Gary Numan Cover

Listen and download (FREE) my version of Gary Numan's "Observer" here:

Headed West

Tell your friends and family!!! Come say "HI!" , I like people.


3/29/12 The Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ
3/30/12 Rialto Theatre Tucson, AZ
4/01/12 House of Blues San Diego, CA
4/02/12 El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, CA
4/03/12 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA
4/05/12 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR
4/06/12 Neumos Seattle, WA
4/07/12 Venue Vancouver, BC
4/09/12 Club Sound Salt Lake City, UT
4/10/12 Bluebird Theater Denver, CO

Flaming Lips Collaboration

Well, I think it's coming out on Record Store Day. If all goes well, I'll be at Stan's A&R pouring the vinyl at the end of next week.
I will pour as many as I can of the 20,000 records before I go on tour again. I'm really excited about all of this!!!

here's a tentative track list, looks like it already changed:

The Flaming Lips With Heady Fwends
1 2012 (You Must Be Upgraded) w/ Ke$ha
2 Ashes In The Air w/ Bon Iver
3 Helping The Retarded To Find God w/ Edward Sharpe
4 Children Of The Moon w/ Tame Impala (Kevin Parker)
5 The Supermoon Made Me want To Pee w/ Prefuse 73 (Scott Herren)
6 It's Not My Trip (Hippy Goes Out With Violent S&M Vampire Gal) w/ Jim James (My Morning Jacket)
7 Violent Vampire Goes Out With Underage Alien Lifeguard Gal w/ Nick Cave
8 I'm Workin' At NASA On Acid w/ Lighting Bolt
9 Is David Bowie Dying?? w/ Neon Indian (Alan Palomo)
10 Do It! w/ Yoko Ono
11 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face w/ Erykah Badu
12 Thunder Drops w/ New Fumes (Daniel Huffman)
13 I Don't Want You To Die w/ Chris Martin

New Fumes Photo of the Week

Photo by Benjamin Curtis (School of Seven Bells) taken at Crown & Harp in Dallas, Tx

This is Only a Test

So sorry for the lack of posts, I'm a bad blogger...
I'll make it up to you with some news and updates!
2012 has been really fun and exciting for me so far!
It started by playing an after party on NYE for The Flaming Lips/ Plastic Ono Band New Years show. It was supposed to take place at THE WOMB, but it got moved to the OKC farmers market. Long Story. Wayne Coyne had asked me to do an "electric sockhop version" of 'Thus Sprach Zarathustra' by Richard Strauss, "with paranoid soundscapes". That piece of music is famous for being the theme music in "2001: A Space Odyssey". I worked on it day and night all the way up to the event! Stardeath and White Dwarfs did a tripped out jam version of Stravinsky's 9th symphony.
With the fire marshall closing down the Womb, it all seemed uncertain wether or not it was going to happen at all or if anyone would be there if it did... It ended up being a really good time!
The next week, I played a show in Tulsa and ended up crashing in Wayne's Pink Floor studio in OKC again. It smells like a tire shop (because of the pink rubber floor) , with a hint of cigarettes and cheeseburgers. True scents of progress! Haha!
Long story short: I ended up writing a song with Wayne, made by mashing up two instrumental tracks I made in the Dome in Dallas and having Wayne arrange and sing over it. We did it really quickly over a day and a half, then we made a video for the song the next day.
Total trip! I'll be posting the video whenever it comes out, for sure, if the internet doesn't censor it.
Here's a video test George Salisbury of Delo Creative did with me, just outside of the Pink Floor Studio... I hope George doesn't mind me posting this. I think it looks wicked!
George is a master!



More news to come!

I'm Touring! Opening for Polyphonic Spreeee!!!

YES!!!! Finally touring , and hopefully coming to your town!
02/06 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain's
02/07 – Norman, OK @ Opolis
02/08 – Little Rock, AR @ Rev Room
02/10 – Atlanta, GA @ Centerstage
02/11 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Moon
02/12 – Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree
02/13 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
02/14 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
02/15 – Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
02/16 – Dallas, TX @ Sons of Hermann Hall
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND POSTERS

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE "YOU + ME" PHASE ONE TRAILER from Good Records Recordings on Vimeo.

I'm On A Really Good Remix LP

I am excited to be a part of this remix LP !!! My college roommate, Brad Loving makes some weird/ cool music as Lobisomem.
I had a blast "reimagining" one of his tunes and it's fun to be on this list of contributors!:::::::
Ben Vida (of BirdShow,Singer), M.Takara, Dan Bitney (Tortoise, Isotope 217), Bundy K Brown, DJ /Rupture & Chief Boima, Roberto Carlos Lange, Diamond Age, New Fumes, Totem Test, The Eternals, and Clive Tanaka remixes Lobisomem.
check it out! HERE

The Flaming Lips/ Plastic Ono Band Vinyl Session Highlights Dec. 2011

The Flaming Lips/ Plastic Ono Band Vinyl Session Highlights Dec. 2011, a set on Flickr.

7" for Teeth of the Sun!!!

On 11/11/11 Good Records Recordings relaunched and released a series of limited 7" singles, including mine!
This should be happening once a month, so stay tuned!
The first from New Fumes is a song from Bump and Assassination called "Teeth of the Sun" with a surprise B side.
Nevada Hill screened the super Ltd edition covers for all the artists...
here's mine:


For more info, video action and purchasing power, link up here HERE!

Images from Tulsa, night 2

Brady Theatre, Tulsa, OK Sept. 14, 2011 Photos by Kevin Pyle

Cool Poster!

I don't know what to say, Im excited... sure to be a good time!

The Flaming Lips / Lightning Bolt Vinyl Pressing Session Highlights

The Flaming Lips / Lightning Bolt Vinyl Pressing Session Highlights, a set on Flickr.

Another 7 days of pressing vinyl at A&R in Dallas for The Flaming Lips. The colors were much more limited this time, but I think I made it work! You might be surprised at the limitless shades of grey in the universe and what you can do with them. Stan Getz let me experiment a little bit (see the smoking rabbit), but we only got a few that looked like that because we had to stop the machine every time we pressed a record. It would have taken months to get 2000 discs at that rate. I have been getting messages on twitter from people around the world with pictures of their copy of this record... it's fun and fascinating to see where they end up!
These were pressed in August, so there is a lot of my sweat in these discs, literally.
It was hotter in the plant than it was outside in the middle of a record setting heat wave (no pun intended).
Still, it was worth it. It's hard work, but I am lucky to be doing it and I am having a fun!