Flaming Lips and MGMT, a Bunch of Cool Kids
In what can only be described as hipster’s dream come true, the members of MGMT hopped up on stage in the midst of a Flaming Lips set at The Beale Street Music Festival last weekend, to join Coyne and...
View ArticleFlaming Lips: Live and Chewy
Only The Flaming Lips would decide to record a live video performance while taking a break from recording a live audio performance. Wayne Coyne and company were in New York a few weeks ago to record a...
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips and Weezer Share a Stage… Simultaneously
I’m a firm believer in the motto “two bands are better than one.” Thankfully so are The Flaming Lips and Weezer. The two bands (and presumably their cult followings) will be in the New York area later...
View ArticleOttawa Bluesfest 2011 – Festival Wrap-Up
There were highs and lows at the Ottawa Bluesfest this year, but lucky for you cornershopstudios knows how to pick ‘em and we caught mostly the highs (which may or may not have included countless...
View ArticleYou’d Be Crazy to Pass Up These 2-Day Classic Osheaga Passes!
If you’ve missed every single festival opportunity Montreal has thrown at you this summer, this might be your last chance to enjoy some outdoor tunes! cornershopstudios and evenko are here once again...
View ArticleFlaming Lips and Lightning Bolt Make Brain-Damage Inducing Video
If The Flaming Lips and Lightning Bolt make magic together, it’s some sort of dark magic. The two bands have collaborated on a four song EP, and one of those tracks has just been turned into a video...
View ArticleCuomo and Coyne Prove Two Space Bubbles are Better Than One
Flaming Lips vocalist Wayne Coyne has been pulling the space bubble routine for years. He climbs into an inflated bubble, rolls into the audience and essentially crowd surfs in his dome. The routine is...
View ArticleOsheaga @ Parc Jean-Drapeau – Festival Wrap-Up
Summertime in Montreal sees countless festivals and events. In fact, you can hear most of it from your balcony if you live close enough to the center of town. However, a rather young festival, with its...
View ArticleFlaming Lips and Lightning Bolt *Literally* Make a Face Melt
It’s part lyric-video, part nightmare, part-acid trip, and it’s all Flaming Lips. The Lips have just released another track and accompanying from their collaborative effort with Lightning Bolt and...
View ArticleFlaming Lips to Release 6-Hour Song for Charity
Only Wayne Coyne would possibly think that the best thing to do to raise money for a worthwhile organizations would be to create something 99 per cent of people would never, ever want to hear: a...
View ArticleFlaming Lips Put 24-Hour Song in Human Skull
They tested out the gummy model pretty excessively, liked what they saw, and moved onto the genuinely bone model. The Flaming Lips have taken their obsession with the odd, and at times morbid, to a new...
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips and the Tale of the Vaginal Skull USB Thing
How many times can you say The Flaming Lips are doing something outrageous, unique, extraordinary, etc. The band that never ceases to amaze and shock are one again amazing and shocking. The Flaming...
View ArticleWar is Over Gets the Flaming Lips Treatment, With the Help of Yoko Ono
The Flaming Lips are known for their massive, off-beat, extraordinary Halloween celebrations. But the band is a pleasant mixture of festive and odd year-round, including around Christmas. The Lips will...
View ArticleFlaming Lips Musical Will See the Light of Day in 2012
Who else is ready to see Green Day embarrassed right off of Broadway? The long-awaited musical by The Flaming Lips, which will be based off of their 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, will be...
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips Take on Jay-Z’s Live Show Guinness World Record
It takes an extraordinary man to take on Jay-Z. Good thing Wayne Coyne is the literal definition of extraordinary. The Flaming Lips have set their sights on a Guinness World Record currently held by...
View ArticleErykah Badu Tells Wayne Coyne To Kiss Her Ass Over Video Mix-up
So last week a racy video for The Flaming Lips/Erykah Badu collaboration The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face featuring a nearly nude Nayrok Badu popped up online. The next day it disappeared. At the...
View ArticleRadiohead Drum Tech Killed in Toronto Stage Collapse
Three people were injured and one person was killed as the stage for a Radiohead concert in Downsview Park in Toronto collapsed Saturday. The incident occurred at around 4 p.m., and while an ambulance...
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
They may not always be the first in the limelight, but The Flaming Lips are undoubtedly universally loved. They’re new massive compilation album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, is testimony to how...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Music Festival to Feature Grizzly Bear, The Flaming Lips
“StePhest Colbchella ’012: RocktAugustFest” just rings right of the tongue, doesn’t it? Faux political pundit and Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert has announced his own music festival, complete with...
View ArticleWayne Coyne Replaces Badu with Amanda Palmer Who Goes Nude For Video
Earlier this summer Erykah Badu told Wayne Coyne to kiss her ass after he posted a racy video for their collaboration on The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face featuring her very unclothed sister in a...
View ArticleBring Wayne Coyne in a Bubble and More Madness Home with Freak Night Film
The Flaming Lips’ are bringing Freak Night from the zoo to your television screen. The special concert, which went down at the Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre on October 26th of this year, will be...
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips Take Break From Shenanigans, Record New Album
Between gummy skulls filled with USB keys to screen prints using Wayne Coyne’s blood as ink, The Flaming Lips know how to keep busy and do so in extreme fashion. But they’re still a band, and bands...
View ArticleJack White, The Flaming Lips, The Black Keys Announce Record Store Day Releases
It’s March, which means Record Store Day is only one month (and a few weeks) away. A few of our favourite artists have already outlined their contributions to this year’s celebration of vinyls and the...
View ArticleWayne Coyne Surpasses Himself, Goes Even More Gruesome in New Flaming Lips Vid
If you’re at work, leave. If you’re on drugs, sober up. If there are kids in the room, tell them it’s bedtime. Nothing good can come of watching the new Flaming Lips video in any of those situations....
View ArticleNaked People Get Electrocuted in Newest Flaming Lips Clip
Two naked people getting shocked by a trio of girls who laugh uncontrollably. Close-ups of male and female sex organs strapped to wires. A frog struggling to right itself and a monkey waltzing between...
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