Erykah Badu collaboration from The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", below. Read more »
Listen to The Flaming Lips and Nick Cave collaboration from The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , "You, Man? Human???", below. Read more »
Listen to The Flaming Lips and Jim James collaboration from The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , "That Ain't My Trip", below. Read more »
We previously shared Mastodon's Record Store Day contribution, a cover of Feist's "A Commotion". Well, now hear their other Record Store Day exclusive, a cover of The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin single, "A Spoonful Weighs A Ton". The boys of Mastodon did an excellent job. Listen below. Read more »
Yesterday we heard Mastodon cover Feist for a Record Store Day 73. Now we've got their faithful take on the Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin classic "A Spoonful Weighs A Ton" to enjoy. It was also released as an RSD exclusive, and is available on pink vinyl with the Flaming Lips original version on flipside. Listen below. Read More...
Finalmente chegou o Record Store Day ! Quem acompanha o Rock'n'Beats já deve ter lido notícias sobre esse dia nas últimas semanas. Caso você ainda não saiba o que é, não se desespere. Seus problemas acabaram. Segue com a gente e veja detalhes dessa iniciativa que marca espaço na venda independente de discos. O Record Store Day ocorre anualmente no terceiro fim de semana de abril simultaneamente em vários países. A comemoração foi criada em 2007 para relembrar os eternos vinis e alavancar vendas dos artistas. Nesse dia, as lojas de discos contam [...]
The Flaming Lips just released the animated video for their collaboration with Prefuse 73, the questionably-titled "Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee," from The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , which drops today for Record Store Day . The video, as we're sure you can already guess, is really weird - a chaotic headspin through a strange apocalyptic world populated by grannies with guns, skeletons brawling in jail, a pig roasting a dog on a spit, and a variety of other monstrosities. Click through to watch the Okay Video -directed extravaganza, but be [...]
To coincide with Record Store Day 2012 (today), Wayne Coyne is releasing a quirky collaborative punch of miscellaneous talents and status from both ends of the musical spectrum. You've already heard the Bon Iver cut , and now a sneak preview of the closer 'I Don't Want To Die' - which features a guest middle-8 from Chris Martin and borrows lyrically from John Lennon - has appeared courtesy of The Future Heart for you to watch below. It's a charming glimpse into the mixing process and like the rest of the album [...]
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