Coyne and his girlfriend Katy Weaver have honoured the pop star’s recently departed dog Floyd

If you’ve kept up with the Flaming Lips for the past few turbulent weeks (or, honestly, years), you may be encouraged to learn that they have some actual new music coming out, even if that new music does involve one Miley Cyrus. For a while, we’ve been hearing noises about the band’s forthcoming full-length cover [...]

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 [...]