For their collaborative album The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends, the Lips recorded a version of the old folk song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” with Erykah Badu, and it was good. But in the song’s video, Badu’s sister Nayrok writhed around naked in tubs of glitter and fake blood and white [...]

There’s a Deep Purple tribute album on the horizon called Re-Machined: A Tribute to Machine Head, which, as you can imagine, is a reimagining of the group’s classic album Machine Head. The Flaming Lips, who are not shy of doing weird stuff, stepped up to take on “Smoke On The Water.” You can hear that [...]

Black Label Society, Carlos Santana and Chickenfoot have also contributed to 'Re-Machined: A Tribute to Machine Head'

Yeah, the Flaming Lips have found some unusual ways to present their music — headphone concerts, Zaireeka — but man, they’ve got nothing on Beck. Song Reader, the follow-up to the man’s Grammy-nominated Modern Guilt, will only be available as sheet music. According to Becks new, um, label (?), McSweeney&am...

By acting fast, Stephen Colbert is beating Coachella to the festival-on-a-boat thing. In just over a week, he’ll have a seriously impressive lineup of artists playing on the World War II aircraft carrier U.S. Intrepid. The show’s lineup: The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, Santigold, Grandmaster Flash, and Fun. That’s p...