The Terror album cover art. Courtesy / WBR
Oklahoma City psychedelic rocker
The Flaming Lips have a lot going on this spring -- what else is new, right? It's like this about this time every year with those guys.
First, the band has moved back its release of its new album, "
The Terror." The Lips will drop the album of new music on
April 16, says their publicist. The original date was April 2. No reason for the move was given, but the album's done: The April 1 release date for the UK wasn't changed.
Of the album, frontman
Wayne Coyne said bandmate
Steven Drozd wrote a lot of it while reflecting on the horror of his own drug addiction and battles to over come it.
Coyne told
Rolling Stone the album's title track: "(is a) really brutal but lovely song" and, like the album, is about "finding the answer. What it hones in on is this idea that you really do have to surrender yourself to something before you get a great reward. ...But you also know that it sets you up for this horror. You sit in this dilemma of 'do I live a half-life because I don't want to live in pain?' or ‘do I go all the way in life and then kill myself?' That's the dilemma I saw in Steven at that peak of his pain."
He also said that Drozd is "better now than ever."
Read more from that 2012 interview in Rolling Stone,
HERE.
Second, the band debuted the entire album -- live in concert -- last week at the monster
South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin. Attendance broke an attendance record for the Auditorium Shores venue, which squeezed in more than 30,000 people.
Third, The Flaming Lips will re-release its 1997, four-album outing, "
Zaireeka," on Record Store Day, April 20. Record Store Day celebrates locally-owned, independent record stores and Jack White is this year's "music ambassador."
Visit the official Record Store Day website at
RecordStoreDay.com.
More on Record Store Day from Jack White. This rules so hard:
