On May 22, Paul and Linda McCartney's 1971 album Ram —which belongs with George Harrison's All Thing s Must Pass and John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band on the shortlist of great Beatles solo records—will get the reissue treatment in a variety of formats, from single and double-disc editions to a four-disc box set that includes bonus tracks, a DVD, and a 112-page book. The music has been remastered, of course, and sounds pretty great, as you'll see from this stream of "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey." Because the best way to appreciate the majesty of recorded ...

Hello vinyl fans! Apologies for the 3 week hiatus but rest assured, we’re back in business and back with an explosion of colour. We’ve got lenticular cover sleeves, an array of coloured vinyl, and one very, very special offering. So here you go, get stuck in and remember if you’re a label, artist or just another vinyl junkie and know of any limited edition releases coming up you can always recommend records for inclusion in this column by commenting below, or tweeting me @krisdesouza . First choice this week is this a compilation of 70’s era Krautrock ...

In his keynote address at the Australian Music Prize in Sydney on March 8, 'Rolling Stone' US senior editor David Fricke reveals how he found his thrill for Australian rock’n’roll on Strawberry Hill(s). Transcribed by HUGH ROBERTSON , reprinted by express permission of The AMP. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a hardcore New Yorker. I love the idea that I can jump on the subway a block from my apartment, get off at 34th Street, ride the escalator up to Madison Square Garden and then see U2 and Bruce Springsteen blow the roof off the place ...

Duas locuras unidas dão no que? Uma grande loucura genial. Assim é a Brain of Heaven, novo clipe dessa parceria que já tem rendido alguns frutos. Primeiro, final do ano passado Plastic Ono Band se uniu ao Flaming Lips para apresentar uma versão natalina de Atlas Eats Christmas, original de 2007. O video em sí [...]

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These two particular music legends are so important to everything we do here at Impose that I wanted to touch base with these developments in their careers. Yoko Ono just celebrated her 79th (!) birthday at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC complete with a performance from her now-polished Plastic Ono Band, playing all the hits. While she was there, she installed an incredible piece that is taking over the venue with thousands of live vines, wrapped around the lighting grid and the black pillars in the c...

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It begins with one, solitary mp3. ‘Wintered Debts’ arrived in our Inboxes, RSS Feeds and news streams last year, an eight minute – eight minute – long cross section of the new of Montreal album. Far from blog ready fodder, ‘Wintered Debts’ was at once immediate and confounding, with Kevin Barnes veering away from the plastic funk of ‘False Priest’ and towards something less accessible. Now lingering on the ClashMusic stereo, parent album ‘Paralytic Stalks’ is a work of tremendous contradictions – more complex but less abstract, less melodic but increasingly contagious, the album is an imposing, fascinating beast. “With ‘Paralytic Stalks’ I ...

Posted at 11:00pm, 2/21/2012 Noise Pop , San Francisco's music festival will celebrate their 20th anniversary this week. The festival starts today and goes through the end of this weekend. This year features The Flaming Lips, Sleigh Bells, The Fresh & Onlys, Bob Mould & more. Check the Noise Pop site for the full schedule of performances: www.lineup.noisepop.com/events/2012/02/21/?alldays=1/ . betterPropaganda has created a Noise Pop 2012 Mix featuring our favorite bands playing the festival. You can stream or download mp3s from the mix, and don't forget to check the poster art by the one and only, Shepard Fairey, below. Noise Pop 2012 Sampler [ play ] [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] The Noise Pop Festival is San Francisco’s favorite indie music, arts and film festival. Now in its 20th year, Noise Pop has brought early exposure to many emerging artists in the Bay Area and beyond, many of whom have gone on to widespread acclaim. Some notable acts who have played Noise Pop include the White Stripes, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Bright Eyes, Best Coast, Jeff Tweedy, The Dodos, Girls and Antony and The Johnsons. The festival has also featured musical legends such as Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band, Bob Mould, Yo La Tengo, X, Frank Black (of the Pixies), Sleater-Kinney and Television. In addition, the festival boasts a film series that explores the intersection of music and art; Pop-n-Shop, a local designer fair; Culture Club, an interactive workshop exploring DIY culture; Art Gallery Shows; Happy Hours and much more. If you are able to donate to help keep betterPropaganda going strong, please do. If not, just sit back and enjoy the music! Any amount is appreciated. Please feel free to donate securely through Paypal. Thanks ...

Of all the past year's collaborations involving critically acclaimed underground-rock elder statesmen and a second act whose presence renders the whole project immediately blog-worthy, the most artistically intriguing have usually come from the Flaming Lips. In March, Oklahoma City's finest weirdos released a suitably wigged-out EP with chillwave alumni Neon Indian. Last month, they recorded a four-song EP with their New Year's Eve co-headliners, Yoko Ono and her Plastic Ono Band. Frontman Wayne Coyne has said collaborations also in the can with Bon Iver, Nick Cave, and Edward Sharpe. Now another of the Lips' hoped-for collaborations has ...

It’s a Christmas miracle! When the holiday season had begun, the Flaming Lips established a new website dedicated entirely to streaming Lips related Christmas tunes 24 hours a day, from their spacious and haunting version of “Silent Night” to the remotely unheard-of Imagene Peise projects of 2007. It was a pleasant surprise to all Flaming Read more...

(Detailed playlist , with listening links.) 1. Jeannie Robertson - "The Deadly Wars are Blast and Blawn" - Whaur the Pig Gaed On the Spree: Scottish Recordings by Alan Lomax (Drag City / 2S & Fews) 2. Pimmon - "Yicco" - The Oansome Orbit (Room 40) 3. Ducktails - "Side B" - Mirror Image 7-inch (Shdwply) 4. Octopus Syng - "Midsummer's Night Scene" - Keep Off the Grass (Fruits De Mer) 5. Pterodactyl - "The Hole Night" - Spills Out (Brah) 6. Tall Firs - "Crooked Smiles" - Crooked Smiles 7-inch (no label) 7. Ismael Lo - "Tajabone" - Greatest Hits (Mango) 8. Yair Yona - "It's Not the Heat" - World Behind Curtains (Strange Attractors) 9 ...

The Flaming Lips quiere publicar un nuevo disco en el mes de abril. Y según parece, la banda pretende rodearse de algunos invitados. Según ha comentado Wayne Coyne a la edición norteamericana de la revista Rolling Stone, el último grupo en sumarse ha sido Bon Iver. A las canciones ya grabadas junto a Nick Cave, Edward Sharpe y the Magnetic Zeros, Plastic Ono Band y Neon Indian hay que añadir ahora a Vernom y compañía, con quienes están trabajando en dos temas. No obstante, Coyne pretende convencer todavía a más...

The Flaming Lips are working on a new collaborative album featuring Nick Cave, Plastic Ono Band and more. What the hell is going on with The Flaming Lips ? The band are entering one of the most bizarre stages of their career to date, shattering their coffee table image with a number of mind blowing psych cuts. Recording a song which lasts for 24 hours, The Flaming Lips have also experimented with Gummi on a series of releases each more outlandish than the last. Now the band are planning a new studio album. Collecting together some recent collaborations, the album will ...