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Listen to the Flaming Lips Collaborate with Siri

The Flaming Lips’ recent track “Now I Understand” has an unexpected —and not even human— guest on it. The track samples Siri, the super-intelligent personal assistant found on most iPhones. The track sees Siri directly addressing frontman Wayne Coyne, stating “Wayne, I don’t understand the moon, the stars and the sun.” Apparently the Lips’ music changed that for the monotone PA, who comes to some sort of resolution at the end. Take a listen to the track below. ...  read more

Flaming Lips Further Test Listeners' Patience, Announce Plans of 24-Hour Song

If you thought The Flaming Lips' recently released six-hour song was a marathon, the group is now determined to make that seem like an interlude.  read more

Preview the Flaming Lips' Six-Hour Song

If you didn’t think the Flaming Lips could get any weirder, think again. This year saw the release of music inside a gummy skull and fetus, collaborations with Neon Indian and Lightning Bolt, and now the band is working on a song that is way longer than most movies.   read more

Flaming Lips to Record Collaborative EP with Death Cab for Cutie

The ever-eccentric Wayne Coyne and his merry band of psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have been on a collaborative kick all year. After they initially announced in January that they would release new material during every month of 2011, they have so far kept true to their word.  read more

14 Jobs Musicians Had Before They Were Famous

Let’s face it. Nobody is born a rock star. During the long and winding road to stardom, there are quite a few pit stops. Somewhere along the way, most musicians have to take another job to make ends meet. Here are just a few musicians who worked hard to pay the bills before fame struck....  read more

The Flaming Lips Working on Zaireeka-Inspired Mobile Phone Song

Wayne Coyne announced on Twitter last night that he and bandmate Steven Drozd are currently working on a song for mobile phones. However, this is no mere ringtone or soundtrack to a cool app. The song is designed to operate like the Flaming Lips album, Zaireeka, which requires the four discs that make up the record to be played at the same time. Which is to say: the new telephone tune only comes to fruition when its four separate parts are played simultaneously on four phones....  read more

Watch Ariel Pink's Wayne Coyne-Directed Video for "Round & Round"

You know you’re in for a trip when a music video kicks off with Wayne Coyne sticking his face into the frame saying, “This is the breast milk.”...  read more

Watch Wayne Coyne Paint with His Own Blood

Creativity’s just in his blood, maaan. Ahem....  read more

Industry Chat: Flaming Lips Manager Scott Booker

You'd never guess it, but the guy that manages the Flaming Lips is running an academic program at a public university in, literally, middle America...  read more

Wayne Coyne Unveils New Flaming Lips Movie

For better or for worse, the Flaming Lips are synonymous with weird. Their onstage antics include—but are in no way limited to—a human-size, crowd-surfing hampster ball, projectile confetti and enough laser pointers to cause some serious retinal damage. Topics covered on their albums range from the cosmos to robots to Vaseline. So it was no surprise when frontman Wayne Coyne was caught taking a bath on the front lawn, or when, in 2008, the Lips released the long-awaited Christmas on Mars, a movie about a suicidal Santa in outer space which starred Coyne as a Martian....  read more