Hours before the Flaming Lips performed to tens of thousands of festivalgoers, frontman Wayne Coyne sat down for an interview at the Solar Stage with just a few hundred fans. The topic of the conversation was “Social Change Through Music,” so Coyne discussed his work with helping homeless dogs in Oklahoma City and Amnesty International. Coyne is one of the most loquacious dudes in rock, so the topic often veered into unexpected areas, like Coyne’s love of Barack Obama and why he considers R.E.M. to be punk rock. Coyne also revealed that the Lips’ Sgt. Pepper’s cover album should be finished by October, and that some proceeds from the release would go to causes that he supports.
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