The Flaming Lips have a new album called “The Terror, by the Dawn’s Early Light” (which is basically a less cool version of Pavement’s Terror Twilight) and it’s insane and gorgeous and a bit too much, but in a good way. So, you know, your standard Flaming Lips situation. Oh, and the super hottie awesome Sarah Barthel from Phantogram guests on a track.
You can stream the album here.
Well, this isn’t the worst news I’ve heard all day.
The Black Keys and The Flaming Lips will hit the road together for a short joint tour this Spring. The two festival favorites meet up on April 28th in Kansas City and keep the rock ‘n’ roll hysteria going through May 3rd. No word on whether or not Patrick Carney plans to steal Wayne Coyne’s laser gloves, but we’re sure security is pretty tight around them these days. Consult both bands’ full itineraries below.
Update: Keys frontman Dan Auerbach recently discussed the band’s follow-up to 2011′s El Camino with Mojo, stating: “We’re going to start making the new album in the second week of January and we’re hoping to have it done by some time in March.” He also added, “The record isn’t written yet, we’ll do it when we get into the studio. This is when we both work best, when we’re dying to make an album. All of our records take place in the studio, in that we make stuff up while we’re there.”
The Black Keys 2013 Tour Dates:
03/29-31 – Sau Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza Brazil
04/02-03 – Bueno Aires, AR @El Festival Mas Grande de la Historia 2013
04/06-07 – Santiago, CL @ Lollapalooza Chile
04/28 – Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center *
04/30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ CONSOL Energy Center *
05/02 – Atlanta, GA @ Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood *
05/03 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena ** = w/ The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips 2013 Tour Dates:
03/29-31 – Sau Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza Brazil
04/28 – Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center *
04/30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ CONSOL Energy Center *
05/02 – Atlanta, GA @ Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood *
05/03 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena *
05/20 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
05/21 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
06/14 – Hultsfred, SWE @ Hultsfred Festival
06/15 – Arhus, DEN @ Northside Festival* = w/ The Black Keys
Stephen Colbert is hosting another big music event!
The comedian announced Tuesday on “The Colbert Report” that he will host a concert on Aug. 10 aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Performing will be the Flaming Lips, Santigold, Grandmaster Flash, Grizzly Bear, and Fun.
Colbert is calling the event “StePhest Colbchella ‘012: RocktAugustFest.” The performances and Colbert’s interviews with each act will be shown on “The Report” during the week of Aug. 13.
Colbert quipped in a statement: “Does Bonnaroo have cruise missiles? I think not.”
The comedian last year hosted a week of music in his studio, dubbing the event “StePhest Colbchella ‘011: Rock You Like a Thirst-Icane.
via Billboard
Oh, BTW - The Flaming Lips did it.
As expected, the Flaming Lips played 8 cities in 24 hours yesterday, hitting the Memphis-to-New Orleans route and in the process taking Jay-Z’s Guinness Book of World Records title away from the rapper. The group’s sets were peppered with choice covers (such as King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man” and even the odd new track (“You Lust,” in Biloxi, with Phantograam guesting).
In a press release, lead Lip Wayne Coyne noted, “To be able to pick up this silly drinking book — after all, Guinness is a beer — this funny book that when I was growing up was a curiosity. To be published alongside the man who ate 22 pounds of his own boogers, beside the woman with the longest toenails or perhaps even to be published beside an individual who has had maybe 1000 cockroaches stuffed into their ears. That, to me, would be one of life’s absurd joys.”
via Blurt
As we previously reported, the Flaming Lips, in typical let’s do some weird shit style, announced recently that this summer, they would be attempting to break the Guinness World Record for most shows played in different cities in a 24 hour period. Of course they are.
Now we have a date, and locations, and the names of the bands who will be doing these shows with them. Info below.
Tickets for each show will be available starting June 7th. All 24 hours will also be webcast live online as part of MTV’s O Music Awards.
June 27
New Fumes & The Flaming Lips
Memphis, TN
Handy Park
June 27
Gary Clark Jr & The Flaming Lips
Clarksdale, MS
Ground Zero Blues Club
June 27
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals & The Flaming Lips
Oxford, MS
The Lyric
June 28
Neon Indian & The Flaming Lips
Jackson, MS
Duling Hall
June 28
Hunter Hayes & The Flaming Lips
Hattiesburg, MS
Benny’s Boom Boom Room
June 28
TBD & The Flaming Lips
Biloxi, MS
Hard Rock Casino
June 28
GIVERS & The Flaming Lips
Baton Rouge, LA
Varsity
June 28
Grimes & The Flaming Lips
New Orleans, LA
TBD
The Flaming Lips are Being Strange Again
I feel like I already mentioned Jack White’s plans to break a Guinness World Record this summer, but I can’t seem to find that post, so maybe it never happened. It’s a real struggle for me to not talk about Jack White, like, all the time. So maybe I was showing restraint. Let’s be proud of me for that for a second. *pause* Annnd moving on.
Well, he ain’t the only cowboy at the record-breaking summer tour rodeo!
The Flaming Lips have decided to break the world record for most concerts played in 24 hours during their summer tour. (The current record, FYI, is held by Jay-Z and was set back in 2006 while he was promoting Kingdom Come on November 18, in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.)
In a press release, Lips leader and perennial loveable weirdie Wayne Coyne said:
I’ve accepted the attempt at breaking the world record of performing eight shows in 24 hours. And I’ve explained to the music freaks at MTV, VH1 and CMT that I am not a host… But, I always liked the way Jerry Lewis would get all sweaty toward the end of his yearly telethon… To play and sing Flaming Lips songs at eight in the morning… Well, I’m open to new experiences…
Anyone else starting to get the creeping feeling like this summer is going to be super strange, but like, in the way that results in a lot of memorable concert experiences that our grandkids are going to be jealous of?
photo David Ellis/NME
