On July 1, The Flaming Lips will perform The Soft Bulletin live in London as part of All Tomorrow's Parties. I checked my schedule, and won't be able to make it.... The next best thing? The Soft Bulletin as part of #albumclub!
For the Lips' 9th album, their label Warner Bros. gave the band a big push. I know this partly because of the radio friendly remixes on the disc, and partly because of the lengths the label went through to promote the band. Example. At a radio station I worked at, Wayne and the crew were forced to play for staffers at 10 in the morning in a conference room, around a big meeting table. Wayne was gracious and kind, even though turnout was sparse.
Join us Tuesday night. Start the disc at 9p CDT, then listen and Tweet along with #albumclub.
From Wikipedia: To enhance the live experience for their audience and to accurately reproduce the sound of The Soft Bulletin live, the Lips devised the concept of the "Headphone Concert". A low-powered FM transmitter was set up at shows, and the concert was simultaneously broadcast to small Walkman-style receivers and headphones made available for free to audience members. This would, in theory, allow the audiences greater sonic clarity while still feeling the power of a full live P.A.. This concept was debuted in Dallas, Texas and at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas in March 1999, and was subsequently used on the International Music Against Brain Degeneration Revue tour.
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