Turning their backs on the commercial, Oklahoma pop oddballs go back to their experimental roots – with sublime results

Both will be out before they headline at the Electric Picnic

With less than a week to go until the Belsonic festival in Custom House Square, Belfast, organisers have just announced the stage times.

The Flaming Lips have confirmed an August visit to Belfast’s Custom House Square.

There’s a childlike wonder to being part of a Flaming Lips audience, the show akin to being told a ripping bedtime yarn by a lunatic uncle.

There really is no substitute for the first time you see The Flaming Lips live: it’s easy to spot Lips virgins at 20 paces: slack jaw, mouth agape, eyes...

hotpress.com are proud to be the first to reveal that the Flaming Lips are set to play a very, very special show in Ireland.

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Until recently one of the ultimate indie cult bands, The Flaming Lips have survived the ravages of heroin, acid and a hunting trip with William Burroughs....

Join the Flaming Lips on stage at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny on June 24!

Haven't you always wanted to parade around on stage for the screaming masses dressed up as a rabbit?

Where do they get them? Once again lovable Uncle Wayne is back with yet another slice of sublime musical weirdness, this time tackling subjects as heavy as...

As is their way, the Flaming Lips have inspired a highly surreal spectacle, this time in Dublin's Grafton Street.

For those who thought that treading water was no way to dismantle an atomic bomb, and that when added together X and Y amounted to nothing much at all, over...

Annual article: Flaming Lip Wayne Coyne explains their metamorphosis from scuzzy little death-rock band to space-aged pantomime.

They may have started out as avant garde indie noisemongers, but The Flaming Lips have matured into one of the greatest and most musical bands on Planet...

Wayne Coyne would like to share a secret. Thing is, he shouldn’t really be telling you. Maybe he’s stirring hornets here and, well, that’s not what...

Over the past five years, Oklahoma psych-pop practitioners The Flaming Lips have become perhaps the foremost cult band of their generation. Olaf Tyaransen...

Positivity, great music and animal suits – why wouldn’t you vote for the Flaming Lips frontman as leader of the world. Campaign managers Eamon Sweeney &...

"The gig of a lifetime"

Read Eamon Sweeney's review of show-stoppers, The Flaming Lips

The Lips' latest high-concept surrealistic pillow fight between good and evil

The Flaming Lips, whose new record is a 'concept album about death' are possibly the most life-affirming band you’ll hear this year. Frontman Wayne...

THE FLAMING LIPS: "Transmissions From The Satellite Heart" (Warner)

Their hour has come round at last. The Flaming Lips could've been forgiven for feeling usurped when their sister ship Mercury Rev steamed away with the...