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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, the album that brought the Flaming Lips to their peak of mainstream visibility, turned 20 this year. The band is commemorating that anniversary with an expansive box set featuring lots of unreleased music and a pair of concerts where they’ll play the album in full.

The Polyphonic Spree’s debut album The Beginning Stages Of… turned 20 this past spring. We didn’t do an article about it because you can’t cover everything, even on the nostalgia beat. But they definitely feel like a relic of their moment: a cult-like psychedelic choir, robes and all, led by the guy from D...

Even at their goofiest, the Flaming Lips were so goddamned sad. The enduring memory of the band at their peak of visibility centers on their absurd, colorful live show: Wayne Coyne in a suit befitting a traveling salesman or a televangelist, surrounded by dancing furries and streams of confetti, dousing himself in blood and rolling across a fiel...

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