More than most bands, the Flaming Lips are prepared for a moment when a global pandemic is keeping people away from live shows. For more than a decade, the band has been experimenting with giant-plastic-bubble technology, making it a big part of their live shows. Of course, most of those shows just featured frontman Wayne…

For many years now, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has been using a giant plastic "space bubble" as part of the band's live shows. As the pandemic started, an idea hatched: Could the Flaming Lips play live shows if everyone wore bubbles like that? During a couple of recent Fallon and Colbert performances, the band…

One of the definitive images from Flaming Lips concerts over the years is the Wayne Coyne rolling across the crowd in a giant "space bubble." When the COVID-19 pandemic began, this bit inspired an ingenious Coyne doodle that then became a T-shirt in the Flaming Lips webstore, in which the entire audience was now in…

The Flaming Lips just released their new album American Head yesterday. And last night, they went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform one of its songs. They did a Kacey Musgraves-less version of "God And The Policeman," and just like they did on Colbert a few months ago, each member of the…

Way back in May, longtime Oklahoma City psych-rock travelers the Flaming Lips teamed up with an unexpected collaborator: Grammy-anointed country star and fellow LSD enthusiast Kacey Musgraves. Musgraves sang on the Lips' single "Flowers Of Neptune 6," and though the band hadn't announced their new album American Head yet, that Musgraves duet was...