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The Flaming Lips will Release Exclusive All-Star Album for Record Store Day

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As previously reported, The Flaming Lips are working on a new collaboration album that will feature Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Bon Iver, Ke$ha and Erykah Badu and more. The double album entitled The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends will be released exclusively for Record Store Day, Saturday, April 21st. The LP [...]

Interview: Shelby Lynne of The Black Belles

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The Black Belles are a Nashville based foursome. Jack White is often credited for the discovery and rising indie-fame of the group, though I think he and Third Man Records simply beat everyone to the punch. The Black Belles have been described as ‘garage goth’ by several. They drag dirty, vintage rock to a place [...]

Nick Cave Announces the End of Grinderman

Playing the band’s last show of their current tour, Nick Cave dramatically announced the dissolution of the four-piece. Having completed the band’s headlining show at Australia’s Meredith Music Festival, Cave announced to 12,000 concert goers: That’s it for Grinderman. It’s over. See you all in another ten years when we’ll be even older and uglier. [...]

The Flaming Lips Team Up with Nick Cave

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In the wake of 24-hour song 7 Skies H3 streaming online for Halloween, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has revealed the group are currently in the process of a number of collaborations – which includes Grinderman and Bad Seeds leader Nick Cave. In an interview with Pitchfork, Coyne stated: “We’ve done a couple of things [...]

New True Blood Soundtrack

I’m a fan of BRMC (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) and True Blood, too, though I have to admit that I’m not completely up to date on watching, since I don’t really watch TV in realtime unless it’s lounge news or BookTV. But when I got the low-down on the series’ Volume 3 soundtrack, I got [...]