Quick Before It Melts — Like a mystical marching band on the make, The Flaming Lips‘ “Silver Trembling Hands” charges  towards you without regard for who or what is in its path.  The first sample of what’s to come from the double album Embryonic has some of th... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Paste interviews Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. The Oxford American lists the best Southern nonfiction of all time. NME reports that Jack White and Keith Richards are recording a couple of tracks together. Paste lists the best voices in... more info

Nialler9 — This might just be my post of the year. 20 songs from 24 artists (remixes double it up) who appear at Electric Picnic this year clocking in at 63 minutes. This mixtape has some of my favourite music of the year contained within it, mixed to the best ... more info

Topix — If he's not careful, a reviewer tasked with discussing a Flaming Lips concert could exhaust his allotted word count simply mentioning things like the giant bubble encapsulating frontman Wayne Coyne at the start of the concert; the inflatable butterfl... more info

Stereogum — Fresh off Call And Response and the Calls And Responses EPs, New Jersey resident Dayve Hawk, aka Memory Tapes/Cassette and Weird Tapes main man, has released his debut full-length Seek Magic. The first track we've heard from it, "Plain Material," fin... more info

Said the Gramophone — The Hidden Cameras - "Ratify the New" The Flaming Lips - "The Captain" These songs have fictional physics. The kind of dream science that anything can happen if you just start small. These songs move slowly like the sun. They move like mountains tap... more info

Pasta Primavera — Tonight in Baltimore don’t miss out on a special show at Load Of Fun with The Carnival of BROS featuring AK Slaughter, Lizz King, Mr. Unloved (philly), Rare Candy, Burlesque by Paco Fish and Debi Gonzales, ridiculous comedy by Tim Paggi.  Meanwh... more info

Music For Ants — If ever you need a reminder of the life-affirming power of a great concert, go see The Flaming Lips.  If you know anything about Oklahoma psych-pop legends, you know they put on one of the most crazy, visually spectacular, musically overwhelmin... more info

Mercury News, California — The first day focuses on electronic-music artists, such as MGMT, MSTRKRFT and the Streets. But it's the second day that really has us hooked, with indie-rock acts the Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo, Bob Mould and the Decemberists. more info

Live Daily — The experimental space-rock of The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] has been described in many ways, but generally speaking it's pigeon-hole resistant. Perhaps it's time for a new genre for artist like them--"anything-goes rock?" To best appreciate The Fl... more info