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Jam City: New Jams by Lightning Bolt, Blaxxx, Joanna Gruesome and Colleen Green

Six years is an eternity in modern music. In six years, your old fan-base has grown up, moved to the suburbs, and bought a baby-hauling, suburban utility vehicle, or two. It's not like the influential, noise duo, Lightning Bolt, intended such a long delay between albums, either. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Brian Gibson and Brian Chippendale recounted multiple recording sessions that simply fell flat.
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Moving Pictures: “I’m Working at NASA on Acid” by The Flaming Lips and Lightning Bolt

I'm starting to get the feeling that The Flaming Lips collaboration with Lightning Bolt involved a lot of drugs. First, there was the video ...
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Moving Pictures: “I Wanna Get High, But I Don’t Want Brain Damage” by The Flaming Lips and Lightning Bolt

Although I included a link to the Flaming Lips' new collaboration with New England, noisemakers Lightning Bolt in my Facebook feed late Friday, ...
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2010 Pitchfork Music Festival: Lightning Bolt

At approximately 3:45, a text message was sent from a music critic to his photographer.  It read, "All these bands are boring the sh*t out of ...
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The Rockometer: Mission of Burma, Health, F*ck Buttons, Lightning Bolt, and Pyramids with Nadja

Mission of BurmaThe Sound The Speed The LightMatadorExhibiting the rawness and aggression of a band half their age, Mission of Burma's third ...
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The Rockometer: The Flaming Lips’ Embryonic

The Flaming LipsEmbryonicWarner Bros.The Flaming Lips' Embryonic is endearingly weird album. Alien sounds can be found in the fore of the mix, in ...
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Four For Rocking: Heavy Jams by Keelhaul, Monotonix, Pissed Jeans, and Lightning Bolt

Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity (Yes, that's the new album title) begins in earnest this Friday night, with the Cleveland heavies ...
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