Deap Lips

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Deap Lips
Origin Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Genres Alternative Rock, Garage Rock, Neo-psychedelia
Years active2019-present
Labels Cooking Vinyl
Members Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Lindsey Troy, Julie Edwards
Website www.flaminglips.com , www.deapvally.com

Deap Lips is an American rock band formed in 2019 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is a collaboration of The Flaming Lips and Deap Vally. [1] Deap Lips are Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips and Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards of Deap Vally. The two band's relationship sparked when Coyne went to see Deap Vally in concert and met Lindsey Troy and gave her his phone number. Deap Vally later came out to Oklahoma City to jam with The Flaming Lips and recorded some songs for their collaboration. [2] On March 13, 2020 the band released their first self-titled album Deap Lips through Cooking Vinyl . The album featured a cover version of the Steppenwolf song "The Pusher". [2]

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References

  1. "Flaming Lips and Deap Vally Form Cool New Band Called Deap Lips". Spin. 2019-12-06. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  2. 1 2 Kreps, Daniel (2020-03-13). "Deap Lips Drop Colorful Video for Steppenwolf's 'The Pusher' Cover". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  3. "Deap Lips' Debut Is An Interstellar Excursion For The Quarantined Mind". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-12-30.