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"The Flaming Lips&amp;apos; recent companion album to Pink Floyd&amp;apos;s Dark Side of the Moon, dubbed Flaming Side of the Moon, naturally, looks to be part of an elaborate April Fools&amp;apos; stunt done with Funny or Die.\r\nWhile the companion piece does exist &amp;#x2013; you can watch the band record it above, and sync it up to Pink Floyd&amp;apos;s original and The Wizard of Oz if you&amp;apos;re in the mood for media multi-tasking &amp;#x2013; the Lips and Funny or Die released a handful of videos, and one tell-all essay written by frontman Wayne Coyne, proclaiming the Flaming Lips have finally sold out.\r\nIn one clip, the band gathers around a boardroom table to discuss what&amp;apos;s next with a smarmy record executive played by comedian Jon Daly (who was behind the fake Red Hot Chili Peppers Super Bowl song). His goal for the Lips in 2014: &amp;quot;Stop thinking of this as a band, and start thinking of this as a brand.&amp;quot; Daly&amp;apos;s got all sorts of synergy lined up, from a Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots movie (directed, of course, by Michael Bay) to Flaming Lips-brand e-cigarettes and ChapStick.\r\n\r\nTo boot, they even created a trailer for Yoshimi, in which the band, actress Lyndsy Fonesca and some egregiously poor CGI pink robots act out the song&amp;apos;s lyrics in the most literal way possible.\r\n\r\nWith all these multi-million dollar projects on the table, Coyne &amp;#x2013; who slicks back his wild gray hair to great effect &amp;#x2013; has to take a break from the band, so the group brings in Fred Armisen to audition for frontman. Though impressed, and moved, by the band&amp;apos;s catalogue, Armisen has big ideas for the Lips, and leads the group through a wide array of genres he thinks would behoove their ever-evolving sound, like Krautrock, two-tone ska and &amp;quot;Coldplay.&amp;quot; But despite the comedian&amp;apos;s best efforts, Coyne gives him a thumbs down.\r\n\r\nThe Flaming Lips have a few other surprises up their sleeves in the coming months:&amp;#xA0;The group will&amp;#xA0;celebrate Record Store Day with two releases, a 12-inch vinyl of their 2011 hour-long single &amp;quot;7 Skies H3&amp;quot; and a silver 7-inch called &amp;quot;Gates of Steel,&amp;quot; that finds the band covering the 1980 Devo track.&amp;#xA0;And Coyne recently posted a few photos of the group&amp;#xA0;in the studio with Miley Cyrus, working on a rendition of the Beatles&amp;apos; &amp;quot;Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds&amp;quot; reportedly for a cover version of&amp;#xA0;Sgt. Pepper&amp;apos;s Lonely Hearts Club Band&amp;#xA0;(Tame Impala and MGMT&amp;apos;s Andrew VanWyngarden are also lending a hand)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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