The Flaming Lips

As promised, the listing of musicians performing at this year’s Bonnaroo is up: Dave Matthews Band • Kings of Leon • Stevie Wonder • Jay-Z • Tenacious D • Weezer • The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs perform “Dark Side of the Moon” • The Dead Weather • Damian Marley & Nas • [...]

The Bonnaroo lineup is still a week away from being announced, but you just read the early surprise. The Flaming Lips will play a ‘regular’ set at the midnight slot on Thursday, then at 2:30 a.m. will play DSOTM. If the words ‘Flaming Lips’ and ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ surprised you in the same [...]

I realize I am putting this out really late. I always put this off until winter break, thinking I’ll have tons of time to listen to the albums, but always underestimate how much I actually need to listen to. But honestly, that isn’t a bad thing. I think we are living in a time where [...]

Thanks to Covert Curiosity, we have some tracks from the upcoming September release, Embryonic, which The Flaming Lips are giving away to their fans at their concert stops along this summer’s schedule: The Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands The Flaming Lips – Convinced of the Hex

From award-wining documentarian Ron Mann comes another film that delves into the backwaters of popular culture. This time, Mann joins forces with two of most well known people in the shrooming business, Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans, for Know Your Mushrooms. Together, they attempt to “lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and [...]

All Tomorrow’s Parties, the festival named after the Velvet Underground song, has released its first set of acts for the September 2009 three day event in New York. From only the small set of bands that have been released, we can tell that ATP seems like it is planning to out-do its own mega success [...]

Despite the obvious similarity between the magical wonderland that Willy Wonka calls his factory and the average Flaming Lips show, Wayne and Wonka now also have something else in common. No, Wayne hasn’t hired little orange people as his stage crew. Instead, according to The Flaming Lip’s homepage, Wayne and the boys are hard at [...]

NBC has decided to give a few bands the opportunity to play their own version of the famous chimes that play while showing the rainbow peacock during some commercial breaks. A handful of these music-themed promos were shot in Los Angeles over the last couple of weeks. Some notable artists that received their own eight [...]

The Flaming Lips are getting ready for their annual March of 1000 Skeletons. As usual, the plans include gathering some of their craziest fans for one of the most surreal parades you can imagine. Its like a Thanksgiving parade that takes place in the distant future, when the planet has become ruled by skeletal zombies [...]

‘Orgasmic Sensory Overload’ is an effective way to describe The Flaming Lips’ fanatical, awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping live shows. Hopefully, the Lips ability to euphorically overwhelm your senses will transfer over to their new science fiction feature film, Christmas on Mars. The brain child of lead singer Wayne Coyne, Christmas on Mars has been in development since [...]