Finally!

Flaming Lips, Black Francis, Dandy Warhols, More Pay Tribute to Love and Rockets














Look at this tracklist! Look at these artists!

1. All In My Mind - Black Francis
2. Holiday On The Moon - Puscifer
3. Love Me - War Tapes
4. No New Tale To Tell - Blaqk Audio
5. I Feel Speed - Dubfire
6. Inside The Outside - The Dandy Warhols
7. Kundalini Express - The Flaming Lips
8. Life In Laralay - Sweethead
9. An American Dream - Film School
10. The Light - A Place To Bury Strangers
11. Mirror People - Monster Magnet vs Adrian Young
12. Fever - The Stone Foxes
13. No Big Deal - Frankenstein 3000
14. It Could Be Sunshine - VEX
15. So Alive - Better Than Ezra
16. Lazy - Chantal Claret vs Adrian Young
17. Sweet F.A. - Ian Moore
18. No Words No More - Snowden

Class.

Except, um, Better Than Ezra. Really? Though I suppose the top 40 hit "So Alive" is a fitting song for them to do.

I am a tad disappointed there is nothing from the original release of my favorite Love and Rockets album, their debut Seventh Dream of a Teenage Heaven (an album that contains the song that is my online namesake). But I cannot imagine that I will be disappointed in Black Francis and The Flaming Lips -- I hope they do something outrageous with those two fantastic songs.

Artwork is by Shepard Fairey. Fairey is good friends with LNR bassist, vocalist, and frequent sine qua non subject David J, and has been THE it boy in "underground" art (or, to be more fitting, guerrilla marketing) for some time.

I've really never understood the attraction of Fairey's work (and actually think he's a hypocritical tosser), but I can give it to him that he definitely helped get Barack Obama into office with his iconic "Hope" portrait. Anyway, points to Fairey for incorporating the era of LNR with an 80s/90s vibe: tribal/industrial artwork and the classic black and white and red of the Express and S/T albums.

Looking forward to this!

Just wanted to post this and say: what did I tell you?!

Love and Rockets at the Key Club in Los Angeles 12.22.2007. A little off (and acknowledged as such by David J), but still okay:



Bauhaus is gone for now, so it's time for the fun band indeed -- audience participation:



Do these guys look excited enough for a tour? Sadly, I think not. But the audience does!

So it looks like Bauhaus, though currently dead, will be releasing a new album in March 2008 entitled Go Away White, on Cooking Vinyl.

Apologies to bassist David J, who told me at a solo show of his in February it is the greatest work they've ever done, but based on the two singles performed last year, I am not excited -- somewhat fearful, but not excited. I will, however, be excited if they tour, which despite what some say is always a possibility (especially when the money runs out) and I'll bet likely if some band members get over their respective diva, drug, and dawg difficulties.

But then this reunited Love and Rockets thing is happening too. Hmmmm. Is it so terrible for me to surmise an itty bitty spiteful link?

In any case, regarding new Bauhaus I remain, morbidly curious.

Well, well, what do we have here...




























Goo, I guess Bauhaus definitely is no more, as we are seeing history repeat itself. Love and Rockets, eh? Damn, that Bauhaus money ran out fast, boys!

This may just be a charitable one-off, but somehow I doubt it. Too much work and too much anticipation to just play a couple of songs that aren't yours under the banner of a broken-up but beloved band, and ruin your future reunion chances by crying wolf.

Maybe it's just to see if there's buzz? Well, consider an LNR reunion buzzed!

In any case, I'm not going to LA for anyone, but I definitely wouldn't turn my nose up at a tour -- or front row at the Fillmore for that matter.