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Flaming Lips to Release Reinterpretation of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon... AND WE'VE GOT THE EXCLUSIVE TRACKLIST!
22 days ago

At their "secret" MySpace show last night (TMT News), The Flaming Lips revealed that they've already completed their follow-up to Embryonic (TMT Review): a complete reinterpretation of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Why am I not shocked? According to the LA Times blog, the Lips recorded the album with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs (TMT Review), a band that includes Coyne's nephew Dennis, ...

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The Flaming Lips Secret Myspace Show This Thursday 10/15 in LA
25 days ago

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, on Thursday, October 15 for their MySpace friends and fans. Tickets for the event will be made available ...

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The Flaming Lips to Open a Pop-Up Store for One Day Only, Play Small Secret Show
25 days ago

Isn't it funny to watch Warner Bros. Records flail around to try and promote oddball acts like The Flaming Lips these days in the hopes that they'll somehow sell 10,000,000 records? Case in point, to coincide with this week's release of The Flaming Lips' freaky new abandoned-moonbase-under-water-sounding double-LP Embryonic (TMT Review), Warner will be doing their best hungry, DIY label imitati...

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Flaming Lips and their one day only store
25 days ago

Tomorrow the new Flaming Lips‘ trippy as shit album Embryonic comes out and in true Lips fashion, Wayne and the rest of the troops are doing something cool for the fans. This time it looks like its going to be a pop-up store in downtown LA. Ricardo Montalbán Theatre at 1615 Vine St., to be exact. Inside, a fan will find limited edition merch, vinyl and CDs, plus there is a chance to win tickets

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Flaming Lips To Open L.A. Pop-Up Shop
25 days ago

Flaming Lips have announced plans to open a pop-up store in L.A. later this week. The store will open on Thursday, October 15 for one night only at the Nike / Ricardo Montalban Theater located at 1615 Vine St. in Hollywood 90028.Fans who stop by the store will be able to purchase the bands latest album, 'Embryonic', in both CD and vinyl versions along with several unique Flaming Lips merch.A f...

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Flaming Lips: Embryonic
18 days ago

Embryonicis a frustrating listen. It benefits from an abundance of ideas, soundsand talent, but it sorely lacks in taste. Not just from the aestheticangle either, it literally lacks flavour. Correct that: it doesn’t lackflavour, it’s just that there’s only one flavour.

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This Week @ In Review Online: Flaming Lips, The Mountain Goats and more
19 days ago

Maybe this should read last week at In Review Online, but these review just got posted recently and I think we've got a good haul for you. My Monsters of Folk review I've already posted, but here's the full list:Flaming Lips - Embryonic ( by Yorgo Douramacos)3.5 Stars (of 4)"If all you think of in connection with Wayne Coyne and the boys is sugary, glacial bliss and secular humanist hymns set a...

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The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
22 days ago
The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
24 days ago

ALBUM REVIEW: The Flaming Lips – Embryonicwords: Jamie MiltonWhen you approach ‘Embryonic’, it’s not totally unfair to approach it with haste. This is after all a band who, 26 years into their career, pride themselves on gutsy flings with previously unapproachable genres and combinations of sound. Rightfully, they have no fear, no limits.Holding that thought, [...]

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The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
24 days ago

Three years since their last album proper, At War With The Mystics, The Flaming Lips have seemingly decided to forego the soaring synth-inflected tunesmithery that saw them elevated to pioneers of modern American rock and reverted to the kind of proggy, trippy jams that characterised much of their early work.Clocking in at over 70…

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The Flaming Lips Christmas on Mars Finally Takes Flight
about 1 year ago

It's been in production since 2001, but Wayne Coyne's bizarro holiday sci-fi film is touching down at last, with the help of left-field distribution house Cinema Purgatorio. Although it has screened at music fests and art houses, The Flaming Lips'...

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MOG-Picked Fall 2009 Album Releases
26 days ago

Pumpkin-spiced lattes are in season, the kids are mulling through mid-terms, and summer albums just don't sound the same. That means it's about time for some cool-weather comfort. A slate of warm sounds for the soul, MOG's full-bodied round-up of end-of-the-year releases offers something for everyone to be excited about.10.12Editors In This Light and on This Evening 10.13Bob Dylan Christmas in...

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EXCLUSIVE MOG INTERVIEW with WAYNE COYNE FROM THE FLAMING LIPS: About New Film Christmas On Mars, Favorite Songs, Death, Life and, yes, Marching Vaginas.
11 months ago
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Unless you too have been living on mars, you've heard that Wayne Coyne, musical maestro mad-man of The Flaming Lips just recently released his cinematic magum opus: Christmas On Mars. The film was shot in 'Do-It-Yourself' style, using grainy 16 mm black-and-white film, mostly in Wayne's backyard- outfitted to look like a spaceship on Mars. It also took 7 years to finish, during which time The F...

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MGMT & Karen O Guest On New Flaming Lips Album
4 months ago

When scouting for guests on the Flaming Lips' follow-up to 2006's At War with the Mystics frontman Wayne Coyne just picked up the phone. "For the Karen O tracks," he told Swiss website Die Klangschau, "I just called her up in her hotel room and we just did it right over the telephone. It's pretty absurd." The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman is expected to appear on more than one track on the album...

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Best 3 Videos Of 2009 ... So Far
6 months ago

For '09 nothing is going to beat the video of the Berlin woman being mauled by a polar bear. Nothing. But when it comes to music videos there's some debating. Only four months into "the year of the ox" and already we see Super 8 being used to its finest, no end to dolly track one could use, and some crazy lighting special effects taking certain music videos to the top. Rounding out the l...

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