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Ballrooms of Mars (T.Rex Cover) by The Flaming Lips

One of the first songs recorded by the band to feature Steve Drozd on drums and Ronald Jones on guitar

I believe the other was a version of Five Stop Mother Superior Rain which can be found on The Mushroom Tapes or on the second disc of The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg (Which contains The Mushroom Tapes)

(Source: pumpkingetssasnakebite)

Graham Colton and Wayne Coyne (with Jarod Evans) recorded a cover of Sparklehorse’s “Don’t Take My Sunshine Away” in tribute to the deceased musician.

More info: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=353097854740761

Here’s “Ashes in the Air” with th lyric sheet.  You can also see the lyrics at http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart

Also, full details and backstory on the blood vinyl is at http://psychexfutureheart.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/previewcollabalbum/

At “This Land Is Your Land” - a Woody Guthrie tribute concert on March 10th - The Flaming Lips reimagined Guthrie’s songs with iPads. This is the first song they played, the folk standard, “Vigilante Man.”  More is on the way. Follow updates at http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart -
http://twitter.com/#!/FutureHeartDay

Roskilde 1996, one of Ronald’s last shows with the Lips and one of their best.

http://www.slow-nerve-action.com

Blastula: The Making of Embryonic

I think we posted the trailer to this a while back, but in case you didn’t see it, the full documentary is available!

I Was Zapped By the Super Lucky Rainbow

One of my favorite non album songs had a music video that was only recently salvaged from a fried hard drive that was left in the freezer.

While watching a Black Sabbath doc, The Flaming Lips drive from their home sweet Oklahoma to New York. There they record new songs with the Plastic Ono Band: “The Fear Litany” (1:57) - highlighted by a “Whole Lotta Love”-inspired freak-out section (2:20) with Sean Lennon bowing the guitar ala Jimmy Page - and The Brain of Heaven (4:32).

This is third video in a series of four documenting the making of The Flaming Lips’ December 2011 EP with The Plastic Ono Band - due out soon.
This is the first video in the series http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feWDY__3VUA
..and the second shows the recording of “Atlas Eets Christmas” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbV8leDsx98

The Lips traveling to New York to record at their studio with Dave Fridmann and at Sean Lennon’s studio, and features them in the studio with Sean and the Plastic Ono Band recording two of the three tracks on the EP’s A-side “The Fear Litany” and “Brain of Heaven.”
In this final video we see more cool sounds as the Lips play with Sean Lennon’s drum machine and synth… and then they travel back to Oklahoma…