Wayne Coyne

Was Coachella 2013 Worth The Drive From Phoenix?

If you went to Coachella last weekend, you're probably still sunburned, dehydrated, and physically exhausted. Sleeping in your own bed is a glorious feeling after camping out or crashing on a friend's hotel room floor, but some aches and pains are bound to persist. Fortunately, if you had a good-en ... More >>

Justin Timberlake is Totally Shit at Music, But Here's Why You Should Still Like Him

Justin Timberlake's reunion with music is causing some weird flashbacks and leaving a miserable taste in my mouth. His new album is the pinnacle of mediocrity and exemplifies all that can go wrong when commercialism meets music. "Suit And Tie" makes me want to burn a stack of Esquire magazines and i ... More >>

The Worst Shows of SXSW 2013

Security and Cops Gettin' Wild: Look, I get it. Every drunken dickhead in town "knows someone" or thinks he has pull at the door, but that doesn't mean the hammer goes down on everyone. I was stopped by two cops who didn't want me to walk 50 yards from where the Smashing Pumpkins would be playing an ... 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 DC9 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 gods. Or ... More >>

Parenthetical Girls Aren't Lacking for Kinks

Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington Learned To Loathe Popular Music While a Music Journalist

It's not easy being beautiful. Just ask Zac Pennington, frontman of experimental pop group Parenthetical Girls, whose vocal strains fall halfway between Perfume Genius and Lightspeed Champion, complimented with the baroque pop stylings of Belle and Sebastian. Pennington, known for his gender-neutral ... More >>

The 10 Most WTF Moments of 2012

Election years tend to carry more chaos then normal ones, but there was something else going on in 2012. Maybe it's the aura of apocalypse made people a little stranger this year. We had the Syrian Civil War, the Aurora Shooting, Israel being dicks to Gaza and vice versa, Mitt Romney was treated l ... More >>

Five Summer Releases We're Excited About

To our extreme delight, there are quite a few artists that are dropping new music this year for the first time in a long time. We've been waiting seemingly forever for No Doubt's next album. Thankfully a few other artists didn't leave us hanging for as long. We've selected five albums you definitel ... More >>

Blood Diamonds, Grimes, Kreayshawn and Tragik Make Fools of Themselves in New Group L$D

See also: Kreayshawn at Marquee Theatre See also: Grimes at Rhythm Room For the most part, Blood Diamonds, Grimes, Kreayshawn and Tragik are each decent artists as separate entities (with the exception, of course, being Kreayshawn). For whatever reason, they've teamed up to form a group called L$D ... More >>

Most Innovative Artist of 2011: The Flaming Lips

​It's been a very big year for The Flaming Lips.Big ups to Wayne Coyne and the gang, who took on approximately one project in every month of 2011 and somehow managed to pull it off. They're one of the greatest and weirdest psychedelic bands out there, and you've got to love 'em.Let's take a trip d ... More >>

The Flaming Lips Sell Gummy Skulls With Music Inside

​Wayne Coyne and his psychedelic gang tend to go about doing things very differently from any other band. They've made posters for their shows with their own blood and they've recorded a song that has 12 parts that must be played on separate devices simultaneously. Well, they're back at it again, ... More >>

The 8 Most Awesome Music Stories of 2010

​ Despite what you may have concluded from yesterday's list of the stupidest music stories of 2010, this year in music wasn't all that bad.In fact, a funny blog of Photoshopped album covers was created, a concert for dogs was proposed, and musicians exchanged some choice words.As promised, here ar ... More >>

Wayne Coyne Makes Commemorative ACL Screen Print With His Own Blood

​The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne made a poster using his own blood as ink, according to Consequence of Sound.Wayne poured four vials of blood that he had drawn in early September into a cup, spilled his hemoglobin onto a screen print, and went to town on an Austin City Limits poster. A warni ... More >>

New Flaming Lips Video For "See The Leaves" Documents Yellow Vagina Rays

​What will Wayne Coyne & co. do for an encore? Make another trippy, NSFW video -- this time with vagina rays! That's right, the newest video from The Flaming Lips, for their song "See The Leaves," follows a cheery, blindfolded and completely naked young lady as she parades around town slinging ... More >>

Lil Wayne's First Interview from the Big House

Lil Wayne doesn't really care for music that he didn't make.​Rolling Stone gives a nice little recap of the first interview Lil Wayne's done since he's been in prison.Weezy called in to Funkmaster Flex's radio show from the New York penitentiary, and is apparently already planning post-release col ... More >>

Dr. Dog: Shame, Shame

Considering they already have six albums to their credit, it's great to say Philly band Dr. Dog truly hits their stride with Shame, Shame.With 2008's Fate looming in the background as some of the band's finest work, Shame had a lot to live up to. It mostly does.Shame, Shame, shows just how the band ... More >>

Iggy and The Stooges Shake Up the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Billie Joe Armstrong savors the moment with Iggy Pop.​Rolling Stone gives everyone the highlights of last night's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. You know -- just in case you lost your ticket to the Waldorf and/or cannot afford top-tier cable channels.While each year is unique, peop ... More >>

Was John Mayer's Racist Comment Taken Out of Context?

​No, not exactly. The recent controversy over John Mayer's interview with Playboy has been discussed from nearly every angle since the article came out. The journalist who interviewed him, Rob Tannenbaum, said that there was much more to the interview than the tiny blip that got repeated, re-poste ... More >>

Wyclef Jean Answers Tough Questions About His Non-Profit

The world has watched closely as the effects of the earthquake in Haiti are beginning to reveal themselves, both to the island nation and to the rest of the world. Prominent figures in the entertainment industry have made sure that the media know that they care, and that in their own, often half-h ... More >>

Flaming Lips Take On Pink Floyd

The Flaming Lips.​The general rule for New Year's Eve is to try and top every outlandish thing that you've done at a party in the last year. That's kind of tough if you're the Flaming Lips and you've already topped yourself more times than you can count. So Wayne Coyne and the boys did practical ... More >>

Black Eyed Peas Show Band Muslims, Guitar Hero Gets Cobain Avatar, Puff Daddy Hearts Arctic Monkeys

NME: Malaysian Muslims banned from Black Eyed Peas showNME: P Diddy tells Twitter followers to buy Arctic Monkeys' 'Humbug'Idolator: "Twilight" Fans To Be Over The Moon For Death Cab For Cutie Really SoonIdolator: Music Biz Hoping That Whitney Houston's New Album Will Restore At Least A Little Honor ... More >>

Pitchfork and Siren: A Weekend of Music Festivals

Nick LucchesiThe Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne pulling off the old "human hamster" trick at Pitchfork 2009. See more shots in our slide show from Pitchfork. As much as we wish it wasn't true, there's not a whole lot happening around these here parts. At least not as much as is happening in par ... More >>

The Flaming Lips, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Salsa and Hotties Over the Weekend

The Flaming Lips Dazzle at McDowell Mountain Music Festival Major labels get a lot of flack. Whether it's because they supposedly put out nothing but overly-commercialized crap, or because they're suing computer-using kids in a vain effort to salvage their busted business model, it's rare to hear ... More >>

The Flaming Lips Dazzle at McDowell Mountain Music Festival

Jonathan McNamaraSee more shots of The Flaming Lips in our slide show. Major labels get a lot of flack. Whether it's because they supposedly put out nothing but overly-commercialized crap, or because they're suing computer-using kids in a vain effort to salvage their busted business model, it's rare ... More >>

The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Talks Pee and Their Follow-Up to At War with the Mystics

Zaireeka: Listening Party at Yucca Tap Room Tonight

We're pretty excited about The Flaming Lips at McDowell Mountain Music Festival this weekend. So excited, in fact, that we're having a little shindig tonight to pre-game for the show. It's our first tweetup (follow Phoenix New Times and me) but we're also promoting it here, in case you're not yet fo ... More >>

First Friday, The Heart is a Drum Machine, and More Over the Weekend

First Friday: February 2009 Modified bikes, tasty drinks and The Love Me Nots had Phoenix's streets covered in First Friday fans on February 6, 2009. See: shots direct from Phoenix in this First Friday Slide Show. 'The Heart is a Drum Machine' Draws Big, Loud Crowd For Premiere It's not often a ... More >>

'The Heart is a Drum Machine' Draws Big, Loud Crowd For Premiere

The Voyager Golden Record, sent in to deep space with a selection of Earth's music, is an important part of the film.It's not often a movie with Elijah Wood, Juliette Lewis, George Clinton, Wayne Coyne and a host of other big names premieres in Phoenix, so it probably wasn't surprising that The Hear ... More >>

Behind the Music

Valley vet world-premières new film at PAM

In The Heart Is a Drum Machine, Filmmakers Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke Ask the Ultimate Musical Question

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

Flaming Lips

At War With the Mystics
(Warner Bros.)

Rock On, Write Off

Music can be a taxing enterprise

O.C. Can You Say

When indie goes prime-time, what's left?

Mt. Egypt

Contact high

Mirage

Getting nostalgic at Coachella

Holly, Jolly Mess

Who doesn't kid themselves nowadays they can pull off a Christmas album? Thankfully, a few of this year's offerings don't suck.

Skating Through Life

Mt. Egypt's Travis Graves moves from pro skateboarding to touring the Americana roads with legends

Deerhoof

Enter into an eerie haiku dream world

Light Fantastic Tripping

Easing into an unscripted night out with the New Pornographers

Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

The Flaming Lips

Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid, 1983-1988;

The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg -- The Priest Driven Ambulance Album, Demos and Outtakes, 1989-1991 (Rykodisc/Restless)

The Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros.)

Sugar, Sugar?

The music of San Fran popsters Beulah isn't quite as sweet as you think

Race for the Prize

After a monumental 1999, the Flaming Lips return to the road, ponder their legacy and look toward the future

Unconsciously Brilliant

Restless Records' Flaming Lips anthology recounts the early chapters of one of indie rock's finest

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