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Polyphonic Spree bring a little holiday cheer to Leno
Photo: Steve Wrubel [Update: Video of the Spree's performance has been added to the end of this post. Scroll for the gold, people!] Look, we know Jay Leno is the Grinch who stole The Tonight Show. But...
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Weird Live Review: The Polyphonic Spree
This and other non-Instagrammed photos by Tom Domingues Is there any band on the planet better-suited to putting on a Christmas concert than The Polyphonic Spree? Do I even have to answer that? This is...
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New Flaming Lips album “The Terror” finally gets a release date: April 2nd
Photo by George Salisbury Has it really been five months since we first reported that the Flaming Lips were gearing up to release The Terror, their 13th studio album and first “proper” album (if that...
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Can somebody fly us to New Orleans so we can celebrate Mardi Gras with...
Good news for people who like puking in alleyways and/or flashing their tits (not necessarily in that order): Mardi Gras is almost upon us! And what better way to celebrate than with New Orleans’...
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I really need a pair of those raver glasses from the new Deerhoof video
Photo by Deron Pulley So it looks like Deerhoof‘s Greg Saunier had so much fun shooting a guerrilla-style video on the streets of Hong Kong that he decided to bring the whole band along for a followup....
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Sorry, the Flaming Lips Anatomically Correct Chocolate Heart is sold out....
If you’re like us, you probably have a tendency to procrastinate before Valentine’s Day, then freak the fuck out on Feb. 11th when you realize that every restaurant in town is booked up and you’ll be...
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It’s true: New Polyphonic Spree Album “Yes, It’s True” coming this May
Remember, kids: All good things come to those who Kickstart. Because we kicked down 15 bones to the Polyphonic Spree for their Kickstarter campaign, we get to hear the album we helped to fund before...
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New Flaming Lips video features Bon Iver and lots of naked dead people
Even though it features an alien with a giant eyeball for a head, a baby with a man’s face, and lots of blood-soaked naked people huddled around mutilated corpses, the most perverse thing about the...
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Holy swampballs: Quintron and Miss Pussycat are gonna play the fucking...
If you’re like me, you probably get sucked every year around Christmas into watching the Kennedy Center Honors, because your aging parents have pumped you so full of leftover turkey and Pinot Grigio...
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New Flaming Lips video: Even weirder and nakeder than their last one
Credit: George Salisbury You know how the last Flaming Lips video, for “Ashes in the Air,” featured an alien with an eyeball for a head and lots of dead naked people? Well, their latest clip features...
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OK, this time it’s true (no, really): Polyphonic Spree album coming in...
Hey, remember how we told you awhile back that The Polyphonic Spree would be releasing their new album, Yes, It’s True, in May? And hey, notice how it’s not May anymore? Well, turns out Spree frontman...
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So did anyone buy Wayne Coyne’s comic book at Comic-Con?
Well, we sat out Comic-Con again this year. I haven’t been too heavily into nerd culture since the ’80s and Jake’s afraid of crowds (although when he heard there was a Breaking Bad panel, he almost...
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Flaming Lips reveal their punk roots on previously unreleased 1983 demo
If you left any Flaming Lips fans off your Christmas list, there’s still time to get them a cool stocking stuffer: a blue seven-inch vinyl release of the band’s second demo from way back in 1983, when...
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Only two days left to help crowdfund Rudely Interrupted’s new EP and tour
Listen up, weirdos: Our favorite Australians-with-disabilities power-pop act Rudely Interrupted need your help. They’ve only got about 48 hours left on a Pozible campaign (the Down Under version of...
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Hear a megamix of tUnE-yArDs’ new album, “Nikki Nack”
It’s been three years since we heard any new music from tUnE-yArDs, the hard-to-type-but-fun-to-listen-to musical project of Merrill Garbus. After conquering the indie rock world and landing on pretty...
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I threw up three times while writing this headline: Flaming Lips and Miley...
Why, Wayne, why? Are you having a midlife crisis? Are you just trying fuck with us? What is the deal with all the shitty pop collaborations of late? It wasn’t bad enough you did a song with Ke$ha, now...
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We are rocking out to this new tUnE-yArDs song
It’s been a rough week here at Weird Band HQ, what with the passing of one of our idols, GWAR’s Dave Brockie. But let’s end the week on an up note, shall we? Courtesy of Merrill Garbus and her...
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Weird Band of the Week: Kirin J. Callinan
Photo by Mikey Hart/English Gentleman For some performers, the weird is not something they rinse off after the show. Their weirdness runs soul-deep. Such a performer is this week’s artiste, Australia’s...
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New tUnE-yArDs album “Nikki Nack” now streaming on NPR
Merrill Garbus releases her third tUnE-yArDs album, Nikki Nack, on May 6th, but you can hear the whole thing now over on NPR.com. Does having your album streamed on NPR automatically make you less...
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Weird of the Day: Guardian Alien, “See the World Given to a One Love Entity”
We are crushing hard on Thrill Jockey Records this week. Yesterday we got turned on to the soothing gamelan sounds of TJ artist OOIOO; today, we’re feeding our inner psychonaut with the cosmic...
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