Like Perry Ferrell and Gibby Haynes, two of his biggest influences, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne boasts the kind of outsized charisma that leads some to become musicians and others to become cult ...

Who woulda thunk that a childhood game of sandlot football and the Flaming Lips would be intrinsically joined at the hip? Sounds like the makings of a good book or at the very least an intriguing ...

Let me be direct: I’m a fan of the Flaming Lips, though not a rabid one. I’ve just spent four days revisiting Fearless Freaks, Bradley Beesley’s documentary which world-premiered last March at the ...

The Fearless Freaks is a new movie about The Flaming Lips. It came out on DVD last week, and it’s playing in a few theaters. From Amazon… “Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged ...

Aimed at diehard fans of the Flaming Lips, "The Fearless Freaks" will please devotees without attracting many, if any, new converts. Culled from 15 years of sporadic documentation by filmmaker Bradley ...

Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980's. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole ...

To accompany the release of “The Fearless Freaks,” Bradley Beesley’s new documentary about the Flaming Lips, the band put together a compilation of seven live recordings made between 1986 and 1996, ...

There was a period of time, about nine months, where The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin invaded every part of my life. It was more than a record for me at the time. My father had died not long before ...

In the middle of the madness, I was sitting on a couch next to a guy dressed like Jesus. All the familiar faces were there, and I’m not sure what we were drinking, but it tasted like peppermint.

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