“Well, now that it’s twenty years afterwards, you start to get a little bit more used to what people mean by that,” he explains. However, as Wayne Coyne explains, while he understands the legacy, he notes that this was never the intention of the band when they first hit the studio. In fact, response to the record was so great that it has since gone on to be considered as one of the greatest albums of all time, with some critics labelling it as the “ Pet Sounds of the ’90s”. When The Soft Bulletin was first released, few could have expected the impact it would have in the ensuing years and decades. Check out The Flaming Lips’ ‘Race For The Prize’: To celebrate these upcoming shows, we chatted to frontman Wayne Coyne to discuss how an album so majestic and revered was delivered by a humble rock band from Oklahoma. Now, more than 20 years since The Flaming Lips shared was has been called their magnum opus, the group will make their return to Australia in September to perform the record in its entirety. In fact, publications like Pitchfork – who gave Zaireeka a rare 0/10 rating – cited the album as one of the greatest of all-time, honouring it with an equally-rare 10/10 rating. However, when The Soft Bulletin was finally unleashed onto the world, the overall reception was unanimously positive. By the time 1997’s highly-experimental Zaireeka had divided critics across the board, fans didn’t know what to expect. Louis, MO The PageantĪpril 5th, 2022 – Cincinnati, OH ICON Music CenterĪpril 6th, 2022 – Chicago, IL Riviera TheatreĪpril 8th, 2022 – St.Having flirted with mainstream success following 1993’s Transmissions From The Satellite Heart, their Clouds Taste Metallic follow-up in 1995 didn’t quite make the sort of splash that the record executives might have hoped for.
March 31st, 2022 – Miami Beach, FL The FillmoreĪpril 1st, 2022 – Orlando, FL Hard Rock LiveĪpril 2nd, 2022 – Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola RoxyĪpril 4th, 2022 – St. March 29th, 2022 – New Orleans, LA The Fillmore March 28th, 2022 – Houston, TX House of Blues March 27th, 2022 – San Antonio, TX The Aztec Theatre November 20th, 2021 – Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theater November 18th, 2021 – Montreal, QC MTELUS November 16th, 2021 – Washington, DC The Anthem November 15th, 2021 – Boston, MA House of Blues November 13th, 2021 – Albany, NY Palace Theater November 12th, 2021 – Syracuse, NY Crouse Hinds Theater November 11th, 2021 – Pittsburgh, PA Stage A&E November 9th, 2021 – Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel November 8th, 2021 – Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel November 7th, 2021 – Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore The Flaming Lips 2021-2022 Tour DatesĪugust 20th, 2021 – Ogden, UT Ogden AmphitheatreĪugust 21st, 2021 – Las Vegas, NV Psycho Las Vegas Pressed on double silver vinyl, the special edition of The Soft Bulletin Companion is limited to 16,000 copies worldwide and will be available exclusively at independent record stores. The original Soft Bulletin Companion was released as a CD alongside The Soft Bulletin more than 20 years ago and contains unreleased material, outtakes, early mixes, B-sides, international bonus tracks, and stereo versions of songs from the Flaming Lips’ previous album Zaireeka. and Ireland from May through July 2022, ending at the Galway International Arts Festival.Īdditionally, the Flaming Lips have announced that they’ll release The Soft Bulletin Companion, a special vinyl reissue of their companion album to 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, on June 12th, 2021, as part of Record Store Day. Finally, the band will play a handful of shows in the U.K. The Flaming Lips will then tour the Northeast United States and Quebec in November, followed by a more expansive North American tour in the spring of 2022. The band will begin their trek on August 20th at the Ogden Amphitheatre in Ogden, Utah, followed by an August 21st show at Psycho Las Vegas.
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