Wayne chats with me about the 20th anniversary o the Lips’ Grammy-winning album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, the Yoshimi musical that never made it to Broadway, and the lasting...

Ten seasons ago, the weirdest holiday movie you’ve likely never heard of, Christmas on Mars, by Oklahoma indie-rock eccentrics the Flaming Lips, was released to both bafflement and acclaim (OK,...

Nowadays, indie and alternative rock bands think nothing of promoting their music via TV, commercial, and film placements. But back in the ’90s, when Oklahoma eccentrics the Flaming Lips (who...

(Stefon-from-SNL voice) This party had everything… LED unicorns, unicorn-horned birthday cakes, indoor ice cream trucks, stuffed-animal walls, glow-in-the-dark womb chairs, a “bondage-latex room with positive discipline,” Elijah Wood on a...

Some latecomers to the Flaming Lips probably primarily associate the Oklahoma eccentrics with the grand psychedelic orch-pop of The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, or with their...