Brad Gregg Oklahoma City’s band is back with a double-vinyl release, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, which features collaborations with Ke$ha, Biz Markie, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Yoko Ono, Neon Indian, Tame Impala, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. Tracks include “Superman Made Me Want to Pee,” “Helping the […]
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Enter stage Lips
The long-awaited stage musical production of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, based on the Lips’ 2002 album, is slated to make its world premiere next fall at the La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, Calif. At the helm is Tony Award-winning writer-director Des McAnuff, whose Broadway credits include Jersey Boys. Early on, McAnuff was reportedly […]
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Home sweet ’homa
Nora Guthrie believes the spirit of her father, Woody Guthrie, sometimes lets his presence be known. Her proof is in the multiple times electricity has failed or lights have flickered when she’s attending events honoring him. A few years ago, she attended a Bruce Springsteen show in Germany. Just as The Boss was set to […]
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Cult of personality
Bangstyle.com (note: not a website for comparing “Kama Sutra” techniques, as CFN was hoping) reported that Nick Logie and his cohorts in the Los Angeles band Telegram recently drove some 22 hours to deliver Coyne a birthday present direct to his Oklahoma City home. We’ll let Bangstyle (tee-hee) take over from here: “Instead of rejecting […]
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Hooked on ’phonic
The Polyphonic Spree has always been ambitious. While the Dallas-based symphonic rock band isn’t as fond of the eccentricities and gimmicks of someone like our own Flaming Lips, more than a few similarities exist — most notably a total disregard for convention. Tim DeLaughter formed the group on the heels of the demise of Tripping […]
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The not-so-soft bulletin
“Try one that lasts 1,000 years,” wrote Becky Ferreira in the article, “The Slowest Songs in the World,” in which she noted that the Lips’ “7 Skies H3” is “a mere heartbeat compared to John Cage’s ‘Organ2/ ASLSP’ … which takes 639 years to perform, or Jem Finer’s ‘Longplayer’ (1,000 years long)!” “And finally,” she […]
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No womb at the inn
The Womb Room, located at 25 NW Ninth St. and co-owned by Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne, received a cease-and-desist order Dec. 29 from the Oklahoma City Fire Marshal’s Office, which cited occupancy code violations. The gallery was slated to host the Plastic Ono Band, the reincarnation of the avant-garde rock group formed by […]
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No womb at the inn
The Womb Room, located at 25 NW Ninth St. and co-owned by Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne, received a cease-and-desist order Dec. 29 from the Oklahoma City Fire Marshal’s Office, which cited occupancy code violations. The gallery was slated to host the Plastic Ono Band, the reincarnation of the avant-garde rock group formed by […]
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Ono? Oh, yes!
It’s been a long year for The Flaming Lips, who, in addition to a grueling tour schedule, made good on Wayne Coyne’s public promise early last year to release new music each month. “A lot of people thought we already had 10 songs,” the front man said, “but I said, ‘No, we’re not doing that. […]
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Ono? Oh, yes!
It’s been a long year for The Flaming Lips, who, in addition to a grueling tour schedule, made good on Wayne Coyne’s public promise early last year to release new music each month. “A lot of people thought we already had 10 songs,” the front man said, “but I said, ‘No, we’re not doing that. […]