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At home with a Flaming Lip

In today's New York Times "Home & Garden" section, a visit to the Oklahoma City compound of Wayne Coyne, singer and guitarist for the amazing psychedelic pop band The Flaming Lips. His residence consists of four adjacent houses, one for living, one for storage, and two guest houses. From the New York Times (photo by Paul Hellstern): ?It?s our firewall,? Mr. Coyne said, standing under a pecan tree in the fenced-in courtyard surrounded by the houses. ?It staves off the crack dealers..." Seen from the street, it resembles a do-it-yourself version of a Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie House; inside it feels mazelike and eccentric, qualities the couple have tried to enhance with color. (J. Michelle) Martin-Coyne painted an upstairs bedroom ?breathless blue,? she said, after a sky blue shade of nail polish, and her art studio across the hallway has a pink rubber floor. She was showing off the contents of her studio, including a collection of vintage children?s lunchboxes and an old jukebox she got from her grandfather, when Mr. Coyne reappeared. Glancing around, he said, ?We?re maximalists; Michelle and I both have the junk gene...." The house is less a quiet sanctuary than a full-time Flaming Lips headquarters: a place where band members crashed in the early days; where rehearsals still take place in a cramped back room; and where Mr. Coyne can work up visual elements for concerts (like the mirrored disco balls sitting in an open-sided shed in the yard). On this particular day, the band?s roadies were in a workshop behind the house building a ?500-pound human brain,? a Halloween display designed by Mr. Coyne (and actually made of lightweight foam). ?There are still kids who think we showed off a dead guy,? Mr. Coyne said, referring to the year he put a bloody, life-size rubber man on the porch. At Home With Wayne Coyne...

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher brands England a 'dump'

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has criticised England labelling it a "shole" and a "dump".

Santana discloses holy ambitions

Guitarist Carlos Santana says he wants to set up a church in Hawaii when he reaches the age of 67.

MC5’s Wayne Kramer on Guitar Hero

GameSpot AU chats to the legendary guitarist about hermits, re-recording Kick Out The Jams for Guitar Hero World Tour, and whether rhythm games can actually inspire gamers to become musicians.

iPO Free on iTunes - Guitars, Guitars, Guitars, And More

What sparked my interest, however, is the guitar simulators that are available for the iPhone. The 2 best, from what I've gathered from reading the reviews, are PocketGuitar, a $0.99 app that has a boatload of features, and Guitarist, costing $2.99 and offering the ability to...

More "fake Beatles" from WFMU

I've been enjoying WFMU's continuing series of blog posts about bands that intentionally imitate the Beatle's sound. Today, they look at The Poppees, who do a darn good job of capturing the Fab Four's vibe, circa 1964. The Poppees cropped up in the early '70s, begun by rhythm guitarist Bob (Bobby Dee) Waxman and bass player Pat Lorenzo. The Fab Four of the Bowery were rounded out by lead guitarist Arthur Alexander (not the singer/songwriter who recorded the originals of Beatles standards "Anna," "Soldier of Love" and "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues") and, later, drummer Jett Harris (not the original bassist for pre-Beatles British rock combo the Shadows). In 1975, Greg Shaw's Bomp label released the first of two Poppees singles. The A-side was a version of the Lennon-McCartney retread "Love of the Loved," which Scouse warbler Cilla Black brought to the U.K. hit parade in a brassy, adult version in 1963 and which the Poppees dragged back to its beat-group roots a dozen years later. However, the fake is more fully realized on the B-side, "If She Cries," a Waxman-Lorenzo original fittingly produced by label head Shaw in appropriate retrophonic sound. Lyrically, the song is a "swallow your pride or you'll lose that girl" advice song to a third party a la "She Loves You." Vocally, it nimbly employs all the Beatles' tricks from their harmony kit bag. Fake Beatles No. 18: The Poppees ? Beat Boys in the Punk Age...

Hendrix getting his own Guitar Hero?

Former GNR fretter Slash tells Rolling Stone that Activision Blizzard "doing one" for the famed guitarist, but what is he talking about?