101 Minutes of Bliss #1: A DiS YouTube Playlist
Here's our first YouTube playlist of songs and videos we've been loving recently, plus a few things that would feature on a DiS Greatest Hits playlist...»
The Flaming Lips News
French festival La Route Du Rock announces lineup for 20th anniversary: win tickets & travel
France's premiere music festival La Route Du Rock is back for 2010 with a stellar twentieth-anniversary lineup. The Flaming Lips, Massive Attack, Foals, Liars, Caribou, Dum Dum Girls, Owen Pallett and many more play three idyllic stages in French coastal town St Malo.»
Joanna Newsom added as Green Man headliner
A J-New double whammy today, to some extent, as well as releasing Have One On Me today (which got 9/10), she's also just been announced as a headliner for this year's Green Man Festival. That's not all, folks, however, because as well as Newsom, there's a whole host of new additions, which leaves the line-up looking as below.»
Bonnaroo announces first instalment of bands for 2010
New York's Bonnaroo festival has announced the first batch of acts for its 2010 incarnation, which currently features about a trillion bands. Not all of them are listed below, though. It's sometimes possible to use it as a rough indicator of what bands will be around the whole festival scene the time the Glastonbury juggernaut rolls around.»
The Flaming Lips, Four Tet, Hot Chip and more for 2010 Bestival
The initial, and pretty massive, batch of bands who will play 2010's Bestival, curated by Rob Da Bank, have been unveiled and you probably couldn't have hoped for much better, to be frank. There's some big names, some smaller names and some in between names, but lots of them.»
The Flaming Lips, Four Tet, Hot Chip and more for 2010 Bestival
The initial, and pretty massive, batch of bands who will play 2010's Bestival, curated by Rob Da Bank, have been unveiled and you probably couldn't have hoped for much better, to be frank. There's some big names, some smaller names and some in between names, but lots of them.»
The Flaming Lips to cover Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon
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.»
Watch: Road Trippin' with the Ice Cream Man Part I, ft. No Age, TNV, Flaming Lips and more
Watch some crazy man giving away free Ice Creams at various festivals across the USA. Loon.»
Watch: The Flaming Lips - 'I Can Be A Frog'
Watch the video for The Flaming Lips' 'I Can Be A Frog'.»
The Flaming Lips 'give away' goodies with tour tickets, confirm Karen O and MGMT on record
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.»
Danger Mouse, David Lynch and Sparklehorse collaboration Dark Night Of The Soul available to stream
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!»
Oklahoma rocks! Flaming Lips up for state's rock anthem
The Flaming Lips have made the final shortlist for Oklahoma's official state rock song»
Chuck Berry, Flaming Lips for Camp Bestival '08
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.»
Bunnies, spaceships, aliens, 'blogs: Bonnaroo missive
Strange talk heard in deepest, darkest Tennessee. Backstage at Bonnaroo, Wayne Coyne is in discussion with Regina Spektor...»
Summercase in your face: first information on exciting Spanish festival
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...»
Super her-O: Indie monsters unite for Spiderman soundtrack
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers and The Flaming Lips head a cast of contributors who have donated tracks to the official Spiderman 3 Soundtrack.»
The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi to make Broadway
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...»
Metric and Kasabian team up for Playboy = Flaming Lips?
Bands design t-shirts for Playboy. Mick Rock shoots results for Playboy. Playboy sells t-shirts for Playboy (and AIDs charity)...»
DiS at the Brits launch: your wine was rubbish but we drank it anyway
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...»
Cover me bad: stars line up for Yoko Ono album
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...»
The Flaming Lips announce new EP
Tremendously awesome pop-rockin' trio The Flaming Lips are to release a new EP next month...»
Worthwhile re-run of War, or a Flaming rip-off? Mystics gets repackaged...
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...»
DiS play pop: chart attack, new releases...
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…»
Flaming Lips hit the road, save on petrol. New dates: Manchester, Blackpool...
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...»
V Festival goes international
The UK's twin-site V Festival is to go international, with a two-day event already confirmed to take place in Toronto...»
Wayne versus Richard: why can't we all just get along?
"A worthless twat."
The words of The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, there, talking about Richard Ashcroft...»
Warner Music buy Rykodisc
Music giant Warner Music Group have snapped up Ryko Inc, home to Rykodisc, for a mere $67.5m (£38.7m).»
Midlake: on a Flaming Lips trip
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...»
Wireless Festival takes shape: UPDATE!
This year's Wireless Festival (website) is taking shape, with headliners now announced for the event...»
Festival rumours: the Mode for Wireless, Franz for Reading
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...»
Flaming Lips reveal their battle plans: new album in April
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...»
Music newsy round-up
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»
The Flaming Lips: "It's getting space-jazz"
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.»
Big Day Out 2004: Line-Up Announced
Rock allumini like 'tallica and the lips hit Oz in January for the Big Day Out touring festival.»
Flaming Lips' Feature Length
The Flaming Lips are to release a feature film, 'Christmas On Mars', before the end of the year.»
Glastonbury 2003: A Brief Rundown *updated*
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»
Glastonbury sells out!
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»
BANG!: S'only a Rock'n'Roll Rag. Out Now.
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»
Idlewild, The Darkness and others added to T in the Park 10th anniversary bill
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»
Flaming Lips: new EP of covers and White Stripes tribute
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' (
Flaming Lips: Timberlake on Bass SHOCKER!
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»
Elliott Smith: New Lp from a Basement
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 @ »
Flaming Lips: Battle Demand
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»
Flaming Martians
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»
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