Tagged: flaminglips + recordstoredayrelease

Record Store Day , which is coming up on Saturday, has grown into quite an industry over the last few years, which is certainly great news as far as promoting awareness of independently owned brick-and-mortar record stores goes — but it does also make it rather difficult to keep track of the wealth of exclusive releases on offer. But never fear, we're here to help — we've trawled the extensive list of RSD-only releases and come up with the ten we'd definitely be investing in if we could only wake up early enough to get hold of them. Let us know what's [...]

The Flaming Lips worked with a bevy of top-notch artists (see the track list after the jump) for their Record Store Day release The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. You can catch a preview via this stream of their performance with Bon Iver on "Ashes in the Air".

As previously reported , The Flaming Lips' Record Store Day compilation,  The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , features collaborations with Coldplay's Chris Martin, Bon Iver, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Nick Cave, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and Neon Indan, among others. As Psych Explorations of the Future Heart points out, a few copies of the record will also pack these collaborators' blood. ( Don't ask surprised .) "What I’m going to try to do — and I’m collecting stuff for it as we speak — is I’m [...]