Listen Up 2013! / Jan Report

One month in and the music weather report looks good.

Concerts attended thus far:

3rd Jan, Beach House, Enmore Theatre

11st Jan, Django Django, The Metro

21st Jan, Dirty Projectors, Sydney Opera House

27th Jan, Perfume Genius, The Famous Spiegeltent

Released in Jan:

Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai
Solange - True EP
Everything Everything - Arc
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Christopher Owens - Lysandre
I Am Kloot - Let It All In
Radar Bros. - Eight
Local Natives - Hummingbird
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
My Bloody Valentine - MBV

Upcoming Releases:

5 Feb
Bjork - Bastards
Eels - Wonderful, Glorious
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God

11 Feb
Foals - Holy Fire

18 Feb
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

19 Feb
Major Lazer - Free the Universe

26 Feb
Atoms for Peace - AMOK
Woodpigeon - Thumbtacks + Glue

5 Mar
Son Volt - Honky Tonk
They Might Be Giants - Nanobots

12 Mar
David Bowie - The Next Day
Devendra Banhart - Mala

19 Mar
Low - The Invisible Way
Josh Rouse - The Happiness Waltz

26 Mar
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
The Strokes - Comedown Machine
Wavves - Afraid of Heights

2 Apr
The Flaming Lips - The Terror

9 Apr
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Villagers - {Awayland}

16 Apr
Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito

30 Apr
!!! - THR!!!ER
Akron/Family - Sub Verses

7 May
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

14 May
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

Videos

 Ready for more.

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (2012)

Just a few days before 2012's RSD (21/4/2012), it looks as though The Flaming Lips' next magnum opus might not even make the shops in time.

Online chat hit fever pitch as most RSD releases are limited - Eager fans and ebay scalpers were all scurrying to secure a copy or more.



Not to be outdone by Jack White's blue liquid-filled single, Wayne has actually drawn blood from his collaborators and the band to make just 10 super rare blood-filled copies of the album.  Proceeds from sales (A measely $2,500 each) go to local charities The Oklahoma Humane Society and The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma.

The cover art is parody on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music, Vol. 1: Two Virgins (1968) album.

Complete tracklist:

1. "2012 (You Must Be Upgraded)" (featuring Ke$ha, Biz Markie and Hour of the Time Majesty 12) – 4:09
2. "Ashes in the Air" (featuring Bon Iver) – 6:13
3. "Helping the Retarded to Find God" (featuring Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) – 7:03
5. "Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee" (featuring Prefuse 73) – 3:17
6. "Children of the Moon" (featuring Tame Impala) – 5:32
7. "That Ain't My Trip" (featuring Jim James) – 3:47
8. "You, Man? Human???" (featuring Nick Cave) – 3:34
10. "I'm Working at NASA on Acid" (featuring Lightning Bolt) – 7:59
11. "Do It!" (featuring Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band) – 3:28
12. "Is David Bowie Dying?" (featuring Neon Indian) – 6:36
14. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (featuring Erykah Badu) (written by Ewan MacColl) – 10:04
15. "Girl, You're So Weird" (featuring New Fumes) – 3:21
16. "I Don't Want You to Die" (featuring Chris Martin) – 4:13*

*"Tasered and Maced" (featuring Aaron Behrens of Ghostland Observatory) – 2:43 replaces the vinyl track 16 for the CD/digital release owing to Chris Martins' contractural obligations to EMI.

Ashes in the Air Lyrics

The Videos

(NSFW x 3 - Nudity Alert)

The below NSFW video Featuring Erykah Badu caused an internet frenzy and had fans divided between the 2 camps:

...and had the band redo the video with an altogether willing Amanda Palmer: