Bits: The Flaming Lips, The Due Diligence, A Place to Bury Strangers, Liars, The Like, Gin Blossoms

• Pitchfork is featuring a doc on the making of the Flaming Lips’ Embryonic, and since the week is almost over, you’d better get over there.
• Hooray for the Due Diligence! Isaac Gillespie and company surpassed their Kickstarter goal, so I Will Wreck Your Life will get a vinyl pressing, and the album is streaming at their Bandcamp site.
• “But what I really want to do is direct…” A Place to Bury Strangers are holding a contest for aspiring music video directors. Create a video for APtBS’ song “Deadbeat” and upload it to the Deadbeat contest YouTube channel for a chance to win a signed boxset, 4 tickets to an APtBS show of your choice and have your video posted to all APtBS websites with credit as the official video.
• Additionally, do yourself a favor and see A Place to Bury Strangers live:
  9/30 – Nashville, TN – Next Big Nashville Festival at Exit In with Yeasayer, Waaves, & Javelin

  10/1 – Durham, NC – Duke Coffeehouse

  10/2 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter with Ceremony & Soundpool (Killer Pimp Night)

  10/3 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge with Chapterhouse, Soundpool & Ulrich Schnauss

  10/15 – Minneapolis, MN – Whole Music Club at University of Minnesota

  10/26 – Brooklyn, NY – Death By Audio with Japandroids

  10/30 – West Palm Beach, FL – Respectable Street

  11/3 – New York, NY – Billboard Showcase at Gramercy

  11/11 – Monterrey, Mexico – Escenica

  11/13 – Mexico City, Mexico – Festival Sonorama

  Leave your pansy earplugs at home.

• This could be worth wading into the murky depths of iTunes: Liars have released a live EP of their May 27 Shepherd’s Bush gig, cleverly entitled Live at Shepherds Bush Empire, exclusively through iTunes.
  Tracklisting:

  1. Scissor

  2. Proud Evolution

  3. The Overachievers

  4. Clear Island

  5. A Visit from Drum

• I finally watched We Jam Econo: the Story of the Minutemen last night! This is not news. It’s just an excuse to post this video:

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Jennifer adds:

• The Like are on a U.S. west coast tour now-right-now.
• The Gin Blossoms’ new album No Chocolate Cake is streaming on AOL Music.