The Flaming Lips
When: Saturday, June 10, 2006, 10:30 p.m. to midnight
Where: Sun Up Stage, Lawrence
Cost: Not available
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Wakarusa Festival
Description: How Wayne Coyne and company made the transition from psychedelic alt-rock pioneers to hippie festival favorites is one of our generation’s more perplexing happenstances. Perhaps it has something to do with the furry animal costumes, the bubble-bursting confetti, the gratuitous jumbotron boob flashes and a megaphone-wielding ringleader straight outta Barnum-and-Bailey summer camp. We prefer to think it was the music: a marvelously wrecked blend of stadium-friendly psychedelia, warped electronic pop and excess-infused classic rock.
— by Richard Gintowt
Event posted May 25, 2006
Last updated May 31, 2006
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