The Black Keys and the Flaming Lips, who released a 7″ split for Record Store Day 2009, are currently on a little mini tour together. Last night, they played their penultimate show in Atlanta, performing at outdoor venue Aaron’s Ampitheatre At Lakewood. We sent Matthew Smith to check out the action.

“You Lust” is the pounding 13-minute drone-groove at the heart of the Flaming Lips new album The Terror, and its video cuts the song down to a more manageable four minutes. It does not, however, do anything else to make the song more digestible. In the clip, we see a naked man and a naked [...]

Given the fact that the Flaming Lips have been a band now for more than thirty years, it’s hard to imagine a time without the presence of Wayne Coyne. As one of the most omnipresent and reliably chatty frontmen in rock music, Coyne is seemingly everywhere, all the time. Between the Virgin Mobile television commercials [...]

When you name your album The Terror, you better hope your fans are prepared for a dark and twisty album filled with sweetly paranoid tracks built on bewilderingly wild mood swings and bleakly beautiful songs. Luckily, fans of the Flaming Lips wouldn’t expect, or want, anything else. For 30 years, the group has released album [...]

The Flaming Lips’ dark and paranoid new album The Terror is coming shortly, and we’ve been posting its songs for what feels like forever: “Look… The Sun Is Rising,” the uncharacteristically bright first single/bonus track “Sun Blows Up Today,” the endless drone-freak &#822...