Interview: The Flaming Lips
By Ryan Reed, eMusic Contributor
The Flaming Lips have never shied away from life's unavoidable existential dramas — Death, Love, Depression, The Afterlife (or lack thereof). But The Lips have never made "depressing" music: Steven Drozd, the band's multi-instrumentalist and chief sonic architect, has a flair for melodic, rainbow-hued arrangements, and Wayne Coyne, their outsized frontman, plays the role of psychedelic jester, particularly on stage, where he crowd-surfs on inflatable bubbles, pours fake blood on his face, and preaches his… more »
