If there's any band that needs no introduction on any planet or in dimension, it's the Flaming Lips. The Oklahoma City legends' new album, Embryonic, comes out today: a hefty, 18-track double album full of some of the most daring and schizoid music the band has produced in years. The band plays The Late Show with Conan O'Brien tonight as part of a series of release-week events in LA that includes a MySpace secret show and the opening of a pop-up store.
Before all the hullabaloo began, we caught
When I interviewed Kliph Scurlock a couple of weeks ago, the Flaming Lips drummer talked at length about a very exciting project the band was putting the finishing touches on: a full cover version of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. That news excited me easily as much as the release new Lips studio album, Embryonic.
A few days after the interview, though, Scurlock contacted me and politely asked that I not mention anything about the DSOTM project. Originally planned to accompany the r
Dear Rock and Roll Scene:
Hi. Nick here. While I was at first amused by the notion of rockers stripping down to their birthday suits and making a video, I have begun to lose interest. It's not that this is played out -- I am just tired of seeing your genitals. I am comfortable neither with seeing Hunx's penis used as a microphone, nor seeing one of the dudes from Rammstein blow a load.
Thanks to the video for the Flaming Lips' "Watching the Planets," I've now seen Wayne Coyne's penis, and I'm
