Reuters - Oct 12, 2009
The Flaming Lips will play a secret show in Hollywood on Thursday, two days after the release of the Oklahoma City band's first studio album in three years. The MySpace-organized concert will take...
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In the wee hours of the morning on Monday, September 14, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne was signing autographs after his band performed at upstate New York's All Tomorrow's Parties festival...
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Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has apologized to Arcade Fire for the derogatory remarks he made about the band earlier this year. Coyne, who allegedly said the band were pr*cks who treated their crew...
More »AP - Apr 25, 2009
Oklahoma lawmakers who voted against making a Flaming Lips tune the official state rock song represent a minority of small-minded religious wackos, the band s lead singer says. Most state House members...
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Rock band The Flaming Lips is headlining an Earth Day concert on the National Mall this weekend, and Chevy Chase is scheduled to help thank thousands who volunteered to improve parks and schools in 10...
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Seven years in the making, the Flaming Lips new Christmas on Mars is a lo-fi feat of obsession and endurance. The sci-fi movie which frontman Wayne Coyne calls a freakout was created with...
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Ten finalists have been named by Oklahoma s Official Rock Song Advisory Panel in a contest to elect the Official Rock N Roll Song of Oklahoma. Among the contenders are bluesman J.J. Cale, new wavers the...
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This year, when the Oklahoma Gazette invited resident Okie eccentrics the Flaming Lips to participate in its annual Ghouls Gone Wild Halloween parade, the Lips enlisted their biggest fans to join the...
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The Flaming Lips are to star in a costume Halloween parade in their hometown of Oklahoma City alongside 1,000 fans, they have announced. Famed for their outlandish onstage costumes, Wayne Coyne and company...
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The Flaming Lips are set to be immortalised in a Broadway production based on the landmark album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. The space-pop heroes are understood to be in discussions with a series...
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The Flaming Lips want fans to audition for the chance to join them onstage at a show on New Year s Eve in Los Angeles. Wayne Coyne s band have invited people to film themselves dancing to their favorite...
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The Oklahoma City Council has designated an alley in the city s Bricktown area in honor of The Flaming Lips. The city council also voted Tuesday to name two streets in the burgeoning entertainment and...
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The Flaming Lips were robbed on the first date of their UK tour last weekend by a man resembling a whippet. The alt-pop heroes played the opening date on their new British tour in Brighton on Saturday...
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The Flaming Lips will release a live album next year, they have announced. The band recorded the latest performance of their acclaimed current show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles last week, which...
More »Yahoo! Music - Jul 24, 2006
Los Angeles is the city that many love to hate. And true, with its earthquakes, race riots, Malibu mudslides, cancer-causing smog, and pretty plastic people, the world-infamous City Of Fallen Angels has...
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The Flaming Lips have accused Richard Ashcroft of being a pompous dick, in a blistering attack on the former Verve star. In a new interview, Wayne Coyne suggests Ashcroft recently pulled out of an appearance...
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The glorious return of reunited alt-rock legends the Pixies, Thom Yorke s triumph over a severe throat infection (which had almost led to the cancellation of Radiohead s Saturday headlining appearance...
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(7/18/03, 5 p.m. ET) -- Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne recently said there s a chance they ll team up with Radiohead for an unusual collaboration. Coyne told the British publication, NME, We re talking...
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(5/8/03, 3 p.m. ET) -- The Donnas, Flaming Lips, John Mayer, and The Music are among the artists contributing to the July 8 release of the original motion picture soundtrack to the forthcoming film, How...
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(11/5/02, 6 p.m. ET) -- Beck and the Flaming Lips cancelled a show at the World Sound Festival in Acapulco, Mexico on Saturday (November 2) due to the actions of Mother Nature. A tornado blew the stage...
More »USRN - Sep 12, 2002
(9/12/02, 5 p.m. ET) -- Beck has inked the first 11 dates of his upcoming tour that will featuring the Flaming Lips as his backing band, kicking things off October 17 in Minneapolis. The current itinerary...
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