The…fuck?!? When was this announced? Didn’t someone here (Ken?) point out that Drozd writes “70-90 percent of the music”? Aren’t all the synthesizers and shit him? I knew Michael Ivins was gone, but I didn’t know what the fuck he even did anymore (or really ever did…I don’t know any more about him than I know about Michael Anthony from Van Halen!) If Steven Drozd is gone, then the Flaming Lips are a band in name only and really ought to just call it a day?!?

Googling it for five seconds says that he had health problems and left the tour, but hasn’t been kicked out of the band yet? And that he and a bunch of past members are in something called “The Lips”? I am unsure what to say here.

Radiohead - You and me need to stick with this “they secretly broke up 10 years ago” theory to the end. Babblers 4 Life!

Decemberists - I quit following them after The King Is Dead in 2011 and have no desire to hear any of the....okay, thank God, only three albums they’ve put out since then. Most of the OG band members are still in the band, for what that’s worth. Though now even the twee cutesy post-1995 indie rockers are now all middle aged too.
The reason for their decline was because of the big rock opera they put out in 2009, The Hazards Of Love. It initially got good reviews (and I didn’t think it was a bad album) but it obviously didn’t go down as a huge masterpiece, which meant it went down as some sort of a flop that nobody liked. That was the end of critics paying attention to them

Arcade Fire - Yep, the new album completely tanked and talk of the whole Arcade Fire thing being completely over with is all over the place. I did not think WE was a bad album, but the dance pop stuff since 2013 was inferior to the pre-2013 stuff.