Flaming Lips are one of the most interesting, intelligent and experimental rock groups in recent history. Before their headlining appearance at Forbidden Fruit 2014, lead singer and prime mover Wayne Coyne explains why he loves Miley Cyrus, talks about The Beatles and Lady Gaga – and lacerates recently fired drummer Kliph Scurlock. Oh, and he explains just how out of the world their upcoming Dublin show is going to be...

28 May 2014 - Interview

Never before have the Free Music Friday seams been so bursting!

23 May 2014 - News

The album will be titled With A Little Help From My Fwends with pre-orders including a download of 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' featuring Miley Cyrus and Moby.

15 May 2014 - News

Wayne Coyne talks about his band's recent collaboration with "big Flaming Lips fan" Miley in Hot Press, on sale now.

15 May 2014 - News

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips has opened up to Hot Press about the circumstances surrounding the recent sacking of the Oklahoma band’s long-term drummer Kliph Scurlock.

12 May 2014 - News

In one of the year’s more unlikely hook-ups, Flaming Lips, Ke$ha and The New Fumes have collaborated on a somewhat avant-garde cover of Stone Roses’ ‘Elizabeth My Dear’.

10 Dec 2013 - News

The band will release the record on November 29 as part of their Black Friday series.

18 Nov 2013 - News

Wayne Coyne’s merry crew blast into high, high orbit

15 Nov 2013 - REVIEW

Starring Flaming Lips, Boy George, Chris Cornell, Republic of Loose, Los Campesinos!, Turin Brakes, Death Cab For Cutie and much, much more...

25 Oct 2013 - News

The promo isn't as bonkers as we've come to expect….

15 Jul 2013 - News

Wayne Coyne channels relationship difficulties into dark album...

23 Apr 2013 - REVIEW

The psych-rockers give listeners an early listen to their upcoming album...

08 Apr 2013 - News

The Flaming Lips are at it again, this time lending their attentions to The Stone Roses' debut record...

06 Feb 2013 - News

It drops on April Fool's Day... we imagine.

25 Jan 2013 - News

Psychedelic jape-meisters hook up with famous pals, fail to generate sparks.

31 Jul 2012 - REVIEW

New numbers from Passion Pit, Cast Of Cheers, Flaming Lips and live streaming of this weekend's Newport Jazz Festival...

27 Jul 2012 - Free Music Friday

The band now hold the record for most gigs performed in multiple cities in a 24 hour period.

29 Jun 2012 - News

13 Jun 2012 - REVIEW

In which we trump Transfer Deadline Day with The Flaming Lips, Paul McCartney, Saint Etienne, Cypress Hill and more...

31 Jan 2012 - News

In which sleigh bells (not the New York duo of the same name, sadly) feature heavily...

16 Dec 2011 - News

The sun is out and we’ve lashings and lashings of quality free music to bring you!

28 Sep 2011 - News

Check out 'Found A Star On The Ground' in its entirety now.

26 Sep 2011 - News

Watch 'I Wanna Get High But I Don't Want Brain Damage'

25 Jul 2011 - News

13 Jul 2011 - REVIEW

Erol Alkan performs a blitzkrieg of house, techno and electro.

16 Jun 2011 - REVIEW

Find out who is playing when, right down to the minute...

30 May 2011 - News

It's the 2nd song of the band's one-a-month promise

28 Mar 2011 - News

Turning their backs on the commercial, Oklahoma pop oddballs go back to their experimental roots – with sublime results

14 Oct 2009 - REVIEW

Both will be out before they headline at the Electric Picnic

13 May 2009 - News

With less than a week to go until the Belsonic festival in Custom House Square, Belfast, organisers have just announced the stage times.

05 Aug 2008 - News

There’s a childlike wonder to being part of a Flaming Lips audience, the show akin to being told a ripping bedtime yarn by a lunatic uncle.

13 Jul 2007 - REVIEW

There really is no substitute for the first time you see The Flaming Lips live: it’s easy to spot Lips virgins at 20 paces: slack jaw, mouth agape, eyes swollen with something akin to childhood glee.

01 Dec 2006 - REVIEW

hotpress.com are proud to be the first to reveal that the Flaming Lips are set to play a very, very special show in Ireland.

04 Aug 2006 - News

Listen to the top 10 entries and decide.

09 Jun 2006 - News

Until recently one of the ultimate indie cult bands, The Flaming Lips have survived the ravages of heroin, acid and a hunting trip with William Burroughs. Now, their new album At War With The Mystics finds them taking their funky psychedelia to strange new places – including the upper reaches of the charts for the first time. Could it be that their moment has finally come? Interviews: Craig Fitzsimons (now) and Peter Murphy (then). additional reporting: Stuart Clark, Ed Power and Jackie Hayden

03 May 2006 - Interview

Join the Flaming Lips on stage at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny on June 24!

02 May 2006 - News

Haven't you always wanted to parade around on stage for the screaming masses dressed up as a rabbit?

20 Apr 2006 - News

Where do they get them? Once again lovable Uncle Wayne is back with yet another slice of sublime musical weirdness, this time tackling subjects as heavy as global political attitudes and positions of power in the wonderfully abstract and uplifting manner which only The Flaming Lips are capable of. In the vein of ‘Do You Realize’ Coyne questions the listeners' understanding of the mindset of those in power before concluding “You can not know yourself or what you’d really do with all your power”. This all unfolds amid a backdrop of typically weird and eclectic festival friendly sounds making for an infectious, intelligent and very welcome respite to the barrage of Blair bashing and anti-Bush protest songs. On this form Coyne and co just can’t be bettered.

11 Apr 2006 - REVIEW

As is their way, the Flaming Lips have inspired a highly surreal spectacle, this time in Dublin's Grafton Street.

31 Mar 2006 - News

For those who thought that treading water was no way to dismantle an atomic bomb, and that when added together X and Y amounted to nothing much at all, over the horizon some long-awaited ballast is about to arrive. Wayne Coyne prefers a white suit to a white hat, but make no mistake; At War With The Mystics is one hell of a heroic and defiant album.

15 Mar 2006 - REVIEW

Annual article: Flaming Lip Wayne Coyne explains their metamorphosis from scuzzy little death-rock band to space-aged pantomime.

20 Dec 2005 - Interview

In what has to be the interview of the festival, frontman of the Flaming Lips Wayne Coyne charms the HP chat room crowd.

03 Oct 2005 - Video

They may have started out as avant garde indie noisemongers, but The Flaming Lips have matured into one of the greatest and most musical bands on Planet Earth. Plus, they do an utterly magnificent live show!

02 Sep 2005 - Interview

Wayne Coyne would like to share a secret. Thing is, he shouldn’t really be telling you. Maybe he’s stirring hornets here and, well, that’s not what he’s about.

22 Aug 2005 - Interview

Over the past five years, Oklahoma psych-pop practitioners The Flaming Lips have become perhaps the foremost cult band of their generation. Olaf Tyaransen caught up with the Lips’ main man Wayne Coyne at the Jack Daniels birthday bash in Tennessee to discuss life, love, major label patronage and the vexed question of whether or not there’s life on Mars.

01 Dec 2004 - Interview

The Flaming Lips return to the fold with this neatly packaged mini-album featuring four new tracks and a series of remixes from their 2002 opus, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.

03 Dec 2003 - REVIEW

Positivity, great music and animal suits – why wouldn’t you vote for the Flaming Lips frontman as leader of the world. Campaign managers Eamon Sweeney & John Walshe

01 Aug 2003 - Interview

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24 Jul 2003 - Witnness Interview

"The gig of a lifetime"

15 Jul 2003 - REVIEW

Read Eamon Sweeney's review of show-stoppers, The Flaming Lips

14 Jul 2003 - REVIEW

31 Jan 2003 - REVIEW

The Flaming Lips, whose new record is a 'concept album about death' are possibly the most life-affirming band you’ll hear this year. Frontman Wayne Coyne explains why

03 Sep 2002 - Interview

The Lips' latest high-concept surrealistic pillow fight between good and evil

11 Jul 2002 - REVIEW

Their hour has come round at last. The Flaming Lips could've been forgiven for feeling usurped when their sister ship Mercury Rev steamed away with the garlands for Deserter's Songs last December, but in truth, both collectives are in competition with no-one but themselves and the gods.

09 Jun 1999 - REVIEW

THE FLAMING LIPS: "Transmissions From The Satellite Heart" (Warner)

20 Oct 1993 - REVIEW

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