Best happy hour in recent memory: Spending the first few minutes of my Friday night purchasing records at Red Onion. What did I buy? The Flaming Lips' Embryonic LP (colored vinyl) and Alex Bleeker and the Freaks' debut LP on the local Underwater Peoples label [you can listen to an officially leaked Bleeker track here]. [...]
The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne has been interviewing for months now about his band's upcoming album Embryonic. He's talked to Billboard and the BBC and just about anyone else. It would be hard to not to weary of Coyne's sales calls. The band is no longer just the pride of Oklahoma and stoner college kids. [...]
Flaming Lips will be headlining an Earth Day concert on the Mall this Sunday. The event is free. The Lips will be joined by openers Los Lobos, DJ Spooky, moe, the Joy of Motion's teen-dance company Urban Impact. Just in case you thought the show would be celebrity free, Chevy Chase will be on hand [...]
