Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Neal Casal talks to the Des Moines Register about the new Ryan Adams and the Cardinals album, Cardinology. "I think this record will be the turning point where fans will really get comfortable with the change," Casal said. "They're...
Pioneer Theater Google Group (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Dear Friends: As you know, Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
LADYHAWKE: LADYHAWKE***MODULAR/ISLAND, £10.99NEW Zealander Pip Brown pays brazen tribute to her 1980s upbringing on a debut album that effortlessly references such nostalgia radio favourites as Cyndi Lauper, Stevie Nicks,Pat Benatar, Don Henley and Gary Numan. Not with the knowing, fashion-led irony favoured by the likes of Les Rythmes Digitales (aka Madonna's producer Stuart Price), but in the same...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Los Angeles - R.E.M., Modest Mouse, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, Jarvis Cocker, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, and Fleet Foxes are just a few of the artists whose handmade signs featured in Under the Radars Protest Issue will be auctioned off beginning September 30th to benefit War Child International...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
'As covered by The Flaming Lips amongst others, here's Paul Newman in 'Cool Hand Luke', performing 'Plastic Jesus'. They just don't make 'em like Paul no more.'
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Yes, my protest sign is a coffee table, and it also didn't make it into the special Under the Radar Magazine's Summer Protest Issue, but who's counting? (Next year, I will spend more time on my tree disguise.) Artists like The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Built to Spill, Sharon Jones, Shout Out Louds, Les Savy Fav, R.E.M., Chuck D, Talib Kweli, and oh so many more donated their art skills and pretty faces...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
• Britney Spears Says She’ll Tour in 2009 Top stories from the last three days: • Robert Plant Says Led Zep Rumors Are False • Bruce Springsteen Headlining Super Bowl • New Music Report: T.I. • Trey Anastasio Premieres Orchestral Work • Travis Barker Released From Hospital • Paul McCartney Revives The Fireman • BarackRock.org Launches With Free Music • Chris Mars Releases First [...]
Rock on the Streets (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The Flaming Lips have announced the forthcoming release of their feature film, ‘ Christmas On Mars ‘, on DVD. The long-awaited film will be released on DVD on November 11 and will run 86-mintures. The DVD is also set to include special features including interviews with band members and a short featurette, entitled ‘ From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne’s Endless Yellow Notepad ‘, detailing the...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Melodically deserted songs.
I Rock Cleveland (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
* Christmas on Mars, the directorial debut of The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, will be playing at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque on November 8th and 9th. Just listen to this description, "It's Christmastime, and the colonization of Mars is underway. However, when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (the Lips' Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips'...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
• Robert Plant Says Led Zep Rumors Are False Top stories from the last three days: • New Guns N’ Roses Song, Release Date • Wentz Protests Product Placement in Video • Britney Spears’ “Womanizer” Hits Radio • The Flaming Lips’ Christmas on Mars Arrives • Download Secret Machines’ “Atomic Heels” • Flashback: Courtney Love Chats With Madonna • T.I. Makes a Plea [...]
prefix (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Mercury Rev has been around for quite some time now, cranking out atmospheric art rock. The band's 1998 album Deserter's Songs was a highly acclaimed masterpiece, and Mercury Rev has basically kept to that record's formula on subsequent releases: lush, heavily orchestrated chamber pop that flirts with the avant garde. Snowflake Midnight, which the band crafted in its own studio in the Catskills and...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
After years of production, the Flaming Lips’ movie Chrismas On Mars has finally been unleashed on the masses. Filmed by Wayne Coyne and fellow Oklahoman Bradley Beesley (who also directed Lips projects The Fearless Freaks and Christmas at the Zoo) in fits and starts since around 2001, the film appears to be an amalgam of [...]
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Greetings, loyal TMT readers, and salutations to you as well, Google searchers, who I nefariously hoodwinked onto this website with the second half of my headline! Being the honest and objective journalist that I normally am, I do not take much pleasure in deceiving the public into reading a story they likely care little about. But this is no ordinary story, my friends. Nope, this is the big one, a...
Aversion Music (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
That Christmas movie The Flaming Lips worked on so long it's not even funny is finally coming to stores.
