The new Billboard album charts are out for the week and The Flaming Lips newest album Embryonic debuted at #8 with 32,000 copies sold. This is the highest the band has ever charted in the US beating out the band’s last album At War with the Mystics which reached #11. But it should be noted [...]

The follow-up to The Flaming Lips new album, Embryonic, is going to be a cover of Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic album Dark Side of the Moon according to this story from LA Times. Apparently they’ve already finished recording it (with help from a band named Stardeath and White Dwarfs that I don’t know anything about [...]

I am here to help and I present a list of bands, or in fact “artists”, to out and out stay clear of now and forever. I will happily give brief descriptions as to why in order to prove myself slightly more useful of your respective loves and devotions. The Flaming Lips: A group of [...]

The Flaming Lips will be performing on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien tonight. The Lips segment on the show will air around 12:30 AM EST (tune in a bit before that to make sure you catch it) on NBC. Their new 18 track studio album, Embryonic, was released today and can be ordered online [...]

I didn’t bother last week, and I may not bother again next week! But this week I’m back at it. What follows are four albums being released tomorrow that you may (or may not) want to check out. The Flaming Lips – Embyronic On my shortlist for album of the year. This is the most [...]

1966 – Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde At 71 minutes, Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde fits on one CD. Of course with CD’s becoming increasingly irrelevant, what does that really matter? Which leads me to a bit of a meditation on what constitutes a double album in the digital era? How long does an album [...]

Coinciding with the release of their new album, Embryonic, The Flaming Lips will perform on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Tuesday, October 13th. Embryonic is now available to buy on Amazon.com as either the regular CD version or a double CD plus DVD version. You can check out The Flaming Lips Amazon Store [...]

I listened to The Flaming Lips new album, Embryonic, last night and am listening to it again today while I type out these first (or second, technically) impressions. As of last night the album is streaming on ColbertNation.com (this was announced by Stephen Colbert right before The Flaming Lips performed “Convinced of the Hex” on [...]

The Flaming Lips will be performing on The Colbert Show tonight. The show airs on Comedy Central at 11:30 PM (that’s 10:30 for those in the central time zone.) They will most likely be playing a song from their new album, Embryonic, which is due out in just about one month (on October 13th.) The [...]

Picking up where I left off (2003) with my series on three great albums released in each year working my way backwards from 2007. As I’ve said in my previous posts in this series, I’m not claiming these are the three best albums (I’m not sure I really believe in the term “best” to describe [...]