Flaming Lips

26. June 2010 | 01:50

Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Recalls Michael Jackson’s Death as Surreal

Filed under: Canada Flaming Lips ‘ frontman Wayne Coyne may have never been a Michael Jackson fanatic, but for him, finding out about the singer’s death was still surreal. “I was in Switzerland, going to play a show after flying all night,” Coyne tells Spinner. “So after sleeping all day, I turned on CNN, which had only started to say something like, ‘We think Michael Jackson might be dead … (News Source: Spinner - 17:11:12)

Flaming Lips here in September

Oklahoma’s own psychedelic rockers the Flaming Lips will return to town Sept. 19 to headline Roy Wilkins Auditorium in downtown St. Paul. (News Source: Pioneer Press - 05:11:44)

Album: The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros)

The tribute album is often damned by the diffidence of disciples wary of offending against their holy musical text. Related Stories Album: K’Naan, Troubadour Champion Edition (Octone/A&M) DVD: The Princess and the Frog (U) DVD: The Beekeeper (18) Get Him To The Greek (15) DVD: Breaking Away (12) (News Source: Belfast Telegraph - 09:51:03)

Album: The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros)

The tribute album is often damned by the diffidence of disciples wary of offending against their holy musical text. (News Source: Independent - 23:21:04)

Album: K’Naan, Troubadour Champion Edition (Octone/A&M)

In Somalian, K’naan Warsame’s name means “the traveller who carries the words of peace”. Related Stories Album: The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros) DVD: The Princess and the Frog (U) DVD: The Beekeeper (18) Get Him To The Greek (15) DVD: Breaking Away (12) (News Source: Belfast Telegraph - 09:51:43)

DVD: Breaking Away (12)

Legions of films promise the “feel-good factor”, few provide it. Peter Yates’s sun-drenched coming-of-age 1979 movie is a lovely exception. Related Stories Album: The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros) Album: K’Naan, Troubadour Champion Edition (Octone/A&M) DVD: The Princess and the Frog (U) DVD: The Beekeeper (18) Get Him To The Greek (15) (News Source: Belfast Telegraph - 10:10:28)

Get Him To The Greek (15)

Russell Brand, hirsute imp of the perverse, gets to play at extended length (ahem) a rock star “legend” he first incarnated in the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Related Stories Album: The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros) Album: K’Naan, Troubadour Champion Edition (Octone/A&M) DVD: The Princess and the Frog (U) DVD: The Beekeeper (18 … (News Source: Belfast Telegraph - 10:10:38)

Overheard at the Bonnaroo Press Conferences: Wayne Coyne, Matt Berninger, Stefan Lessard and More

“To me playing a festival like this, I don’t want them to come and say I saw The Flaming Lips or I saw this group, or that group. I want them to say all those groups were there, but it’s all the things I did with my friends. That’s your life. To think it’s about us, just seems silly.” (News Source: Jambands.com - 15:09:25)

DVD: The Beekeeper (18)

A ponderously paced but poignant story about an ageing beekeeper, who follows the pollen trail around a drearily grey Greece that is far from the picture-postcard vision usually seen on screen. Related Stories Album: The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros) Album: K’Naan, Troubadour Champion Edition (Octone/A&M) DVD: The Princess and the Frog (U) Get … (News Source: Belfast Telegraph - 10:10:08)

DVD: The Princess and the Frog (U)

“You can do anything you set your heart to,” Tiana’s papa tells her when she’s a little girl. So, years later, Tiana sets about fulfilling her late father’s dream of running a restaurant in New Orleans. Related Stories Album: The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros) Album: K’Naan, Troubadour Champion Edition (Octone/A&M) DVD: The Beekeeper (18) Get … (News Source: Belfast Telegraph - 10:10:18)

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