On October 23, the Flaming Lips will host their annual “March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons” parade in Oklahoma City, and you can be a part of it if you order a costume from the official Flaming Lips store. You even get to carry a torch with real fire! … Weezer’s 1996 album, Pinkerton, will be re-released November 2 by DGC as a two-disc deluxe edition and feature the remastered original songs along with 25 previously unreleased live and studio tracks and every official b-side … The 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival is taking place October 16-17 in San Francisco with a lineup featuring LCD Soundsystem, Belle And Sebastian, Deadmau5, the National, Broken Social Scene, She & Him, Superchunk and many others … This December, Warner Bros. is releasing The Danny Elfman And Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box. It will be a limited-edition boxed set featuring 19 hours of music, including expansions of 13 film scores, plus artwork by Tim Burton and a bonus DVD of Burton and Danny Elfman discussing their history together … Depeche Mode’s Tour Of The Universe: Live In Barcelona (EMI) will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on November 9 … Domino Records is reissuing Robert Wyatt’s landmark records from 1974 to 2008 this November. Wyatt also has a new release, For The Ghosts Within, out this fall alongside Gilad Atzmon and Ros Stephen. Download “Laura” … Shoot Out The Lights, Richard & Linda Thompson’s last album together, will be re-released by Rhino on October 12. The two-disc expanded version features previously unreleased live performances from the duo’s final tour … The Extra Lens (a.k.a. Franklin Bruno and John Darnielle) is making its Merge debut October 19 with the release of Undercard. Download “Only Existing Footage” … Ninja Tune is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a 106-song boxed set (out Tuesday), a book, worldwide events and free downloads from its artists … On October 26, Apple Records is releasing the first commercial multi-artist compilation in its history. Come And Get It: The Best Of Apple Records, a 21-track compilation of singles from Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, Billy Preston and more. Apple is also preparing to release 17 remastered albums from 1968 to 1973, which will be made available as the label’s first digital downloads.
—Emily Costantino
