The Flaming Lips
Post your questions for the Flaming Lips’s Wayne Coyne
As the psychedelic pop band prepare to play Womad, their frontman will take on your questions about their nearly 40-year career
Rich Pelley
29, Jun, 2022 @8:59 AM
‘Like them, we’re fragile’: how Randall Poster assembled his star-packed birdsong project
The esteemed music supervisor enlisted stars such as Mark Ronson, Nick Cave, Beck, Sean Penn and Tilda Swinton for an ambitious new project
Jim Farber
23, May, 2022 @5:28 AM
Various artists: Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono review – tribute to brilliance of rock icon’s music
Death Cab for Cutie, David Byrne and the Flaming Lips are among artists reworking Ono’s strange sound and outsider songs into something more palatable
Rachel Aroesti
18, Feb, 2022 @8:30 AM
'My coolness has disintegrated': how pop stars cope with fatherhood
Pop’s mothers have told of guilt, loneliness and record-label prejudice – so do men face the same problems? Wayne Coyne, Ghetts, Thurston Moore and others respond
Rachel Aroesti
02, Dec, 2020 @12:30 PM
Wayne Coyne's fantasy festival: the Beatles on the International Space Station
The Flaming Lips frontman curates a cosmic lineup featuring Miles Davis, Igor Stravinsky, Pink Floyd – and space cakes
Interview by Dave Simpson
13, Aug, 2020 @3:00 PM
The Flaming Lips: King's Mouth review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
After a long spell of indulging in 24-hour jams and Stone Roses covers, Wayne Coyne’s band marshal their psychedelic powers for lush, honed songs
Alexis Petridis
18, Jul, 2019 @11:00 AM
Bluedot festival review – Gary Numan makes waves at science-pop mashup
The Flaming Lips and Future Islands share the limelight with fake fungi and a luminarium at the event where revellers can flaunt their geek bona fides
Daniel Dylan Wray
23, Jul, 2018 @12:31 PM
Festival No 6 review – Charlotte Church throws curveballs and the Flaming Lips ride unicorns
The Portmeirion festival headliners were as eccentric as the location, with operatic pop covers from Church and a typically psychedelic turn from Wayne Coyne
Alexandra Pollard
11, Sep, 2017 @1:25 PM
The Flaming Lips and Green Man: this week’s best UK pop and rock gigs
Catch Wayne Coyne Zorbing overhead in Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow or Nottingham, then get yourself to the Brecon Beacons for the eco-friendly festival
Harriet Gibsone
11, Aug, 2017 @10:00 AM
The Flaming Lips review – potent hit of feelgood psychedelia
The psychpop veterans throw rock’s greatest acid punch party, complete with confetti canyons, balloons and overgrown aliens
Mark Beaumont
22, Jan, 2017 @1:10 PM
The Flaming Lips: Oczy Mlody review – ponderous synth psychedelia
(Bella Union)
Phil Mongredien
15, Jan, 2017 @8:00 AM
The Flaming Lips: Oczy Mlody review – some of their prettiest music in years
Dave Simpson
12, Jan, 2017 @9:00 PM
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