Flaming Lips Tour Dates and Cover Songs

We've had a bunch of Flaming Lips Stuff to post and we finally got around to it. The Video is from a BBC performance in '02 and the song is Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds." The Rest of the download links are also covers of songs by the likes of Beck, The Whites Stripes, and others. Gander On for the Tour Dates.



All Links Courtesy of Strike Gently

THE FLAMING LIPS - "THE GOLDEN AGE" (Beck)
THE FLAMING LIPS - "KNIVES OUT" (Radiohead)
THE FLAMING LIPS - "AFTER THE GOLD RUSH" (Neil Young)
THE FLAMING LIPS - "CAN'T GET YOU OUT" (Kylie Minogue)
THE FLAMING LIPS - "SEVEN NATION ARMY"(The White Stripes)
THE FLAMING LIPS - "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY"(Queen)






07-03 Cork, Ireland - Live at the Marquee
07-06 Turku, Finland - Ruisrock
07-08 Brugge, Belgium - Cactus
07-13 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-14 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-15 Glasgow, Scotland - Victoria Park (Indian Summer Festival)
07-27 Tulsa, OK - Diversafest
08-02 Gergen, Norway - Lost Weekend
08-04 Haldern, Norway - Down on the Farm
09-07 Chicago, IL - TBA *
09-09 Minneapolis, MN - TBA *
09-12 Kansas City, MO - TBA *
09-14-15 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (Monolith Festival)
09-18 Vancouver, British Columbia - TBA *
09-19 Portland, OR - TBA *
09-20 Seattle, WA - TBA *






Gander On!

White Stripes "Icky Thump" Album Review

4.5 Ninja Stars from Jbuc on this one, check out the review below.

The Stripes are back with all their lovable weirdness! Like White Blood Cells to an industry infected by scratch and sniff bands yet still wonders why their numbers are down. It couldn't’t be any clearer than on “St. Andrew” a bagpipe jam session over which Jack asks in a helium drenched voice “What exactly do you want me to say.” This and the spoken word over blasting guitar riffs of “Little Cream Soda” would surely have been left on the cutting room floor of a major-label yet are essential to what the Stripes are. Icky Thump is The White Stripes album that long-time fans were unsure whether they would ever make again. It has the unpolished grit the aforementioned White Blood Cells and their eponymous debut but they have definitely grown artistically since those days. Really an anthology, of sorts, of everything you love about the band. You’ll be intrigued on first listen and love it even more afterwards. If not, it’s okay, you can go right back to your M.I.M.S. album.

Standout Tracks: Rag and Bone, Conquest, A Martyr For My Love For You

Misses: none (give it a second listen you’ll see what I mean) Gander On!

White Stripes U.S. Tour Dates

With the release of Icky Thump coming up, multiple song leaks, an album leak that caused Jack to tear a new one into a Chicago radio DJ, the Rag And Bone 7" in the new issue of NME and a European Tour you would think there wouldn't be anything else to blog about. So before the internets get all in frenzy with their talk about the new album the White Stripes have given us their U.S. tour dates. Gander on for the dates and you can bet we'll be covering both shows in Seattle and the Boise date at the minimum.
7/22, Portland, ME (Cumberland Civic Center)
7/23, Boston, MA (Agganis Arena)
7/24, New York, NY (Madison Square Garden)
7/25, Wallingford, CT (Chevrolet Theater)
7/27, Wilmington, DE (Grand Opera House)
7/28, Fairfax, VA (Patriot Center)
7/29, North Myrtle Beach, SC (House of Blues)
7/30, Birmingham, AL (Sloss Furnaces)
7/31, Southaven, MS (Snowden Grove Park Amphitheater)
9/15, Austin, TX (Zilker Park/Austin City Limits Festival)
9/16, Austin, TX (Zilker Park/Austin City Limits Festival)
9/19, Inglewood, CA (The Forum)
9/21, Berkeley, CA (Greek Theatre)
9/24, Anchorage, AK (William A. Egan Civic Center)
9/26, Seattle, WA (Paramount Ballroom)
9/27, Seattle, WA (Paramount Ballroom)
9/28, Boise, ID (Idaho Center Theater)
9/29, Salt Lake City, UT (The “E” Center)
9/30, Jackson Hole, WY (Snow King Center)
10/2, Rapid City, SD (Rushmore Plaza Civic Center)
10/3, Fargo, ND (Fargo Civic Auditorium)
10/4, Lincoln, NE (Pershing Center Auditorium)
10/6, Chicago, IL (Aragon Ballroom)
10/7, Chicago, IL (Aragon Ballroom) Gander On!