Flaming Lips will play Charlottesville Pavilion on April 15

Oklahoma City’s favorite weirdos are returning to the Charlottesville Pavilion. The past few months have been noteworthy for the Lips, who feuded with the Arcade Fire and released a really good album. To say nothing of the fact that Google Street View captured Wayne Coyne in a bathtub on the side of the road:

Further proof that the universe simply chooses some to be weird. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday morning at 10am.

I know it’s past Christmas and everything—but do you think they’ll still have silver trembling fetus Christmas ornaments for sale?

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