Staring at Sound is a candid and intimate portrait of the colorful and extraordinary twenty-year career of the Flaming Lips--from their underground beginnings in 1983 to their platinum success in 2002 with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, and the recording of their highly-anticipated April 2006 follow-up, At War With the Mystics. Jim DeRogatis is the author of Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic. He is a music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune, and is the host of Sound Opinions, a rock and roll talkshow broadcast on Public Radio.[see full story for more] - Click here for the Full Story

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