Releasing the bleakest record of their career — and yes, we realize Embryonic wasn't exactly a walk in the park either — hasn't diminished The Flaming Lips' sense of showmanship one bit. In fact, if last night's Fallon appearance is any indication, they're as over-the-top as ever... more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorEvery week, eMusic's editorial team assembles a newsletter called The Crib Sheet, which features the five new records we think are essential listening. This is your chance to tell us what you think of the… more »
By Ryan Reed, eMusic ContributorThe 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… more »
By Dan Hyman, eMusic ContributorHidden within the cheery, let's-release-music-in-a-gummy-bear-and-ride-through-life-in-a-metaphorical-plastic-bubble public persona that has come to define The Flaming Lips over the past decade, darker things have been lurking: angst, anxiety, a deep fear of the unknown. And while the… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAccording to NME, The Black Keys start work on their eighth record this week, with plans to have it wrapped by March and released in late 2013. (That'd be just two years after their last… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorEvery year, when eMusic's editorial staff compiles our annual best-of list, the goal is never to come to some kind of academic determination of the year's best records via a series of complicated formulas and… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorSome artists just have it: the ability to lead us around by the nose. We happily let them do anything; they have passports to go anywhere, try whatever crazy idea pops into their head. Wear… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorNo one combines sawmill-roar noise, dying-planet sadness and mad-scientist glee with the heartfelt sincerity of The Flaming Lips. In return, the music world writes Wayne Coyne and his fellow Oklahomans a blank creative check, which… more »
By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-ChiefThe biggest incentive to get up early and wait in line on Record Store Day -- besides the satisfaction of supporting your local record retailer -- is the spate of limited edition pressings labels ship… more »
By Jim DeRogatis, eMusic ContributorThe band's first unqualified masterpiece (and its last indie release) follows its second major lineup change, with Richard quitting the band and guitarist-vocalist Jonathan "Dingus" Donahue and drummer Nathan Roberts coming onboard. Recorded with soon-to-be… more »
By Jim DeRogatis, eMusic ContributorFormed in 1983, the Flaming Lips are fast approaching their third decade as one of the most inspired and creative bands in rock, on stage as well as in their distinctive recordings. As noted in… more »
By Christopher R. Weingarten, eMusic ContributorSounds like someone's gotten into the acid again! Since 1999's The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips spent a solid decade riding giddy, audacious waves of indie-rock cult-superstardom; erupting like a snugglier, daffier Radiohead; racing for… more »