Wayne Coyne

The Flaming Lips' Terrifying and/or Delicious Chocolate Hearts Are Made at Dude, Sweet

By now you've long since been grossed out/freaked out/mesmerized by the seemingly inexhaustible creative genius of Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, the latest example of which, of course, is an anatomically correct chocolate heart that comes signed by the band in custom packaging and complete with ... More >>

A Dozen of Our Favorite Posts and Stories of 2012

As the sands in the hourglass run out here at DC9 HQ, and making year-end lists feels more like penance than pleasurable mental exercise, we thought we'd take a break from quantifying albums and concerts, and instead qualify some of our favorite posts from the last year with an, "Oh man, that was a ... More >>

What Erykah and Wayne Taught Us About Social Networking

Erykah Badu, Wayne Coyne and Their Greek Chorus

See also: Wayne Coyne talks about how he asked Erykah Badu to collaborate. See also: The new Erykah Badu/Flaming Lips Video (is very, very NSFW). As the dramatic tension of the Erykah Badu/Wayne Coyne Twitter "feud" escalated last night, I started thinking about the question of collaboration and ... More >>

The New Erykah Badu/Flaming Lips Video (Is Very, Very NSFW)

See also: Wayne Coyne talks about blood, not sleeping. Glitter, blood, some other, uh, milky liquid, a bathtub. Wayne Coyne playing with some foil like he's a cat. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when this video idea was being pitched. The song does take on a different context in ... More >>

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 >>

Denton's Darcy Neal Has Gadgets and Gizmos Aplenty

I don't get to tour the entirety of Darcy Neal's house, but there are no working televisions in the space. She leads me through the back door of the house she shares with her roommates on Bernard Street, one block east of UNT, and into a small living room area. Here, along with other temporarily dea ... More >>

New Erykah Badu/Flaming Lips Track Samples Siri, Sounds Fucking Trippy

Mike Brooks​The saga continues: From the Internet ether comes the (partial) fruits of that Erykah Badu/Flaming Lips collaboration we talked about a few weeks ago. "Now I Understand" sounds about right coming from the left/right brains of these two. Ambient, heavy-lidded, soulful and it featu ... More >>

Well, Looks Like That Flaming Lips/Erykah Badu Collaboration Might Really Happen

Hey, remember last Friday, when we mentioned that Rolling Stone article in which Wayne Coyne mentioned he'd like to collaborate with Erykah Badu? And how that would probably be a good idea? Well, she got in her Badumobile and gunned it to Klearlight Studio in order to restore balance to the universe ... More >>

Wayne Coyne and Erykah Badu, Sittin' in a Tree?

Rolling Stone reported yesterday that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne -- who is seemingly everywhere these days, like those owls I talked about last week -- has put together an album of collaborations slated for April release. While he's already wrangled Bon Iver and Nick Cave (that is a collabo ... 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.

Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne On Regionalism, Gummy Skulls and Neon Indian (Part 2 of 2)

​Yesterday, we shared with you the first part of our exclusive Q&A with Wayne Coyne, in which the Flaming Lips frontman discussed the future of the music industry, the importance of timely releases and how he came to discover Dallas' A&R Records. Today, we bring you the second half of our ... More >>

Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne On The Future Of Record Production, Timely Releases (Part 1 of 2)

​In this week's paper, something of a special treat: an exclusive interview with Wayne Coyne, frontman for noted Oklahoma's psych-pop heroes The Flaming Lips. Coyne, as you may know, has been spending a whole lot of time in Dallas lately. And not just for his fairly standard trips to the Urban Out ... More >>

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 >>

Wayne Coyne To Hand-Deliver Flaming Lips' Gummy Skull EPs to Good Records at 2 P.M.

Danny FulgencioWayne Coyne, just a few weeks ago at Good Records.​Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, it turns out, is a man of his word. At the start of the calendar year, Coyne, in a sit-down with Rolling Stone, said that his band, in part inspired by Kanye West, would be releasing music on a mon ... More >>

Last Night: Wayne Coyne Hand-Delivers New Flaming Lips/Neon Indian 12-inch to Good Records

Danny FulgencioWayne Coyne and fans at Good Records​A few weeks ago, we announced a collaboration between the Flaming Lips and Denton's own Neon Indian, that would result in a limited supply of 12-inch records -- 2,000 to be exact. This week, that record saw its release, and Lips frontman Wayne Co ... 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 >>

Flaming Lips, Neon Indian, New Fumes

Thursday, February 3, at the Palladium Ballroom

Wayne Coyne Shares More On The Upcoming Flaming Lips and Neon Indian Collaboration. Also: Video of Alan Palomo High On Acid?

Wayne CoyneAlan Palomo and his synths... as posted to Wayne Coyne's Twitter feed.​We're just a few days off from The Flaming Lips' and Neon Indian's shared Thursday night bill at the Palladium Ballroom, but, turns out, each of the acts' frontmen are already paired up, working on their anticipated ... More >>

Neon Indian To Collaborate With Flaming Lips?

Danny FulgencioWayne Coyne at NX35 2010.​On Tuesday, Wayne Coyne posted a tweet indicating that a collaboration between his band The Flaming Lips and the similarly I-35-sprung Neon Indian was in the works -- even going so far as to post to the social networking site a link to a 46-second clip of h ... More >>

Today In Music News: Wayne Coyne Gets Bloody, Beiber Gets His Flow On And Tweenus Does The Carlton

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 15, 2010...Joining the long tradition of rock bands using it's blood to make everything from comic books, to well, other stuff... Wayne Coyne documented himself making a poster with his own blood.  The Beibs let us know that he can fre ... More >>

Rolling With The Rodents

Dude Food: Burgers of the Northland

Noah W. Bailey​JG's Old Fashioned Hamburgers12101 Greenville Ave.972-644-8628Dude Factor: 9, or James Garner , on a scale of 1 (Ike, Taylor or Zac Hanson) to 10 (Wayne Coyne) Amigos, I have a confession to make. To me, anything north of Royal Lane might as well be Oklahoma. But since I've had some ... 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 >>

Last Night: The Flaming Lips, Midlake and Stardeath and White Dwarfs Headline NX35 2010's Saturday Night Spectacular

The Flaming Lips, Midlake, Stardeath and White DwarfsNorth Texas Fairgrounds in Denton as part of NX35 2010March 13, 2010Better than: any other concert I've ever seen, maybe?Danny FulgencioWayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips took an awkward situation and made it one hell of a winner.​As the crowds f ... More >>

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Has Always Felt Connected To DFW

Are the Flaming Lips Playing NX35 in March? Sounds Like. But They Did Play Trees in '92.

There was a time, a looong time ago, when the Flaming Lips played Dallas so often I thought Wayne Coyne was a local. But local Lips performances are hard to come by these days; hence, Pete's 3:20 in the a.m. post about the band's long-rumored, now "likely" outdoor performance at the NX35 Music Confe ... More >>

Gig Alerts: Clues Tonight at The Loft; Stardeath and White Dwarfs at Good Records

Yet another quirky, off-kilter pop band from Canada, Montreal's Clues recorded its eponymous debut at Arcade Fire's Petite Eglise studio late last year. Which makes sense, since Clues' multi-instrumentalist Brendan Reed was an early member of Arcade Fire, playing drums and singing on that band's deb ... More >>

Today in Music News: Rick Astley Kills It, Flaming Lips Double Up, John Lennon Exhibit Gets Bloody

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 13, 2009... When you go to a karaoke bar to belt out drunken tunes, most people don't expect to get one upped by Rick Astley. The Flaming Lips will release a double album follow-up to At War With The Mystics. Wayne Coyne says it sounds like ... 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 >>

Today In Music News: The Beatles Get A Rock Band, Chris Brown Gets Charged, Eminem Doubles Your Pleasure, and Wayne and Win Are Beefing.

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 6, 2009... The Beatles: Rock Band will hit stores on 9/9/09, at which point it will become the most overrated game ever. Yeah, yeah. Chris Brown got charged with felony assault.  Marshall Mathers is making up for lost time by ... More >>

Armed and Ready

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High Art

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Flaming Lens

Martin-Coyne's Sun Surely Shines

Prairie Beckons

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Sondre Lerche

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The Flaming Lips and Starlight Mints

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Wayne's World

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne defines "epic but gentle"

The Flaming Lips

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Critics' Picks

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The Flaming Lips come back from outer space to deliver The Soft Bulletin

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Just like before

Let's play four

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Roadshows