The Flaming Lips still on a roll

Yeah, it’s hot, but so are The Flaming Lips.

And if you think 100-degree heat and a big slap of humidity are going to keep Lips’ frontman/guitarist/leader Wayne Coyne out of the huge plastic bubble he rolls into the audience, think again.

“It’s more bang for your buck,” said Coyne, who is leading his band on a tour supporting their soon-to-be-released disc “Embryonic.” “I think everybody almost expects that now.”

It’s clear Coyne — who grew up on a diet of The Rolling Stone, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and other super groups — expects it of himself. The Oklahoma-born band he started in 1983 with his brother Mark and current bass player Mike Ivins has morphed into its own high-octane status with name recognition arguably as prominent as many of the bands the members revered as they built their alt/indie rock sound.

Now a quartet with multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd and drummer Kliph Scurlock, the members are almost as well known for their stunts, which underscore a super party atmosphere at each show as they are the music.

“Everybody wants the connection to these experiences,” said Coyne whose band offers to local concertgoers such freebies as a video of the show. “You want it to not just have meaning when you are there but afterward as well.”

Of course to many the band’s music is the main event. If the three-track “sampler” from the group’s upcoming 12th studio release — its first double LP — is any indication, the music will be one wild, experimental, psychedelic ride.

Consider “Silver Trembling Hands” with plenty of echoes, throbbing drums and something akin to a musical shriek. Or the very alt/experimental “Convinced Of The Hex,” which starts with a smattering of chords and hazy, almost-monotone vocals — something akin to what you’d hear if you were sitting in on a jam session when the guys are warming up — you get the idea. What’s always impressive about the Lips’ is that they make music that’s highly experimental but really works in the best sense. Yes, it’s catchy in a head-nodding, really-cool-groove kind of way.

Coyne credits the sounds in large part to members’ affinity for recording with the aid of computers “piecemealing things together, sound-by-sound.”

But don’t think the sound is a jam-band special, said Coyne.

“We were surprised by some of the things that happened in an intentional way,” said Coyne. “You do stumble upon these little accidents. But the cliches about recording instinctively, going wherever the sound takes you — that’s bull.”

Little wonder, these guys stay on a roll, literally and figuratively.