The Flaming Lips have appeared and performed on at least two children’s shows in their career, so it’s not all too surprising that they teamed up with fellow psych-rock outfit the Octopus Project to cover one of the trippier theme songs in kids’ TV programming: The Reading Rainbow theme song.

In 2010, back when they were still a duo called Reading Rainbow, the Philadelphia band Bleeding Rainbow released Prism Eyes, exactly the sort of very good indie rock album that gets overlooked all the damn time. There wasn’t any grand narrative to Reading Rainbow; they were just too people who played very good straight-ahead garage [...]

On their last two albums, released under the lawsuit-inviting name Reading Rainbow, the Philadelphia band Bleeding Rainbow bashed out catchy, lo-fi garage-pop. But the new LP Yeah Right, the first recorded under their new name, is more fleshed-out and expansive, pushing the band’s harmonies over bleary fuzz-jams that remind me a bit of...

Philadelphia garage rockers Bleeding Rainbow — formerly Reading Rainbow — have been busy prepping their new album, Yeah Right, due out 1/29 on Kanine Records. Three songs from Yeah Right have been released already: the fuzzy, anthemic “Waking Dream,” the driving, punk-inflected “Pink Ruff,&#8...

Philly garage vets Bleeding Rainbow — formerly Reading Rainbow — have a new album out in January, a release from which we’ve already heard “Pink Ruff” and “Drift Away.” Now they’ve just released another, a loud-quiet-loud jam called “Waking Dream.&#8221...