Flaming Lips streaming their holiday music at Atlas Eets Christmas website
If you want to add some psychedelic sounds to your Christmas music playlist, Oklahoma City-based rockers The Flaming Lips are here to help. The Lips have launched http://atlaseetschristmas.com, where you can hear their holiday music – or as they put it, “Infinite Christmas Sounds” – streaming continually.
The name of the website – trying saying it out loud phonetically – comes from the Lips’ 2007 secret Christmas album, recorded under the guise of a fictional Iraqui jazz pianist Imagene Peise (again, try saying it aloud).
The Lips and New Year’s Eve co-headliners Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band have recorded a new version of “Atlas Eets Christmas” for the website, according to NME.com. The song is sure to be on the set list when the Lips and Ono’s band play Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 at The Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freakout #5 at the Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center.
For more information on the NYE event, click here.
Hear some of the new Christmas tracks streaming on http://atlaseetschristmas.com by clicking on the YouTube video posted above.
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Wednesday Video Spotlight: Tickets for Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freakout #5 now on sale
Tickets are now on sale for The Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freakout #5, the Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers’ annual hometown NYE spectacular, at www.ticketstorm.com.
Several significant changes have been made to this year’s event:
Now a two-night extravaganza, the fifth Freakout is set for 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31 and Sunday, Jan. 1 at the Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center, 425 E California.
The Flaming Lips and Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band will play both nights, with Ono performing at midnight “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” the famed holiday anthem she wrote and recorded with her late husband, John Lennon.
“In honor of our fantastical guests The Flaming Lips will perform some classic cover songs with Sean Lennon,” the Lips posted recently on Twitter (@theflaminglips).
In addition, Neon Indian will join the lineup for the Jan. 1 show, the Lips wrote on Twitter.
Tickets for this year’s Freakout are pricier than past years: This year, tickets are $100 for one night or $150 for both shows. All ticket buyers get into the afterparty at The Womb, Lips frontman Wayne Coyne’s new art gallery in downtown OKC.
“The after party at the Womb will go till sunrise and will feature naked movies inside the Womb room and New Fumes from Dallas doing paranoid soundscapes and Star Death and White Dwarfs playing an electric sunrise,” the band posted on Twitter.
Even with two shows, this year’s Freakout is bound to be a much more exclusive affair, not only because of the higher ticket prices but also because of the lower ticket availability. The Bricktown Events Center seats approximately 1,500, compared to 8,000 to 10,000 at the Cox Convention Center, where the Freakout took place the past four years.
“The new venue The Coca Cola events Center in Bricktown is a much cooler venue than the old Cox Center which became increasingly less accommodating to the beautiful Flaming Lips Fans,” the band posted on Twitter, citing cheap and easy parking and good but inexpensive food and drink vending at the Bricktown Events Center.
The Cox Convention Center won’t be empty on New Year’s Eve: The OKC Barons hockey team will face off against divisional rivals San Antonio at 7 p.m. Dec. 31.
For those who want to get an idea of the sheer spectacle of The Flaming Lips New Year’s Eve Freakout, check out these fan-shot YouTube videos from previous years:
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Watch: Flaming Lips pay tribute to Steve Jobs with “Revolution” at the O Music Awards
The Flaming Lips (Photo by J. Michelle Martin-Coyne)
In case you missed it Monday night while you were out trick-or-treating, you can now watch Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips perform their trippy cover of the Beatles’ “Revolution” in memory of Steve Jobs on MTV’s O Music Awards at www.OMusicAwards.com/show.
The Jobs tribute is at about the 33:30 mark in this video. Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s widow, introduced the Lips’ performance and praised Jobs as a visionary. The Apple co-founder, whose technological innovations like the iPod and iPad drastically changed the way we consume music and other media, died Oct. 5 at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
As promised, the Lips’ performance was recorded on and prominently featured Apple’s iPad. Steven Drozd even has one mounted on his guitar.
Lips frontman Wayne Coyne was nominated for The Digital Genius Award, but the prize went to Bjork.
Check out this video of the band working on its “Revolution” performance:
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Flaming Lips are streaming their 24-hour song for free today, playing the O Music Awards tonight
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips (Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman Archives)
One of the most popular treats for music lovers this Halloween hasn’t been chocolate covered or individually wrapped. It’s been ear candy from Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips.
The Lips released today their new 24-hour song, “7 Skies H3,” which they are streaming for free at http://flaminglipstwentyfourhoursong.com.
The stream is limited to 999 listeners at a time, and it’s been maxed out much of the day. I’m currently on and listening, but it took a few tries to make that happen. If you’re a fan of the Lips, though, it’s worth the wait.
Oklahoma City-based Delo Creative, a “small collective of visual generalists” who works with the Lips, posted this afternoon on their Facebook page, “Sorry about the Flaming Lips 7 Skies H3 server overload. We’ll have another stream up this afternoon.”
As previously reported, the Lips are offering the option to buy the 24-hour-long song encased in an actual human skull. Thirteen of the skulls, which come topped with chrome “hair,” will be sold for the price of $5,000, which includes worldwide shipping.
“I would say nothing that we’re doing is bizarre or illegal,” Lips frontman Wayne Coyne said recently on the O Music Awards blog. “In parts of the world and even on eBay you can actually buy real human skulls. There’s a place in town (Oklahoma City) that’s called Skulls Unlimited that’s been here for almost as long as The Flaming Lips have been here, and it sells human skulls.”
“People heads come into this place and they have these flesh-eating beetles — I would have tweeted a picture of it, but they don’t allow it — literally eat every molecule of flesh off of these things and you’ll end up with a human skull,” he added on the blog.
The skulls will be packaged in elegant boxes, and inserted in each one will be hard drive containing the 24-hour-long song, according to the blog.
As for the song itself – what I’ve heard over the past 20 or so minutes is what I think of as classic Lips: otherworldly, contemplative and appropriately eerie for Halloween – Coyne told the blog, “It’s a song about death and it’s a song about f—ing and it’s a song about life… It’s another element of this Flaming Lips connection with death and beauty and all that.”
Along with today’s debut of the 24-hour song, the Lips have other big Halloween plans: They will perform a cover of the Beatles’ “Revolution” in memory of Steve Jobs on tonight’s MTV’s O Music Awards. The show starts at 10:30 Central tonight and will live stream at www.OMusicAwards.com.
The band’s Steve Jobs tribute will be recorded with an iPad for the broadcast, reports the Associated Press. The Apple co-founder, whose technological innovations like the iPod and iPad drastically changed the way we consume music and other media, died Oct. 5 at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
The awards show, which will take place in Los Angeles, “celebrates the artists, innovators and fans impacting digital music culture.” Other performers and presenters include Robyn, Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, Travie McCoy and Tyler, the Creator, according to the AP.
Coyne will compete for The Digital Genius Award, along with Bjork, Girl Talk, Devo and music video director Chris Milk, at the second O Music Awards.
He has certainly earned his Digital Genius Award nomination this year. Throughout 2011, the Lips have devoted themselves to artistic exploration and kept a vow to release new music every month. Some of the new songs have come on flash drives contained in gummy skulls or gummy fetuses, while others have been accompanied by trippy music videos.
The 24-hour song follows the band’s six-hour track “Found a Star on the Ground,” contained on a USB drive within a newly developed toy called “The Strobo Trip,” which provides a psychedelic visual display to enhance the music. The band made the creation of the six-hour opus a charitable event, offering fans the chance to make a $100 donation in exchange for having Sean Lennon speak their names somewhere in the song.
The project raised about $20,000 for the Central Oklahoma Humane Society and the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma, according to The Oklahoman Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett.
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Flaming Lips to perform tribute to Steve Jobs on O Music Awards, release 24-hour song in human skulls on Halloween
Wayne Coyne performs with the Flaming Lips at the Tabernacle in Atlanta in May. (Photo by Michelle Martin-Coyne)
Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips will perform a cover of the Beatles’ “Revolution” in memory of Steve Jobs at MTV’s O Music Awards on Monday.
The performance will be recorded with an iPad and broadcast on www.OMusicAwards.com, reports the Associated Press. The Apple co-founder, whose technological innovations like the iPod and iPad drastically changed the way we consume music and other media, died Oct. 5 at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
The awards show, which will take place in Los Angeles, “celebrates the artists, innovators and fans impacting digital music culture.” Other performers and presenters include Robyn, Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, Travie McCoy and Tyler, the Creator, according to the AP.
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne will compete for The Digital Genius Award, along with Bjork, Girl Talk, Devo and music video director Chris Milk, at the second O Music Awards.
Since Monday happens to be Halloween, you can bet attending the awards show and playing “Revolution” aren’t the Lips’ only plans. And you’d be right.
According to the O Music Awards blog, the band plans to release a 24-hour-long song at midnight on Halloween – and it will be encased in an actual human skull.
“I would say nothing that we’re doing is bizarre or illegal,” Coyne says on the blog. “In parts of the world and even on eBay you can actually buy real human skulls. There’s a place in town (Oklahoma City) that’s called Skulls Unlimited that’s been here for almost as long as The Flaming Lips have been here, and it sells human skulls.”
“People heads come into this place and they have these flesh-eating beetles — I would have tweeted a picture of it, but they don’t allow it — literally eat every molecule of flesh off of these things and you’ll end up with a human skull,” he adds on the blog.
The skulls will come covered in chrome and packaged in elegant boxes, and inserted in each one will be hard drive containing the 24-hour-long song. According to the blog, he’s apparently sold all five of skulls already for $5,000 each, even though the song still isn’t done.
“It’s a song about death and it’s a song about f—ing and it’s a song about life… It’s another element of this Flaming Lips connection with death and beauty and all that,” Coyne says on the blog.
Coyne has certainly earned his Digital Genius Award nomination this year. Throughout 2011, the Lips have devoted themselves to artistic exploration and kept a vow to release new music every month. Some of the new songs have come on flash drives contained in gummy skulls or gummy fetuses, while others have been accompanied by trippy music videos.
The 24-hour song follows the band’s six-hour track “Found a Star on the Ground,” contained on a USB drive within a newly developed toy called “The Strobo Trip,” which provides a psychedelic visual display to enhance the music. The band made the creation of the six-hour opus a charitable event, offering fans the chance to make a $100 donation in exchange for having Sean Lennon speak their names somewhere in the song.
The project raised about $20,000 for the Central Oklahoma Humane Society and the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma, according to The Oklahoman Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett.
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Video: Denver Duncan launches LookatOKC’s “Got It Covered” series with Roger Miller’s “King of the Road”
My excellent colleagues George Lang and Kyle Roberts have launched a new video series for LOOKatOKC called “Got It Covered.”
“Got It Covered” will feature 12 local musicians covering classic songs by Oklahoma artists. The series will last for 12 weeks and will shoot at 7 p.m. each Thursday at Saints, 715 NW 16 in the Plaza District. The pub is sponsoring the series.
Audiences are encouraged to show up 30 minutes before taping to enjoy each performance. Each video will debut the following Monday.
The singers, bands and musicians participating in the series select one of 12 songs to perform — first come, first served. The last musician to schedule a performance has to play the last song on the list, which includes signature songs from The Flaming Lips, Reba McEntire, Hanson, the GAP Band, Leon Russell, Wanda Jackson, Color Me Badd and other famed Oklahoma music stars. To see the full list, go to http://lookatokc.newsok.com/got-it-covered.
The next “Got It Covered” performance will be at 7 p.m. this Thursday at Saints, with Chase Kerby performing J.J. Cale’s “Cocaine.”
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Wayne Coyne, Blake Shelton, Shiny Toy Guns nominated for MTV’s O Music Awards 2
Wayne Coyne (Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman Archive)
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, country music star Blake Shelton and electronica/indie band Shiny Toy Guns – who all have Oklahoma ties – are nominated for O Music Awards 2, MTV’s second fan-friendly celebration of digital music.
Fan voting continues online at www.omusicawards.com/vote through Oct. 15. The awards will be handed out Oct. 31, with the event streaming at OMusicAwards.com, MTV.com, VH1.com, CMT.com, LogoTV.com and MTVHive.com.
Coyne, leader of Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips, is nominated for The Digital Genius Award, along with Bjork, Girl Talk, Devo and music video director Chris Milk.
An Ada native who lives in Tishomingo, Shelton is nominated for Must-Follow Artist on Twitter, and he is competing against Lady Gaga, Blink 182′s Mark Hoppus, Snoop Dogg and Cher.
Shiny Toy Guns, which includes Shawnee native Jeremy Dawson and Chad Petree, are up for Best Artist With A Cameraphone. Other nominees in the category are Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber, The Deftones, Portugal. The Man, Young The Giant, The National, Katy Perry, Amanda Palmer and Ben Folds.
MTV premiered the OMAs in late April, pledging to offer a celebration of digital music that would vary greatly from standard industry award shows. It featured interactive, fan-voted awards that culminated in a live, multiplatform webcast on MTV Music Group websites.
In the spirit of the fast-changing nature of digital music, an MTV official recently told the Associated Press that the OMAs may crop up two or three times a year instead of annually, and the categories will remain in flux and have changed from the spring edition.
For the second OMAs, Lady Gaga and Odd Future’s Tyler the Creator are among the leading nominees, with two nominations each. Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, The Weeknd, Demi Lovato and Sinead O’Connor also received two nominations.
The first OMAs generated 3 million votes cast online and resulted in MTV’s second-largest streaming audience ever, according to the AP.
“The audience is there,” Shannon Connolly, vice president of digital music strategy for MTV, told the AP. “We know we can give them something they love even more.”
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Flaming Lips’ six-hour song “Found a Star on the Ground” raises $20,000 for Oklahoma charities
Oklahoma City psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have already raised about $20,000 for charity with “Found a Star on the Ground,” their six-hour song project, reports The Oklahoman Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett.
As previously reported, the Lips announced last month online that fans could have their names incorporated into the expansive track by donating at least $100 to two causes closely associated with the band: the Central Oklahoma Humane Society and the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Sean Lennon (son of John Lennon) recently recorded the long list of contributors to be added to the track, Gene reports, and those who contributed to the project will be first in line to purchase the song when it becomes available on the Flaming Lips website at flaminglips.com.
The song will be contained on a USB drive within a newly developed, eye-popping psychedelic toy called “The Strobo Trip.” The Strobo toy also will contain two shorter songs, “Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die” and “Evil Minds.”
Once contributors’ orders have been fulfilled, any leftover Strobo packages will be made available to the public for about $150 until the supply runs out, Gene reports.
“Found a Star on the Ground” is likely to be the longest single piece of music ever recorded – but not for long. The band confirmed plans in October to record a 24-hour-long song.
To read more about the project, click here to read Gene’s interesting story. And check out this YouTube video of the Lips working on “Found a Star on the Ground”:
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What to do in Okahoma on Sept. 13, 2011: Experience The Flaming Lips at Tulsa’s Brady Theater
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips (Photo by J. Michelle Martin-Coyne)
Today’s featured event:
TULSA – Experience Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips at 8 p.m. today and Wednesday at the Brady Theater, 105 W Brady.
The shows are the makeup dates for the band’s storm-scuttled Brady Block Party show in August. For more information, go to www.bradytheater.com.
The Lips are currently finishing their new track “I Found a Star on the Ground,” AKA their “six hour song.” To learn about how you can get your name sung into the song and help a good cause, click here.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
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Video: Flaming Lips making six-hour song, offering fans a chance to get their names in it and help a good cause
Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips are currently finishing their new track “I Found a Star on the Ground,” AKA their “six hour song.” Watch the band working on the expansive track in this YouTube video.
The band has created a new website in association with the project – www.flaminglipssixhoursong.com – that allows fans to donate to two causes closely associated with the band: the Central Oklahoma Humane Society and the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma. Fans who give at least $100 will have their names sung in the six-hour song.
The Lips are playing Tuesday and Wednesday at Tulsa’s Brady Theater to make up their storm-scuttled Brady Block Party show. For more information, go to www.bradytheater.com.
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