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The Flaming Lips, coming to Cedar Rapids June 25, have embodied alt-pop absurdity since Valerie Malone first introduced them on ‘90210’

“Hey man,” Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne asked me with a hippie-punk inflection, “are you a cop?” Back in 2006, I was interviewing him backstage after a show in St. Louis with co-headliners Sonic Youth, where Coyne was winding down after an explosive performance filled with confetti, balloons and a psychedelic light show. One of […]

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