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

Sep 30, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

This fall The Flaming Lips will be providing a piece of original music for the upcoming film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's popular sci-fi novel Ender's Game. More

Jul 22, 2013 By Cody Ray Shafer

The Flaming Lips have released a new video of a live performance of "Gates of Stell," off of Devo's Freedom of Choice. In typical Flaming Lips fashion, the video is full of trippy video effects and glittery psychedelia. More

Jul 15, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

The Flaming Lips have shared a new music video showcasing the droning, minimalist track "Turning Violent."  More

Jun 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Oklahoma natives The Flaming Lips will headline an upcoming benefit concert on July 23 in Oklahoma City to aid those affected by the numerous tornados that ravaged the state in May. More

May 16, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Last night The Flaming Lips stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.  More

May 03, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Explicit nudity just seems to go hand-in-hand with The Flaming Lips these days and their music videos.  More

Apr 12, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

For the past several years The Flaming Lips' track "Do You Realize??" has served as the official rock song for the band's home state of Oklahoma. Turns out this is no longer the case as Governor Mary Fallin decided not to renew former Governor Brad Henry's executive order granting the song its unique title. More

Apr 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Steven Drozd, multi-instrumentalist of The Flaming Lips has announced that he will premiere a new experimental project this weekend called The Mutating Cell Ensemble. More

Apr 08, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Next week The Flaming Lips will release their newest LP The Terror. More

Apr 04, 2013 By Laura Studarus

The Flaming Lips appeared on Late Show with David Letterman last night in support of newly released album, The Terror.  More

Apr 02, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

"Ashes in the Air," a collaborative track between The Flaming Lips and Bon Iver that was featured on the former's guest-heavy LP The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, has landed itself a characteristically bizarre music video. More

Mar 18, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

The Flaming Lips have announced that they have pushed back the release of their forthcoming new album The Terror. Luckily it's not by much. More

Mar 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

After making an appearance in a Super Bowl ad for Hyundia earlier this year, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has returned to the world of television commercials for the good people at Virgin Mobile. More

Mar 05, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Leading up to the April 2 release of their forthocoming new album The Terror The Flaming Lips have confirmed their upcoming appearance at this year's SXSW Festival in Austin with a pair of performances. More

Feb 06, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Ever the busy bees, The Flaming Lips have been dropping hints of late that the band might be working on a cover album of The Stone Roses' entire 1988 debut album. More

Feb 05, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Graduating from edible vaginas, skulls, and fetuses The Flaming Lips have announced that they have partnered up with a Dallas-based chocolatier to create a series of anatomically correct chocolate hearts, each containing a USB mix of music called Songs of Love.  More

Jan 29, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

On Super Bowl Sunday Hyundai will broadcast a special commercial featuring The Flaming Lips performing their recently debuted new song "Sun Blows Up Today." More

Jan 25, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

As previously reported, Wayne Coyne and the freaky misfits that make up The Flaming Lips have announced the arrival of their latest studio album, The Terror. More

Jan 24, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Did you know that The Flaming Lips haven’t released a proper studio album since 2009's Embryonic? Yeah, we were shocked by that too. Guess we got distracted by record-breaking concerts, blood vinyl, and naked Amanda Palmer/ Erykah Badu. Regardless, their record-free streak will end on April 1 with the release of The Terror.  More

Jan 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

The Flaming Lips announced via Twitter this morning that they will release a vinyl reissue of their 1997 album Zaireeka on Record Store Day. More

Jan 07, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Here's a pair of strange bedfellows for you: The Black Keys and The Flaming Lips have announced that they will get together for a select number of performances this spring. More

Dec 19, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The Flaming Lips have announced the release Freak Night, a concert film capturing the band's recent October performance at Oklahoma City's Zoo Amphitheatre. More

Nov 26, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After providing an unintended bomb scare bringing a disarmed hand grenade to the Oklahoma City Airport, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne returned to his more planned bit of craziness this past weekend by airing a own one-hour radio special called "Wayne Coyne’s Human Head-Shaped Tumor." More

Sep 13, 2012 By Laura Studarus

For a band who has busted a Guinness Book World Record, covered Erykah Badu (and Amanda Palmer) in who knows what, and sold skulls both real and gummy, this news seems downright tame. But apparently Flaming Lips are in the process of recording a King Crimson covers album.  More

Aug 27, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

In case you may have somehow missed it or outright forgot, The Flaming Lips experienced a significant dust up with musical artist Erykah Badu when the band uploaded an unapproved NSFW music video for their Heady Fwends collaboration "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." More

Aug 17, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Last night The Colbert Report finished off its broadcast of StePhest Colbchella '012: RockAugustFest with a special performance by The Flaming Lips. More

Aug 01, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Kicking it up a notch from last year's StePhest Colbchella '011: Rock You Like a Thirst-icane, Stephen Colbert announced last night that for StePhest Colbchella '012: Rocktaugustfest! that he would be throwing a little soiree on a little boat called the U.S.S. Intrepid. More

Jun 29, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Yesterday, Flaming Lips became the proud owner of a shiny new Guinness World Record when they performed eight concerts in 24 hours.  More

Jun 13, 2012 By Marie Noble

On June 2 and 3, Houston, TX hosted the Free Press Summer Fest. We sent photographer Iman Mannie Saqr down to cover the action. More

Jun 01, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Announcing just yesterday that they would be releasing their formly exclusive Record Store Day album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends on June 26, The Flaming Lips have now debuted a music video for their Erykah Badu-collaborated track, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." More

May 31, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Previously only available as a Record Store Day exclusive and blood-filled collector's item, The Flaming Lips collaborative album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends will now be released in both digital and physical CD formats on June 26. More

May 23, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Always game for a challenge, The Flaming Lips have announced that they will attempt to break the world record for "most live concerts in 24 hours in multiple cities." More

May 04, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Always looking for the next weird thing to do in the realm of musical distribution The Flaming Lips recently pressed a limited number of vinyl copies of their collaborative Record Store Day album Heady Fwends with actual samples of blood from the album's contributors, including Chris Martin, Ke, Nick Cave, Erykah Badu, and others. More

May 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne became the latest musical guest to sit down and chat with comedian Marc Maron for his WTF podcast. More

Apr 17, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

South by Southwest's Canadian brother North by Northeast has announced its return on June 11-17 in Toronto. More

Mar 28, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Much like everyone else The Flaming Lips are set to release an exclusive set of songs for next month's upcoming Record Store Day celebration. 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

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

Jan 13, 2017 By Austin Trunick

Over the past half-decade, The Flaming Lips have given their less obliging fans reasonable cause to hold their breaths and approach new releases with a twinge of trepidation.  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