Earlier this week, The Flaming Lips unveiled the music video for the New Fumes-featuring “Girl, You’re So Weird”, which, in keeping with Lips protocol, made even the glory of the female form weird and awkward. Now, just days later, they’ve corrupted the sanctity of children’s cartoons everywhere with the animated clip for the Prefuse 73 collabo “Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee”. The litany of manic imagery presented includes giant street lobsters, witches in shopping carts, mutant rabbit pimps, roasted dogs, dead astronauts, and, of course, urinating cavemen. Watch it below (just not at work or near those with heart conditions or who may be pregnant).

The Lips’ blood-infused compilation album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, is available tomorrow for Record Store Day.

As previously reported, The Flaming Lips are compiling their various collaborations from the last year or so for a special Record Store Day release. Today, the band formally detailed the compilation.

Available April 21st, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends contains 13 collaborative tracks, many of which are previously unreleased. In addition to previously-heard efforts with Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, and Lightning Bolt, the compilation packs new collaborations with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Bon Iver, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Nick Cave, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Yoko Ono, Erykah Badu, and Biz Markie. Check out the full tracklist below.

The limited-edition album will be pressed on two high-quality, multi-color 12″ vinyl discs, housed in separate custom art jackets and poly bagged together.  A press release states that no two discs will look exactly alike and cautions that this will be on the only pressing.

In addition to the compilation, The Lips have also teamed with Mastodon for a split 7″ single as part of the Side by Side 2012 Series available exclusively for Record Store Day. One side features The Lips’ Soft Bulletin track “Spoonful Weighs a Ton”, while the flip-side contains Mastodon’s cover of it.

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends Tracklist:
Side 1:
01. 2012 (feat. Ke$ha and Biz Markie)
02. Ashes In The Air (feat. Bon Iver)
03. Helping The Retarded To Know God (feat. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)

Side 2:
04. Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee (feat. Prefuse 73)
05. Children Of The Moon (feat. Tame Impala)
06. That Ain’t My Trip (feat. Jim James of My Morning Jacket)
07. You, Man? Human? (feat. Nick Cave)

Side 3:
08. I’m Working At NASA On Acid (feat. Lightning Bolt)
09. Do It! (feat. Yoko Ono)
10. Is David Bowie Dying? (feat. Neon Indian)

Side 4:
11. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (feat. Erykah Badu)
12. Thunder Drops (feat. New Fumes)
13. I Don’t Want You To Die (feat. Chris Martin of Coldplay)

Photo by Colin Athens

In between marijuana flavored gummy brains, gummy fetuses, real skulls, and 6-hour and 24-hour songs, The Flaming Lips’ weird-as-fuck 2011 output has also included high profile collaborations with the likes of Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt, and Prefuse 73. All of these collaborative tracks have made their way online (just click those links), but physical copies of the releases were limited to select record stores across the country. Now, though, Billboard reports that The Lips are planning to compile these collaborations, along with ones not yet recorded, for a upcoming Record Store Day 2012 release.

According to Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, the compilation will also include in-the-works collaborations with Death Cab For Cutie, Nick Cave, Ghostland Observatory, Cloudland Canyon, and maybe Lykke Li and Ke$ha, as well. “I am bound to the agreements we have with the other artists because we’re doing all of this as limited editions,” Coyne told Billboard. “They’re trusting us not just to sound cool but handle the music with special care.” Coyne also added that later in the year, most likely in October, a second compilation of the collaborations will be released.

Record Store Day 2012 is set for April 21st. Below, you can watch the video for The Flaming Lips and Lightning Bolt’s collaborative track, “I Wanna Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage”.

The Cocker-curated volume one is available now, with Finders Keepers dropping the remaining nine every two weeks for the next five months. Subscribe to the entire collection now, or pick up the individual volumes via CD or digital download. Checkout Cocker’s selections below, with select streams available for closer examination.

Jarvis Cocker Supports Finders Keepers: Make Due and Mend (Volume One) Tracklist:
01. Carol Batton – Beeing
02. Yamsuki – Yamasuki
03. Jean-Claude Vannier – Le Roi Des Mouches Et La Confiture De Rose
04. Jacky Chalard – Super Man, Super Cool (Extended Version)
05. Billy Green – Death Trip
06. Amral’s Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Drum Orchestra – The World Is A Ghetto
07. Gong – Rational Anthem
08. Fusioon – Tocatta y Fug
09. Angelo Michajlov – Haxipola’s Trip
10. Angelo & Eighteen – Flight 2
11. Jane Weaver and Wendy Flower – Silver Chord
Bonus track:
12. Jean-Claude Vannier – Au Desepoir Des Singes

The Flaming Lips continue to experiment with new bedfellows, with their latest musical offering coming in the form of a four-track collaborative EP with Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73). Compliments of Psych Explorations of the Future Heart, you can stream the effort in its entirety below.

“The Super Moon Made Me Want to Pee”

“Heavy Star Moving…”

“Be Like That…That…That”

“Guillermo’s Bolero”

Flaming Lips w/ Prefuse 73 EP Tracklist:
01. The Super Moon Made Me Want to Pee
02. Heavy Star Moving…
03. Be Like That…That…That
04. Guillermo’s Bolero

Dubbed “Bass Island”, the August 13th event features rapper Lupe Fiasco, Prefuse 73, Z-Trip, Virtual Boy, Dave Nada, and Bulgaria’s Joro Boro. For all of New York’s bass heads, pick up tickets quickly, because this will be Bassnectar’s only New York City appearance for the remainder of 2011. Tickets for the event come in at less than $50 including fees, and are available here. In the meantime, check out Bassnectar’s latest free release, a remix of Ellie Goulding’s “Lights” below.

Ellie Goulding – “Lights” (Bassnectar Remix)

Bassnectar 2011 Tour Dates
05/20-22 – Gulf Shores, AL @ The Hangout Music Festival
05/27-29 – Chillicothe, IL @ Summer Camp
05/27-30 – George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
06/02-05 – Ozark, AR @ Wakarusa Festival
06/04 – Baltimore, MD @ Starscape
06/09-12 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
06/18 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks
06/23-26 – North Plains, OR @ Re:Generation
06/24-26 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Caravan
06/30-07/03 – Rothbury, MI @ Electric Forest
07/07-09 – Mariaville, NY @ Camp Bisco
07/14-17 – Dour, BE @ Dour Festival
07/20 – Cannes, FR @ Les Plages Electroniques Festival
07/23 – Huntingdon, UK @ Secret Garden Party
07/29-31 – Montreal, QB @ Osheaga
08/07 – Salmo, BC @ Shambhala
08/13 – New York, NY @ Bass Island
09/02-04 – Chicago, IL @ North Coast Festival

The mixtape – titled The Misanthrope Mediation – features a tracklist that is all over the place, but Pitchfork apparently spent the whole day figuring out every second of the release.  The 27 cuts on Misanthrope include songs by Cortez, Robotika, and Koloysa, and if lo-fi, eerie sonic textures and tones sound appealing, then turn off iTunes and hit play on the stream below. Clocking in at just over 40 minutes, the collaboration is as psychedelic as one would expect it to be, and even features a five-minute, Middle Eastern-flavored, drone/sitar passage at the 30-minute mark.

Herren, meanwhile, has also been steadily working with the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, which has resulted in a series of ecstatic Twitter messages from Coyne including a very short sneak peek of Lips guitarist Steven Drozd laying done synthesizer parts. Herren, for his part, has announced on Tuesday that the fruits of that collaboration are finished and “on their way in the sky now.”

Check out The Misanthrope Mediation below, then preorder The Only She Chapters on Amazon.com.

For album #8, Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) has traded in beats and loops for a compositional effort featuring a star-studded cast of vocalists that includes Zola Jesus, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, and the late Trish Keenan of Broadcast. According to an issued release, The Only She Chapters was inspired by Herren’s recent undertakings with the Polish Ausko Orchestra, which reinterpreted his own material for classical arrangement.

“This record is a weird one for me. The process features all women vocalists and voices and the music was recorded very differently from how I normally work. This can be seen as a departure from other albums but it’s not a departure intended to leave people feeling alienated or baffled. It’s just a different way to interpret my music and it’s an open invitation for anyone that wants to listen,” Herren explained in an issued statement.

Due for release April 25th via Warp Records, the end result features 17 tracks, a few which you can sample at SoundCloud. Guillermo also enlisted illustrator Yuko Michishita and photographer Angel Ceballos to handle the visual front, and above, you can find the album’s artwork.

Prefuse 73 is set to support the release with an appearance at this year’s Austin Psych Fest, set to take place from April 29 – May 1st at Austin’s East Side Drive In. He’ll also be touring with Oneohtrix Point Never on a run of shows to be announced shortly.

The Only She Chapters Tracklist:
01. The Only Recollection Of Where Life Stopped
02. The Only Valentine’s Day Failure
03. The Only Contact She’s Willing To Give (feat. Faidherbe)
04. The Only Chamber Resolve
05. The Only Hand To Hold (feat. Shara Worden)
06. The Only Thief To Steal Tonality
07. The Only Trial Of 9000 Suns (feat. Trish Keenan)
08. The Only Way To Find (feat. Nico Turner)
09. The Only Test To Score
10. The Only Boogie Down (feat. Niki Randa)
11. The Only Direction In Concrete (feat. Zola Jesus)
12. The Only Recollection Of How Things Change
13. The Only Guitar To Die Alone (feat. Adron)
14. The Only Serenidad
15. The Only Lillies And Lilacs
16. The Only Lillies And Lilacs Pt. 2 (feat. Faidherbe)
17. The Only Repeat
18. The Only Recycled Intro

Due for release on October 13th via Sargent House, the record hears the drummer paired up with a number of high-profile guest contributors, including No Age members Dean Spunt and Randy Randall, Devendra Banhart, Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, and Prefuse 73′s Guillermo Scott Herren. Also appearing are a number of Hill’s bandmates in other projects, including Hella’s Carson McWhirter and Bygones’ Nick Reinhar.

Hill says the album is in reference to an article he read about people with facial tattoos potentially having a higher suicide rate than those without. “I have friends with facial tattoos who are some of the most positive people I know, and have friends & family without facial tattoos that have taken their own lives within this past year. I found that idea very interesting and metaphorical on many levels — whether true or not — and began using my personal thoughts on this as a muse/concept that could be applied to many different contexts,” Hill explains. “Musically, socially, politically, the Internet, whatever else… generally the idea/concept of ‘platforms’.”

He continues: “These thoughts were just a starting point and motivation for me though. The music itself is of course the focal point. This started from myself and friends making the kind of abrasive/forward music in ‘pop’ form I’d want to hear, but hadn’t. There’s an emphasis on experimenting with ‘destroying’ sounds so that the source of  the melody, rhythms, vocals, etc., is not recognizable or traceable, and then building these things into abstract forms of pop music with conventional structures. Some of the most melodic aspects to this recording are coming from things like the sound of pissing/urinating on a stack of Rolling Stone magazines (I have a subscription), kicking in the screen of a computer, arguments on the street, etc.” Pissing on Rolling Stone‘s? Ugh… there goes my idea for a solo album. Oh well, what say you about lyrics, Mr. Hill?

“Lyrically, many of the songs started from me writing down a lot of out-of-context sentences I’d hear in passing or from personal exchanges that I found really visual, stimulating or to which I felt a connection. So, I wrote stories out of things I’d gathered — in line at the store, in a dream, visiting family in jail, after a show, on a plane, talking with the homeless, etc. — and formed them into songs and shaped them into subjects that I relate to. I like the idea of making these very real but obscure moments that are otherwise unknown or gone forever into their own weird little worlds. So, I’m very stoked about this record & I’m very excited for other people to hear it and as always I hope that people will gain something positive from it.”

Below, find the album’s 13 song tracklist as well as a mp3 for track number one, “Memo To the Man”. As mentioned, Face Tat arrives October 13th.

Check Out:
“Memo To the Man”

Face Tat Tracklist:
01. Memo To the Man
02. The Primitives Talk
03. Ex-Ravers
04. The Sacto Smile
05. Green Bricks
06. House of Hits
07. Jackers
08. Burner In the Video
09. Dizzy From the Twins
10. Gross Sales
11. Total Recall
12. Face Tat
13. Second Life

You’ve probably already heard about the first item of business — Warp20. It’s a box set which will feature both old, aka a double CD “best of” compilation, as well as new, aka a double CD of of Warp artists covering other Warp artists. There will also be a mashup created by Osymyso, a triple 10″ of rare and unreleased tracks, and a double 10″ of “locked-groove loops” from Warp tracks (via Pitchfork).

Not bad, eh? Well, they’re only getting started…

Then, on September 3rd, Warp will take to the Big Apple for Warp20 NYC, a “four-day celebration of the music, films,” and all else one’s heart could desire. The musical aspect will take place at multiple venues across New York and will feature Warp artists like Battles, Flying Lotus, Chris Clark, !!!, Prefuse 73, Pivot and Hudson Mohawke. A complete schedule can be found at The Daily Swarm.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how you celebrate an anniversary…