Ep. 142: Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips)
And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan
And The Writer Is
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Today’s rockstar guest is a member of one of the most iconic, influential, unpredictable and vital forces in American rock music, The Flaming Lips. During their tenure, their ever-evolving, GRAMMY Award-winning sound has become a genre unto itself and contains lush, multi-layered arrangements. Lyrically, their compositions reflect the light and dark in all of us combined with bold experimental production that breathes life into their space-age-prog, punk pop and appeals to a broad spectrum of music lovers around the globe. Known for their elaborate live stage shows, THE LIPS have become the ultimate live rock experience with the likes of Q Magazine and Rolling Stone naming The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die." Their reputation as canny songwriters and great performers have made The LIPS an actively sought out collaborative entity who have participated in numerous, oddly diverse recorded and live performances that include Yoko Ono, David Lynch, Philip Glass, Bon Iver, Lightning Bolt, Coldplay, Beck, Nick Cave, Erykah Badu, Thievery Corporation, Grace Potter, The Chemical Brothers, Jim James, Miley Cyrus and many more. The band recently achieved yet another set of “Firsts” by being the first band to perform prophylactically for late night TV (Colbert/Fallon), and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. In January 2021, The Lips played The World’s First-Ever Space Bubble Concerts with band and audience safely encased and physically distanced within their own individual clear Space Bubbles in their hometown of Oklahoma City. And The Writer Is… Wayne Coyne!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to And The Writer Is. I'm your host Ross Golan. I've written with hundreds |
| 0:15.7 | of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each session is the first |
| 0:20.1 | hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever. So this is |
| 0:26.0 | a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly, |
| 0:31.7 | who the people are, who write the songs. I'm producing this with the great Joe London, |
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| 0:56.0 | Welcome to And The Update Is. I'm your host, Paige McDonald, and this is your weekly music |
| 1:08.8 | industry update. UK Watchdog says Sony Music's A-Wall Buyout raises competition concerns. |
| 1:17.4 | The UK's competition and markets authority has decided that Sony Music's completed |
| 1:21.6 | purchase of the recorded music services firm A-Wall from Cobalt Music Group raises competition |
| 1:27.0 | concerns following a phase one investigation into the buyout. Sony must now address the |
| 1:32.5 | CMA's concerns within five working days. If it is unable to do so, the deal will be referred |
| 1:37.2 | to an in-depth phase two investigation. As I was recording, I just got a new update |
| 1:42.3 | in Cobalt Music Group, which sold A-Wall to SME in a $430 million deal in May, has since |
| 1:48.9 | agreed to buy back a chunk of equity in its company from shareholders for the cumulative |
| 1:54.0 | price of nearly $90 million. Ryan Rudin has joined Capital Music Group as EVP of experiential |
| 2:03.2 | marketing and business development. |
| 2:07.6 | Milk and honey has expanded into Australia. The firm is located in Sydney and will be covering |
| 2:12.5 | talent in both Australia and New Zealand. Apple Music has officially launched DJ Mix |
| 2:20.2 | technology to ID and pay rights holders. The identification process has been developed |
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