Oh Holy God Yes! If you know anything about the Flaming Lips then you know the 2nd annual March of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons will be nothing less than epic. I’m talking orcs storming Helm’s Deep epic. Prometheus stealing fire from the Gods epic. Faith No More’s “Epic” reproduced from a thousand dimed Marshall stacks epic.

Synthesis loves the Flaming Lips, and so should you. To find out more about these Ghouls Gone Wild, visit this store then spend about two weeks sifting through their meticulously maintained web site.

There Will Be Blood….

Full Press Release Following The Jump…

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Welcome To Soulville.

I don’t care who you are or where you’re from, it all comes down to soul music. It’s the plasma that runs through the veins of popular music, and at the heart you find the imitable Stax records. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the label’s birth, Stax is releasing three DVDs: Dreams To Remember: The Legacy Of Otis Redding , Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story , and Stax/ Volt Revue-live in Norway 1967. YOu can read about them in depth after the jump.

Here’s some Otis to get you started:

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