The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala are playing the Santa Barbara Bowl tonight. It’s going to be a psychedelic love-fest that you better not miss.  Following Halloween last night, the Bowl will end its season by featuring various Dia De Los Muertos activities and performances starting at 4:30pm before the concert at 6pm (set times are approximately: 6pm-Ray Fresco; 6:45 Tame Impala; 8:30 Flaming Lips).

Oddly enough, the best preparation for tonight’s festivities may not be listening to the featured artists themselves, but instead watching the collaboration by the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and the magnificent Moby on their perfect song/video The Perfect Life off of Moby’s new, astoundingly-good Innocents album.  We’ll have a rave review of Innocents soon, but for now you’ll have to trust us:  go buy Innocents immediately HERE and be completely enraptured.  The collaboration between Coyne and Moby makes such perfect sense that you have to wonder why it hasn’t happened before.  Perhaps that’s just this imperfect life.

Given the Dia De Los Muertos celebration and the usual love-fest that is a Flaming Lips concert, the song and video should get you in the perfect mood for the event.  As Moby says about the video:  “‘the idea for ‘the perfect life’ video is pretty simple…wayne and i in mariachi costumes walking around L.A picking up a very random and disparate bunch of disenfranchised oddballs and leading them via trolley to a giant party on a roof overlooking L.A. while the sun sets.'”

Check out the video below, and we’ll see you at the Santa Barbara Bowl tonight.  Tonight would be a perfect night for the Flaming Lips to perform The Perfect Life (with Moby?).  What say you lads?