In 2024, the band, along with Dinosaur Jr. , served as the opening act for Weezer during their Voyage to the Blue Planet concert tour. Following this run, Drozd stopped performing with the band. AJ Slaughter then subbed in as a touring musician, playing Drozd’s parts live and also providing…
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On August 16, 2021, Jake Ingalls announced on his Instagram page that he left the band on amicable terms. Also in August, Coyne commented on his Instagram that Michael Ivins was no longer in the band, officially leaving Coyne as the only original member. Micah Nelson – who had contributed…
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On March 23, 2020, Drozd announced that the band’s sixteenth studio album, American Head , was due for release in the summer. The band officially announced the album’s release date as September 11, 2020, along with the single “My Religion Is You” on June 6, 2020. The album included a…
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The band’s next studio album, King’s Mouth , was released on April 13, 2019, for Record Store Day . Mick Jones of the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite narrated the album; Wayne Coyne said of Jones that “he’s on almost every song… it really is quite unbelievable.” In late 2019,…
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According to the Tarbox Roads Studio’s website, the Flaming Lips began recording a new album with Dave Fridmann on January 27, 2016. In a June interview with Danish music blog Regnsky, Wayne Coyne said that a new album would come out in January 2017, even though they had originally planned…
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On August 30, 2015, after hosting the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards , Miley Cyrus announced that Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz – a 23-track experimental album that Cyrus and the Flaming Lips wrote and recorded together – was available via online streaming for free. The album was described…
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In September 2014, the band paid tribute to Jones and the impact his music had on their developing sound by performing Transmissions from the Satellite Heart live at First Avenue . In February 2015, they performed Clouds Taste Metallic at the same venue. Later, in December, a 20th anniversary box…
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In March 2014, longtime drummer and percussionist Kliph Scurlock left the band. He was replaced by two new members – drummer, percussionist, and keyboardist Matt Duckworth Kirksey, and percussionist Nicholas Ley – expanding the band again to a septet. In May, Scurlock claimed he had been fired for negative comments…
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In November 2013 they produced and curated The Time Has Come to Shoot You Down…What a Sound , a reworking of the Stone Roses’ debut album featuring New Fumes, Spaceface , Stardeath and White Dwarfs , Foxygen , Peaking Lights , Poliça and others.
The band’s next studio album, titled The Terror , was originally due for release on April 2, 2013, in the US and on April 1 in Europe, the tour began with a new member, keyboardist and guitarist Jake Ingalls. By expanding the band to a six-piece for the first time…
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