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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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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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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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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Just in time for the holiday season the Flaming Lips will finally release their years-in-the-making, Christmas baby-praising, experimental sci-fi film Christmas on Mars November 11th, according to the band's Web site. In addition to the DVD, which includes the usual extra jargon (interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and outtakes) a special edition CD soundtrack and DVD package will also be av...
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The Flaming Lips are starting voting season off early. The Lips' Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots track "Do You Realize?" has been nominated for Official State of Oklahoma Rock Song. It's up again nine other tracks mostly inspired or written by Oklahomans. Other nominees include Leon Russell's "Home Sweet Oklahoma," All-American Rejects' "Move Along," JJ Cale's "After Midnight," The Call's "Ok...
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Holy Yoshimi they did it! The Flaming Lips are the proprietors of the official Oklahoma rock song. 'Do You Realize??' off the nutty rockers' 2002 comeback album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was named the official rock song of the state of Oklahoma by the state's legislature yesterday, March 2nd. Does this mean they get a tax break? No, but the song was picked out of 454 nominees, narrowed d...
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This past Saturday the Flaming Lips and a 1000 of their fans participated in Oklahoma City's "Ghouls Gone Wild" Halloween parade. For the Lips' parade float dubbed "March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons" the band enlisted 1000 fans donning $25 dollar skeleton costumes and holding torches in the processional. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne didn't exactly dress up as a skeleton. Instead he marched ...
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NBC's little jingle might only be three notes - G E C - but the network is wrangling in talent for 21st century revamps of the network's theme song. The Flaming Lips, B.B. King, T.I., Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora, The B-52's, Clint Black, Airborne Toxic Event and the network's own stars like The Office's Jenna Fischer and Heroes' Masi Oka have all contributed 8 second promos that feature their tak...
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The Flaming Lips will be honored in their hometown of Oklahoma City after a street in the city's Bricktown district is named after the alt-psych band. Yes, now tourists in the the bible-belt city will be able to take a stroll down Flaming Lips Alley after the October 25th dedication ceremony. While the city plans to give the Lips a street sign (replicas available at "the band's Web site":http:/...
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The Flaming Lips will release their first-ever live DVD U.F.O's at the Zoo: the legendary concert in Oklahoma City, on July 10th, 2007. Filmed at the Zoo Amphitheater in the band’s hometown of Oklahoma City on September 15th, 2006, the DVD captures “the complete over-the-top Technicolor thrill of the Lips' first local show in several years to an absolutely manic capacity crowd of furry fanatic
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The Flaming Lips have been asked by the Oklahoma Gazette to participate in their annual Halloween parade. The March of a Thousand Flaming Skeletons, which will take place the weekend of October 26-27, is hyped as a "spectacle celebrating the mysterious, the supernatural and the otherworldly."The 2007 Oklahoma Gazette's Ghouls Gone Wild Halloween Parade is a mile-long stretch which feature local...
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The Flaming Lips will release their first live concert DVD U.F.O.'s AT THE ZOO: THE LEGENDARY CONCERT IN OKLAHOMA CITY on August 21st. The DVD's release had been delayed due to "technical tweaking of menus and functionality," according to a press release from the band. Along with the entire Oklahoma City concert, MP3s of the audio, digital artwork, and a ringtone application will come with the ...
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The Flaming Lips released a new live video for “She Don’t Use Jelly” from their first-ever live DVD UFO's At The Zoo: Live from Oklahoma, out July 10th. You will wet yourself watching it and wish you were at a Flaming Lips concert right this very minute.
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In case you missed it, The Flaming Lips just played on The Colbert Report. The album is streaming for a limited time on Colbert Nation; only until Monday the 21st. This is the first time The Flaming Lips have pre-released an album digitally in its entirety.Stream: The Flaming Lips – EmbryonicEmbyonic is due out October [...]
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