Yesterday, we learned that the Flaming Lips have a new album called The Terror coming in a few months. The album’s first single is actually a non-album bonus cut called “Sun Blows Up Today,” a euphoric burst of white-noise keyboard explosions and feedback. This song will also soundtrack a Super Bowl commercial this ...

The Flaming Lips have been in the news lately, but often it’s been for obnoxiously attention-grabby reasons. So it’s good to hear that they’re now returning to the business of releasing intense, freaked-out albums. Pitchfork reports that their new album The Terror, produced by the band and frequent collaborator Dave...

Which is more amazing: that 2013 marks 30 years of the Flaming Lips as a functioning concern, or that it heralds the 23rd year of their partnership with Warner Bros. Records? It’s difficult to judge. The first anniversary reflects the band’s perseverance; the second, their canniness. This happy, heady band of self-tabbed frea...

The Flaming Lips and The Black Keys will be teaming up for a handful of tour dates in the U.S. this spring

Here’s another thing that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne can cross off of his increasingly insane to-do list: Record an hour-long radio drama about the human-head-shaped tumor on the inside of his leg. Coyne teamed up with McSweeney’s, KCRW, and producer Richard Parks to put together the show, entitled Wayne Coynes Human H...