Kliph Scurlock, who played drums in the Flaming Lips for 12 years, recently parted ways with the band. And last week, after a great deal of online speculation, Scurlock gave his side of the story, claiming that frontman Wayne Coyne had been verbally abusive and threatening for years, and that the final breaking point came [...]

In recent weeks, Miley Cyrus hasn’t just shared her stage with the Flaming Lips; she’s also gotten together with them (and with MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden) to record a cover of the Beatles’ “A Day In The Life.” And according to Lips leader Wayne Coyne, that cover is “almost do...

The summer festival scene grows ever more crowded, and now a fairly major new one called the Hudson Project Festival has announced that it’ll come to Winston Farm in Saugerties, New York (near the site of the original Woodstock) 7/11-13. Kendrick Lamar, Modest Mouse, the Flaming Lips, and dance music dude Bassnectar will serve as [...]

Miley Cyrus and Wayne Coyne made their admiration for each other well-known when the Flaming Lips joined the pop star on stage last month for a cover of “Yoshimi” and it seems that their lovefest has made its way into the studio. The day after Coyne joined Cyrus on stage again in Tulsa, they got [...]

Miley Cyrus has long been a fan of the Flaming Lips. She’s been tweeting their lyrics for years and has called Wayne Coyne one of her favorite artists of all time. For his part, the OKC psych-rock band’s leader has tweeted at Cyrus, too and gave her props in a recent interview. So last night’s [...]