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More on Flaming Lips’ Dark Side escapades

Courtesy:Pitchfork On New Year’s Eve, the Flaming Lips are set to turn Oklahoma City’s Cox Center into the capital of Weirdsville, U.S.A. when they bring their annual Freakout music-and-lights explosion to their hometown. Along with a standard Lips set and “the world’s biggest balloon drop,” the band will ring in 2010 by playing Pink Floyd’s […]

The Scoop on Flaming Lips Dark Side of the Moon cover

Last month, we reported that the Flaming Lips were planning to pay tribute to their psych-rock forebears by covering Pink Floyd’s dorm-room classic Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, probably as an iTunes-only release. The Lips’ version, a collaboration with the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs (which includes Wayne Coyne’s nephew Dennis Coyne […]

Flaming Lips tear it up at Treasure Island Music Festival

Courtesy: SPIN Earth The two-day Treasure Island Music Festival came to a climatic close with an eruption of confetti, costumes and Wayne Coyne, as the Flaming Lips performed a giant sized sing-along to their hit “Do You Realize??” with a sold-out crowd. Their hour and a half set was riddled with robots, fuzzy dancers and […]

Flaming Lips to cover Dark Side of the Moon!

Courtesy: Pitchfork According to an L.A. Times report, the Flaming Lips are set to follow-up their life- (and death)-affirming LP Embryonic with a full-album redo of Pink Floyd’s gazillion-selling 1973 psych-rock classic Dark Side of the Moon. The Lips version of Dark Side is a collaboration with the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs (which includes […]

Flaming Lips Update

Courtesy: Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times Word is the Flaming Lips will return to their whacked-out psychedelic experimentations with the release of this week’s “Embryonic,” and Los Angeles-area fans will get the first shot at hearing much of the album translated to a live audience. The Lips will appear Thursday night at Hollywood’s Ricardo Montalbán […]

Ke$ha Directs Her “Dirty Love” Video, Doesn’t Need Iggy Pop

Finally, we have a bit of good news from the Ke$ha camp. After some of her more interesting collaborative projects were unceremoniously torpedoed without explanation, it’s certainly nice to see the star having a bit of fun. Ke$ha has released a video for “Dirty Love” off her latest album Warrior, one that she has directed herself. […]