The Flaming Lips get nostalgic for the Mesozoic era on their new song, “Dinosaurs on the Mountain,” set to appear on their upcoming album, American Head, out September 11th via Warner Records.
The track is a dreamy folk-rock tune that ebbs and flows on waves of thick psychedelia and to-the-rafters rock & roll. Frontman Wayne Coyne seems to ruminate on the extinction of the dinosaurs, but in a way that resonates with our own ominous era: “Up on the mountain they’d be all alone,” he croons, “You can’t just...
The track is a dreamy folk-rock tune that ebbs and flows on waves of thick psychedelia and to-the-rafters rock & roll. Frontman Wayne Coyne seems to ruminate on the extinction of the dinosaurs, but in a way that resonates with our own ominous era: “Up on the mountain they’d be all alone,” he croons, “You can’t just...
- 7/10/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Flaming Lips unveiled a kaleidoscopic new video for their performance of “What Is the Light?” with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. The song comes off of their upcoming live album, The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks With the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, out November 29th via Warner Records.
The live album comes from a May 2016 concert at the famed Colorado venue, where the Flaming Lips recreated their acclaimed 1999 LP, The Soft Bulletin, with a 68-piece orchestra and 57-person choir conducted by Andre De Ridder. Such a collaboration is particularly...
The live album comes from a May 2016 concert at the famed Colorado venue, where the Flaming Lips recreated their acclaimed 1999 LP, The Soft Bulletin, with a 68-piece orchestra and 57-person choir conducted by Andre De Ridder. Such a collaboration is particularly...
- 11/25/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
With nearly a dozen trophies from the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, the Gibson Brothers have built their legacy upon a sound that salutes the past while still pushing forward. Their close harmonies nod to old-school family bands like the Louvin Brothers and the Monroe Brothers, while their concerts — filled with flat-picking, high-lonesome hollers and plenty of rustic stomp — often find the siblings stretching their legs with Tom Petty covers and Everly Brothers tributes.
Released next month, Mockingbird finds the Gibson Brothers working with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, who...
Released next month, Mockingbird finds the Gibson Brothers working with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, who...
- 10/11/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Musician Erykah Badu is certainly no stranger to controversy, and the psychedelic rock quartert The Flaming Lips are certainly no strangers to being, well, strange. So perhaps it’s not surprising that the mixture of the two would make for an entirely unwholesome blend of the odd and gratuitous.
That’s perhaps the best way to describe the Lips’ video for their latest single, "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" from their compilation album of collaborations entitled The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. The track is appropriately Lips-like and enjoyable – with some great vocals courtesy of Badu – but it’s her sister, Nayrok Badu, that steals the show from both parties. Though it’s not for her vocal prowess, as in this completely Nsfw clip, the Badu sibling is seen being bathed in glitter, blood, and Hand Soap (we hope it’s hand soap, not semen as the...
That’s perhaps the best way to describe the Lips’ video for their latest single, "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" from their compilation album of collaborations entitled The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. The track is appropriately Lips-like and enjoyable – with some great vocals courtesy of Badu – but it’s her sister, Nayrok Badu, that steals the show from both parties. Though it’s not for her vocal prowess, as in this completely Nsfw clip, the Badu sibling is seen being bathed in glitter, blood, and Hand Soap (we hope it’s hand soap, not semen as the...
- 6/5/2012
- by Benjamin Wright
- The Playlist
Release Date: Nov. 11
Director: Wayne Coyne, George Salisbury
Writer: Coyne
Cinematographer: Bradley Beesley
Starring: Steven Drozd, Steve Burns, Coyne
Label/Run Time: Warner Bros. Records, 82 mins.
Google query: pot brownie recipes or “stop worrying, trust Wayne”
“Smoke Pot,” the Lips’ title cards announce, listing recommended viewing activities. “Have Sex.” Despite these caveats, and its several stunted years in the making, Christmas on Mars is an extraordinarily real movie. If you disregard the heavy-handed acting and writing (which is like listening to music without the words), frontbeard Wayne Coyne’s intricate plot about the holidays at a doomed spacebase actually adds up. In fact, between the inspirationally Diy sets, abstract sound design and stylized humor, the Lips have built a personal cinematic language, from grunted syllables on up. “Cosmic reality, it’s a real motherfucker,” someone proclaims, summarizing the existential psychoses caused by living in space. This sentiment may also be...
Director: Wayne Coyne, George Salisbury
Writer: Coyne
Cinematographer: Bradley Beesley
Starring: Steven Drozd, Steve Burns, Coyne
Label/Run Time: Warner Bros. Records, 82 mins.
Google query: pot brownie recipes or “stop worrying, trust Wayne”
“Smoke Pot,” the Lips’ title cards announce, listing recommended viewing activities. “Have Sex.” Despite these caveats, and its several stunted years in the making, Christmas on Mars is an extraordinarily real movie. If you disregard the heavy-handed acting and writing (which is like listening to music without the words), frontbeard Wayne Coyne’s intricate plot about the holidays at a doomed spacebase actually adds up. In fact, between the inspirationally Diy sets, abstract sound design and stylized humor, the Lips have built a personal cinematic language, from grunted syllables on up. “Cosmic reality, it’s a real motherfucker,” someone proclaims, summarizing the existential psychoses caused by living in space. This sentiment may also be...
- 11/10/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
Year: 2008
Release date: Nov. 11th 2008 (R1 DVD)
Director: Wayne Coyne & Bradley Beesley & George Salisbury
Writer: Wayne Coyne
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Amazon: link
Review by: quietearth
Rating: 6 out of 10
Even with today's overuse of that grainy and scratchy style from the 70's, the film still had a fantastic beginning. A moon boot broad shooting a rainbow laser gun, a theatrical voice un-pronouncing the film lead-ins, and overall a massive wish that I had surround sound attached to my tv. I think I missed out on a large portion of the film due to that, nuts. But this is only the introduction.
The actual film is shot in black and white with hints of color, and starts immediately with a pensive mood, possibly bordering on space sickness, which then transitions into the menacing. Our main character, Major Syrtis, wanders around trying to get things ready for Christmas, alternately doing and watching...
Release date: Nov. 11th 2008 (R1 DVD)
Director: Wayne Coyne & Bradley Beesley & George Salisbury
Writer: Wayne Coyne
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Amazon: link
Review by: quietearth
Rating: 6 out of 10
Even with today's overuse of that grainy and scratchy style from the 70's, the film still had a fantastic beginning. A moon boot broad shooting a rainbow laser gun, a theatrical voice un-pronouncing the film lead-ins, and overall a massive wish that I had surround sound attached to my tv. I think I missed out on a large portion of the film due to that, nuts. But this is only the introduction.
The actual film is shot in black and white with hints of color, and starts immediately with a pensive mood, possibly bordering on space sickness, which then transitions into the menacing. Our main character, Major Syrtis, wanders around trying to get things ready for Christmas, alternately doing and watching...
- 11/6/2008
- QuietEarth.us
<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"><img alt="09182008_christmasonmars1.jpg" src="http://www.ifc.com/film/film-news/09182008_christmasonmars1.jpg" width="310" height="229" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 15px 15px;"/></span><strong>By <a href="http://www.ifc.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&id=6">Alison Willmore</a></strong></p> <p>Over a decade ago, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne began to think it was time for the Oklahoma-based psychedelic act to make a film: "The Beatles or Pink Floyd or The Ramones or even the fucking Spice Girls -- they've got movies and stuff, they're not just a group." And for a band famous for its theatricality and for live performances that include confetti, balloons, costumes and crowd-surfing in a giant bubble, a shift to the big screen seemed inevitable. By 2001, "Christmas in Mars" was in production, a pensive sci-fi drama about a crumbling Red Planet space station whose occupants are in the grip of despair until an unexpected alien visitor and a futuristic birth give them new hope. Flaming Lips friends and band members make up the cast -- Coyne plays the martian, while multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd is Major Syrtis, who tries to organize a Christmas...
- 9/25/2008
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
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