Do You Realize?? Christmas on Mars at Music Box Theatre. Fri & Sat. The Flaming Lips' emphasis on spectacleand good-natured weirdness is potent. Now, singer-cum-impresario Wayne Coyne invites you to celebrate Christmas on Mars. The group's long-awaited feature film....

Coffee! Oooh does it get people’s panties in a bunch! Everyone has strong opinions about where you get it, how much it costs and it’s ramifications for society at large. Beer, another popular beverage for adults, hardly creates the same kind of political passion as the java juice does. W...

I'm no Nate Silver, but I do enjoy reading polls. Most media reports give you the high points - approval numbers, disapproval numbers, that sort of thing. If take a few minutes to dig a little deeper, you'll often find things that didn't make the highlights, but are still very interesting. Case in p...

Win Butler from the Arcade Fire, called out for pomposity by supposed good guy Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, fired back late yesterday what's shaping up to be the Musical Beef Of March 2009. (It's at least on par with some of the great beefs of the past, like Canibus vs. LL Cool J, Canibus vs. Em...

Win Butler decided to stop stealing things from people long enough to respond to the recent attack from Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on the Arcade Fire. Seems like the dude might be a little butt-hurt. I’m really hoping for a full-blown beef here. We haven’t had one of those for a w...

Maybe Wayne Coyne thinks he can talk trash now that Oklahoma’s official rock song is a Flaming Lips jam. Then again, maybe Coyne just caught Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler stealing a basketball or cheating black people out of their music. Either way, he’s not too high on Arcade Fire the...

Wayne Coyne, it turns out, isn't impressed with impressed with the Arcade Fire: "We've played some shows with them and they really treat people like shit," he said. "Whenever I've been around them, I've found that they not only treated their crew like shit, they treated the audience like shit. They ...

In his ongoing quest to call out every asshole in the music industry, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne tears into Arcade Fire for Rolling Stone: "Whenever I've been around them, I've found that they not only treated their crew like......

So, Wayne Coyne doesn't really care for the Arcade Fire, dropping some really spectacular quotes— including the bon mot "They have good tunes, but they're pricks, so fuck 'em"—into an interview with Andy Greene of Rolling Stone. More of Wayne gone wild: "I'm a fan of them on one level, b...

I've heard that some of you don't have Flame War Bingo cards, so you're finding it hard to play along. That's okay -- here are some to help you out. Just print up the cards you want to use, and mark them off during the course of your own favorite flame war! http://www.filefactory.com/file/af33a80/n/...