Coyne

Wayne Coyne, singerWe started the Flaming Lips in 1983 and had already been a band for a long time when we came to record Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in 2000. We’d seen a lot of things come and go and were probably suspicious of the success we’d had with its predecessor, The Soft Bulletin, even though that felt wonderful and amazing. We didn’t presume we were going to be successful again or be rock stars for ever.We were blown away by some of the pop and electronic music we were hearing at the time, like Missy…

Last week, the right-wing social network Parler was sold to a media conglomerate called Starboard. The company shut Parler down indefinitely to “undergo a strategic assessment.” It marks the end of a long and tumultuous saga for the conservative social media company—once seen as a refuge from mainstream apps like Twitter—including a botched deal with the Nazi sympathizer formerly known as Kanye West, ties to domestic terrorism, and temporary banishment from the app stores. In a conversation with Gizmodo, Starboard CEO…

I have a seagull nesting outside my kitchen window. It seems quite chilled, so I’ve been playing some music to help it cope with impending motherhood. Which Flaming Lips album best complements the seagull birthing cycle? CleggatemyhamsterGosh, it’s hard to say, because not many of our albums are mellow all the way through. If I was a seagull, maybe I’d find The Terror comforting. It’s got a warm hum, a bit like a refrigerator. My wife is pretty mellow, so when she gave birth, we didn’t listen to anything specific. I’d put…

The Flaming Lips are one of a few bands who have managed to stay both relevant and interesting over a career that has spanned nearly four decades. They found mainstream success with 1999’s The Soft Bulletin – voted NME’s album of the year – followed by 2002’s equally brilliant Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Since then, they’ve won three Grammys and, in 2018, an award for their song Tomorrow Is written – very appropriately – for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.And that’s exactly the thing about the Flaming…