The Flaming Lips

Will ‘The Terror’ Make Us Care About The Flaming Lips’ Music Again?

The Flaming Lips’ new album The Terror is out today, and… well, it’s pretty good, to be honest. Does anyone care? We hope so, but then, you couldn’t blame them for not paying a great deal of attention, given that making actual music seems to be rather low on The Flaming Lips’ list of priorities these days. As has been well documented, over the last couple of years the band has devolved into something of a traveling sideshow, a sort of ongoing publicity stunt for the titillation of the music press. Is their latest album good enough to make us take them seriously again? … Read More

The Year in NSFW Music Videos

A couple of years back, we started what’s become something of a December tradition on Flavorpill — looking at the year’s most attention-grabbing music videos. As we noted the first time we did this, the decline of MTV and the rise of the internet has liberated directors to make videos that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago, and those same factors have also made it harder than ever for any given band’s video to get noticed. The result is a seemingly endless stream of clips that play the NSFW card for all they’re worth, and it’s always interesting to see the ways in which the creative envelope has been pushed over the last 12 months. Here are 15 videos that have done exactly that — some are good, some are horrible, but all of them are noteworthy in one way or the other. … Read More