In the past year, the Flaming Lips have learned that their whole gimmick is perfectly compatible with the pandemic. After months of planning and an October video-shoot trial run, the Flaming Lips started playing live shows in their Oklahoma City hometown this past January. At these shows, the band and the members of the audience have all been in...

The Flaming Lips have lately been playing around with the idea of space-bubble concerts. For many years, a highlight of the band’s live show has been Wayne Coyne climbing into a massive plastic bubble and running around on everyone’s hands. In the quarantine era, the band has played to a few live audiences, pulling off [&...

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…

Tom Petty would've turned 70 this week. Every year, the late legend's family and friends celebrate his birthday with a festival in his Gainesville hometown. This year, like so many other festivals, Tom Petty's Birthday Bash was held as a livestream, and a whole lot of big names showed up to pay their respects. Following…

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…