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The Flaming Lips Will Deliver Two Kisses of Death to You and Yours at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
It's likely that The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne will one day be buried inside that bubble (photo by chasingfun via flickr)
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The Flaming Lips is coming to town this summer for two special nights at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Bouncing in on a tagline from the single "Do You Realize" -- "Every One You Know Some Day Will Die" -- the Lips' wildly entertaining psycho-pop shenanigans will attempt to bury you on June 14th and 15th.
And there's a bonus: On the 14th the band will play its [mainstream] breakthrough 1999 release "The Soft Bulletin" in its entirety and the following night will perform Pink Floyd's breathtaking 1973 album "Dark Side of the Moon" from front to back.
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Tickets for the performances go on sale this Friday at 2 p.m. (2-night package for $80) and Saturday at 2 p.m. (single nights at $40) and will sell out quickly. Hollywood Forever is a bring your own blanket, wine, and picnic kind of place. But be sure to leave no trace, for there are zombies.
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The concert takes place on the cemetery's Fairbanks Lawn. Gates are at 7 p.m., wickedly brilliant guitarist and songwriter Marnie Stern opens.
The Flaming Lips tweeted evidence this week that a live version of "The Soft Bulletin" is forthcoming, allegedly with bonus tracks.
In the last week of 2009 the band digitally released "The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon." The Flaming Lips' 12th studio album (since 1986), "Embryonic," was released in October 2009.
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