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2010: The Dawning of the Age of the Flaming Freak

The new Ariel Pink single, “Round And Round”, has really been doing it for me lately. So has the Tame … More

…is Almost Here

“The age of the freak is almost here” -Stardeath and White Dwarfs, “Age of the Freak” (live SXSW 2010) It’s the … More

Age of the Freak

“You can crush the flowers but you can’t stop the spring” The Flaming Lips, “Can’t Stop the Spring” (1987) Happy May … More

More Explorations of 2009

We’re digging for deep cuts from 2009 (album tracks, songs that went mostly unnoticed, one-offs etc) but not so much that there’s not room for the Black Eye Peas. As with last time, the order is based not on some rating or ranking system, but on the themes and flow of the music itself. Hear for yourself at http://www.youtube.com/user/psychexfutureheart

I Can Be a Gabba Gabba!

The Flaming Lips will appear on Nick Jr. kid’s Yo Gabba Gabba! (previously mentioned in PsychExFutureHeart’s Oct 15, 2009 blog entry Yes Yes Yes: So Embryonic It’s All Right) playing “I Can Be Frog.” No broadcast date has surfaced yet and image searches on Google, Bing, Yahoo and Altavista have yielded nada thus far… but there’s a stupendously silly picture of the Flaming four geared up (think “Spongebob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall Of Energy” video costumes) and playing with the Gabba! cast on page 29 of the current issue of Rolling Stone (1096). Devo, The Killers, Weezer and Weird Al are also scheduled to appear on season three of the show, set to premiere Jan 16, 2009.

Psych Explorations of 2009

PsychExFutureHeart’s culmination to our Martian Christmases at the Zoo Countdown last week was a musical look back at the last year, of the first decade, in the twenty-first century… no easy task! Not only is music fragmenting, recombining and evolving at an unprecedented pace, so is how we access it and how it plays into our lives…even how we conceptualize what “music” is (as a product, as a service, as a personal experience, its social function, etc). With all this in mind, how can we make sense of this year in music?

12 Days of Martian Christmases at the Zoo Countdown – Day 11

12 Days of Martian Christmases at the Zoo Coutdown- Day 11
Psych Explorations of the Future Heart is counting down to New Year’s with twelve days of Martian Christmases at the zoo! Today we preview “The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon,” released exclusively on iTunes tomorrow… and to be performed by The Lips and Stardeath on New Year’s Eve at midnight.

Yes Yes Yes: So Embryonic It’s All Right

The Secret Show today isn’t just another gig or album release promo obligation, it’s the culmination of everything discussed above, from Switzerland to Conan. The Lips have used the status and connections they’ve earned since The Soft Bulletin and an understanding (as well as anyone can) of how the music industry and the internet currently works to develop throughout 2009 not just a sound or a modified aesthetic, but a sense of something “happening”…a thrill for enthusiasts of daring rock n’ roll. It’s not merely a matter of new songs, but that once again “blaring like a trumpet” their “potential has arrived” and these same phrases the “Happy Anniversary Soft Bulletin” blog used (from the lyrics of that album) to describe the larger significance of ten years ago apply today… but this time they have a sizeable fan-base to participate and observe as it unfolds.