![]() ![]() Tue Nov 16 The Anthem Washington, DCThu Nov 18 MTELUS Montreal, QC THE FLAMING LIPS + PARTICLE KID on Tour 2021/2022:įri Nov 12 Crouse Hinds Theater Syracuse, NY In addition to performing an opening set at these shows, it’s likely that Particle Kid will join The Flaming Lips onstage during this tour. Micah told Rolling Stonethat playing music with Neil Young has been like “getting a master’s degree in Jedi training.” Nelson calls Particle Kid his “experimental future-folk solo project,” and has released five albums of original music since 2012 and is preparing new material for an upcoming release, some of which will likely be part of his opening set list. Particle Kid has headlined shows around the world and opened for The Flaming Lips, Tinariwen, Meat Puppets, Margo Price, and Sheryl Crow, and played at festivals such as Luck Reunion, UTOPiAfest and the Outlaw Music Festival. In an article titled “The Trippy Troubadour,” Rolling Stone called Micah Nelson a “musical polymath who, according to Willie, ‘plays everything,’ combining an indie DIY aesthetic with a questing hippie spirit and a relentless work ethic.” Micah is currently working with Neil Young on an animated short film adaptation of Young’s 1982 dystopian sci-fi concept album, TRANS. He is also a member of his brother’s band, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, a member of Neil Young’s band, touring and recording with Young and being part of his full-length film Paradox. Micah began creating animation and videos as a child, attended art school and currently has a production entity called Spitball Pictures, which produces music videos for his own projects, as well as those by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians (“Tripwire” and “My Power”), folk-punk musician Sunny War (“Age of a Man”), Tinariwen (“Wartilla, Dan Caret Dub”), and ukulele and guitar duo Folk Uke (“Small One”). His mercurial guitar-based sound, with touches of folk and punches of distortion, is occasionally punctuated with glitchy electronic samples.”īorn into a highly creative and prolific family, Micah Nelson is comfortable on the world stage, having toured and/or collaborated with everyone from Neil Young and Tinariwen to John Doe and Willie Nelson (Micah’s father, who also coined the Particle Kid moniker). There’s a playful Frank Zappa spirit in Particle Kid’s arty rock and a refreshing indifference to the pop trends of the moment. In 2019, The Aspen Times wrote about Particle Kid’s opening set for The Flaming Lips: “He set the tone at the outset with a jarring dose of extended feedback, emerging from the haze of noise with ‘Myssus Crow’-from his 2017 album, Everything Is Bullshit-which juxtaposes jangly guitars and sweet bubblegum-pop vocals with harsh and brutal passages of distorted guitar… Lips fans likely saw Particle Kid in April 2021 on Jimmy Kimmel Live, when he joined the band to perform “Will You Return/When You Come Down” from American Head. Watch the performance here. Nelson was a featured musician on The Flaming Lips’ 2020 album, American Head, adding guitar and vocals to the band’s life-affirming and imaginative sound. Particle Kid, which is Micah Nelson and a rotation of musicians he enlists, and The Flaming Lips have already collaborated in various ways. The Flaming Lips, the Oklahoma City psychedelic rock band whose Space Bubble Concerts got a lot of attention during lockdown, have invited Particle Kid to be the very special guest on their highly anticipated U.S. Click here for more info or visit the venue links below. In this wide-ranging interview, they talk influences, brushes with fame, collaborating with Miley Cyrus (no, seriously, Coyne did that), and figuring out how to be “the king of my own songs.(Los Angeles) – Particle Kid (Los Angeles-based composer/multi-media artist Micah Nelson)is excited to announce that he will join Grammy Award-winning The Flaming Lips on their U.S. Butthole Surfers emerged in the early 80s Texas punk scene and were known for their raucous shows and anarchistic humor (one of their best-known songs is “Sweat Loaf,” a Black Sabbath-like monstrosity which features the hilarious line “If you happen to see your mother, tell her… Satan! Satan! Satan!”) When they were first emerging from their Oklahoma City base in the mid-80s, The Flaming Lips played with Butthole Surfers in Austin, Coyne listing them as a major influence and inspiration, though as he says here, they didn’t have the same balls-out guts as the Surfers. The seminal psychedelic band The Flaming Lips just released their sixteenth album, American Head, so we thought it was high time to revisit the 2015 conversation between frontman Wayne Coyne and Butthole Surfers’ lead man, Gibby Haynes, which appeared in Pioneer Works print magazine, Intercourse. ![]()
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