'Wayne Coyne's Human Head-Shaped Tumour' will include original compositions from The Flaming Lips

The follow-up to the singer's multi-million selling debut 'Animal' will emerge in December

For a while now, the Flaming Lips have been kicking around the idea of recording a full-length tribute to King Crimson’s 1969 prog-rock classic In The Court Of The Crimson King, and now it sure looks like it’s happening. The band has teamed up once again with New Fumes, their “Girl, You’re So Weird&#82...

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 [...]