Best and Worst from the Voodoo Experience

The long U.S. festival season approaches the finish line with a wet and wild Halloween weekend in New Orleans
KISS / Photo by Erika Goldring

Friday:

The Flaming Lips Are in Complete Control

From their low-fi, high-energy traveling circus to their cockroach like longevity to the hand-lettering of these very words, Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips are in complete control of everything they touch.
Photo by Francesco Carrozzini

During the spring of 1994, while the Flaming Lips were barnstorming across America, convincing radio programmers and their own label that a brain-fryingly weird pop tune, "She Don't Use Jelly," from their album Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, could be a hit, I was engaged in a middle-class rite of passage, backpacking across Europe.

WATCH: Flaming Lips Perform On 'Tonight Show'

Like a pants-wetting peyote trip… in song!
The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne

If the human bubbles, Christmas vacations on Mars, and vagina video treatments weren't odd enough, this new clip of the Flaming Lips performing "Watching the Planets" on The Tonight Show Tuesd

MGMT, Flaming Lips, Decemberists Headline Treasure Island Festival

Tickets onsale now for the October festival, also featuring MGMT, Girl Talk, and dozens more!
Treasure Island Headliners, MGMT / Photographed for SPIN Magazine by Nick Haymes

This year's Treasure Island Festival is sure to be a doozy. Taking place October 17-18 at on Treasure Island in San Francisco, the festival boasts headlining bands like the Decemberists, MGMT, and psychedelic bubble blowers the Flaming Lips, and the supporting line-up is just as sure to excite.

WATCH: Flaming Lips Play New Song on 'Colbert Report'

The Oklahoma band unveil "Convinced of the Hex," a dark and psychedelic track off their upcoming album.
The Flaming Lips

Wayne Coyne and Co.

All Tomorrow's Parties: The Best & Worst

The Flaming Lips' genital video, Animal Collective's danceathon, Deerhunter's hiatus -- plus Panda Bear, Sufjan and more!
The Flaming Lips / Photo by Abbey Braden

Welcome to rock'n'roll camp.

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