The Flaming Lips are releasing an album covering The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with a little help from friends including Miley, Moby, Dr. Dog, My Morning Jacket, Phantogram and more. Imagine you have really only listened to this drug influenced album not under the influence of drugs for 47 years. Then take that baseline and reinterpret the album with an even more psychedelic tone. That is this album. Take a listen to With a Little Help From My Fwends yourself over at NPR First Listen.

In somewhat of the same vein, Primus is releasing an album reimagining the soundtrack to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory called “Primus & The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble”. To promote it, they are hiding 5 golden tickets among the vinyl release for free tickets to any of their shows for life. Nothing to listen to yet except this album trailer:

Foo Fighters! They are doing their best to promote this new album, Sonic Highways, with a series on HBO and now playing all week on Letterman. Monday, they covered Black Sabbath’s War Pigs with Zac Brown and yesterday, they covered Heart’s Kick It Out (though is it a cover if they play with Ann and Nancy Wilson?). They sound really good:

Also, in that same Rolling Stone post, it mentions that Foo Fighters are playing a show at the Cubby Bear in Wrigleyville on the 17th because it was where Grohl saw his first punk show. Wtf?

Don’t know much else about this new retro soul singer, but the two songs on his Soundcloud page are great (especially on the past rainy days):

Via GorillaVSBear.

Here are some jams to check out:

• My God by Pacewon and Mr. Green is a great chill song for today. Also the Pete Rock & CL Smooth song, TROY, it heavily refernces.
• Wanna disco? Get Up And Boogie by Silver Convention found it’s way into my spotify playlist.
• Barbara and Rita found this old Springsteen jam I never heard of before, Ain’t Good Enough For You.
• Happy, by C2C, is Ellen’s jam, but mostly based on this video (another good one for a Friday):

Check out the new single/statement from Kendrick Lamar.

If you just want to hear the sample, Isley Brothers’ Who’s That Lady, click here.