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[Concert Review] The Flaming Lips at the IU Auditorium

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Wayne Coyne in his sphere

Live music is fun. By it’s very nature, it is a large mass of people (or if the band sucks, a couple) paying a substantial amount of money, traveling, and listening to a group of professionals play an instrument and a series of songs with which you have a personal connection. In the many concerts I have been to, none have managed to make a live event feel so much like a live event as much as The Flaming Lips.

The Flaming Lips traveled to Bloomington, Indiana for a show to kick off Little 5 week. The sold-out crowd was buzzing, which is an interesting change of pace from most other concerts I have been to at this venue. While most are awesome acts (Wilco, Ben Folds, Jerry Seinfeld), none of them have possessed  the overall energy that The Flaming Lips brought to town, and it was electric from the first note on. Opening act Stardeath and White Dwarves were dark, moody, and grungy, and set the tone quite nicely for the main event. Continue reading →

[Music Review] The Flaming Lips “Embryonic”

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the-flaming-lips.embryonicI wish a younger version of myself had been more in tune with the wonderful music that has always been around during my 24 years on this Earth, rather than just being force fed whatever bubble gum garbage was on the radio, whatever Classic Rock music was deemed good enough to still be popular, or whatever flavor of the month Rap Star was clever enough to come up with some catchy hook. I wish a younger me had discovered bands like The Flaming Lips.

For those uninitiated, The Flaming Lips are a psychedelic and spacey American rock band from Oklahoma City. They produce what can be classified as bizarre rock tunes, and when listening to them I can hardly believe they aren’t mega-Gods here in their home country (they’ve achieved much more notoriety overseas.) Continue reading →