The new tour dates include a slot at London’s O2 Academy BrixtonThe post The Flaming Lips to play ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ in full on 2025 UK and Ireland tour  appeared first on NME.

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.

I can tell I’m getting older because the nostalgia tours are pandering exceptionally hard to me right now. I mean, look at this shit: Weezer will head out this fall to celebrate 30 years of their self-titled debut LP, aka the Blue Album. They’re playing the record in full, and they’re bringing along both the Flaming...

Check out an acoustic version of Radiohead's 'Creep' alongside tracks by David Bowie, Beastie Boys, The Flaming Lips and many moreThe post Listen to the ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ soundtrack, featuring Radiohead, Florence + The Machine and more appeared first on NME.

Forty years ago today, on February 22, 1983, the Flaming Lips performed their very first show at Oklahoma City’s Blue Note Lounge. But if you could take a time machine back to that moment, chances are, you wouldn’t recognize the band onstage. None of the qualities we now associate with this band — the kaleidoscopic pop anth...