Wayne Coyne

Insane Clown Posse on Haters, Faygo, and Doing This Shit 'Til They're 90

And now, a valid and reasonable idea that isn't communicated enough: the Flaming Lips and Insane Clown Posse are spiritual brothers from different mothers. Granted, they sound nothing alike and one is largely reviled, but both are headline-worthy outfits who rose to fame in the 1990s and have amasse ... More >>

Bottle Rock: The Black Keys and Flaming Lips Can't Break Through Distractions at Napa Valley's New Fest, 5/10/13

The Black Keys, the Flaming Lips, Andrew Bird, Alabama Shakes, the Dirty Projectors, Vintage Trouble and more Friday, May 10, 2013 Bottle Rock Napa Valley Better than: Bob's Hot Rods cover band, Craig Chaquico, or other music you'd typically hear at a winery. Ostensibly the four-day event that too ... More >>

The First Listens of 2012: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong

As evinced bu my initial take on Tyler, the Creator's Goblin and my final opinion, a lot happens between one's first listen to an album and their final conclusion after taking it in several times. What I love about writing these features is that you get to read my pure, unvarnished thoughts about a ... More >>

Big Boi's Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors: A First Listen

Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is the title. Why? Does Big Boi even have any enemies? Has anyone ever beefed with him...ever? Who is he referring to, disgruntled Idlewild ticket-buyers? Or is he increasingly in denial that Outkast -- his meal ticket artistically and commercially -- is over? It's ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Going for Guinness: Five Artists Into Breaking World Records

If there was a chart depicting competitiveness in the world of music, there would be three levels on it. Stage 1: The Pearl Jam -- for artists who neither want nor need your stinking awards, and will merely shrug at the world when they accidentally win one. Stage 2: The Taylor Swift -- for artists w ... More >>

Nevermind Badu vs. Coyne: Here Are the Top Five Greatest Band Feuds

Uh-oh. Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips unleashed the wrath of Erykah Badu this week by releasing a video for their collaboration, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," without getting her approval first. Which was kind of important, since the video features crazy close-ups of all (and we do mean ... More >>

A First Listen to The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, Feat. Ke$ha, Erykah Badu, Bon Iver and More

I loved, loved the Flaming Lips' Embryonic, and find The Soft Bulletin to be a pretty magical cornucopia. Pretty big fan of 1995's Clouds Taste Metallic as well. Yet I've never considered for even a second if the Lips could be one of my Favorite Bands. They might've struck gold three-ish times, but ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Noise Pop 2012: A Handy Guide to Our Complete Coverage

Christopher VictorioParty's over... 'till next year.​ Well, kids, it's over. Noise Pop's 20th anniversary has come and gone, leaving lots of sold-out shows, earsplitting climaxes, elated Tweets, credit-limit-busting cab fares, and wicked hangovers in its path. As we try to get this ringing out ... More >>

Jordan Kurland's Top Five Noise Pop Memories

Live Review, 2/21/12: The Flaming Lips Explode The Soft Bulletin Into a Confetti Orgasm at Bimbo's

The Flaming Lips (performing The Soft Bulletin) Release the Sunbird Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 Bimbo's 365 Club / Noise Pop 20th Anniversary Opening Night Better than: Any other Flaming Lips show. Possibly any other show. "Race for the Prize," preceded as it was by a long, tension-building wash of pia ... More >>

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on Playing Noise Pop, Making The Soft Bulletin, and Feeling Free to Do Anything

As landmark albums go -- records that completely shifted the trajectory of a band's career -- The Soft Bulletin ranks among both the weirdest and the most rewarding. Which is why, to open the 20th year of the Noise Pop festival, the Flaming Lips will perform it in full tonight, Feb. 21, at Bimbo's 3 ... More >>

The Noise Pop Festival's 20th Anniversary Year Is Go

Yep, it's here: Noise Pop, the little San Francisco indie music fest that turned into a big one, opens its 20th year with two shows tonight and continues all week in venues around town. We will have oodles of festival coverage here on All Shook Down, including reviews of many of the festival's most ... More >>

So The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Was at Zeitgeist Last Night

According to Wayne Coyne's hyperactive Twitter feed, The Flaming Lips rolled into San Francisco yesterday evening, just a day or so before their Noise Pop festival-opening performance of The Soft Bulletin at Bimbo's tonight. The first order of business, natch, was securing some "medical marijuana" ... More >>

The Flaming Lips Release a New Song -- and You Need 12 Smartphones to Properly Enjoy It

​On a day when pretty much every musician had some special release lined up for V-day, The Flaming Lips made sure to distinguish themselves by nerding out pretty hard. They released a new song titled "Two Blobs Fucking," and while the title stands out on it's own, how you listen to it is even more ... More >>

Make a Famous Musician -- Wayne Coyne! Bob Weir! -- Remind You To Vote

Russ Harrington (russharrington.com) for Harp MagazineGrace Potter gets intimate with democracy​So you're the kind of person who forgets to vote. And in such a democracy-happy burg as S.F., where voters are asked to weigh in frequently on such trivialities as the mix of recycled material in the to ... More >>

Saturday Night: The Flaming Lips Play Laser Tag at the Fox Theater

Christopher VictorioWayne Coyne, bubble boy. (Due an unfortunate mix-up, these pictures are from Friday's Flaming Lips show, not Saturday's.)​The Flaming Lips October 2, 2010@ The Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Half a Dr. Atomix Bliss Bomb Depth-Charge Chocolate Brownie About the ... More >>

Last Night: OK Go at The Fillmore

​OK Go @The Fillmore May 26, 2010Better than: Naked hot-tubbing. About 45 minutes into the OK Go show, lead singer Damian Kulash held out his guitar over an audience member crammed up next to the Fillmore stage, handed her his pick and signaled her to strum along with the rest of the band. This p ... More >>

Five Shitty Things About Concerts We Need Apps For

​Keep those phone chargers handy, people. With a patent application filed last week, Apple let on that it's creating an entire e-ticket system for the iPhone and iTunes. Concertgoers will be able to buy tickets through the iTunes store, store them on anything from an iMac to an iPhone, and scan th ... More >>

Ten Bands That Have Rocked 90210 - Then and Now

With the return of The CW's humdrum spin-off soap 90210 this week (March 9), we guilty-pleasure seekers are likely to be treated to a season of catfights, trysts, and--most importantly--new music cameos. Like its contemporaries Gossip Girl and The OC, the new 90210 has made an obvious effort ... More >>

Noise Pop matches orchestras with pop acts and art with sound

Treasure Island Music Festival, Day Two

Christopher VictorioThe Flaming Lips​Day Two: The Flaming Lips, Beirut, The WalkmenOctober 18, 2009Treasure Island Music FestivalBetter Than: Being stranded on any other island.Sunday's festival goers had to be a little more hardy and wind-resistant to enjoy day two of the Treasure Island Music Fe ... More >>

Treasure Island: Indie-rock elders move forward

The Lowbrow Art Sale: Greg "Craola" Simkins, Ron English & Ken Garduno

Wayne Coyne loses the plot, keeps the magic for Christmas

MP3 of the Day: Windmill

Ugly Business

Slip Inside This House

Gris Gris frontman Greg Ashley makes pop oddities with pocket change

Music Live, Worth the Drive

Hot summer concerts for tastes all along the codger spectrum

The Flaming Lips

At War With the Mystics

Repertory Film Listings

More Than Words

Esteemed rock critic Michael Azerrad walks a fine line in his other job: drummer for pop rockers the King of France

Various Artists

Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack

What's in store for indie rock and prime time in a post-O.C. universe

The Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros.)

Night & Day

Riff Raff

Quadraphonia

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Riff Raff