First things first: Starlight Mints do not sound like the Flaming Lips. Yes, both bands beam an oddness only Norman, Oklahomans could conjure. Yes, SM’s “The Bandit” (from the 2000 album The Dream ...

It's easy for an established indie-rock band to get comfortable, but The Starlight Mints' members aren't content with just their durable and consistent hooks. The Oklahoma-based rock group excels at ...

Hailing from Oklahoma City, Starlight Mints are an Orchestral Pop band that aims to please with a childish smirk and a mature musical arrangement. Unlike some of rock's other orchestral blunders, The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hot IQs/Lion Sized Two of our city’s most galvanizing acts joined forces to release new EPs at the Hi-Dive on Nov. 17. Lion Sized, featuring former members ...

Stubb's, June 11 On a night that showcased the reedy grasping of a musical has-been trotting out her greatest hits to a marginally interested crowd and the theatrical visual bombast of a hard-working ...

It’s tough enough already for The Starlight Mints to be perpetually known as the other indie-rock band from Oklahoma, but the act certainly hasn’t made emerging from The Flaming Lips’ considerable ...

Spending time with the Starlight Mints’ latest release, Drowaton, is like wandering through a carnival fun house, bouncing down rippling hallways past mind-bending mirrors to the bipolar accompaniment ...

One day, perhaps, Oklahoma psych-pop ensemble Starlight Mints will finally escape the long shadow cast by fellow Okie weird-rockers The Flaming Lips. But that day isn’t coming anytime soon. The ...

There's a fine, scruffy rock band deep inside Oklahoma's Starlight Mints, but one in need of a good editor. At their Troubadour appearance Sunday, they performed about two hours' worth of catchy ...

Once upon a time, there was a little orchestral pop band from Oklahoma. No, I’m not talking about The Flaming Lips. Seriously, folks–the Sooner state has birthed many great bands other than them thar ...