Wayne Coyne

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 >>

The 50 Commandments of SXSW

By DC9 At Night You're going to South by Southwest, right? Or you're already there? One of those things is bound to be true. Well, we here at DC9 have got some advice for you, and we've managed to format it all into the style of commandments, because one of our favorite things to do is pretend we'r ... 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 >>

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 >>

Music Picks: R. Kelly, Leonard Cohen, Cat Power

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, July 30 Big K.R.I.T. EL REY THEATRE The South rises again in the form of Big K.R.I.T. ("king remember in time"), a marvelously dexterous rapper-producer from Mississippi who insists that it's "Cool 2 Be Southern" on his debut full-length CD, Live From the Underground. He has produced key tr ... More >>

Music Picks: Kaskade, Dirty Projectors, Ondatrópica

Wayne Coyne, LMFAO, And Social Media Babes: The Costumes That Rocked Halloween Parties This Weekend

Lina Lecaro It's Halloween, bitch! ​ See also: *What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty? *Moby, Milagres, Mariachi El Bronx - KCRW Masquerade Ball - The Legendary Park Plaza - 10-29-11 When you need a last minute Halloween cos ... More >>

Music Picks: Shunda K, SebastiAn, Fleet Foxes, Miles Evans Band

Also, Ray LaMontagne, Kissing Cousins, the Kills and others

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 >>

Top 5 Worst Publicity Stunts of 2010: Nudie Pics, Secret Shows, Kitty Videos and Viral Everything Else

Top 5 Worst Publicity Stunts Including Nudie Pics and Kitty Vids

Top 10 Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds of 2010 (Part 1)

Top Ten Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds

Rock Picks: DJ Spinna, Bodega Girls, Andre Nickatina, Elevated Suspects

Also, Hilary Hahn, People Under the Stairs, KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas and others

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 >>

Over the Weekend: Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl

Timothy NorrisWine, cheese and blockrockin' beats: The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl​ LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Klaxons and all other dance-rockers currently carving a profitable niche owe a debt of gratitude to electronica's "Born Slippy"-era--namely the holy trinity of stadium DJs ... More >>

Live Review: Empire of the Sun at the Music Box

Debi del GrandeShogun club: Empire of the Sun​After finally hitting U.S. soil in Chicago for Lollapalooza and New York this month, outer space-via-Australia electro-rockers Empire of the Sun landed at the Music Box on Wednesday for the first of four nights, playing their 2008 Astralwerks debut ... More >>

Sonic Youth at the Wiltern: Killing the Kalifornia Girls

View more photos in Timothy Norris' Sonic Youth slideshow. There was Kim in sequins and Thurston in a conservative plaid button-down, same as always, give or take. He in jeans and basketball high-tops like he was on the way to a bookstore or something; she moaning, strumming and swinging and headed ... More >>

No Band Required: Former Grandaddy Jason Lytle Goes Minimal at the Echoplex

By Gustavo Turner Last night the Echoplex presented a sophisticated pop bill headlined by Liam Finn and Eliza-Jane, the children of down-under stars Neil Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House) and Jimmy Barnes. The first opening band was perennial local power-poppers The 88s, who charmed the sparse crowd ... More >>

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

Live review: Flaming Lips at the Montalban

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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

Coachella by the Numbers

Digging deep into the Valley

Rock Picks

For the week of December 28 - January 4

Flaming Tits

Film Reviews

Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.

Resistance Is Futile

The Chemical Brothers push the button and you surrender

Elation: Still Possible!

Coachella 2004

Joiners in Believing

Prog rock is back, and it’s coming for your hipster children

Let It Be Beautiful

Secrets of the universe revealed by the Flaming Lips

Orton Hears a Hansen

Edited by Kateri Butler

So Fresh, So Clean

Big Top Brainville

Nerve Action

Flaming Lips and the spark that bleeds