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This is the Future Heart - the uncredited source of these videos. Just want to point out last I heard they are not sold out in the store, only the online orders. Also, these hearts tie into a charity event to benefit children’s heart research next Saturday (at which you can win one). More info on this and a whole bunch of other Lips updates (full "Stone Roses" LP remake, video with Bon Iver, Zaireeka on four vinyl records etc) is at http://thefutureheart.com/

Behind the scenes photos from the filming of the Lips' Hyundai Superbowl commercial, a video of the Lips upcoming album's recording sessions with Phantogram and more: http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart

The police report clearly showed this was a misunderstanding. Read it for yourself at http://t.co/vwtfSsyP Now, a week and a half after the issue was resolved, pathetic gossip sites like Lost Ogle make a "story" out of it...and other sites similarly desperate for traffic follow suit with the general conclusion Coyne is an attention whore. Hmmm... "Who's using who? What should we do? Well, you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too..."

Also, behind-the-scenes photos and ticket give-away at http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart

Here's all the facts about La Jolla Playhouse and "Yoshimi" musical you could possibly need: http://thefutureheart.com/exclusive-yoshimi-tickets

"Warrior" features not just members of The Flaming Lips, but also of The Strokes, Black Keys and Fun...also Iggy Pop.... Ben Folds arranged strings for a song with the Lips about K$'s past life experience. There's also a song about the ghost Kesha claims she had sex with...yes, really... More: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=446289748754904&set=a.446256595424886.112360.238542309529650&type=3&theater

The song about futuristic sex toys is almost definitely not going to be on Kesha's sophmore album. Another song the Lips worked on with Kesha called "Past Life" probably will. It's a ballad with strings arranged by Ben Folds. Watch Wayne, Steven Drozd, Ben and the string players work on it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz7sc4JHWYw Also the Ben Folds Five's first album in 13 years is out today...

A closer-up video, over 20 photos and more details on Kesha and Wayne going country with Ben Folds Five at http://t.co/aoJFwrov

Also... watch the recording sessions for all songs on the Crimson remake at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gMMaV_sMxQ Those of you in the Dallas area can see New Fumes (who will probably have two tracks of the King Crimson album) with Twin Shadow tonight at Trees...

Hey, The Future Heart here… Just want to let everyone know that not only is the “In the Court of The Crimson King” full LP remake definitely happening, it’s almost completely mixed and ready to be mastered. It’s spearheaded by Wayne Coyne though (contrary to the impression he's created in several recent interviews) it features Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Linear Downfall, and, of course, New Fumes - not The Flaming Lips per se. Wayne sings on this and "Epitaph" - which also has Steven Drozd playing on it. The tracklist and full details is here: http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart/posts/143305772479650

Hey, The Future Heart here… Just want to let everyone know that not only is the “In the Court of The Crimson King” full LP remake definitely happening, it’s almost completely mixed and ready to be mastered. It’s spearheaded by Wayne Coyne and features Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Linear Downfall, Space Face, and, of course, New Fumes. The tracklist and full details is here: http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart/posts/143305772479650 Watch the recording sessions for all songs at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gMMaV_sMxQ Those of you in the Dallas area can see New Fumes with Twin Shadow tonight at Trees.

It's for a tribute album - something the Lips have done since the late '80s. Neil Young, Sinatra, Alice Cooper, John Lennon (twice) etc. For anyone else interested you can watch them record the track plus more info (album art, tracklist, making of the album videos, release dates, package info etc) on the release at http://t.co/dy44Lu93

The full context of the feud that followed, plus the video (as well as a naked photo of Wayne) is posted at http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart Follow updates there and at twitter/FutureHeartDay

Nobody knows what really went down except for Wayne and Erykah... and they can't agree either.. That said, the above post is heavily weighed towards Badu's side of the story. The full context of the feud, plus the video (as well as a naked photo of Wayne) is posted at http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart For the record, both The Flaming Lips and Wayne earnestly apologized and took full responsibilty for the video prior Badu's rant yesterday. He only made a joke of it when she told him to kiss "KiSS MY Glittery ASS" It's misleading for Badu to pretend she didn't know what she was getting into (or to leave out that she disrespected him from the get go by apparently showing up to the shoot 6 hours late, on Wayne's dime. The imagery in this video is basically in line with every other the Lips have made since 2009 (or for that matter, Wayne's tweets). It's hard to fathom how this new video could take Badu by surprise if she had seen them. The nude-overload music video for "Watching the Planets" for instance shows a crowd of people attack Wayne, rip off his clothes until he is fully naked (with all his body parts clearly showing) and carry him away as his penis wiggles to and fro - all while he sings the last two-plus verses of the song. They then shove him in the vaginalistic hole of a giant furry ball. Wayne also gave an explicit preview of this video to Badu - and all his followers - when he tweeted before the shoot, "Makin some fake semen for Erykah Badu @fatbellybella video shoot Sunday!!" on May 24th. ....As the old saying goes, "there's only so many ways you can make fake semen look classy..." Additionally, last week - after the video shoot but before the the video upload (and thus backlash against Badu) - the singer praised the video on twitter: "it looks beautiful. Nayrok ( lil sis) looks amazing . U are a Tru visionary .. My fav is the glitter ." "Those nude photos posted by Wayne (flaming lips) are of the beautiful Nayrok my lil sister and bestee...Video looks cosmic." She also happily anticipated playing Houston's Free Press with them, tweeting "Badu and flaming lips in Houston sat. :-)" It's unclear how Badu acted around the Lips at that show (by which time the video had gone viral, including a very visible posting at http://perezhilton.com/2012-06-02-flaming-lips-erykah-badu-the-first-time-i-ever-saw-your-face). Rumor has it Wayne watched her from the side of the stage and handed her a bouquet of flowers afterwards. Lips recording partner Matt Duckworth claims Badu, "was jumpin around on stage with [Wayne] in Htown. guess it made her seem cool then..." Curiously, Badu's tirade and insults at Wayne were preceded by her essentially polling her twitter followers. First she tweeted: "Official Flaming Lips Vid discussion. How does it make u feel? Ascetically, What does it make u fear? Anger? Joy? Freedom? Disgust? Discuss" Then she asked, "What if the video has no meaning at all ? Now how do u feel? Re: flaming lips/ badu" The reason she waited to see how her fans reacted before ranting and insulting Wayne is unclear. The video was uploaded last Friday and not until yesterday did she give any public sign of objecting to the video or how Wayne handled the shoot. It's understandable why she would be annoyed if it was released without her approving the finished video, though unclear when her opinion of the work changed (if it did in fact change - in which case those earlier tweets were masking her true feelings with public praise for the project) and what motivated her to react with personal insults at both Wayne (i.e. he is an "an ass," "old," "self-serving") and his wife, Michelle. Could it be to serve her own image as a spiritually-aware, artistic-integrity, feminist? Note she uses the word "art' (or variants like "artist") 14 times in her 3:33 twitlonger statement (included the crux of her argument - that this video "compromise[d her artist] brand"), and climaxes on the line "as a woman I feel violated and underestimated." Whether it was intentional or not on Badu's behalf, some of the media coverage of the feud, as well tweets reacting to her (including some by Janelle Monáe) overlooks she wasn't asked to do anything Wayne wouldn't do himself to portray her as a hero standing up for women and artists with loftier intentions. The irony (or clever marketing) is that insulting Wayne is getting Erykah more attention than any of her "art" has since Malaysia banned her use of Allah body art this past February http://www.google.com/trends/?q=badu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0 Who's using who, what should we do, well you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too... Maybe she was mislead. Maybe Wayne did go about it all wrong. Maybe he is an ass. Maybe she's the self-serving one, spinning her fans outrage to reclaim the repute she lost in some people's eyes after "Window Seat" at Wayne's expense. Or maybe it's that she just really didn't get what she was getting into – after all, as the song goes, "Wayne, I don't understand" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-2ZeTIPkMY

"He does have a history of showing some dickish tendencies though" Please elaborate And what drugs are you referring to. Do you have proof, are you just dissing him based on vague impressions to sound cool?

OK, now that it's out - here’s the full album: 1."2012 (You Must Be Upgraded)" (featuring Ke$ha and Biz Markie) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNLw2TtrZBU 2."Ashes in the Air" (featuring Bon Iver) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JqabiTTVh4 3."Helping the Retarded to Find God" (featuring Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD0IBpRRkL4 4."Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee" (featuring Prefuse 73) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJR3RBwwHlg 5."Children of the Moon" (featuring Tame Impala) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6rvKMzVDmw 6."That Ain't My Trip" (featuring Jim James) and 7"You, Man? Human???" (featuring Nick Cave) http://tiny.cc/tyo8cw 8."I'm Working at NASA on Acid" (featuring Lightning Bolt) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFjDs1Vzzo Unedited EP version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XK3K4KzZRg 9."Do It!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8VuCz6OT-M 10."Is David Bowie Dying?" (featuring Neon Indian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mhqo2ZRIk 11."The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (featuring Erykah Badu) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=553eSnDGI9I 12."Girl, You're So Weird" (featuring New Fumes) Official video http://vimeo.com/38193715 13."I Don't Want You to Die" (featuring Chris Martin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADu5teOq-f0 Follow http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart and http://twitter.com/#!/FutureHeartDay for updates, behind-the-scenes videos, photos and details on every "Heady Fwends" track.

Watch Wayne discussing Brian Wilson, followed by the Lips' recording sessions for "God Only Knows" and the finished track at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge-U_vLt-Us&feature=youtu.be

If you like this video (which I uploaded today) check out more like this - indivualized previews of every single track on Heady Fwends, including photos, rare details and lots of footage from the recording sessions: http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart Read the complete, colorful backstory to "Super Made Me Want to Pee" at http://psychexfutureheart.wordpress.com/super-moon/ Also, check out Wayne Coyne's recent Sparklehorse tribute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_TQHQS9I8

Check out indivualized previews of every single track on Heady Fwends, including photos, rare details and lots of footage from the recording sessions: http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart Read the complete, colorful backstory to "Super Made Me Want to Pee" at http://psychexfutureheart.wordpress.com/super-moon/ Also, check out Wayne Coyne's recent Sparklehorse tribute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_TQHQS9I8

Read the complete, colorful backstory to "Super Made Me Want to Pee" at http://psychexfutureheart.wordpress.com/super-moon/ Check out details on the New Fumes video at http://psychexfutureheart.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/new-fumes-makes-new-music-with-flaming-lips-literally/ Also, check out Wayne Coyne's recent Sparklehorse tribute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_TQHQS9I8 and previews of every single track on Heady Fwends http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart

Here's a video recap of the Flaming Lips and Ke$ha's work together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ar4qpznZwA First, last June Wayne Coyne learns from one of his fans that Kesha is also a Lips fan. Then, over summer 2011, the two artists tweet at each other. At the start of 2012 they tweet more and start working on collab tracks both in Oklahoma (without Kesha) and in Nashville (with Kesha). The sessions yeild "2012" for the Lips' Heady Fwends double collabs LP. The Lips worked on yet more songs for Kesha as Heady Fwends was going to press in February - inlcuding a beautiful acoustic guitar picked ballad seen in this video. Wayne recently explained to RS, "I'm talking with Ke$ha about doing some tracks on her new record. She's a lot of fun and crazy and open to ideas and she's creative. She's all these things that you don't know." In the past few days Wayne went back to Nashville to work on some more songs with Kesha (along with Stardeath and White Dwarfs' Matt Duckworth) including Wayne and Kesha's "freaky new song about futuristic sex toys!!!" Watch these sessions - plus a lot goofing around - is at the end of the video. The final clip is Wayne driving back home to Oklahoma this very morning as the sun rises... Follow updates at https://twitter.com/#!/FutureHeartDay and http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart

The video and lyric sheet above is via http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart (how do I know? because I uploaded them...) Check out updates there or at https://twitter.com/#!/futureheartday (and trust me, there are many more updates on the way). In the meantime, here's full details and backstory on the blood vinyl (like if you ever wanted to see Neon Indian give bodily fluids to Wayne) http://psychexfutureheart.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/previewcollabalbum/