Apr 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the thirteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. While more album release dates were pushed back due to COVID-19 and it seems we haven’t reached the peak number of coronavirus cases in America yet, none of that stopped artists from sharing a whole lot of new songs this week. More

Apr 02, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Thundercat (aka Stephen Lee Bruner) is releasing a new album, It Is What It Is, tomorrow via Brainfeeder. Now he has shared another song from the album, “Interstellar Love,” which features Kamasi Washington, Flying Lotus, and percussionist Ronald Bruner Jr. (Thundercat’s older brother). More

May 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. Last week we only had a Top 7 instead of our usual Top 10 and this week it’s only a little better with a Top 8. More

May 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welsh singer/songwriter/guitarist Cate Le Bon has released a new album, Reward, today via Mexican Summer and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album here, as well as on a strong runner-up that was almost our Album of the Week, Hayden Thorpe‘s Diviner. Plus there are streams of other notable albums released today. More

May 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) has released a new album, Flamagra, today via Warp. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our review of Flamagra. More

May 21, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) is releasing a new album, Flamagra, this Friday (May 24) via Warp. Now he has shared another song from it, “Black Balloons Reprise,” which features Denzel Curry. More

May 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) is releasing a new album, Flamagra, on May 24 via Warp. Last week he shared another song from it, “More,” which features Anderson .Paak and was one of our Songs of the Week. Now he has shared a video for “More.” Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop) directed the animated clip, which takes place on another planet. More

May 10, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We worried we were going to be able to come up with a Top 8 this week, but a couple of album tracks were able to round out the list.

May 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) is releasing a new album, Flamagra, on May 24 via Warp. Now he has shared another song from it, “More,” which features Anderson .Paak. He has also announced some new tour dates. More

Apr 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) is releasing a new album, Flamagra, on May 24 via Warp. Previously he shared a video for its first single, “Fire Is Coming” (the song and video both feature David Lynch). More

Apr 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) has announced a new album, Flamagra, and shared a video for its first single, “Fire Is Coming.” The song and video both feature David Lynch. Flamagra is due out May 24 via Warp. More

Nov 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

It was shaping up to be a weak week for Songs of the Week, but then our #1 track emerged today and we dug a little deeper through the week’s songs and put together a compelling Top 10. It’s an eclectic mix of political songs, catchy mainstream pop, a strange sci-fi spoken word track, and some unapologetic guitar indie rock. More

Mar 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) has shared seven new tracks. Six of them come from his score to Blade Runner Black Out 2022, the animated short film that was posted online last fall as a prequel to the acclaimed theatrical film Blade Runner 2049. More

Nov 02, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Earlier this year Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) released his horror film, Kuso, which was his directorial debut. Now he has shared a video for “Post Requisite,” a song that was featured in the film. Winston Hacking directed the stop-motion video, which you can watch below. More

Sep 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Blade Runner 2049, the much-anticipated sequel to Blade Runner, is due out October 6. Warner Bros. is releasing three prequel short films and below is the third and final one, the 15-minute long Blade Runner Black Out 2022, which, as we previously reported, has been scored by Flying Lotus. More

Sep 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Blade Runner 2049, the much-anticipated sequel to Blade Runner, is due out October 6. Warner Bros. is releasing three prequel short films and below is the second one, 2048: Nowhere to Run. More

May 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus has shared two new songs to Soundcloud: “North Star3” and “You and Your Friends Are Dead.” The tracks feature Thundercat and Brendon Small and could be outtakes from his 2014 album You’re Dead!. More

May 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus has shared a new song, “Night Grows Pale.” It features a recognizable sample of Queen’s “White Queen (As It Began),” found on the Freddie Mercury-led group’s 1974 album Queen II. More

May 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The iconic early ‘90s TV show Twin Peaks co-created by David Lynch and Mark Frost is returning to screens this Sunday (May 21) with a brand new season on Showtime that’s being co-written and directed by Lynch and features much of the original cast. More

May 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Austin City Limits have announced the lineup of their 2016 festival, in which they will celebrate their 15th anniversary. Highlights include Radiohead, M83, HAIM, LCD Soundsystem, Foals, Kendrick Lamar, Mumford and Sons, Andrew Bird, Local Natives, Conor Oberst, Chairlift, Flying Lotus, Caveman, Marlon Williams, Willie Nelson, Band of Horses, Major Lazer, Frightened Rabbit, and more. More

Sep 30, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Here’s a mix of other news today that weren’t able to do full news items on. Included in this news mix are summary items on Antony and his comments on the Pope, Daughter’s new album and video, John Carpenter’s live debut, Flying Lotus’ short film trailer, Trent Reznor and The Haxan Cloak’s Moog documentary, a new song from Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds, J Fernandez’s video, Keep Shelley in Athens’ new song, Pure Bathing Culture’s live video, Tyler The Creator’s animated show, an unreleased Neneh Cherry song, Ty Segall’s new band, and more. More

Jan 14, 2015 By Laura Studarus

If there’s one thing we’ve come to expect from Flying Lotus, it’s eye-popping videos. More

Dec 10, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Today Way Out West announced the first round of artists slated to play the Swedish festival. More

Nov 14, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Kendrick Lamar may appear on You’re Dead track “Never Catch Me,” but that wasn’t his only collaboration with Flying Lotus. More

Oct 31, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Just in time to celebrate Halloween Flying Lotus has premiered a frightfully disturbing music video featuring his You’re Dead! track “Ready Err Not.” More

Oct 02, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Flying Lotus plans on streaming his new album You’re Dead! on a 24-hour loop beginning at 5 pm EST on October 3. The album’s official release is October 7^th.

Sep 18, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Here’s a new one from You’re Dead, the forthcoming album from Los Angeles’ Flying Lotus. More

Aug 26, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

This October Flying Lotus will return with his next album, You’re Dead! More

Jul 22, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Musical artist, Steven Ellison, a.k.a. Flying Lotus, has announced the upcoming release of his newest album, You’re Dead! More

May 08, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Flying Lotus’ new video for “Phantasm,” a cut from 2012’s Until the Quiet Comes, is straight up weird. More

Aug 16, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Flying Lotus’ rap alter-ego Captain Murphy has premiered a brand new standalone single as part of Adult Swim’s online Singles Series. More

Aug 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

For its tenth season cult animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which tells the surreal misadventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items and their human neighbor, has renamed itself Aqua TV Show Show. More

Mar 11, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Flying Lotus has made plans for an upcoming tour through North American this spring. More

Jan 21, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Today renown synthesizer manufacturer Moog unveiled its latest creation, a handcrafted analog instrument called the Sub Phatty. More

Dec 07, 2012 By Matt Fink

Flying Lotus’ Steven Ellison tells me a story about a dream he had recently. He was stuck in a building, searching for an exit, and every time he found one, something new would pop up to obstruct his path again. Over and over, something—or someone—wouldn’t let him leave. He was trapped. If you believe that dreams carry symbolic meaning—and Ellison does—that’s the sort of message from the subconscious that indicates that you might be deeply conflicted about something in your life. More

Nov 29, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Check out the new Flying Lotus video, “Tiny Tortues.” In it Elijah Wood stars as a man who recently lost his arm…and gained some other, er…abilities. More

Sep 28, 2012 By Laura Studarus

On October 2, Flying Lotus unleashes his new album Until the Quiet Comes. (Can’t wait? Listen to it here.) In conjunction with what’s sure to be a big day for electro hip-hop fans everywhere, the musician has orchestrated a month’s worth of events in Los Angeles and New York. More

Sep 24, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After a delay in its release date and a lot of teasing Flying Lotus’ newest album Until the Quiet Comes has now found itself available to stream in full online. More

Sep 19, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After filling time with remixes and mixtapes, Flying Lotus has premiered “Putty Boy Strut,” the debut single from his much-anticipated album Until the Quiet Comes. More

Sep 10, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Back in late August, Flying Lotus took to Twitter announcing that he would be tackling Frank Ocean for an upcoming remix. More

Sep 06, 2012 By Laura Studarus

On October 2 Flying Lotus will release new album, Until The Quiet Comes. But as of today you can get a visual/audio/visceral preview of the album via a Kahlil Joseph short film. More

Aug 16, 2012 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Experimental musician Flying Lotus is releasing a new album, Until The Quiet Comes this October via Warp Records. The first full length single, “See Thru To U” featuring Erykah Badu has been released and can be heard below. More

Jul 27, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Filling in the hole that was left behind after he was forced to push back the release of new album Until the Quiet Comes to October, Flying Lotus has provided fans with the newest installment of his Lovers Melt mix series. More

May 15, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Bad news for FlyLo fans—the Los Angeles-based knob twiddler has pushed his hotly anticipated, forthcoming album Until the Quiet Comes back to October. More

Aug 02, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Today Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Festival announced the lineup for this year’s event, taking place November 4 - 6. More

Jul 26, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Today, Treasure Island Music Festival announced their 2011 lineup. More

Jan 12, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Now here’s a cool reason to actually buy music (novel ideal, we know). Innovative knob-twiddler Flying Lotus is utilizing an application called Trigger to give away music. We have the details. More

Oct 18, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

One of the better tracks off Flying Lotus’ Pattern + Grid World EP is “Kill Your Co-Workers.” Today, the buzzing video game-sounding tune gets a crazy video. In the clip, animated robots destroy people holding up weird signs at a garish parade. Pretty funny stuff for a Monday morning. More

Jul 13, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

“Mmmhmm” is off Flying Lotus’ album-of-the-year-worth LP Cosmogramma and features bassist Thundercat (Sa-Ra Collective, Erykah Badu, SuicidalTendencies) and the ultra-psychedelic track got even more head-trippy today via its hallucinatory video. More

Feb 24, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

Flying Lotus (aka beat-and-bass/fusion artist Steven Ellison) is set to tour select parts of the U.S. prior to the release of his upcoming full-length, Cosmogramma. More

Feb 05, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

Los Angeles electronic beatsmith Flying Lotus (given name: Steve Ellison) is preparing his “fusion-y” Cosmogramma for release through Warp. It will drop in the U.S. on May 4 and a day earlier in the U.K. And now comes word that none other than Thom Yorke will lend his vox to the project. More

Jul 21, 2017 By Dustin Krcatovich

I’ll start by acknowledging what you’ve probably already heard: Kuso is gross. More

Oct 14, 2014 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

Steve Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, makes music that sounds like a melodic car crash. Each song finds jazz, hip-hop, R&B, forward-thinking electronica, and pop smashing together, but what should sound like chaos ends up (most of the time) as a cohesive whole. More

Oct 02, 2012 By Ryan Hamm

While it would normally be a criticism to describe someone’s newest album as being similar to past efforts, that’s not the case with Flying Lotus. The sonic space he specializes in creating is so unique and broad, it’s probably not possible to overplay it. Every track and sound feels new and experimental; much of Until the Quiet is so wonderfully weird, there’s no way for it to be boring. It’s another wildly successful effort from one of hip-hop/jazz/electronica/DJ culture/indie music/[fill-in-the-genre-blank here]‘s most creative stars. More