Gear Fetish Energizes Landy’s Eros and Omissions Space Pop
Actor Adam Goldberg got deep in Dazed and Confused and Waking Life, heroic in The Hebrew Hammer and Saving Private Ryan, and strange in The Flaming Lips’ cult holiday film Christmas on Mars. Now he’s...
View ArticleAll Tomorrow’s Parties Planner: Best Indie Bands
Mammoth package festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza and Outside Lands routinely dilute their indie acts with chart-busting big shots. But not All Tomorrow’s Parties, the highly regarded music...
View ArticleColbertNation.com Streams Free Albums From Musical Guests
From Rush and The Roots to TV On the Radio (above), The Colbert Report has serenaded music fans with skill. Now the faux news show is set to stream online full-lengths from guests like The Flaming...
View ArticleReview: Science Trips Out on Music in The Heart Is a Drum Machine
What is music? It’s a simple question, but it leads director Christopher Pomerenke in many complicated artistic and scientific directions in his documentary The Heart Is a Drum Machine, out Tuesday on...
View ArticleBonnaroo Needs You: Win 2 Tickets to Music Fest
Looking to score two tickets with media access to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, as well as a new Flip UltraHD digicam to capture the fun for posterity? Wow, what a coincidence. Wired.com is...
View ArticlePlaylist: Flaming Lips Go to Dark Side of the Moon
Listen to The Flaming Lips’ cover of Pink Floyd’s “Money” in this week’s Playlist podcast. The tweaked-out song is part of the Oklahoma band’s larger project to cover Floyd’s seminal stoner album The...
View ArticleVideo: Tera Melos Probes the Limits of Dork Horror
Challenging math-punk trio Tera Melos takes dorks to the dark side in the hilarious but disturbing low-budget video for “The Skin Surf.” Its scattershot imagery, stuffed with suspicious liquids and...
View ArticleFlaming Lips Make Smartphone Symphony With 12 YouTube Clips
The Flaming Lips’ new single is a YouTube symphony that requires 12 smartphones to be properly heard. Released on Valentine’s Day, the audio tracks that make up “Two Blobs Fucking” are spread across a...
View ArticleFlaming Lips Pack Heady Psych Rock Into Gummy Skulls
From iPhone symphonies to telescope concerts, Oklahoma art-rock band The Flaming Lips is getting weirder as it gets older. “There are no rules anymore,” said Lips front man and enthusiastic imagineer...
View ArticleNerdiest TV Theme Covers: From Ramones’ Spider-Man to Sonic Youth’s Simpsons
This week electropop outfit Chvrches covered the theme song to Game of Thrones -- joining a long line of great covers of TV theme songs.
View ArticleTomorrow, Celebrate Your Local Record Store by Buying These Special Releases
Tomorrow sees shops across the world take part in Record Store Day, offering exclusive releases from all kinds of artists. Here're some of our favorites.
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