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I used four wireless speakers to finally hear this album that's almost impossible to listen to – and it made my brain hurt (in a good way)

And it only took me two decades to do it

What Hi-Fi? · Aug 5

The Flaming Lips live: Somerset House can barely contain them

4/5 Wayne Coyne rips a new hole in Somerset House as part of their Summer Series

Evening Standard · Jul 28

The Flaming Lips axe show as frontman Wayne Coyne battles pneumonia

Wayne Coyne was admitted to hospital with pneumonia, forcing The Flaming Lips to cancel their Vienna concert.

BANG Premier · Jun 16

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The Flaming Lips review – stops and starts make this too much of a good thing

With lengthy Wayne Coyne anecdotes and frequent interruptions for stage effects to be brought on and off, there was an awful lot of time during the Lips’s two-and-three-quarter hour show when nothing was happening

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2025

“We’re still avoiding him to this day... we would just despise him after a while”: Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne is not a Billy Corgan fan

Beef dates back to Smashing Pumpkins man being "just horrible" during Lollapalooza in '94

MusicRadar · Apr 11, 2025

“You’re 17, it’s a normal dumb night, then someone’s screaming, ‘Get on the floor!’ I’m gonna die. This is the end of my life”: The armed hold-up that set the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on the road to music

Sold on their older brothers’ counterculture dream of living in outer space listening to the Beatles, Coyne and bandmate Steven Drozd very nearly became full-time drug dealers instead of musicians

Louder · Jan 13, 2025

“Defiantly lo-fi, reassuring us that wrongness can feel so right sometimes”: The Flaming Lips’ Blu-ray edition of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Lauded concept album from Oklahoma City’s finest has lost nothing in 22 years, while gaining new nuance in Dolby Atmos

Louder · Dec 10, 2024

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"His ear was very crusty." Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on meeting Paul McCartney for the first time

Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne smoked a joint with Beatles icon –and was fascinated by Sir Paul's "crusty" ear

Louder · Dec 8, 2024

Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips: ‘It was insane. We all could have died’

The frontman talks about sharing a joint with Paul McCartney, a gig in Texas that almost went very wrong and his gruesome party trick

The Guardian - AU · Dec 7, 2024

Nell Smith dies aged 17: The Flaming Lips collaborator killed in car accident

Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips released Where The Viaduct Looms, an album of Nick Cave covers, in 2021

Evening Standard · Oct 8, 2024

“She has left an indelible mark on the word and an unfillable chasm in our hearts”: Teenage prodigy Nell Smith dies, aged 17

Flaming Lips collaborator Nell Smith dies in car crash, aged 17

MusicRadar · Oct 8, 2024

Flaming Lips issue urgent appeal after bandmember’s daughter goes missing

Frontman Wayne Coyne shared the appeal from his Instagram page

The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2024

Nell Smith death: Music prodigy who collaborated with The Flaming Lips dies aged 17

Smith was preparing to release her debut album in 2025

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2024

Every Flaming Lips album ranked from worst to best

Ranking the audio wonders of Wayne Coyne's Oklahoma City weirdos, from the most out-there to the truly essential

Louder · Aug 28, 2024

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Guitar World · Jun 30, 2023

The Flaming Lips’ Stephen Drozd explains why he converted his doubleneck Epiphone into a singleneck 11-string

The psych-rocker’s new rig tour shows off some of his weirdest tones, but this wrecked Epiphone G-1275 takes the cake

Manchester Evening News · Apr 30, 2023

Review and pictures: The Flaming Lips at 02 Apollo Manchester

"They arrive at the Apollo in nostalgic form, marking not just twenty years of their beloved tenth LP, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, but forty years together as a band, too"

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2023

‘A song for heavy times’: Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips on Do You Realize??

‘People would tell us they’d played it when their mother was dying in hospital or their brother had been in a car accident. We didn’t know what to say’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2022

Wayne Coyne: ‘Once you’ve had a gun to your head, petty things don’t bother you’

As the Flaming Lips play Womad festival, their frontman answers your questions on the vastness of the universe, the musical taste of seagulls, and more

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 29, 2022

Post your questions for the Flaming Lips’s Wayne Coyne

As the psychedelic pop band prepare to play Womad, their frontman will take on your questions about their nearly 40-year career

Benzinga · Apr 27, 2022

The Cannabis Brand Of The Flaming Lips' Frontman Wayne Coyne Expands In Oklahoma Via New Partnership

The Nirvana Group, a seed-to-sale cannabis company in Oklahoma, is partnering with Love Yer Brain, the cannabis brand founded by Wayne Coyne, frontman of the iconic rock band The Flaming Lips (and proud Oklahoman), to increase availability to patients across Oklahoma, create innovative and new specialty products, and expand int

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