Features
Friday, January 27 2012
Different Flavored Skulls: An Intimate Chat with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne
In speaking to PopMatters about the creation of the Flaming Lips' latest edible piece of insanity, frontman Wayne Coyne reveals how he turned mistakes into opportunities, gives much love to the major label he's signed to, and remains unshakably upbeat about what's next for one of the greatest bands working today.
Friday, January 20 2012
The Hippie That Wasn’t: An Interview with Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips have spent the past year doing off-beat collaborations, releasing songs in skulls both Gummi and real, and creating songs that last up to 24 hours. In this extensive interview with PopMatters, frontman Wayne Coyne discusses all of this... as well as his peacocks.
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best 60 Albums of 2009
PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet.
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best Singles of 2009
PopMatters kicks off our annual two-week-long best music of the year feature with the 50 best singles of 2009, highlighted by a trio of American indie rock headliners.
Wednesday, July 30 2008
The Innovators
Sometimes changing the course of modern music can be surprisingly easy. Though their names may not be laced in the stars right next to Sinatra and Dylan, these mavericks will always be remembered for breaking boundaries, stretching the definitions of genres, and rewriting what the very notion of a "pop song" is.
Reviews
Thursday, September 15 2011
Primus + The Flaming Lips: 3 August 2011 - Morrison, CO
An uninspired cover set by The Flaming Lips followed an impressive set from Primus.
Monday, May 3 2010
The Flaming Lips: 21 April 2010 - Milwaukee, WI
Taking in the characters surrounding me in the audience I witnessed the music charge every soul, enlightening and leading all to soar regardless of state-of-mind (chemically altered or lucid).
Monday, October 12 2009
The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
Ditching the pop leanings of their last three albums, the Flaming Lips go full-on experimental. The Fearless Freaks are back.
Wednesday, September 23 2009
The Flaming Lips: 29 August 2009 - Philadelphia
The show started off with the incandescent image of an animated Bollywood woman pleasing herself on a giant screen. The Lips, in their perpetual state of arrested development, arrived one by one, entering through a door in between her legs.
Friday, December 19 2008
The Flaming Lips: Christmas on Mars
Christmas on Mars isn’t a work of genius, but it definitely captures a genius at work.
Blogs
Tuesday, July 26 2011
The Flaming Lips and Lightning Bolt - "I Want to Get High ..." (video)
In recent months, the Flaming Lips have released songs on a USB encased in a gummy fetus, recorded a cover version of The Dark Side…
Wednesday, July 28 2010
The Flaming Lips: 26 July 2010 - New York
Delivered with the alacrity one has come to expect from the Flaming Lips, Monday night's Central Park Summerstage show was a perfect balance of grandiosity, sincerity and weirdness.
Monday, April 19 2010
The Flaming Lips - "Breathe" (Live @ Jimmy Fallon) (video)
Modern psych rockers the Flaming Lips covered a classic tune from pysch rock vets Pink Floyd live on Fallon's show this past week. The Lips…
Tuesday, January 5 2010
The Flaming Lips Reinterpret 'The Dark Side of the Moon'
The Flaming Lips recently collaborated with relative Okies Stardeath and White Dwarfs to recreate Pink Floyd's legendary The Dark Side of the Moon. Featured on…
Monday, October 19 2009
The Flamings Lips on Morning Becomes Eclectic (video)
The Flaming Lips stopped by KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic last Friday and performed a bunch of songs from their latest, Embryonic, as well as a…
News
Tuesday, June 14 2011
Wayne Coyne & Flaming Lips Channel Their Inner Pink Floyd
You could say that in some ways the past has caught up with The Flaming Lips.
