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The Worst Things About SXSW 2013

This year, our sister papers at the Houston Press music blog Rocks Off and Dallas Observer music blog DC-9 at Night teamed up to bring you only the choicest moments from last week's SXSW madness. See Also: -The Scene at SXSW: Here's What You Are Missing -SXSW 2013: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Spai ... More >>

The 50 Commandments of SXSW

You're going to South by Southwest, right? Or you're already there? One of those things is bound to be true. Well, we here at RFT Music have got some advice for you, and we've managed to format it all into the style of commandments, because one of our favorite things to do is pretend we're angry God ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts of the Summer

Well, the white trousers are back in storage and the river flotation seat with tall-boy sized cup-holders is deflated. We may have a few warm days ahead still, but summer is behind us. Lest it all fade into a haze of sweating (so it was hot this summer...), we here at RFT Music have preserved the bi ... 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 >>

LouFest Postponed Due to Rain: [UPDATE - It's Back, and Flaming Lips Will Still Play]

This year's LouFest has featured much more rain and much less Wi-Fi than in year's past. The presence of the former has caused delay in today's proceedings, whereas the lack of the latter has left RFT Music staffers in attendance unable to update the public in any traditionally timely fashion. Never ... More >>

The 29 Best Songs You Might Hear at LouFest: Listen to the Playlist From the Comfort of This Blog Post

LouFest is a little more than a week away. There are many reasons to look forward to our city's indie music Super Bowl, now in its third year: the Euclid pop-up store, the local food, the gorgeous setting, the sense of well-being derived from minimizing one's carbon footprint. But ultimately, of cou ... 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 >>

Matisyahu Will Perform for Free at Vintage Vinyl Next Week

Matisyahu, the newly clean-shaven Hasidic rapper/singer, will be appearing on August 16 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in support of Sublime with Rome. Exciting, yes, but not compared to his just-announced free in-store at Vintage Vinyl (6610 Delmar Blvd). This follows recent appearances by bi ... 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 >>

Musicians, venue owners and organizers found new ways to make people care this year

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 >>

'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 >>

Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: May 13-15

Jessica Lea Mayfield. Photo courtesy of the artist​Recovered from last night's Wayne Coyne visit and Midwest Mayhem madness? Good, because there's plenty to come: Chicago's Ga'an is at Cranky Yellow tonight and Lord of the Yum Yum is in town tomorrow at the Way Out Club. Maybe they should carp ... More >>

Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne is in the Loop Today! Oh My Gawd!!!

Todd OwyoungThe Lips continue to up the psychedelic ante with marijuana-flavored and skull-shaped candy packaging.​Just confirmed by Vintage Vinyl -- Wayne Coyne will be there today at 6 p.m. signing autographs and chatting. Why the St. Louis visit? He's dropping off copies of the band's lates ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: April 15 to 17

​It's the most wonderful time of the year: Record Store Day! For us at A to Z, it's like Christmas, only we're receiving special gifts from Wayne Coyne and Thom Yorke, and enjoying DJ sets and live performances by the best in local music. Which, as far as we're concerned, beats the pants off o ... More >>

Ten Things Lady Gaga Could Travel In Besides an Egg

So, perhaps you heard that Lady Gaga came to the Grammys encased in an egg. Yes -- an egg. The gesture was somewhat creepy, definitely curious and, of course, attention-getting. But still, we feel that there are so many options for Gaga in the future, in case she wants to show up at more awards show ... More >>

The Riverfront Times' 31 Best Concerts of 2010: #20-11

Jason Stoff​(This is part two of our 31 Best Concerts of 2010 countdown. If you missed part one, #31-21, you can view that here.) 20. Todd Rundgren, Roberts Orpheum Theater, September 10, 2010 "Finally the curtain came down, but the last song wasn't over -- the band kept playing, and when the ... More >>

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 >>

Last Collector Standing, Part Two: DJs Crucial and Agile 1 on Gender and How Digital Music Has Changed DJ Culture. (Bonus Responses From Their Kids!)

Jon ScorfinaDJs Agile 1 and Crucial with their twin boys​(Note: This is part two of this week's Last Collector Standing. You can read part one right here!) Last Collector Standing: Are there different expectations for women as DJs? April: Yeah, I think the expectations are super low. Based on ... More >>

Five Musicians We'd Like to See on Yo Gabba Gabba!

Yo Gabba Gabba! is far more than just Nickelodeon-produced kiddie fodder. It's become a venue for introducing kids to music by Devo, Chromeo, Mates of State, Of Montreal, and so many more. The show's so popular, especially with indie darlings with children, that the show's producers have a surplus o ... More >>

Martian Chronicles: Wayne Coyne and Kliph Scurlock discuss the Flaming Lips' fantastical film freakout, Christmas on Mars

St. Louis Video: Flaming Lips Live on Fox2 News in 2000, "Waiting for a Superman"

Band of Horses finds its rhythm from evolution.

Ben Bridwell points out there's no "me" in "band."

Radiohead, In Rainbows: A Review, Upon First Listen, Track-by-Track Style

'Naut So Bad

Periodic Fable highlights the Hibernauts' best elements.

The Starlight Mints

9 p.m. Friday, May 4. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

Keep on Trucking

Drive-By Truckers: As Southern as they wanna be.

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)

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?

The Polyphonic Spree

Together We're Heavy (Hollywood Records)

That Genius Haack

Rediscovering a pioneer

Various Artists

Maybe This Christmas Too? (Nettwerk America)

Chumbawamba/The Flaming Lips

Tubthumping (remix) (Kotch)/Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell (Warner Bros.)

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

Glorious Glut

Could '02' mean "Oh, too many records?"

Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros.)

Lip Service

Steven Drozd talks about a decade's worth of weirdness with the Flaming Lips

BRAIN SCANNING