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First U.S. Dates Announced For 2026 As World Tour Continues To Build
Fans in the United States celebrated the announcement of the band’s first domestic shows of 2026, with spring performances in Wyoming and Colorado. The first show in the United States will be held in Teton Village, Wyoming, near Jackson Hole, Saturday March 28, as the band headlines the Rendezvous Music Festival. The Flaming Lips will…
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The Happiest Of New Years
In the waning moments of 2025, while in the depths of the song The Process, The Flaming Lips arrive yet again at the fleeting doorway to nirvana; the moment that keeps all of us coming back time and time again. Within each Lips performance, there is a transcendent moment when the band and audience slip…
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ISSUE 13 FUCK YEAH!
This issue of The Observer is dedicated to: To all the freaks around the world in 2026! Happy New Year!!!! FIND TICKETS HERE HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS In the waning moments of 2025, while in the depths of the song The Process, The Flaming Lips arrive yet again at the fleeting doorway to nirvana; the…
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On Tour In The Year 2025
The Year In Review: A look back at some of our favorite memories and show notes from The Flaming Lips 2025 world tour. September 4: The Greek Theater, Los Angles California Just outside the Greek Theater in the Hollywood hills above the City of Angels, a parade of joyful souls stroll away into the night.…
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What Does “Do You Realize” Mean To You?
For me, Do You Realize?? is about the ephemeral beauty of life — being part of this unfathomably strange, unbelievably gorgeous, and heartbreakingly tragic universe, loving it for exactly what it is, and sharing that love with everyone and everything around me. It reminds me that anything that ever lived, even for a moment, can never truly…
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The Satellite Rad!!!
Originally Published November November 1, 2025 The Observer (TO): When did you first discover The Flaming Lips? Owen: I had Batman Forever on DVD as a kid, and I always found “Bad Days” to be such a fun and quirky song, so that was in my rotation for years and years. When I was in high school, I decided to…
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It’s Good To Be King
Originally Published May 1, 2025 Tom and Morgan Seabright of Detroit, MI travel to shows in search of new friends, and old songs. The Observer: When did you first discover The Flaming Lips? Tom Seabright: When I was in high school, a girl I was friends with online made me aware of the Steve Burns “Songs…
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The spectacle-a psychedelic circus
Originally Published April 1, 2025 The Observer: Give us a sense of the time when you first heard of The Flaming Lips? Rob Lowe: I first heard of The Flaming Lips because of the Batman Forever Soundtrack. It came out when I was about 14 or 15 years old. I used to play that album all…
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The Flux Wildly Experiment
Originally Published August 1, 2025 The Observer (TO): When did you first discover The Flaming Lips? Flux Wildly: Back in 2000, when I was 13 years old, living with my parents in the Netherlands. Not knowing a thing about alternative music, my stepdad gifted me all CD soundtracks of Jim Carrey films, as I loved his acting…
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I Found My Tribe
Originally Published July 1, 2025 Q: When did you first discover The Flaming Lips? CM: I discovered the Flaming Lips when I saw them live for the first time 1993. I was 19 years old and had just come back from my freshman year of college in Idaho. I was born and raised in Detroit,…