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RiO!B episode – March 28, 2012

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:43:15 +0000

On today’s Rock it Out! Blog episode, Stephanie Kibbe from Some Kind Of Awesome hosts the show. She talks about the new single from Garbage, the Flaming Lips releasing records with blood in them and introduces to three bands you need to discover: Sharks, WAZU and Breton.

Garbage – “Battle In Me”

The Flaming Lips bloody record

Sharks

WAZU

Breton

Stream: The Flaming Lips feat. Bon Iver – “Ashes In The Air”

admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:01:07 +0000

You should know by now that The Flaming Lips are making this year’s Record Store Day a big one for them. They’re releasing a brand new album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, which features collaborations with everyone from Bon Iver to Coldplay to Ke$ha.

Down below, courtesy of Slow-Nerve-Action, you can check out the Lips collab with Bon Iver, “Ashes In The Air.”

Record Store Day 2012 releases full list

admin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:55:14 +0000

Man, oh man. What have we got here? Looks like the full list of Record Store Day releases has just hit the interwebs. Consider this the ultimate shopping list.

Feel free to peruse the list over at RSD’s official website but I’d like to point out some of the hot items hitting your local independent record store this April 21st.

Some of the vinyl hitting the shelves this year include exclusive and limited releases from David Bowie, The White Stripes, Mastodon, The Flaming Lips, Ryan Adams, Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, The Black Angels, The Clash, ††† (Crosses), Flogging Molly, Florence + The Machine, Ozzy Osbourne, Phish, Sigur Ros, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Battles and a whole lot more.

Go check out the list and start compiling your own. April 21st isn’t that far away.

RiO!B episode – March 20, 2012

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:42:05 +0000

At The Drive-In RSD release

The Flaming Lips RSD release

The White Stripes RSD release

Jack White tour dates

Jack White – “Sixteen Saltines”

Neil Young & Crazy Horse releasing album in June

Garbage – “Blood For Poppies”

Silversun Pickups releasing new album

The Flaming Lips release details of Record Store Day album

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:52:57 +0000

The Flaming Lips are planning on making a big splash on Record Store Day with the release of a brand new album featuring collaborations with pretty much everyone in music.

Entitled The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends, the album features 13 songs and collaborations with everyone from Coldplay, Bon Iver and Yoko Ono to Ke$ha and Biz Markie. It will be released as a limited edition multi-vinyl set with two multi-colored 12″ records placed in separate art jackets and bagged together. CoS points out that no two albums will look alike and this will be the only pressing of this album. The tracklisting is down below.

The Flaming Lips are also releasing a Side By Side 7″ on Record Store Day with Mastodon. One side will feature the Lips’ track, A Spoonful Weighs A Ton, and the other side will feature Mastodon’s cover.

Record Store Day happens on April 21st.

The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends tracklist:

Side 1:
1. 2012 (feat. Ke$ha and Biz Markie)
2. Ashes In The Air (feat. Bon Iver)
3. Helping The Retarded To Know God (feat. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)

Side 2:
4. Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee (feat. Prefuse 73)
5. Children Of The Moon (feat. Tame Impala)
6. That Ain’t My Trip (feat. Jim James of My Morning Jacket)
7. You, Man? Human? (feat. Nick Cave)

Side 3:
8. I’m Working At NASA On Acid (feat. Lightning Bolt)
9. Do It! (feat. Yoko Ono)
10. Is David Bowie Dying? (feat. Neon Indian)

Side 4:
11. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (feat. Erykah Badu)
12. Thunder Drops (feat. New Fumes)
13. I Don’t Want You To Die (feat. Chris Martin of Coldplay)

The Black Keys, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mastodon releasing vinyl on Record Store Day

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:06:25 +0000

Ah, Record Store Day. It’s Christmas in the Spring for music lovers everywhere. And this April 21st will be no different as thousands of people make their way to their nearest independent record store to fight each other over some exclusive wax.

This year has some good stuff in store for your turntable including some releases from Mastodon, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys and many more. Check out the list down below and head to Record Store Day’s official website for more information.

– The Black Keys will release their newest album, El Camino, as a deluxe vinyl. It’ll include a bonus CD, limited edition poster and a 7″ containing live cuts of “Sister” and “Money Maker.”

– Mastodon will be releasing two separate vinyls: First up is a split 7″ with Feist. Mastodon will cover Feist’s “A Commotion” and Feist will cover Mastodon’s “Black Tongue.” Secondly, Mastodon will release, on a 7″ baby pink vinyl, a cover of the Flaming Lips’ “A Spoonful Weighs A Ton.”

– Red Hot Chili Peppers will release the deluxe 180-gram box set of Stadium Arcadium on vinyl. The package will also include a pair of 16-page booklets titled “Jupiter” and “Mars.”

– Metallica will release their Beyond Magnetic EP on 12″ vinyl.

– Arcade Fire will release a 12″ of the Damian Taylor remixes of “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” and “Ready To Start.”

– Eric Clapton will release his three albums, From The Cradle, Riding With The King, Me and Mr. Johnson, in a deluxe vinyl box set entitled Blues.

– Disturbed will release all five of their albums (The Sickness, Believe, Ten Thousand Fists,Indestructible and Asylum) in a limited edition vinyl box set called Disturbed: The Collection.

– MC5/Afrika Bambaataa will release a split 7″ with each band’s version of “Kick Out The Jams” on a white with red paint splattered vinyl.

Plenty more releases are coming that day so start saving your money from now.

RiO!B episode – January 31, 2011

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:24:30 +0000

Jack White is going solo

Foo Fighters -”These Days”

Garbage releasing new album

Flaming Lips feat. Erykah Badu and Siri – “Now I Understand”

Neil Young/Crazy Horse jams

RiO!B episode – November 1, 2011

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:33:47 +0000

Skrillex & The Doors – “Breakin’ A Sweat”

Roger Waters’ The Wall tour dates

Rocket Juice and the Moon tracks

24 hour long Flaming Lips song

The Kills – “Baby Says”

Listen: The Flaming Lips – “I Found a Star On The Ground”

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:50:42 +0000

Hey you! Got six hours to kill? How about listening to the new song from the Flaming Lips? That’s right…song. As in, one song. Singular.

The track, “I Found a Star On The Ground,” can be heard down below and in three parts. Each part being two hours long, this song is an exercise in auditory stamina since listening to it takes up 1/4 of a day. Plus, if you were a massive Lips fan that really wanted to inject yourself into their music, you could have had your name put into the song for a $100 donation.

Anyways, if you’ve got time, check out the track. You can also hit up the band’s YouTube page to check out two other new songs, “Evil Minds” and “Butterfly, How Long It Takes To Die.” You can also get a lot more information on the songs over at the killer website, Psych Explorations Of The Future Heart.

Personally, I would love to see someone review this massive six-hour marathon of music. Paging The Needle Drop!

The Flaming Lips – “I Found a Star On The Ground (Part 1)”

The Flaming Lips – “I Found a Star On The Ground (Part 2)”

The Flaming Lips – “I Found a Star On The Ground (Part 3)”

RiO!B episode – August 30, 2011

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:21:36 +0000

Foo Fighters – “Hot Buns”

Jane’s Addiction – “Irresistible Force”

Blink-182 – “Up All Night”

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – “If I Had A Gun”

Flaming Lips writing a six hour song

Damon Albarn’s album made in the Congo

Thomas Mars marries Sofia Coppola