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All hell breaks lose in Oklahoma! [READ MORE]

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“Oklahoma Gazette invited resident Okie eccentrics the Flaming Lips to participate in its annual “Ghouls Gone Wild” Halloween parade, the Lips enlisted their biggest fans to join the March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons–a “spectacle celebrating the mysterious, the supernatural, and the otherworldly,” according to the band’s recruitment email.” - Yahoo Music

“As Spinner previously reported, the Flaming Lips will lead 1,000 volunteers in a “March of the Thousand Flaming Skeletons” as part of the annual Halloween parade in Oklahoma City this Friday. Spinner recently caught up with leading Lip and ringmaster Wayne Coyne as he made preparations. “A lot of Halloween things end up being dumbed-down,” Coyne tells Spinner. “We’re trying to make it an adult experience and just kind of get to a little more of the ‘death’ aspect of it.” - AOL Spinner [READ MORE]

Long interview with Wayne Coyne’s hometown papers News OK:

NewsOK: You could be living anywhere you want, but you’ve chosen to stay in Oklahoma and you’ve even chosen to remain pretty much in the neighborhood where you grew up… Why did you choose to stay here?

Coyne: Well, early on we didn’t really make any of those choices. We were just being who we really were, which I think is the only way you can do it. I was 22 when we put out our first record and began this life as The Flaming Lips. There’s no way I could have looked ahead 25 years and thought “staying in Oklahoma is going to be one of the most unique things about us.” It was more about who you were and your ideas and the music you made…. [READ MORE]

… also recently in Oklahoma City, “Confetti was shot from guns, big balloons soared, and fans in alien and Santa costumes mingled with business-suited civic leaders Thursday as the city officially recognized the Flaming Lips as a part of its cultural landscape.” [READ MORE]

Wayne talks more about Flaming Lips alley with Fox 25 Morning News:

Flaming Lips expand Zaireeka for 10th Anniversary edition - Pitchfork [READ MORE]

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The Flaming Lips
With A Special Guest

9/24 San Antonio - Sunset Station @ Lonestar Pavilion

9/25 Austin - La Zona Rosa

9/28 St. Louis - The Pageant

9/30 Cleveland - Agora Theater

10/1 Detroit - Clutch Cargos

10/3 Charlotte - Amos Southend

Flaming Lips new DVD is in stores now + more tour dates announced!

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Watch the wicked trailer here or go pick up your copy now at the link below!

Upcoming shows:
8/25 San Diego, CA Southern Comfort Music Experience FREE show
9/7 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom SOLD OUT
9/8 Madison, WI Willow Island @ Alliant Energy Center FREE show
9/9 Maplewood, MN Myth
9/12 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre
9/15 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater/Monolith
9/16 Las Vegas, NV Palms Hotel and Casino – Skin Pool Stage
9/18 Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre
9/19 Portland, OR Roseland Theater SOLD OUT
9/20 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre

Live pics from DFest:

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Click over to iTunes for an exclusive album from the one & only Flaming Lips! “Body Builder Porn” and Black Sabbath covers included!

In other news, Flaming Lips will be headlining Oklahoma’s own DFest (July 27-28)

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Click here to stream the whole album!

Click here to preview the Flaming Lips’ bizarro Spiderman theme song!

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Click over to Pirate Pods for the audio podcast interview with indie music marketing visionary Scott Booker, co-owner of World’s Fair and manager of the one and only Flaming Lips

Scott Booker - Pirate Pods Interview [DOWNLOAD]

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Yesssssssssssss! Live DVD coming July 10th: U.F.O.’s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City Trailer (Warner Bros. Records). The F’Lips talked to Billboard about it recently.

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The Flaming Lips are putting the finishing touches on a live DVD, “UFOs at the Zoo,” due in July via Warner Bros. The project was filmed last September in the group’s Oklahoma City hometown, at an amphitheatre within the grounds of the city zoo. [READ MORE]

Here are some scenes from Flaming Lips’ incredible live show that may or may not make it into the DVD - were you in the crowd? Grab it when it comes out to find out!

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the AntiProduct sing-along that made the Tonight Show with Jay Leno:

A flaming lip roves the streets during SXSW:

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