Hm.
Flaming Lips’ upcoming record, Embryonic, didn’t sound quite this experimental on the rather experimental tracks I heard a few weeks ago. The above video for “I Can Be a Frog” is oddly likable, but as much as I love Karen O, I’m not sure I favor her animal/tornado sound effects on the track. The album [...]

Flaming Lips, makers of the official State Rock Song of Oklahoma, are set to release their first ever double album, Embryonic, this coming September. Two tracks from the record have recently leaked, the extremely experimental “Convinced Of The Hex,” and my favorite song of the week so far, “Silver Trembling Hands.” Pretty trippy for a [...]

Ireland’s Electric Picnic is both extremely awesome and extremely expensive. It takes place on the “rolling lawns of Stradbally Hall, Co Laois, a beautiful 600 acre estate just 50 mins from Dublin” on the weekend of September 4th. The line-up is semi-ridiculous in that it is very, very good. Awesomest acts include Echo & The [...]

Here’s my question: Why?
Why is the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne starting a battle with Arcade Fire? Is it because Arcade Fire played after them at some festival 3 years ago (which you can read about in Win Butler’s journal entry, below), or is it a more basic jealousy stemming from the fact that with just [...]