Subject: The Flaming Lips

• Heartbeat City's Top Picks for '07 and Requests for '08

  December 20, 2007

• Life According to the Khrusty Brothers

  April 17, 2008

• This Week in MP3s

  June 4, 2008

• Wakarusa In Words: Friday! (Paw! Mates! Del! Built to Spill! Blackalicious! Flaming Lips! More!)

  June 9, 2008

• Flaming Lips' Christmas On Mars Premiere This Weekend In Kansas City, Details and Interviews

  As you already know from reading this week's Pitch music feature on the release of the Flaming Lips' original movie, Christmas On Mars, the backyard flick is showing tonight at 9 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Screenland in the Crossroads, 1656 Washington. We're not the only ones on it. The local dudes behind Scene-Stealers.com will also be on hand. Here's the interview the Stealers conducted with Lips frontman Wayne Coyne talking about the film. It also has a Pt. 2. And a Pt. 3 Scene-S

  November 21, 2008

• Starlight Mints

  June 4, 2009

• Best Wizard of Oz Reference

  October 19, 2000

• Headline

  March 4, 2004

• Best Mayoral Proclamation

  October 7, 2004

• Namelessnumberheadman

  February 3, 2005

• The Festival Circuit

  May 18, 2006

• Sweet Pain

  June 15, 2006

• Be Here, Be/Non

  April 12, 2007

• Annuals

  February 26, 2009

• Colourmusic

  December 18, 2008

• Wayne Coyne and Kliph Scurlock discuss the Flaming Lips’ fantastical film freakout, Christmas on Mars.

  November 20, 2008

• Starfucker

  October 9, 2008

• Vinyl Honor

  April 16, 2009

• The best chestnuts of Wakarusa 2008

  June 5, 2008

• Cinematic Variety Pack

  January 31, 2008

• Fountains of Coyne

  The Flaming Lips' flamboyant frontman dishes on what it's like being in the happiest band going.

  September 6, 2007

• Freak Love

  July 13, 2006

• The Starlight Mints

  March 29, 2007

• Sparklehorse

  September 28, 2006

• If You're Going to Wa-akarusa

  June 8, 2006

• Starlight Mints

  May 18, 2006

• The Flaming Lips

  April 6, 2006

• Why

  October 27, 2005

• Viva Audiophilia

  Check your head.

  September 8, 2005

• Shearwater and Okkervil River

  Monday, May 3, at Jackpot Saloon.

  April 29, 2004

• Nice Lips

  Mardi Gras gets mouthy.

  February 19, 2004

• Ghosty

  Saturday, January 31, at the Bottleneck.

  January 29, 2004

• Be/Non

  Friday, December 26, at the Bottleneck.

  December 25, 2003

• The Starlight Mints

  Thursday, November 13, at the Bottleneck.

  November 13, 2003

• The Delgados

  Monday, April 7, at the Bottleneck.

  April 3, 2003

• All-American Rejects

  Tuesday, February 4, at the Bottleneck.

  January 30, 2003

• 100 Albums and Running

  A Change for the better tops the list of 2002's best records.

  December 26, 2002

• Lips Service

  Following an unlikely muse, the Flaming Lips gets pretty on Pink.

  August 1, 2002

• Bite Me

  Fishing on the cheap can still cost an arm.

  August 23, 2001

• Buzzbox

  Organized Noise

  August 2, 2001

• The Welterweights

  The Dress Rehearsal

  May 11, 2000

• No vaseline required

  Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne explains how one of the most experimental bands of the past decade has thrived in a major-label environment.

  March 9, 2000

• Coming Out: Iron & Wine, Around the Well MP3

  Don't hold your breath, Iron & Wine fans. (Get it!?). Sam Beam, he of the breathy voice (aw, now you get it), and the man behind I&W, is not releasing a new album, per se. But on May 19, he's dropping a double-CD (three LP) collection of rare and unreleased tracks titled Around the Well. Several of the songs on the set were originally written for the Topher Grace-Scarlett Johannsnenenen-Dennis Quaid office-comedy vehicle In Good Company including "The Trapeze Swinger," which you can grab courtes

  May 1, 2009

• Hopewell

  May 28, 2009

• Download dj BC's Muppet Mashup

  While I'm always impressed with the work Girl Talk does, I've always been slightly more impressed by artists like the Kleptones, who are able to take a single artist and turn their work into the backdrop for a sound collage. Danger Mouse did it most famously with The Grey Album, combining the Beatles and Jay-Z into something that he's been able to turn into a career as a producer. The Kleptones' work on A Night At the Hip-Hopera (with Queen as their jump-off), as well as how they turned the Fla

  July 23, 2009

• Sony Charges Westboro Baptist Church With Copyright Infringement

  Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, home of Pastor Fred Phelps and the "God Hates Fags Campaign," has been hit with copyright infringement from Sony/ATV Music. In a letter to the church, Sony lawyer Peter Brodsky states that a video on the church's website "constitutes a serious infringement of Sony's copyright." That video is "Hey Jews," the Beatles' hit written as a claim that the Jews are evil reprobates who killed Christ and have yet to repent. The letter from Brodsky goes on to paint "Hey J

  August 28, 2009

• Stream the Flaming Lips' Embryonic

  Making like it's NPR, the Colbert Nation will be streaming the Flaming Lips' new album, Embryonic, from now until midnight on September 21. ​Surprisingly, when you go the website, there's not a lot of hullabaloo over the preview stream. There's no banner screaming "EXCLUSIVE" or anything like that. It's just a small player in the upper left-hand corner. As many Facebook updates as they've released about this (making it a pretty big deal, really), you'd think it'd be more obvious. Frankly,

  September 17, 2009

• Wayward Q&A: Interview with Kliph Scurlock of the Flaming Lips

  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

  October 13, 2009

• Flaming Lips cover Dark Side of the Moon

  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

  October 19, 2009

• An Open Letter to Nudity-Loving Musicians

  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

  November 11, 2009