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Music review: The Flaming Lips, The Roundhouse, London - "Love is always something/ Something you should fear," laments Coyne on opener "Look... The Sun Is Rising", a gloomy, cluttered electronica dirge from their latest, determinedly experimental record,… Read More

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The Flaming Lips Tour Dates

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Paris Le Trabendo Fri May 24 / 13 Find Tickets
London The Roundhouse Mon May 27 / 13 Find Tickets
Hultsfred Folkets Park Thu Jun 13 / 13 Find Tickets
Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion… Thu Jul 11 / 13 Find Tickets
Louisville, KY Waterfront Park Fri Jul 12 / 13 Find Tickets
Simpsonville, SC Charter Amphitheatre at Heritage… Fri Jul 12 / 13 Find Tickets
Wallingford, CT Oakdale Theatre Mon Jul 15 / 13 Find Tickets
Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE Tue Jul 16 / 13 Find Tickets
Lewiston, NY Artpark Mainstage Wed Jul 17 / 13 Find Tickets
Seattle, WA Capitol Hill (Block Party) Fri Jul 26 / 13 Find Tickets
Troutdale, OR McMenamins Historic Edgefield… Sat Jul 27 / 13 Find Tickets
Seattle, WA Capitol Hill (Block Party) Sun Jul 28 / 13 Find Tickets
Costa Mesa, CA Pacific Amphitheatre Wed Jul 31 / 13 Find Tickets
Las Vegas, NV House of Blues Las Vegas Thu Aug 01 / 13 Find Tickets
Omaha, NE Stinson Park Sat Aug 17 / 13 Find Tickets
Newport Robin Hill Country Park Thu Sep 05 / 13 Find Tickets
Tokyo Akasaka Blitz Mon Oct 21 / 13 Find Tickets
Tokyo Akasaka Blitz Tue Oct 22 / 13 Find Tickets
Osaka Nanba-Hatch Wed Oct 23 / 13 Find Tickets
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The Flaming Lips Biography

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The Flaming Lips are an American rock band formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical [In Our Brains] by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe)". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, ''Q magazine'' named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die." The band is best known for its associations with 1960s and 1970s psychedelic subculture, with elements of this culture permeating the group's instrumentation, effects, and composition. Coyne's lyrics, in particular, both reference and embody the fascination with the science fiction and space opera genres of fiction that were popular during the golden age of psychedelic subculture. His lyrical style tends to use the imagery and plot conventions of space opera to frame more abstract themes about the unfolding cycles of romantic love, highlighting its vulnerability while delving into its metaphysical implications. The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with "She Don't Use Jelly". Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S., the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999's ''The Soft Bulletin'' (which was ''NME'' magazine's Album of the Year) and 2002's ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots''. They have had more hit singles in the UK and Europe than in the U.S. In February 2007, they were nominated for a 2007 BRIT Award in the "Best International Act" category. By 2007, the group garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

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The Flaming Lips Albums

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The Terror Album 2013-04-01 itunes amazon
Chocolate Human Heart (Filled with… Compilation 2013-02 itunes amazon
One More Robot Compilation 2012-11-23 itunes amazon
The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends Album 2012-04-21 itunes amazon
Now I Understand Single 2012-01-28 itunes amazon
The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono… EP 2011-12-31 itunes amazon
24 Hour Song Skull Single 2011-10 itunes amazon
Strobo Trip EP 2011-09-21 itunes amazon
The Flaming Lips with Lightning Bolt EP 2011-07-26 itunes amazon
The Flaming Lips 2011: Gummy Song… Compilation 2011-06-14 itunes amazon
The Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73 EP 2011-05-23 itunes amazon
Gummy Song Skull EP 2011-05-02 itunes amazon
The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian EP 2011-03-24 itunes amazon
Two Blobs Fucking Single 2011-02 itunes amazon
Gummy Song Fetus EP 2011 itunes amazon
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