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.
By David Peisner 10.15.09 12:26 PM
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.
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The Flaming Lips, 'Embryonic' (Warner Bros.)
With all the plushies gone, Wayne Coyne's fantasia takes an inscrutably dark turn.
By David Marchese 10.14.09 9:32 AM
The universe tends toward disarray. Stars explode. Planets collide. Singers in white suits douse themselves in fake blood.
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The Flaming Lips Debut New Songs Live
Digital vaginas and bugles highlight the L.A. stop of the band’s tour in support of the new Embryonic.
By Liam Gowing 08.18.09 12:12 PM
The Flaming Lips have always been about big ideas: In 1997, it was Zaireeka, an experimental release comprising four CD's designed to be played simultaneously; in 2002, it was Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a concept album so theatrical the band decided to adapt it into a Broadway musical with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin; and come Oct.
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Tough Questions for... Wayne Coyne
Flaming Lips frontman fields queries on his band's confetti budget, working at Long John Silver's, and his new film, Christmas on Mars.
By John Sellers 12.29.08 9:13 AM
If you're hankering to see a low-budget sci-fi movie featuring a suicidal Santa that very loosely concerns the fate of the first baby conceived in space, then by all means, check out Christmas on Mars. That such an offbeat film is the directorial debut of Wayne Coyne, frontman of psych-rock oddballs the Flaming Lips, should surprise no one.
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