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Features

The Innovators

By PopMatters Staff

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. [30 July 2008]

Reviews

The Flaming Lips: Embryonic

By Michael Franco

Ditching the pop leanings of their last three albums, the Flaming Lips go full-on experimental. The Fearless Freaks are back. [12 October 2009]

The Flaming Lips: 29 August 2009 - Philadelphia

By Daniel Irving Kober

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. [23 September 2009]

The Flaming Lips: Christmas on Mars

By Michael Franco

Christmas on Mars isn’t a work of genius, but it definitely captures a genius at work. [19 December 2008]

Flaming Lips: U.F.Os at the Zoo [DVD]

By Jarrett Berman

Close Encounters of the Flaming Kind [17 September 2007]

The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics

By Justin Cober-Lake

Finally, the punk rockers are going into orbit. Again. [31 March 2006]

The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

By Jon Garrett