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Living in the age of COVID-19 Just over a year ago, a mysterious new coronavirus began spreading around the world. Today, the pandemic has infected more than 100 million people — and turned our lives upside down. Collective physical distancing Singapore has recorded very low coronavirus infection rates since October. Observers have credited the Southeast Asian city-state for keeping the virus in check by closely monitoring its citizens, in part with a mandatory tracing app. The decline in inf...

By Andrew Magnotta @AndrewMagnotta After months of planning The Flaming Lips on Friday pulled off their first Space Bubble concert for the COVID-19 age. The legendary alternative band has often deployed the plastic bubbles over the years as part of its revelatory live shows, with frontman Wayne Coyne donning the plastic to roll across the top of the audience. But on January 22, the band first used the plastic pods as a pandemic safety measure at Oklahoma Citys Criterion theater. The band p...

The Flaming Lips play worlds first "Space Bubble" concert Publish Date Getty Images After being forced to postpone due to rising COVID-19 numbers, The Flaming Lips finally played their first set of "space bubble" concerts, and from the looks of it they pulled them off! The band performed two shows at Oklahoma Citys The Criterion over the weekend, with each band and audience member confined in a giant bubble. The venue was filled with 100 quarantine bubbles that could each hold three concert-goe...

At Coachella 2004, Wayne Coyne, frontman for Oklahoma psych-pop eccentrics the Flaming Lips, revamped the long-standing festival tradition of beachball-tossing by stepping inside a giant clear plastic bubble, then having roadies send him out into the crowd, where he rolled around like human beachball, or like a giddy hamster in a Habitrail. Since then, we know I could stay in that for hours and hours and not run out of air.

Dec 19, 2020 Over the last few months, we’ve seen artists perform at drive-in concerts with the audience safely in their car and others take the virtual stage for livestreams, but The Flaming Lips are craving the energy that can only come from an in-person concert so they came up with a plan they call “Space Bubbles.” They’re planning a show for next year where the band and every audience member will be in a separate plastic bubble, kind of like a hamster ball, to maintain social dista...

Dec 19, 2020 Over the last few months, we’ve seen artists perform at drive-in concerts with the audience safely in their car and others take the virtual stage for livestreams, but The Flaming Lips are craving the energy that can only come from an in-person concert so they came up with a plan they call “Space Bubbles.” They’re planning a show for next year where the band and every audience member will be in a separate plastic bubble, kind of like a hamster ball, to maintain social dista...

Dec 19, 2020 Over the last few months, we’ve seen artists perform at drive-in concerts with the audience safely in their car and others take the virtual stage for livestreams, but The Flaming Lips are craving the energy that can only come from an in-person concert so they came up with a plan they call “Space Bubbles.” They’re planning a show for next year where the band and every audience member will be in a separate plastic bubble, kind of like a hamster ball, to maintain social dista...

Dec 19, 2020 Over the last few months, we’ve seen artists perform at drive-in concerts with the audience safely in their car and others take the virtual stage for livestreams, but The Flaming Lips are craving the energy that can only come from an in-person concert so they came up with a plan they call “Space Bubbles.” They’re planning a show for next year where the band and every audience member will be in a separate plastic bubble, kind of like a hamster ball, to maintain social dista...

Dec 19, 2020 Over the last few months, we’ve seen artists perform at drive-in concerts with the audience safely in their car and others take the virtual stage for livestreams, but The Flaming Lips are craving the energy that can only come from an in-person concert so they came up with a plan they call “Space Bubbles.” They’re planning a show for next year where the band and every audience member will be in a separate plastic bubble, kind of like a hamster ball, to maintain social dista...

Dec 19, 2020 Over the last few months, we’ve seen artists perform at drive-in concerts with the audience safely in their car and others take the virtual stage for livestreams, but The Flaming Lips are craving the energy that can only come from an in-person concert so they came up with a plan they call “Space Bubbles.” They’re planning a show for next year where the band and every audience member will be in a separate plastic bubble, kind of like a hamster ball, to maintain social dista...