“Parted Ways” After 34 years with The Flaming Lips, Drozd is moving on
The multi-instrumentalist, studio craftsman and overall musical Swiss Army knife, Steven Drozd, has announced his departure from The Flaming Lips following a 34-year journey of musical exploration and creation that has helped to shape one of the most important and impactful bands in the history of music. Drozd, 56, made his official announcement on December…
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…
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.…
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…
Lips Add Track To Aid Fire Victims
The 18-track collection features Elliott Smith, Rilo Kiley, The Flaming Lips, Norah Jones, Local Natives, and more in support of wildfire recovery efforts in Los Angeles Recovering from a natural disaster like a fire can take years. Even a generation. In the wake of the devastating wildfires in Altadena, Malibu, and Pacific Palisades earlier this year,…
New Yoshimi Graphic Novel Already Sold Out
In the quest for greater love and understanding of a psychedelic fairy tale about a girl who battles robots and, in doing so, teaches us about love, death, and what it means to be human, a graphic book detailing the story of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is set to be released later this year, according to the band…
The Kesha Collaboration
That Keeps Resurfacing In a July 3 interview with The Fader, Los Angeles’s own vocalist Kesha was just hours away from releasing her latest anticipated album Period, when the question came up about her collaboration with The Flaming Lips. It was after Kesha performed in Oklahoma City in 2011 when she first connected in person with Wayne Coyne to potentally colaborate on…
My Summer Freakout
I wasn’t expecting my first Flaming Lips concert to change my life. By Simone Briand Though I loved the Lips’ music, I figured seeing them live would be a pleasant distraction for a couple of hours, then fade and blur with other shows I’d seen. Instead, that night last June in Kansas City I was struck by…
The Golden Collaboration: And The Spillover of Joy
One of the most impressive resurrections this year has been the return of “The Golden Path” into the performance rotation. Anyone with a love of rhythm, and a fondness of the song’s gradual growth to its climatic peak and finish can appreciate the high energy the music has bought to the band’s live shows. The constant, yet…