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The Flaming Lips have become the flagship band for modern psychedelic pop, pushing the boundaries of sound while steadily growing a fanatic audience over the last 20 years. Not too bad for a group of "fearless freaks" from Oklahoma City.
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Want a boost on your climb to rock stardom? Check out the University of Central Oklahoma's Academy of Contemporary Music. Founded by Flaming Lips manager Scott Booker, the school aims to offer not just music theory and performance classes, but an inside knowledge of the music business.
()Commentator and music journalist Ashley Kahn talks to members of The Flaming Lips about their music and their latest album, At War with the Mystics. For more than 20 years the band has been a cult favorite. Kahn explains how their new effort maintains a spirit of experimentation, while earning them a shot at mainstream popularity.
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Independent music critic Christian Bordal chats with Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the iconoclastic rock group The Flaming Lips about their new CD, At War With the Mystics. Have these "purposely oddball" musicians gone mainstream? Listen for yourself...
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All Songs Considered's list of the 50 most important recordings of the decade continues with Kelly Clarkson to Jay-Z.
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For guys who seem to have done everything, sometimes all at once, The Flaming Lips' members haven't stopped innovating. Their latest album, Embryonic, finds the ever-evolving band shape-shifting once again. Listen to the new record in its entirety, a week before it hits stores on Oct. 13.
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On this edition of All Songs Considered we spin some of the albums we're most looking forward to coming out this fall. Hear sneak previews of new music from The Flaming Lips, choral versions of classic Kinks songs by Ray Davies, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season, a collaboration between The Black Keys and some of the biggest names in hip-hop, The Gossip, and more.
()Psychedlia meets funk in The Flaming Lips; A Pink Floyd cover from Ambulance LTD; Japan's imaginative Yoshida Brothers; Classic railroad songs from Furry Lewis; The way we try from Birdie Busch; An ode to a forgotten time by Peter Mulvey; The remarkable voice of Tom Brosseau; Brilliant ramblings from Kimya Dawson.
()Electric guitar great Charlie Christian; The unnatural sounds of Blip Hop; Reviving the Breton harp with Alan Stivell; A gorgeous new CD from Anouar Brahem; Canadian twin sisters Tegan and Sara; And battling pink robots with The Flaming Lips.
()By 1999, most, including myself, had written off The Flaming Lips as a one-hit wonder who had slipped away into obscurity after "She Don't Use Jelly." But with their visionary album The Soft Bulletin, the Oklahoma band created their most epic and most personal work yet.
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At a time when jobs are anything but disposable, it's hard to imagine what it would take to drive workers out the door voluntarily. But when you're eventually pushed to the brink, you're going to need consolation and encouragement in the form of five great rock tunes.
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