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Full Circle with The Flaming Lips: 2012 In Review

Editor's Note: The end of 2012 is upon us (also the end of the world, if you believe in that sort of thing), so we thought we'd put a cap on things by sharing some of our personal favorite shows, albums, events and general shenanigans. Join us as we indulge in some navel-gazing! When I write articl ... More >>

What do Karen O, Passion Pit and Robert Smith Have in Common? They All Really Want You to See the New Tim Burton Movie

The new Tim Burton movie, Frankenweenie, comes out this week. It's about a boy and a zombie dog, and actually our reviewer says it's a damn good time. But more than the movie itself, we are intrigued by the two-pack promo mailer we got here at RFT Music HQ from Disney yesterday. It features the s ... More >>

The Ten Best Dancers at LouFest: GIFs

There was some kick-ass stuff happening on stages this weekend at LouFest. But the stars of the show were in the crowd. This is a particularly relaxed music festival, and plenty of people camp out with blankets and folding chairs. That is not what the booty-shakers and head-bangers below were doing. ... More >>

Good Times Aboard the Golf Cart Valet at LouFest 2012

When much of LouFest's Saturday crowd was heading for shelter under the tents, the Stagners are making a break for their black sedan parked probably 500 yards away. If getting rain-soaked was lethal, this would certainly be a suicide run. See Also: The Ten Best Dancers at LouFest: GIFs The Best an ... More >>

The Flaming Lips at LouFest, 8/26/12: Review, Photos and Setlist

The Flaming Lips LouFest 2012: Blue Stage Sunday, August 26 "Fuck the rain," says Wayne Coyne at the beginning of the Flaming Lips set last night at LouFest. It was an appropriate if not re-energizing way to kick-off a set delayed 35 minutes due to a torrential downpour coupled with lightning; a se ... More >>

The 18 Best Fans, Musical Moments and Trends at LouFest 2012: Day Two

18. We Remembered to Check The Weather Forecast Soak us once, shame on you, Mother Nature. But soak us twice, and we better be either 1) drunk enough not to care and/or 2) having an intimate slow dance in the rain. Umbrella or not, the diagonal downpour that cut Dawes' set short and delayed Dr. Dog ... More >>

The Best and Worst of LouFest 2012, According to the Fans

LouFest 2012 has come and gone, and we have spilled one or two thousand words in the service of telling you our thoughts. But we are but one editorial entity, and there are no shortage of opinions out there. So we collected a few from the locals and visitors alike spending their weekends in Forest P ... More >>

Flaming Lips Bingo Cards: Download the Complete Set and Play at LouFest

LouFest is this weekend, August 25 and 26 in Forest Park. Tickets are $40 for a single day pass or $70 for both days. The Flaming Lips will close out the night on Sunday, and the Oklahoma band is notorious for the spectacle of its live show. In case simply watching isn't enough, we've created a seri ... More >>

The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Musical: What Will Make the Tracklist?

The long-awaited Flaming Lips musical -- titled Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots -- will debut on November 6 at the La Jolly Playhouse in Los Angeles. When the project was initially announced in 2007, Aaron Sorkin was attached as a writer. But when the play became entirely sung-through, he dropped of ... More >>

Wild Nothing Joins LouFest Lineup

Wild Nothing has just been announced as a late addition to the LouFest lineup. The pop band -- and musical moniker of Brooklyn's Jack Tatum -- joins Girl Talk, the Flaming Lips, Phantogram, Dinosaur Jr., Son Volt and more on the bill for the annual fest in Forest Park. This year's installment is com ... More >>

Arlo Guthrie, Roseanne Cash, the Flaming Lips and More at the Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert

Arlo Guthrie | Old Crow Medicine Show | Tim O'Brien | Jimmy LaFave | Roseanne Cash | Hanson | Del McCoury Band | Jackson Browne | The Flaming Lips | John Mellencamp This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert Brady Theater, Tulsa, Oklahoma March 10, 2012 After decades of neglecting the ... More >>

The Kanrocksas Music Festival Won't Be Happening in 2012

The Kanrocksas Music Festival, assembled last year in rapid fashion with a lineup of surprisingly big names (Eminem, the Black Keys, the Flaming Lips...), will be taking what would have been its sophomore year off. The Kansas Speedway, which hosts the festival, is undergoing a major construction p ... More >>

Beetle Colonies Eat Flesh Off Human Skulls For The New Flaming Lips Song (Video)

We should have seen this coming, honestly. Earlier this year, the Flaming Lips released an EP on a flash drive embedded in a life size gummy human skull. The band even hand-delivered a few to St. Louis. Then, a couple weeks ago, the Lips released a six-hour song, which you can stream if you've got a ... More >>

The Flaming Lips at Kanrocksas

Photo by Kiernan Maletsky​I stared into the expanse of the Flaming Lips. I bet if I were high or holding a loved one or something, I would say: I stared into the expanse of the universe. It's like that, as anyone who has seen the show can tell you. You hear about the confetti, the bubble, th ... More >>

Colourmusic

8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 30. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

'All you really have is the show that night.' An Interview with Marnie Stern

David Torch​Marnie Stern hasn't taken shortcuts. Signed to Kill Rock Stars in early 2007 on the strength of a demo (which saw a cassette release earlier this year), last year's self-titled album served to dispel any lingering notion that she was just a guitar maximalist. Its ten songs laid bar ... More >>

Wayne Coyne Comes to St. Louis to Deliver Skulls, Sweaty Hugs and Much Love

Chrissy WilmesWayne with Jim Utz, Promotions Manager at Vintage Vinyl​Typically, it might seem a bit odd to send a reporter to cover an in-store signing. What's there to report? Some famous dude(tte) signing autograph after autograph, making impersonal chit chat and rushing off fans, inevitabl ... More >>

VH1 Enters Restaurant Reality Show Fray: 10 Famous Food Music Videos

VH1​ Because it's worked so well for Bravo ... VH1, whose motto used to be "Music First," announced Wednesday that it's jumping into the restaurant reality show fray. On the menu: Famous Food, which will feature a bunch of celebrities rehabbing a restaurant with Los Angeles restaurateurs Mik ... More >>

Constellations

9 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Review Setlist Photos: The Flaming Lips and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Energize and Illuminate the Pageant, Friday, September 17

(Photos by Todd Owyoung coming!!) The Flaming Lips tries desperately to give more to its fans than it takes from them. It wants your emphatic applause, it wants your unconditional love, it wants your $37.50 - all fodder for creating an atmosphere that feels nothing short of magical. Wayne Coyne, S ... More >>

Watch and Enjoy: An Insane Treasure Trove of Rare Flaming Lips Videos

So, yes, the Flaming Lips is performing tonight at the Pageant. Expect spectacle, confetti, joy, psych-pop and other such shenanigans -- and look for a review and photos tomorrow. To pump yourself up -- or to console yourself if you don't have a ticket -- please enjoy this mind-boggling treasure tro ... More >>

Sleepy Kitty Celebrates the Flaming Lips Show With a Zaireeka Pre-Party and Halo Bar After-Party

Sleepy Kitty Arts​Many of us have heard stories or seen footage of the Flaming Lips' infamous interactive parking lot and boombox experiments. In 1997 the Lips released Zaireeka, a sort of at-home version of these experiments. The album was split into four discs, intended for simultaneous pla ... More >>

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Doing a Vintage Vinyl In-Store

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti is opening for Flaming Lips on September 17 at the Pageant. That show is very, very, very sold out. However, the LA group will be doing a free in-store at Vintage Vinyl at 4 p.m. that afternoon. As the store puts it: "Ask Wiki and you get "freakfolk" and "chillwave" in ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of July 8

Lady Gaga's superglam besties Semi Precious Weapons will sex up Vintage Vinyl on July 17 before taking the stage with her at Scottrade Center.​ Blueberry Hill *Hayes Carll, September 10 Blues City Deli *John Nemeth Blues Band, July 15 Cicero's *Killola, August 9 The Firebird *Matt Costa, No ... More >>

OK Go

8 p.m. Sunday, April 18. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of October 26 - November 1

Euclid Records 1. Rosanne Cash - The List 2. Jay Farrar/Ben Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone 3. Swell Season - Strict Joy* 4. REM - Live At The Olympia 5. OST - Where The Wild Things Are 6. Tegan And Sara - Sainthood* 7. Chuck Prophet - Let Fr ... More >>

2009's Pitchfork Coverage: Videos, Interviews and Photos of Flaming Lips, Vivian Girls, Fucked Up, Black Lips, M83, more!

Last weekend, Nick Lucchesi headed up to Chicago to cover this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. In case you missed his reports, here's a handy-dandy list of links to his photos, interviews and reviews: *A Flaming Lips photo essay *A video interview with M83's Anthony Gonzalez *Black Lips and the N ... More >>

Photo Essay: Flaming Lips' Opening Song at Pitchfork Music Festival

So this is a Flaming Lips show... Shot on July 19 at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, the rock band closed out the three-day indie rock festival with a set of lush, psychedelic rock.

St. Louis Video: Soul Asylum, "Tied to the Tracks" and "Whoa!/Passing Sad Daydream"

Here's the Minneapolis band Soul Asylum at Mississippi Nights in 1987, tearing through some songs like the scorching punk band it once was. Fun fact: Guess who opened for 'em? Why, the Flaming Lips!"Whoa/Passing Sad Daydream"

Wax Fang

8 p.m. Friday, October 29. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Colourmusic Tonight At Euclid Records and the Bluebird

Pitchfork: Interview with Elf Power's Andrew Rieger

Colourmusic

9 p.m. Saturday, March 22. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Boulevard.

Daily Web Crawl

Live! Tonight! Sold Out! -- That is, a Bunch of Upcoming St. Louis shows

The Polyphonic Spree

8 p.m. Saturday, August 4. The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

Gringo Star

9 p.m. Friday, November 3. The Tin Ceiling (3159 Cherokee Street).

Space Is Deep

Flaming Lip Michael Ivins drops some serious science -- fiction, that is -- on Paul Friswold.

Flaming Lips

At War with the Mystics (Warner Brothers)

Super Furry Animals

Love Kraft (XL/Beggars Group)

Rogue Wave

Thursday, September 22; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Live Free or Die

It’s time to vote for your favorite St. Louis band. Would some malt liquor and acid punk help you decide?

Thievery Corporation

The Cosmic Game (ESL Music)

The Starlight Mints

Thursday, October 28; Creepy Crawl

Best Concert of the Past 12 Months

The Dresden Dolls at Frederick's Music Lounge

Best Concert of the Past 12 Months

Flaming Lips at the Pageant

Flaming Lips with the Starlight Mints

Saturday, June 7; Pageant

Minty Fresh

The Starlight Mints want to be more than just that other band from Oklahoma

BRAIN SCANNING