![]() ![]() STEREOGUM: But, wait, are the Northern Lights the story behind your new record? Or were you just throwing me off the track? WAYNE COYNE: I like pale as long as you smile well i really think all humans are fascinated with blood. STEREOGUM: How did you guess? Was it my lack of melanin? STEREOGUM: I am not the one with a vial of blood in my possession WAYNE COYNE: have you ever seen the northern lights? Melissa Locker started playing “ Ceremony ” by New Order WAYNE COYNE: Well…probably best driving through antartica with perpetual twilight STEREOGUM: Did you have any ideal listening situation in mind for your new album? i understand that people have better thangs to do WAYNE COYNE: noooooo… i allow that you can juz do what ya like. But is that frustrating as an artist to know that people aren’t hearing your art the way you intended it? WAYNE COYNE: juz keeeeeeeeding !!! you seem cool from the music you play AND youve had your pic taken with louis C K like me Wayne Coyne started playing “ Myth” by Beach House WAYNE COYNE: That’s because you dont have many friends …. Is that frustrating as an artist to know that people aren’t hearing your art the way you intended it? But I have never listened to it on four stereos ever again. STEREOGUM: Years ago I went to a listening party for Zaireeka. WAYNE COYNE: mercury rev are from space toooo STEREOGUM: Those Gideons must have dropped bibles in interplanetary reststops WAYNE COYNE: no>its ok to come from space as long as you read the bible STEREOGUM: Yes! If you were from space would Oklahoma have to change their state song? WAYNE COYNE: if you could go to Mars would you spend five years doing it? STEREOGUM: I thought you came from Oklahoma Melissa Locker started playing “ Holes” by Mercury Rev WAYNE COYNE: Some people think i came from outer space STEREOGUM: Well that is certainly a possibility. WAYNE COYNE: I used to but know i think they are just our own government 200 years in the future…ha ha. STEREOGUM: That must have disrupted their tour plans WAYNE COYNE: heard foxy gen got abducted by spaceships STEREOGUM: Well I like your record, so I must have good taste. Wayne Coyne started playing “ Shuggie” by Foxygen ![]() WAYNE COYNE: Your great selection of Silver Apples has made it difficult to type!!!! Haha that’s cause you obviously have impeccable taste!!! STEREOGUM: Fuck yeah is right! So when I heard your new album, I immediately thought of this band the Silver Apples WAYNE COYNE: well its mostly up to Ke$h and we was texting juz the other day and she said somethin bout us doin our weirdo record together and i said fuck yeah!!!! Melissa Locker started playing “ I Have Known Love” by Silver Apples STEREOGUM: Your new album isn’t even out yet and you’re already planning the next step ahead. WAYNE COYNE: Don’t know how full yet but for sure a couple tracks STEREOGUM: And a full album is on the way? Well…yeah Ke$h and us already ben makin songs for a bit… WAYNE COYNE: I type too slow to have clever comebacks. STEREOGUM: Good point, but were you serious about making an album with Ke$ha? It’s always a little bit hard to tell with you. WAYNE COYNE: well it was a slow news day…as soon as North Korea blows everybody up nobody gun care!!!!! Wayne Coyne started playing “ Firebird Suite Berceuse Finale” by Erich Leinsdorf WAYNE COYNE: Yours are cool but yeah mine are def cooler STEREOGUM: Your nails were all over the internet! So you made a lot of news last night in your Reddit AMA by saying you were doing an album with Ke$ha STEREOGUM: I like your funny fingernails! STEREOGUM started playing “ Tik Tok” by Ke$ha So in the shadow of his long-suffering, yet incredibly charming publicist, who kept wanting to know if I could “do the interview in five minutes? Fifteen minutes max? Could I do the interview while running downstairs?” Wayne and I sat down for the world’s fastest Turntable Interview and played DJ while chatting about the Flaming Lips’ new album The Terror, nothing, and absolutely everything. It was 3 before we sat down and the band was already supposed to be at WNYC for a performance on Soundcheck. I was supposed to interview the Flaming Lips at 1PM. The same description –- experimental, challenging, fun –- applies to the band members, which I discovered when I sat down to talk to Wayne Coyne about the new album. For 30 years, the group has released album after album of experimental, challenging music that is, at its core, fun. Luckily, fans of the Flaming Lips wouldn’t expect, or want, anything else. When you name your album The Terror, you better hope your fans are prepared for a dark and twisty album filled with sweetly paranoid tracks built on bewilderingly wild mood swings and bleakly beautiful songs. ![]()
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