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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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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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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After their early sellouts and great reviews for the past several years, the Sasquatch! Festival has announced their return for the ninth year- this time on May 29 thru 31 (Memorial Day Weekend), 2010 at the bucolic location at The Gorge in Quincy, WA. And for the first time, a discounted 3-day festival pass will be on sale in time for the holiday gift giving season at sasquatchfesti
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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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Okay OkayI know its not Sunday... but I couldnt wait to post this...
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Well, the madness of the holiday is in the past now. We can stow the Christmas Music for another year. Now, as we gear up for New Year's Celebrations, I start with a toast to help ScottFree commemorate his team's season.But lest we forget, There is more to life than Football, sex, drugs, & Rock n Roll.That's the rumor, anyway.
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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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"......>a change comes over us, yeah, some kind of change comes over us, And its glimpsed for one shining moment, and the change feels like its real, but then it passes along with the seasons....."
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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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