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The Sales Power of In-Store Performances

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. CD Source owner, Lance Price, saw a combination of new releases and classic albums creep towar ... More >>

The O's Beat Out Phoenix at Local Record Stores

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops; how ... More >>

KXT's Summer Cut - Gexa Energy Pavilion - 6/1/12

KXT's Summer Cut Gexa Energy Pavilion Friday, June 1 See also: The fans of Summer Cut. "What the [expletive] is that?" - Gexa's finest usher, on the stylistic motivations of its patrons. When the Flaming Lips come to town, people tend to shed their inhibitions. For the guy in the penguin costume ... More >>

Preview: KXT Summer Cut at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Friday, June 1, at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Wayne Coyne Is Not An Ageless Vampire Who Drinks Ke$ha's Blood For Energy

There's been an ambient awareness of the Flaming Lips this year, and frontman Wayne Coyne has been the source. He's taken on the role of social media's merry prankster, most recently Tweeting potential nudie photos of Erykah Badu on the set of their recent video shoot. There's also the matter of Hea ... More >>

When Hipsters Procreate: Children's Music That Won't Make You Wish You Were Deaf

I don't know how my kid does it. He's heard "ABCs" a thousand times and it's still his number one request. If you have a little one, you know you're going to hear the same song hundreds - no, thousands - of times. If you're particular about the music you listen to, choosing good music to play for yo ... More >>

The Flaming Lips Cover The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows"

Have you ever wanted some of Ke$ha's blood, but you were afraid to ask? Fortunately, now you can purchase a "blood vinyl" edition of The Flaming Lips' Heady Fwends Record Store Day exclusive double LP. For the small sum of $2,500, you can own one of 10 copies that features the encased blood of Eryka ... More >>

I Poured Flaming Lips Vinyl, and Boy Are My Arms Tired

I really didn't know what pouring vinyl entailed when local musician Daniel Huffman asked if I wanted to sit in on a job Thursday afternoon. I envisioned the act of pouring, and then an actual record, but the in between part was vague. I just said yes and drove over to A&R Records on Riverfront. T ... More >>

New Fumes Covers Gary Numan's "Observer"

Today, we mark Gary Numan's 54th birthday with a Covering Tracks homage by Dallas' own New Fumes. The godfather of synth-pop is still going strong, touring extensively last year, performing 1979's The Pleasure Principle in its entirety and providing guest vocals on the Battles track "My Machines." W ... More >>

Wayne Coyne and His Flaming Lips Get Weird, One Vinyl Press at a Time

And A&R Records, a Dallas manufacturer, helps them do it.

Wayne Coyne Hand-Delivers Gummy Skulls to Good Records, Gives Free Record to Fans

Good Records Facebook PageA lucky fan with a Gummy Skull and Flaming Lips/Prefuse 73 vinyl.​As we reported yesterday, Wayne Coyne made a last-minute appearance at Good Records at 2 p.m. to hand deliver a few copies of The Flaming Lips' newest release -- four songs on USB drives located on the insi ... More >>

Q&A: Yan From British Sea Power Talks a New British Invasion, Aging and Forces of Nature

British Sea Power​Three years have passed since British Sea Power toured the states in support of their 2008 release, Do You Like Rock Music? That's longer than the life of a lot of bands. The time away wasn't for naught, though: The band regrouped and worked on the follow-up to the best album of ... More >>

Last Night: The Flaming Lips, Neon Indian and New Fumes at the Palladium Ballroom

The Flaming Lips, Neon Indian, New FumesFebruary 3, 2011Palladium BallroomBetter than: realizing that you have the most beautiful face.Mattie StaffordWayne Coyne sits atop a bear during the Flaming Lips' set.​In many regards, last night's performance from the Flaming Lips was exactly like the two ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Flaming Lips at The Palladium, Kid Rock at the Verizon Theatre, Seryn at Lochrann's, Nicholas Altobelli at Dan's Silverleaf and DISCIPLINE at Rubber Gloves

Well, all right! Tonight's the night: We're finally starting to feel the effects of Super Bowl XLV in tonight's goings-on in the form of two pretty major concerts. But for those local die-hards hoping to avoid the madness, there are still some other fine options. Just be sure to be careful out the ... More >>

Listomania: The 15 Best Concerts of 2010

​With apologies to Robert Earl Keen, Devin the Dude, Cake, Hayes Carll and the multitude of also-rans filling up the regional concert calendar in these final weeks of 2010, it's safe to say, I think, that, with Friday night's Wu-Tang show at the Granada Theater, the year in live music effectively ... More >>

Picture Show: Hippies vs. Hipsters at ACL

Caity ColvardWell, I never! See more fans in the slideshow.​ We're just hours away from the end of the ACL, but the number of good bands left to play in day three is staggering. Band of Horses and the Flaming Lips are up next--and bleeding into the sky here is Robert Earl Keen's "The Road Goes O ... More >>

FULL VIDEO: The Flaming Lips' Intro Fail... and Save at NX35.

Since we're actually starting to get sick of talking about it, might as well end our exhaustive NX35 coverage--and do so on a high note with this 15-minute clip from LOUD-quiet-LOUD opening (no, really) from The Flaming Lips' headlining performance on Saturday night. And, yessir, this here clip come ... More >>

Yesterday at NX35: The Flaming Lips. Wow.

Danny FulgencioThe crowds showed up at the fairgounds in full for the Flaming Lips.​Wow. The Flaming Lips put on quite the performance. There's no way to even start recapping day three of the North by 35 Mucis Conferette without mentioning the biggest rock spectacular Denton's ever hosted. To call ... More >>

Yesterday at NX35: It'd Be Cool If The Program Had Set Times and There Were No Lines. But Apparently This Is A Festival Of Something?

​It's hard to believe that there are still two more days and nights of solid programming for this year's North by 35 Music Conferette. Because, with yesterday's very well-received daytime programming events and last night's solid back-to-back lineups at nearly every turn, this year's NX35 has alre ... More >>

North by Unrest: Chris Flemmons Wants To Put Denton Music on the Map With NX35-If it Doesn't Kill Him First

Extended Q&A (With Audio!): The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks NX35, Festivals, Midlake and Deep Ellum.

It's not hard to see how The Flaming Lips earned its repuation as festival kings.​In this week's print edition of the Observer, you'll see some of the fruits that came from a conversation I shared with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne a little over a week ago as part of a preview for the NX35 Con ... More >>

NX35 Moves Flaming Lips and Midlake Shows To North Texas Fairgrounds

Hieronymus Bosch's Paradise and Hell, which is apparently what would happen if Midlake and Flaming Lips were to play on the Denton downtown Square. ​So much for a completely walkable NX35 festival--but at least Denton's pedi-cab operators will be busy. The Flaming Lips and Midlake show set for 6 p ... More >>

NX35's Rolling Out Its Nightly Schedules...

​Over at the NX35 blog, the March 11-14 festival's organizers has started rolling out the nightly schedules and venue homes for each of its performers. Already, the site's posted its schedules for Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. Gotta figure Sunday's right around the corner, so keep checking ... More >>

NX35 Releases Preliminary List of Performers

​There's a nice little write-up in this morning's Denton Record-Chronicle about last week's NX35 volunteer get-together at Dan's Silverleaf. But, if we're being completely honest, it's not so much the article as it is the accompanying sidebar that's got our attention. Why's that? Ah: The piece inc ... More >>

Do You Realize That The Flaming Lips Are Likely Playing NX35?

The Flaming Lips.​Last night, at a listening party for his band's upcoming The Courage of Others disc in Denton, Midlake's Eric Pulido announced to a crowd of about 50 people that Midlake would be playing the North by 35 conferette. No news there necessarily--except that four sources who were ther ... More >>

It's Official: The Flaming Lips Are Playing NX35

The Flaming Lips are excited, too.​This morning, after late-breaking news from Denton last night that The Flaming Lips would be headlining this year's NX35 Festival, we've received confirmation from both the folks at NX35 and with The Flaming Lips: It's on.In fact, in an email just sent our way, N ... More >>

Gig Alert: Wintersleep, Stardeath & White Drawfs at The Loft Tonight

Stardeath & White Drawfs is a single entity, an experimental rock band from Norman, Oklahoma. And, led by singer Dennis Coyne (nephew of Wayne Coyne, lead singer of The Flaming Lips) Stardeath serves as this evening's headliner. But the real attraction (at least for me) is Wintersleep.Hailing fr ... More >>

Annuals,Jessica Lea Mayfield,What Laura Says

Saturday, february 14, at House of Blues' Pontiac Garage

Dove Hunter, Doug Burr, Bridges and Blinking Lights

Friday, February 15, at the Double Wide

Minus Story, Shearwater

Friday, June 15, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Plugging Myself. Right in the Head.

A Spune Christmas 2006

Saturday, December 9, at Hailey's, in Denton

Really, Nobody Wants Free Flaming Lips Tickets? Shame.

Free Lips!

Space Is Deep

Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

Flaming Lens

Martin-Coyne's Sun Surely Shines

Austin City Limits: You Read It Here First

Pain in the ACL

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At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.)

SXSW, 3/16/06

Starlight Mints

Wednesday, February 22, at Hailey's

Various Artists

Future Soundtrack for America (Barsuk Records)

Super Furry Animals

February 18

The Polyphonic Spree

December 19 and December 20

On the Download

Is the online music store the Apple of digital music's eye? It should be.

Beck

August 23

Lips Service

The Flaming Lips Have Landed

Best alternative club

Trees

Critics' Picks

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Roadshows