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by Luke Slater
Oklahoma's finest export this side of a musical, The Flaming Lips, will release an interpretation of the seminal Pink Floyd album Dark Side Of The Moon, reports the LA Times. Yes. It will be amazing.»
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by Luke Slater
Watch some crazy man giving away free Ice Creams at various festivals across the USA. Loon.»
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by Luke Slater
Watch the video for The Flaming Lips' 'I Can Be A Frog'.»
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by Luke Slater
The popular music group The Flaming Lips are set to become even more popular than their current heights, giving away free tracks and b-sides with their tour tickets.»
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by Luke Slater
The previously mysterious musical project between Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, David Lynch and other various henchmen is now streaming on Chrysalis Music's blog. Go get it, then!»
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by Luke Slater
The Flaming Lips have made the final shortlist for Oklahoma's official state rock song»
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by Kev Kharas
The first raft of names have been confirmed for next summer’s inaugural Camp Bestival event – a bill topped, so far, by the Flaming Lips and Chuck ‘fucking’ Berry.»
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by Kev Kharas
Strange talk heard in deepest, darkest Tennessee. Backstage at Bonnaroo, Wayne Coyne is in discussion with Regina Spektor...»
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by Mike Diver
DiS is pleased to bring you news of a rather splendid two-day twin-site festival going down in Spain this summer. Summercase is to be held in Barcelona and Madrid on July 13-14, and DiS will be jetting out there to see what it's all about...»
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by Kev Kharas
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers and The Flaming Lips head a cast of contributors who have donated tracks to the official Spiderman 3 Soundtrack.»
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by Mike Diver
The Flaming Lips's Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots album of 2002 is to cross from compact disc players and live stages the world over to the glittering lights of Broadway...»
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by Kev Kharas
Bands design t-shirts for Playboy. Mick Rock shoots results for Playboy. Playboy sells t-shirts for Playboy (and AIDs charity)...»
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by Mike Diver
Last night - well, afternoon really - DiS tubed it all the way to Hammersmith for the launch do for 2007's Brit Awards. The two-hour recorded-for-telly show - which went out 'live' on ITV2 last night - was presented by Fearne Cotton and featured live performances from The Fratellis, James Morrison, Lemar and The Feeling. And some free wine. Which was bad. But we still had several glasses...»
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by Mike Diver
Yoko Ono has assembled a varied cast for a covers album of her own material. The record, entitled Yes, I Am A Witch, is out in February...»
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by Mike Diver
Tremendously awesome pop-rockin' trio The Flaming Lips are to release a new EP next month...»
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by Mike Diver
The Flaming Lips' At War With The Mystics long-player, originally released in April of this year (click here for the DiS review), is to be repacked and re-released in October...»
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by Mike Diver
DiS does like to play pop, from time to time, but for every ‘Back In Black’ there’s a ‘SexyBack’ just around the bend to trip you over with its initially impressive skitter and slide. To ensure you don’t suffer likewise, we’ll do our very utmost to provide you with a weekly guide to what’s what, chart-wise. So, here’s the runners and riders – and fallers and non-starters – for the week beginning July 17. THAT’S TODAY. Wow, the Romans were great…»
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by Kev Kharas
In a move that has a nice symmetry about it, possibly the only band to rival Muse for big-show absurdity have announced live dates for November. The Flaming Lips cover the UK in a few fell swoops at these places...»
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by Mike Diver
The UK's twin-site V Festival is to go international, with a two-day event already confirmed to take place in Toronto...»
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by Mike Diver
"A worthless twat."
The words of The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, there, talking about Richard Ashcroft...»
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by ben marwood
Music giant Warner Music Group have snapped up Ryko Inc, home to Rykodisc, for a mere $67.5m (£38.7m).»
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by Mike Diver
Bella Union's quite, quite excellent Midlake have been hand-picked by The Flaming Lips to act as tour support on the latter act's forthcoming European jaunt...»
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by Mike Diver
This year's Wireless Festival (website) is taking shape, with headliners now announced for the event...»
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by Mike Diver
Depeche Mode have rather let the cat out of its proverbial bag: although organisers of this summer's Wireless Festival, held in London's Hyde Park, haven't yet revealed the initial line up, the three-piece have posted the event on the upcoming shows page of their website...»
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by Mike Diver
Weirdo-proggers The Flaming Lips have revealed that their new LP, At War With The Mystics, will get a release through Warners on April 3rd...»
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by ROFL Harris
DiS never goes commando, so here's some Music News in briefs...Isle of Wight festival sells out...Keane to bare all on video...Rollins takes spoken word to Download»
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by Mike Diver
The Flaming Lips, busy beavering away on their follow up to the multi-award-winning 'Yoshima Battles The Pink Robots', have stated that their new record is progressing in all sorts of previously unexplored directions.»
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by Sean Adams
Rock allumini like 'tallica and the lips hit Oz in January for the Big Day Out touring festival.»
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by Mike Diver
The Flaming Lips are to release a feature film, 'Christmas On Mars', before the end of the year.»
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by Sean Adams
We went, we saw, we got sunburnt and we've just returned...
Well what a weekend that was. Despite sunstroke, hangovers and being under the impression that the last train home on Sunday was at 1am (not 9:20 or something silly!), it was great. Very low crime. Apparently very few fence-jumpers, but I dunno ho»
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by Peter Blair
It has been confirmed that all 85,000 Glastonbury tickets have sold out within 24hrs of going on sale.
This is the fastest that the tickets have ever sold, and it comes with one of the best lineups in recent years at Worthy Farm. Confirmed to play are Radiohead, REM and The Flaming Lip»
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by Sean Adams
In need of a decent mag to read on the bus, train, loo??
The music press ain't totally dead, as Careless Talk and Organ both attest. But launched this week - at a party where members of DiS broke the excess barriers and got battered on bottle after bottle from the free bar - is a new mag to add to your rag»
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by Adie Nunn
A load more bands have been confirmed for T in the Park music festival, which takes place in Balado, Scotland, in July.
Following a high-pressure media campaign by comedian Phil Kay, The Darkness are now set to open the main stage on the second day of the festival. Rock.
DiS darlings Idlewi»
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by Adie Nunn
THE FLAMING LIPS are due to release a new EP on Apr 22, the only catch being that's it's only available on import in the UK.
'Fight Test EP' contains cover versions they've performed on various radio stations. They are:
'Knives Out' (Radiohead)
'Golden Age' (»
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by ollie
The Flaming Lips and Justin Timberlake will perform together on Fridays Top of the Pops.
Justin, apparently a big fan of the band through his
ex-girlfriend (no not that one..) bumped into the Lips at a London radio station earlier this week. After a quick introduction Wayne Coyne invited Justin
to play b»
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by Sean Adams
The sixth Elliott Smith album, bound to be full of his child-like bitter visions and softly sung summaries of society is on it's way! (finally!)
This has all been reported elsewhere earlier in the year but we thought we'd bring it all together... especially as the official website @ »
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by Sean Adams
What do you mean you don't like the Flaming Lips? You'll learn. The hard way most probably. Go see them. Some dates below. An extra one too.
Those folks with their odd digi-bits, The Flaming Lips are coming to visit again for another rainbow rub all-over. They'll have a new single too 'Yoshimi Ba»
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by James Moore
Flaming Lips make film about "Christmas on Mars".
The Flaming Lips are working on a film, described as a "futuristic fairytale" by the band's frontman Wayne Coyne.
Coyne looks like he has suspended work on the band's new LP to complete preparations for the film, which is, according to the b»