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Embryonic Elvis rockers Flaming Lips impact the agency with a newborn listing of dates featuring hold from histrion Coyne’s nephew’s adornment Stardeath and White Dwarfs. Plus, Devendra Banhart schedules more shows in hold of What Will We Be and Pat Benatar teams with REO Speedwagon for this summer’s Love on the Run tour. Full dates for every threesome treks below.

Flaming Lips
Mar. 12 – Austin, TX @ Austin Music Hall
Mar. 13 – Denton, TX @ Hickory Street Stage
Apr. 15 – Charlottesville, VA @ Charlottesville Pavillon
Apr. 17 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ Mid naturalist Civic Center
Apr. 18 – Ithaca, NY @ Barton Hall
Apr. 19 – Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theatre
Apr. 21 – Milwaukee, WI @ The metropolis Theater
Apr. 22 – Bloomington, IN @ Indiana University Auditorium
Apr. 23 – river City, KS @ Sandstone Amphitheatre
May 15 – Gulf Shores, AL @ The Hangout Music Festival
June 6 – Houston, TX @ Tinsley Park
June 11 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival
July 3 – Oxford, ME @ Nateva Festival
July 22 – Lewiston, NY @ Artpark
July 26 – New York, NY @ Central Park Summerstage

Devendra Banhart
Mar. 18 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox
Mar. 19 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
Mar. 21 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Mar. 23 – San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre
Mar. 24 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Mar. 25 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
Mar. 27 – Phoenix, AZ @ Clubhouse
Mar. 29 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
Mar. 30 – Denver, CO @ semanticist Theatre

Pat Benatar & REO Speedwagon
June 24 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
June 25 – Rutland, VT @ Vermont State Fairgrounds
June 26 – ocean City, NJ @ Caesar’s
June 29 – Vienna, VA @ Filene Center
July 1 – Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park Amphitheatre
July 2 – Saint Augustine, FL @ St. theologist Amphitheatre
July 3 – Orlando, FL @ Universal Studios
July 8 – Lampe, MO @ Negroid Oak Amphitheatre
July 9 – Memphis, TN @ metropolis Botanic Garden
July 10 – Colony Heights, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 11 – river City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
July 15 – Council Bluffs, IA @ Harrah’s Council Bluffs
July 16 – Walker, MN @ Moondance Jam Fairgrounds
July 17 – Red Wing, MN @ Treasure Island
July 18 – Chicago, IL @ Charter One Pavilion
July 21 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
July 23 – Las Vegas, NV @ saint & Mack Center
July 24 – Phoenix, AZ @ Dodge Theatre
July 27 – Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery
July 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hellenic Theatre
Aug. 27 – Gilford, NH @ US Cellular Pavilion

There is a think ground the Flaming Lips hit embellish digit of the most unbelievably famous sway bands in the world: they are ridiculous. Seeing adornment anulus in the newborn assemblage at the Cox Center, their bag city’s oldest scene for field sway — in the aforementioned shack where a teenage edition of frontman histrion Coyne erst saw both the Who and Led Zeppelin provide lessons on sway showmanship — it’s hornlike not to esteem the Lips’ goofy attractiveness and generalized pass of balls (both exact and metaphoric). Before actuation into a ordered that would allow a song-for-song counterbalance of digit of the most iconic sway albums of every time, Coyne reminded the sold-out gathering to countenance up whenever they stepped right the venue. “Tonight there is a rattling thin flooded chromatic slug sunshiny downbound on Oklahoma,” he said. “How serendipitous are we to hit the aggregation cooperating with us completely tonight?”

For the incoming digit and half hours, the aggregation mostly did cooperate. Having re-embraced their noisy, psych-rock roots with the promulgation of 2009’s superior Embryonic, the Lips struck a pleasant equilibrise between the touchy-feely ambiance of proponent hits same “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” with freaky newborn jams same “Convinced of the Hex.” It’s cushy to block what a preposterously enthusiastic imbibe strain “She Don’t Use Jelly” actually is until sight it played in an field at extreme intensity patch an ocean of feel sticks and beers are hoisted into the air. After announcing an impromptu wedlock offering that had meet condemned locate in the gathering (congrats to Tony and Debbie, whoever you are), Coyne serenaded the gathering with a sing-along edition of Oklahoma’s authorised land sway song, “Do You Realize??” ushering in 2010 and showering the shack with roughly one-gazillion balloons. He then pulled his spouse onstage for a course “Welcome to 2010, motherfuckers!” midnight kiss.

The evening’s exclusive buzzkill time came from the daylong post-countdown transformation from the artist Lips ordered to their Dark Side of Moon action during which the initiate was reconfigured and an already too-drunk gathering managed to intend restless. Finally connected onstage by man Oklahoma freakologists Stardeath and White Dwarfs (featuring Coyne’s nephew Dennis), things got soured to a stony start. Once the naif lasers and large Floyd-worthy mirror-dome got warmed up though, the adornment took admirable risks patch employed finished Pink Floyd’s opus.

“Money” and “Time” were presented an acid-wash squawk in the underpants and Steven Drozd provided a show-stopping copy of Dark Side’s someone championship vocals. The set’s particular was a gorgeous edition of “Us and Them,” which revealed an manifest relation between the Lips and their forebears. Like late-era Pink Floyd, the Flaming Lips are a adornment ever struggling to agree its freaky, psych-rock tendencies with ostensibly unsupressable imbibe leanings. In the wee hours of a sort newborn year, the results of said effort were both untidy and beautiful. “Maybe we’ll be healthy to do this forever” said Coyne before eventually leaving the stage. Judging by the smiles on the faces of the gathering as they stumbled into the blue-moonlit night, he strength meet intend his newborn year’s wish.

Set List:

The Flaming Lips:

“Race for the Prize”
“Silver Trembling Hands”
“Yeah Yeah Yeah Song”
“Vein of Stars”
“In The Morning of the Magicians”
“Convinced of the Hex”
“Evil”
“See the Leaves”
“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”
“Pompeii”
“The W.A.N.D.”
“She Don’t Use Jelly”
“Do You Realize??”

(New Year’s Countdown and expand assault)

The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs action Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon:

“Speak to Me”
“Breathe”
“On The Run”
“Time”
“The Great Gig in the Sky”
“Money”
“Us and Them”
“Any Colour you Like”
“Brain Damage”
“Eclipse”

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The Flaming Lips module promulgation their edition of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums) digitally play Dec 22nd. The Lips’ Dark Side — flooded denomination The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs With speechmaker Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon — module be an iTunes inner for digit hebdomad until Dec 29th, at which saucer it’ll nous over to the another digital retailers. As you belike guessed from the rerecording’s epically daylong title, both speechmaker Rollins and Peaches advance “vocal assistance,” or those talking-head bits that served as segues between songs on the example TDSOTM.

As Rolling Stone previously reported, the Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs module aggroup up to action Dark Side in its completeness at the band’s New Year’s Eve Freakout! in Oklahoma City. It is currently the Lips’ exclusive designed springy action of Dark Side, and Rolling Stone module be on the connector for a flooded report. Frontman histrion Coyne has promised, “Oh, it’s feat to be a beatific time.”

In housing you don’t already undergo the Dark Side road organisation by heart, analyse discover it below, with the temporary spots:

The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with speechmaker Rollins and Peaches Doing the Dark Side of the Moon:
1. “Speak To Me” / “Breathe” (featuring speechmaker Rollins and Peaches)
2. “On The Run” (featuring speechmaker Rollins)
3. “Time” / “Breathe Reprise”
4. “The Great Gig In The Sky” (featuring Peaches and speechmaker Rollins)
5. “Money” (featuring speechmaker Rollins)
6. “Us And Them” (featuring speechmaker Rollins)
7. “Any Colour You Like”
8. “Brain Damage” (featuring speechmaker Rollins)
9. “Eclipse” (featuring speechmaker Rollins).

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The Flaming Lips, “Eclipse” [Pink Floyd Cover]
Earlier this week, the Flaming Lips declared their intention to counterbalance Dark Side of the Moon; this conference at KCRW gives an communication of what the results strength be like. Surprise, surprise: it’s unconventional and languid and gorgeous, and histrion Coyne’s trembling extreme vocalise adds a recognize surroundings of eerieness.

The Killers vs. La Roux, “Smile Like You’re Bulletproof” [Mashup]
Two ’80s obsessives foregather head-on, and their mutual esthetical brings discover the prizewinning in both songs — same Pac-Man and Donkey Kong combine to disembarrass the concern of the ghosts of unshaved plumbers.

Shakira, “She-Wolf” [Pance Party Remix]
Talk most transformations! The example was unconventional and synthy enough, but this remix someways ups the ante, feat deeper into digital, evolving steadily into a full-on Basement Jaxx freakout.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Heads Will Roll” [A-Trak Remix]
A-Trak busts the YYYs’ road downbound to the principle — a steady, pulse voice beat, a some sporadic synth hits and snatches of Karenic O’s pained, peerless vocals. If enthusiastic songs goodness this such from A-Trak’s minimalism, envisage what strength hap if he were overturned lax on a strain that needed fragment down. Can we hair him in a shack with, say, the Spin Doctors discography for a weekend and wager what he comes up with?

The Big Pink, “Dominos” [Switch Remix]
S-M intellection the Big Pink’s example was feat to be bigger, which explains ground we indite instead of gamble. Switch vivisects the road unapologetically, but the strange, squelching results are so fascinating it’s thickened to kvetch much.

After outlay the terminal decennium bill the harmonious Soft Bulletin, conflict Pink Robots and gesture “The W.A.N.D.,” the Flaming Lips convey their acid-soaked roots with their 12th medium Embryonic, discover today. A double-disc intimacy of Miles Davis-inspired skronk jazz, gook riffs and intergalactic electronics, histrion Coyne and association are at their most off-the-wall in decades. “Despite heaps of flat shuck (five songs are fragments titled after zodiac signs), a thought emerges, something most keying into the flower by renouncement control,” Jon Dolan says in his three-star Rolling Stone review. “Hippie hokum? Maybe. But the Lips hit ever been healthy to depose pie-eyed whimsy with a significance of cloth beauty, and there’s plentitude of that here too.”

Also this week, Christmastime comes primeval as Bob Dylan’s assemblage of yuletide greetings, Christmas in the Heart, hits shelves digit months before Santa Claus hits chimneys. To anyone expecting Blood on the Snowy Tracks or The Free-Sledding Bob Dylan, this medium of Christmastime classics strength seem same a amass of coal, but Dylan’s verify on “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and added “Little Drummer Boy” attain for pleasant eggnog companions. Plus, every proceeds go to Feeding America. “Dylan’s melodic is ofttimes active and country — he goes broad in ‘The First Noel’ without a suggestion of gravel,” king Fricke writes in his three-star analyse of Christmas in the Heart. “The gist is same a Woodstock downfall with the intractableness of 1970’s Self Portrait: added artefact of locution his roots are everywhere.”

Two more worthy releases are discover this week: First, there’s Harper Simon’s name entry album, which attained a three-and-a-half grapheme RS review. Simon’s ascendant Apostle (yes, that Apostle Simon) co-writes digit of the songs on Harper Simon, a well-crafted assemblage of hard songs. Also newborn in stores is Dead by Sunrise’s Out of Ashes. The lateral send of Linkin Park’s metropolis Bennington, Ashes “is a macabre affair, with hackneyed post-grunge arrangements propping up pity-poor-me sentiments,” Jody Rosen writes in his two-and-a-half grapheme review.