Dec 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

The Flaming Lips have announced a set of West Coast tour dates, where they will perform a career-spanning setlist. Tickets go on sale this Friday (Dec. 9) at 10 a.m. local time. More

Sep 29, 2022 By Joey Arnone

The Flaming Lips have announced a deluxe edition box set reissue of their album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots to commemorate its 20th anniversary. The set, which contains over 50 songs, includes B-sides, demos, remixes, radio sessions, two concerts, and more. It will be available on digital and as a 6-CD box set on November 25 via Warner, subsequently being given a vinyl release on April 14, 2023. More

Jul 15, 2022 By Austin Saalman

Oklahoma City-based neo-psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips had been recording music together for nearly 20 years prior to the release of their critically acclaimed 10th studio album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. More

Jun 27, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Climate Control Projects has announced The Big Climate Thing: Concert for People and the Planet, a three-day music concert which is set to take place from September 16-18 at Forest Hills Stadium in New York City. According to a press release, the goal of the concert is “to raise awareness, accountability and action, and to inspire real-time solutions surrounding the global climate crisis by connecting to concertgoers through the transformative power of music.” More

Jan 05, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, 14-year-old singer Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform their cover of Nick Cave’s 1994 song “Red Right Hand” from their recently-released Cave covers album, Where the Viaduct Looms. More

Dec 16, 2021 By Joey Arnone

14-year-old singer Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips have shared a live performance video for a cover of Nick Cave’s 1994 song “Red Right Hand.” The cover is featured on their newly-released Nick Cave covers album, Where the Viaduct Looms, out now on Bella Union. More

Nov 11, 2021 By Joey Arnone

The Flaming Lips have announced the release of a Nick Cave covers album, Where the Viaduct Looms, which will feature vocals from 14-year-old singer Nell Smith. It will be out on November 26 via Bella Union. A video for a cover of Cave’s 1990 “The Ship Song” has also just been shared. More

Oct 07, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Los Angeles garage rock duo Deap Vally have announced the release of a new album, titled Marriage. They have shared a video for its lead single, “Magic Medicine.” Marriage will be out on November 19 via Cooking Vinyl. More

Oct 01, 2021 By Mark Redfern

The Flaming Lips were the musical guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night, where they performed “Mother I’ve Taken LSD,” from their 2020 album, American Head. More

May 03, 2021 By Mark Redfern

The Flaming Lips have announced some new tour dates. They stretch into 2022 and include shows in North America and the UK. Also, on yesterday’s CBS Sunday Morning they did a great segment on the band’s recent space bubble concerts. Finally, the band is releasing The Soft Bulletin Companion on Record Store Day (June 12) via Warner Records. More

Apr 29, 2021 By Joey Arnone

The Flaming Lips have covered Bob Dylan’s 1969 song “Lay Lady Lay” as a part of the upcoming Dylan Revisited compilation from UK magazine Uncut. It will feature Dylan covers from a plethora of different artists, including Weyes Blood, The Weather Station, and more. The album will be released in tandem with Uncut’s upcoming June issue. More

Apr 28, 2021 By Celine Teo-Blockey and Mark Redfern

We recently launched season 2 of our Under the Radar Podcast, starting with our interview with Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips. As well as being available on all podcasting platforms the podcast also airs on WLUR, an NPR affiliate based in Lexington, VA (the city where Under the Radar is currently based). Our Flaming Lips episode is airing tomorrow (Thursday, April 29) at 5 p.m. EST. You can listen at the station’s website (www.my.wlu.edu/wlur) or via the TuneIn app and those in the Lexington area can hear it on a good old fashioned radio at 91.5 FM. More

Apr 27, 2021 By Mark Redfern

We recently launched season 2 of our Under the Radar Podcast, starting with our interview with Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips. Also, we recently put out a bonus short podcast episode that features extra material from our Flaming Lips episode, a kind of making of episode. More

Apr 27, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Last night, The Flaming Lips were featured as musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where they performed “Will You Return / When You Come Down” from their 2020 album American Head. The performance featured backing vocals and guitar by Micah Nelson (son of Willie Nelson and frontman of Particle Kid) and took place at Blue Note Lounge in Oklahoma City, the site of their first-ever live performance in 1983. More

Apr 08, 2021 By Celine Teo-Blockey

The Under the Radar Podcast returns today with season 2, starting with our interview with Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips. Upcoming guests this season will include Julien Baker, Emmy the Great, Adrian Younge, James Yorkston, Sleaford Mods, London Grammar, and more. More

Mar 23, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Beachy Head (a newly-announced band consisting of Rachel Goswell and Christian Savill of Slowdive, Matt Duckworth of The Flaming Lips, Steve Clarke of The Soft Cavalry, and Ryan Graveface of Black Moth Super Rainbow) have announced a new self-titled album, which will be out on April 30 via Graveface. The band has also shared a song from the album titled “Destroy Us.” More

Feb 01, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Leave it to The Flaming Lips to find an innovative way to still safely have concerts in the pandemic and now they have announced two more space bubble concerts, in which the entire audience are in their own plastic bubbles while watching the band perform. More

Oct 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne has been performing in giant plastic bubbles for years now, but this year due to the pandemic the whole band has also been performing in bubbles and recently they took it a step further, performing a concert in their native Oklahoma City with the whole audience in bubbles. Now they have shared a video from the show, with the band performing “Assassins of Youth.” More

Sep 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, American Head, last Friday via Warner Records. On Friday night they did a performance for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon of the album’s “God and the Policeman,” with each band member in their signature giant plastic bubbles. More

Sep 11, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have released a new album, American Head, today via Warner Records. For release day they have shared a video for the album’s “God and the Policeman,” which is a duet with Kacey Musgraves and was not shared prior to the album’s release. Now that it’s out you can also stream the whole album here. Also, today we posted our review of the album. More

Aug 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Jennifer Irving and Samantha Small)

Welcome to the 34th Songs of the Week of 2020. The Republican National Convention was this week, in which President Trump and his party attempted to convince the country that if Joe Biden and the Democrats take over it will be a lawless land with a defunded police and riots in every city (um…no, that won’t happen). In a nomination acceptance speech on the White House lawn (which was a breach of protocol), complete with fireworks and an opera singer, Trump tried to pull one over on America that he has handled the coronavirus well (um…no, that hasn’t happened). More

Aug 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, American Head, on September 11 via Warner Records. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Mother Please Don’t Be Sad,” via a video for the track. In the song frontman Wayne Coyne sings from the perspective of a man who has been shot and killed in a robbery pleading with his mother not to be too upset about his death and it’s inspired by a real life incident that happened to Coyne. More

Aug 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Jennifer Irving)

Welcome to the 32nd Songs of the Week of 2020. This week’s big political news was Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announcing his highly capable running mate, Senator Kamala Harris. More

Aug 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, American Head, on September 11 via Warner Records. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Will You Return / When You Come Down,” via a video for the track that features the band performing the song in the studio in a socially distant manner. More

Jul 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, American Head, on September 11 via Warner Records. Now they have shared another song from the album, “You n Me Sellin’ Weed,” via a video for the track that simply features frontman Wayne Coyne singing the song in the back of a moving car (with the camera sometimes shifting in and out of focus). More

Jul 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, American Head, on September 11 via Warner Records. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Dinosaurs on the Mountain,” via a video for the track. More

Jun 26, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have announced a new album, American Head, and shard a new song from it, “My Religion Is You,” via a video for the song. More

Jun 11, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips has long been performing in a plastic bubble that he can walk across the audience in. Befitting these socially distant times, the band has taken the concept even further in a performance of “Race for the Prize” for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, with the entire band in separate plastic bubbles and also their audience, including some kids, in bubbles. More

May 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie, Samantha Small, and Julian Roberts-Grmela)

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. In terms of this week’s new songs, the pickings were somewhat slim, perhaps partly because Monday was Memorial Day, meaning less new tracks of note were shared these week. But we’ve still come up with some that we liked (albeit, only a Top 9, instead of our usual Top 10). More

May 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have shared a new song, “Flowers of Neptune 6,” via a video for the track that features Kacey Musgraves on additional vocals. Frontman Wayne Coyne co-directed the video with regular collaborator George Salisbury. It features Coyne draped in an American flag and wandering a burning field in his signature clear plastic protective ball that he uses to walk over concert audiences. More

Mar 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

In response to the COVID-19 Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie has been live streaming solo concerts from his home studio. His latest concert was yesterday and it was an all-covers set in which he covered songs by Phoebe Bridgers, Elliott Smith, Rilo Kiley, The Shins, The Flaming Lips, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Big Star, and Def Leppard. More

Dec 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have announced some new 2020 tour dates. They go down next April and June. More

Dec 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have teamed up with Los Angeles garage rock duo Deap Vally to form the collaborative band appropriately named Deap Lips. They have announced their debut album together, also titled Deap Lips, and have shared its first single, “Hope Hell High.” More

Nov 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new live album, The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, on Friday via Warner Records. Now they have shared a video for one of its tracks, “What Is the Light?” More

Nov 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new live album, The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, on November 29 via Warner Records. Now they have shared one of its tracks, a live version of “The Spark That Bled” recorded with the orchestra. More

Sep 27, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the My Favorite Album Issue, our new print issue in which we speak to musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album. The issue features Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the two covers and is available to buy directly from us here, as well as being distributed in stores nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere). More

Aug 30, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, King’s Mouth: Music and Songs, back in April for Record Store Day (followed by a wider release in July). Now they have shared a video for the album’s “Giant Baby.” It starts with comedian/musician Fred Armisen introducing the band, as if they are performing on a TV show. More

Apr 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have announced some new tour dates. They go down this July and August and The Claypool Lennon Delirium will open most shows. Check out all their dates here. More

Apr 19, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was slim pickings this week for truly inspiring new tracks, but there were enough to recommend to put together this week’s list. We also realized their were two songs we should’ve included on recent Songs of the Week lists but neglected to, so we’ve given them special mention here. More

Apr 15, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

This past Saturday was Record Store Day and one of the more notable releases was a brand new album by The Flaming Lips, King’s Mouth. And while the complete album remains a Record Store Day exclusive for now, one of its songs, “All For the Life of the City,” has been officially released online. More

Feb 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The full list of 2019 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on Saturday, April 13 and just in case you don’t already know, the basic idea is to get music fans out to their local independent record store, with the bait being a slew of exclusive limited edition releases. More

Dec 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have shared a cover of two holiday classics, “Peace on Earth” and “Little Drummer Boy,” which they have mashed up together. The track was shared via a strange video that features most the band in strange makeup and alien outfits, all except Steve Drozd for some reason, who is dressed fairly normally. More

May 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

It was a bit tough putting together a Songs of the Week this week. Chalk it up to the Memorial Day three-day weekend I guess, but for whatever reason artists, publicists, and labels weren’t overeager to release a lot of great new tracks this week. More

May 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new best of simply entitled Greatest Hits Vol. 1 on June 1 via Warner Bros. It will be available on vinyl featuring 11 tracks or as a 3-CD and digital deluxe edition featuring 52 tracks, including a disc of B-sides and rarities. More

May 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new best of simply entitled Greatest Hits Vol. 1 on June 1 via Warner Bros. Now they have shared a new video for rarity “The Captain,” which was record during the sessions for 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, but never made the album. More

Apr 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have announced a new best of simply entitled Greatest Hits. It will be available on vinyl featuring 11 tracks or as a 3-CD and digital deluxe edition featuring 52 tracks, including a disc of B-sides and rarities. More

Apr 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new song on Record Store Day (which was on Saturday), “The Story of Yum Yum and the Dragon.” The band teamed up with Dogfish Head Alehouse to make a beer called Dragons & Yum Yums, which was the official beer of Record Store Day, and the song was released on a special 7-inch pressed with the beer (with the B-side fittingly titled “Beer in Your Ear”). More

Mar 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new six-CD box set that collects their early work, Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990, on May 25 via their longtime label Warner Bros. More

Feb 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have announced a new six-CD box set that collects their early work. It’s entitled Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990 and it’s due out May 25 via their longtime label Warner Bros. More

Aug 29, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips and Mac DeMarco are embarking on a co-headlining tour together next month. Now Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has announced via an Instagram post, that both artists are working on a split EP where they each cover three songs by the other artist. More

Aug 24, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, Oczy Mlody, in January via Warner Bros. Now they have shared a 10-minute long video for the album’s “Almost Home (Blisko Domu).” As with most of their videos, it’s completely nuts, very colorful, and has a science fiction bent. More

Aug 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, Oczy Mlody, in January via Warner Bros. On the Record Store Day in April the band also released the “live(ish)” album Onboard the International Space Station Concert for Peace. More

Mar 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, Oczy Mlody, in January via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for “The Castle,” “How??,” and “Nidgy Nie (Never No),” as well as the audio for “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young)” and “We a Family” (which features frequent collaborator Miley Cyrus). More

Mar 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, Oczy Mlody, in January via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for “The Castle,” “How??,” and “Nidgy Nie (Never No),” as well as the audio for “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young)” and “We a Family” (which features frequent collaborator Miley Cyrus). More

Feb 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, Oczy Mlody, last month via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for “The Castle,” “How??,” and “Nidgy Nie (Never No),” as well as the audio for “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young)” and “We a Family” (which features frequent collaborator Miley Cyrus). More

Jan 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“Our First 100 Days” is a new anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the “30 Days, 30 Songs” anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for “Our First 100 Days.” More

Jan 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, Oczy Mlody, today via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for “The Castle” and “How??” and the audio for “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young)” and “We a Family” (which features frequent collaborator Miley Cyrus). More

Jan 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, Oczy Mlody, today via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for “The Castle” and “How??” and the audio for “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young)” and “We a Family” (which features frequent collaborator Miley Cyrus). More

Jan 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, Oczy Mlody, this Friday via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for “The Castle” and “How??” and the audio for “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young)” and “We a Family” (which features frequent collaborator Miley Cyrus). More

Jan 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, Oczy Mlody, on January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for “The Castle” and “How??” and the audio for “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young).” Now the band has shared another song from the album, “We a Family,” which features frequent collaborator Miley Cyrus. More

Dec 30, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our joint Best of 2016 / 15th Anniversary Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version is about to ship out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine apps Zinio and Readbug). The issue celebrates the best albums of 2016, reflects on Under the Radar‘s 15th anniversary and albums released in 2001, looks forward to albums due out in early 2017, and features The Flaming Lips on the cover. There’s also a big article examining how the music industry has changed in the last 15 years and in our Artist Survey section various musicians comment on the music and events of 2016. More

Dec 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, Oczy Mlody, on January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for “The Castle” and “How??” Now here’s another song from the album, “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young).” Listen below via either Spotify or Apple Music. More

Nov 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, Oczy Mlody, on January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to a video for the album’s first single, “The Castle.” More

Nov 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Foxygen’s last album was 2014’s ...And Star Power, but recently the duo (Jonathan Rado and Sam France) shared a brand new song, “America,” a grandiose track that featured an orchestra. More

Oct 21, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Yesterday The Flaming Lips announced a new album, Oczy Mlody, which is due out January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros. The first single, “The Castle,” was shared at midnight on streaming sites and now the song has a video. More

Oct 20, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

According to Stereogum, The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album next year. It’s entitled Oczy Mlody and due out January 13, 2017. The first single, “The Castle,” will be out at midnight. More

Jul 14, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Amazon Original Series Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street has featured various different artists doing covers and tomorrow an EP featuring four the covers is being released and you can stream it below. More

May 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are set to make a guest appearance in issue #6 of X-Men ‘92. The Marvel Comics series takes place in 1992 and in the X-Men ‘90s continuity. The band even appears on the cover of the issue. Never mind that it’s the current lineup of the band on the cover and they look like they do now, Wayne Coyne’s grey beard and all, than how they did in 1992. More

Apr 20, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Last night The Flaming Lips stopped The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to cover the late David Bowie‘s “Space Oddity.” Frontman Wayne Coyne performed part of the song on the shoulders of Chewbacca. Before their performance, Coyne shot a funny backstage video where he sang a song that went through some of his musical influences and revealed that he once hit a deer with his car and is actually in the witness protection program. More

Apr 15, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Today The Flaming Lips have shared the music video of their cover of David Bowie‘s classic “Space Oddity.” More

Dec 31, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

We here at Under the Radar are taking most of Christmas and New Year’s off. Still, over the holiday a few notable artists have posted some Christmas songs (some covers, some originals) that we didn’t have a chance to post and they are collected here. Included are Future Islands, Mac DeMarco, Lauryn Hill, Miley Cyrus (with a little help from The Flaming Lips), Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz, LCD Soundsystem, and Will Butler. More

Dec 01, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night. But instead of doing a track from their recent Miley Cyrus collaboration or 2014’s With a Little Help from My Fwends, the band performed their 1995 song “Bad Days,” a track from Clouds Taste Metallic. More

Aug 31, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Last night Miley Cyrus hosted MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs), another pointless and over-scripted awards show in which Twitter feuds were resolved and Kanye West announced he was running for president in 2020 during his rambling 13-minute acceptance speech. More

Feb 24, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Sunday was the second day of Air+Style, a festival founded by Shaun White aimed at bringing together the worlds of snowboarding and music. More

Dec 19, 2014 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the Best of 2014 Issue, which is about to hit newsstands and will be out all of January and February. It features St. Vincent on the cover and interviews with some of the artists behind 2014’s best albums. More

Nov 20, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

The Flaming Lips have teamed up with Yoko Ono once again for a cover of the latter’s famous duet with her late husband John Lennon. More

Nov 20, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Collector’s Edition, a new book by Stuart Tolley, showcases the creativity in media packaging. Several copies of the book were given to musicians and artists to decorate as they wish. More

Nov 07, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Last night The Flaming Lips were the music guest on Conan. They brought along a bunch of crazy silver capes, back up dancers, and Miley Cyrus. More

Oct 20, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Just as they done with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, The Flaming Lips will release a cover album of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. More

Sep 10, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Current and previous Under the Radar cover artists Future Islands, The National, and The Flaming Lips are all slated to appear on the new season of IFC show Comedy Bang! Bang. More

Aug 11, 2014 By Wendy Redfern

Check out photos from Day three of the Outside Lands, held in the historic Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA on August 10, 2014. We sent photographer Robert Redfield down to capture the action. Click here to view the full gallery.Plus some bonus photos here! And bonus behind-the-scenes photo here. More

Aug 01, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

The Flaming Lips have announced they will perform their 1993 album Transmissions of the Satellite Heart in its entirety at First Avenue In Minneapolis on September 14. More

Jun 10, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd have announced the formation of a new side-project dubbed Electric Würms, which will release its debut album Musik, Die Shwer Zu later this summer on Aug. 19. More

May 15, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Back in February, The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus performed “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” in Los Angeles. It seems that they’ve been thick as thieves ever since. More

May 09, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Back in March, longtime drummer for The Flaming Lips Kliph Scurlock exited the band. More

Apr 04, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Earlier this week The Flaming Lips released Flaming Side of the Moon, an impromptu companion album to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. More

Apr 01, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Yesterday The Flaming Lips digitally released Flaming Side of the Moon, an “immersive companion piece” designed to be simultaneously played alongside Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon or the 1939 classic motion picture The Wizard of Oz. More

Mar 31, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Maybe this is an early April Fools joke? With The Flaming Lips, who can say? More

Feb 24, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Just as they threw their support behind the likes of mainstream pop artist Ke, The Flaming Lips demonstrated their equal-opportunity love for anything weird last night when they appeared as the special guest of Miley Cyrus during her concert at L.A.‘s Staples Center. More

Feb 07, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Throughout the week the Late Show with David Letterman has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show by having its musical guests play covers from the Fab Four’s catalogue of songs. More

Feb 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has announced that he will embark on new round record store appearances this month, meeting and greeting fans and signing reissued copies of the band’s first ever release, The Flaming Lips 1st EP. More

Dec 30, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

On New Year’s Eve The Flaming Lips will ring in 2014 by performing at Aspen, Colorado’s Belly Up. More

Dec 17, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Later this week The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne will be embarking on a solo “Record Store Tour,” meeting and greeting fans and signing copies of the Lips’ first-ever EP, The Flaming Lips 1st EP, and The Flaming Lips 2nd Cassette Demo. More

Dec 12, 2013 By Laura Studarus

In 2010, Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous committed suicide. To keep the late singer/songwriter’s memory alive, a group of artists—including Phantogram, Mercury Rev, and Mark Lanegan have come together to cover the artist’s iconic works. More

Dec 09, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Earlier this year The Flaming Lips revealed that they would be recruiting a number of old friends to help them record a track-for-track cover album of The Stone Roses’ self-titled debut. More

Nov 08, 2013 By Cody Ray Shafer

Welcome to Ranked, our recurring series in which one of our writers takes an artist’s catalogue and ranks all of their official studio albums from most essential to least essential. The order is decided by the individual writer, rather than our editors. If you disagree with our ranking then please let us know in the comments section. This time Cody Ray Shafer ranks The Flaming Lips. More

Oct 29, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

For those that don’t know The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala have collaborated on a new split EP, a vinyl exclusive currently being sold during the two bands’ joint tour. More

Oct 23, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

After contributing a song to the upcoming film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi story Ender’s Game, The Flaming Lips felt so inspired they decided put together an entire EP’s worth of material based on the story’s concept and themes. More

Oct 03, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Yoko Ono stopped by Letterman last night to promote new album Take Me To the Land of Hell. Since no one likes to go it alone, she brought pals The Flaming Lips along with her. More

May 22, 2019 By Joshua M. Miller

On May 17, 1999, The Flaming Lips released The Soft Bulletin, an album that found them take a more conventional writing and recording path-at least compared to what came before. More

Apr 12, 2019 By Jasper Willems

A chronicle about the enshrined, severed head of a giant metallic Deity King feels apropos of no other band but The Flaming Lips. Wayne Coyne, the group’s tirelessly impulsive ringmaster, chats with Under the Radar about the group’s latest bewildering project, King’s Mouth. More

Sep 28, 2018 By Kyle Mullin

Long before they became known for dazzling concertgoers with bright lights, confetti, and a frontman bounding about in a space bubble; long before they hit it big with the melancholy single “Do You Realize?”; and long before they put out deluxe reissues of their earliest recordings; before all that, The Flaming Lips took hold of hammers and began wreaking havoc on the piano they had just recorded melodious music with. More

Mar 20, 2017 By Matt Fink

In 2001, when Under the Radar‘s first issue was released, the music industry had reached a transitional moment. In January, Apple introduced its iTunes program to the world, laying the groundwork to forever change how listeners interfaced with their music. More

Mar 17, 2017 By Matt Fink

January of 2016 officially marked 30 years since The Flaming Lips’ first full-length album, a tripped-out set of woozy psychedelic sing-alongs titled Hear It Is. More

Feb 25, 2016 By Cody Ray Shafer

For Under the Radar’s 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. More

Dec 18, 2015 By Cody Ray Shafer

For a certain segment of Flaming Lips fans, the purest hallmark of nostalgia isn’t Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots or The Soft Bulletin, but the band’s less experimental, but undeniably solid, mid-career ‘90s output, including 1996’s Clouds Taste Metallic. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, The Flaming Lips have released a three-disc reissue via Warner Bros. More

Feb 20, 2015 By Cody Ray Shafer

For Under the Radar’s 12th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2014. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2014 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More

Jul 08, 2013 By Matt Fink

Wayne Coyne tells a story about when his father died, years ago, and his mother wanted to remember him by playing their favorite Tony Bennett song at his funeral. For her, the song represented a treasured memory—being 17 years old and falling in love—and she wanted to experience that one more time with her husband before was laid to rest. Coyne remembers reacting badly to her request. “I thought, ‘Why would you want to play that? My God, that’s just going to devastate us. Why the fuck would you want to play that?’ But you have to play it. You want to play it, because if you don’t, you don’t get to relive any of that.” More

Nov 10, 2009 By Matt Fink

Though it’s reputed to be the most widely spoken musical language in the world today, rock and roll was born on the margins. More

Oct 31, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Earlier in the month, The Flaming Lips performed at Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch in Spicewood, TX. Also on the bill was Particle Kid (aka Micah Nelson, Willie’s son). Our photographer Yvan Nguyen (www.instagram.com/simplyyvan) was on hand to capture the event. More

Jun 15, 2021 By Austin Saalman

Initially compiled as an intended promo-only CD to complement The Flaming Lips’ breakthrough ninth album, The Soft Bulletin Companion has persevered across the span of two decades while remaining of interest to fans of the band, finally earning itself a limited double vinyl release for Record Store Day. More

Dec 11, 2019 By Mark Moody

Picture yourself in the mid-to-late ‘80s tooling around with your best buddies in a white van with little more than the handful of musical instruments you begged and borrowed for. Maybe to up your psychedelic credibility you have a bubble machine and a light-up rainbow spinner ball to splash a little color across the walls of the ramshackle clubs where you’ve managed to land gigs. More

May 17, 2019 By James Thornhill

On paper, King’s Mouth is the most “Flaming Lips” release you could possibly imagine.

Jul 25, 2018 By Frank Valish

One of a series of recent Flaming Lips reissues, Scratching the Door highlights the earliest recordings The Flaming Lips made, back in the ‘80s and with Wayne Coyne’s brother Mark on vocals. More

Jul 12, 2018 By Cody Ray Shafer

The Flaming Lips’ back catalogue seems impervious to age, evolving through cutting edge sounds and increasingly psychedelic performances, while consistently appealing to a certain demographic of dazed youth. More

Dec 17, 2015 By Cody Ray Shafer

Among certain Flaming Lips fans, the apex of their early career is not The Soft Bulletin, but rather Clouds Taste Metallic, an album more or less showcasing a band in a state prior to transition. More

Nov 14, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Anyone lamenting The Flaming Lips’ later work as too experimental and inaccessible might find With a Little Help From My Fwends a refreshing detour. Not because it breaks from that trend—it doesn’t—but because the safety of a classic Beatles record allows them to stretch their experimental legs while still producing a grounded experience. More

Apr 11, 2013 By Austin Trunick

Listeners who turn to The Flaming Lips looking for a good time, return now from whence you came. The music included on The Terror is as nightmarish as its name would suggest. More

Apr 11, 2013 By Hays Davis

“There’s a little spaceship/Hiding in the clouds/You want it to love you/Its peaceful voice is loud.” The opening line of The Terror could describe The Flaming Lips themselves as they prepare to land with an unsettling new mission. More

Jul 04, 2012 By Alee Karim

Is that Ke fondling Wayne Coyne’s foot? It certainly is… The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends is a collaborative record that is perhaps the most surprising and surprisingly fun album The Flaming Lips have ever released. And that’s saying a lot (because, come on, this is The Flaming Lips).

Aug 11, 2010 By Laura Studarus

The third day of a festival is always a bit tough. Sore feet, musical overload, sunburn—it’s a lot to take in. But then, there’s day three of the Off Festival—which proved to be an exception. And not just because I ended up in an orange jumpsuit by the end of the night. More

Oct 15, 2009 By Frank Valish

It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since The Flaming Lips released their genre-busting masterpiece The Soft Bulletin. That album changed the game for experimental independent musicians and helped pave the way for indie rock to come. These days The Flaming Lips are elder statesman in a much younger person’s scene, but they continue to push boundaries with the best of them. More