The Flaming Lips

The Worst of SXSW

Security and Cops Gettin' Wild: Look, I get it. Every drunken dickhead in town "knows someone" or thinks he has pull at the door, but that doesn't mean the hammer goes down on everyone. I was stopped by two cops who didn't want me to walk 50 yards from where the Smashing Pumpkins would be playing an ... More >>

Zaireeka Listening Party - The Echo - 1/31/13

Zaireeka Listening Party feat. Hott MT and Butcher Boy The Echo 1/31/13 Better than... admitting you don't really understand Way back in 1997, the Flaming Lips were just weirdos in a big sea of wannabe weirdos. Sure, they'd released a heavily-rotated off-kilter pop song "She Don't Use Jelly," but ... More >>

Should My Band Hire a Publicist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Nov 2-4

Friday, November 2 Grace Potter & the Nocturnals THE WILTERN If anyone should be a star, it's Grace Potter. Commercial enough to sing duets with Kenny Chesney, she's also freaky enough to trip out occasionally with folks like Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who produced part ... More >>

Flaming Lips Bingo Cards!

By Kiernan Maletsky, Illustrations by Dan Zettwoch The Flaming Lips play in Big Sur tonight. Probably a bit far to drive if you're not a Flaming Lips fanatic but, well, most of their fans are. And why not? The Oklahoma band is notorious for the spectacle of its live show. But on the off-chance tha ... More >>

The Five Most Overlooked Albums of 2012 So Far

This year deserved praise has been heaped upon Frank Ocean's debut Channel Orange, the Flaming Lips' blood vinyl project and Beach House's Bloom. Meanwhile, overrated works like The Shins' Port of Morrow and Passion Pit's Gossamer have been overhyped Lost in the shuffle have been five superb-but-u ... More >>

The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>

The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: 10-1

See also: The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: 20-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time 10. Built To Spill Perfect From Now On (1997) Not really grunge but not springy ... More >>

Record Store Day 2012: What the Employees Are Buying

See also: Record Store Day 2012: Our Comprehensive Guide to Steals and Deals, Free Grub and Live Performances Listen, we're sure you're a crate-digging ninja and your vinyl collection is a wonder to behold. And we're sure you've been talking everyone's ear off all week about how you're gonna clean ... More >>

Spotify: The Honeymoon's Over

L.J. WilliamsonI cain't quit yew.​Last month I posed the question: Which Is Better: Spotify or Grooveshark? Though my comparison of the two music subscription services wasn't entirely conclusive, I reckoned that, in the end, "Grooveshark just has too many glitches, whereas if a track shows up ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Flaming Lips Stir Souls (Living and Dead) at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Flaming Lips Stir Souls (Living and Dead) at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Exclusive! Urban Nomad Interviews Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips

Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The Urban Nomad walks in space with the Flaming Lips this weekend at Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa. We interview frontman Wayne Coyne, a master showm ... More >>

The Flaming Lips Releases New Music in Life-Size Gummy Skulls, Teases Gummy Wayne Coyne Statue

The Flaming LipsGummy skull​Silver trembling fetus ornaments and posters screen-printed with human blood--the colorful antics of The Flaming Lips' promotions are well documented. In January, Lips singer Wayne Coyne announced the band was planning to release small batches of songs in unorthodo ... More >>

Hipster Babies Now Encouraged to Fall Asleep to Lulling, Instrumental Version of Song about Anal Sex

​Some very enterprising local musicians have been churning out a series of CDs targetting the booming "hipster with babies" market. The series is called Rockabye Baby! and it already includes soothing, instrumental versions of hits and rarities by Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Green Day, Tool ( ... More >>

This weekend: OK Go, Weezer, Bonobo, Pretty Lights, Lucero, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

Day 19OK Go​Almost anything goes in the Theater of OK Go. The art-pop quartet's headlining tour, which concludes Saturday in Los Angeles, has included (according to various online reports): Enough confetti to drown an arena full of Flaming Lips fans; the guys decked out in primary colors; a 3 ... More >>

Ariel Pink's New Wayne Coyne Directed Video May Cause Seizures/ Mind Expansion

Ariel Pink's New Wayne Coyne Directed Video Will Cause Seizures/ Mind Expansion

Wayne Coyne's Feet Eaten By Fish in Singapore

Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, unsuspecting, before the incident.​Good news for the weird uncles: Despite previously held suspicions to the contrary, there is room for you in the age of social media. (Not creepy uncs. They've already had their day.) Thank Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, a goo ... More >>

Grouplove Relocates to Los Angeles, Releases Free MP3

A Little Grouplove Feels So Good [MP3]

Across the Universe: Scribble Pubes, Uke Fail, & Jerky Dress

Across the Universe: Scribble Pubes, Uke Fail, & Jerky Dress

Music Picks: Cobra Lilies, Gaslight Anthem, Shelby Lynne, Die Antwoord

Also, The Dead Weather, New Pornographers, the Swell Season and others

Gold from the Treasure Island Festival

​ Despite the auspicious image above, the only green spotted at the Treasure Island Festival this weekend, was that being smoked by the heavy hippie and hipster quotient that swarmed San Francisco's finest former Naval base cum music festival grounds. Indeed, for any wayward Angelenos incubat ... More >>

Flaming Lips at the Montalban: Coyne Announces 'Dark Side of the Moon' Collab With Peaches, Rollins

Live review: Flaming Lips at the Montalban

Flaming Lips to Play Free Secret Show at Nike Theater

This just in: Flaming Lips are doing a MySpace show at the Nike Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, October 15: To celebrate the release of their new studio album Embryonic, The Flaming Lips, one of the world's most influential rock bands, will be playing a MySpace Music Secret Show in Hollywood, CA ... More >>

The Flaming Lips at the Greek: Better Than Woodstock

Woodstock, schmoodstock. That was a one-time event. It rained, people were messed up on bad acid, and most of the performances, as evidenced by the new 6-CD Woodstock box set, sucked. And yet, and yet, every five years we get the same damned baby-boomer inculcation, a bullshit NPR/NBC/Rolling Stone ... More >>

Rock Picks: Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro, Elvis Costello, Rock & Roll Summer Circus

Also, Flaming Lips, Clipse, Silk Flowers, the Muffs and others

This Week in LA Music: New No Age MP3, Rossdale v. Yow, 2Pac Energy Drink, R.I.P. Jody Reynolds, Street Drum Corps, Flaming Lips, Adios Nic Harcourt

Raven Sings the Blues has an MP3 of the pretty, noisy, pretty/noisy new No Age track. The b-side of their new "Teen Creeps" 7" on Sub Pop is called "Intimate Descriptions, and you can find it here. (via gorillavsbear.) We can't be any clearer than this: GAVIN ROSSDALE HAS BEEN COLLABORATING WITH ... More >>

Wayne Coyne Debuts Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars, Adam Goldberg Tries to Steal the Thunder

Tapes 'N Tapes, Troubadour, 5/8

Tapes ‘n Tapes The Troubadour, May 8, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Photos by Timothy Norris About halfway through the first night of Minnesota’s Tapes ‘n Tapes two-night stint at the Troubadour, somebody in the audience yelled out, “Another waltz!” Though this sounds like the snarky, modern- ... More >>

Listen Again: Music You Should Change Your Mind About Right Now

BBB (Big, Bold and Beautiful)

The clouds have parted and the birds are chirping what sounds like Japanese power pop. SXSW being an industry event I attend my first industry panel, "Idiots Unite!" (The idiots, of course, being anyone involved in this crazy business of show.) David Katznelson, president of Birdman Recording Group, ... More >>

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Rock Picks

For the week of December 28 - January 4

Flaming Tits

Mutants Forever!

OS MUTANTES, THIEVERY CORPORATION, FLAMING LIPS at the Hollywood Bowl, July 23

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

The Five Stages of South by Southwest

Jazz Odyssey

(no puppet show)

Big & Bad

Nightranger

Live in LA

Resistance Is Futile

The Chemical Brothers push the button and you surrender

Elation: Still Possible!

Coachella 2004

Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

Let It Be Beautiful

Secrets of the universe revealed by the Flaming Lips

Big Top Brainville

Nerve Action

Flaming Lips and the spark that bleeds

A Day in the Life

Bob Mould gets personal about it

The Six-Strings Mystique

Better living through metal