JamBase — The Flaming Lips and Mac DeMarco will each cover three of the other act’s songs on an upcoming split EP release. more info

Stereogum — The Flaming Lips and Mac DeMarco are embarking on a joint tour together next month, and today Wayne Coyne has announced via his Instagram that the two of them are also working on a split EP where the Flaming Lips will cover three DeMarco songs and De... more info

JamBase — Watch a new virtual reality music video for Mac DeMarco’s “This Old Dog.” more info

Stereogum — Mac DeMarco has already made one commendably strange video for "This Old Dog," the ramshackle title track from his new album. And now he's got another one. Multimedia artist Rachel Rossin has put together a Pitchfork-produced virtual-reality video fo... more info

Stereogum — At the beginning of the year, the Flaming Lips released a new album, Oczy Mlody , and today they're back with a video for "Almost Home (Blisko Domu)" from it ahead of their upcoming co-headlining tour with Mac DeMarco. The video for the song is more... more info

Obscure Sound — Aberystwyth-based Sonny Pursall caught our attention earlier this year with his album Bread Rolls, which featured jangly guitars, charismatic vocals, and playful lyrical themes – not too distant from the work of Mac DeMarco or Travis Bretzer. His f... more info

Obscure Sound — Babe Parade is a Los Angeles-based quartet with a suave, catchy vein of rock. On excellent new track “Honeycomb”, brisk guitar and bass lines leading the way over a sly vocal presence in the vein of Mac DeMarco or Southside Johnny. Slight guitar ... more info

Obscure Sound — Free by joemurray. “Free” is one of the singles off Denver-based Joe Murray’s debut album I Am, releasing on November 3rd. The track showcases a very promising songwriter with an enjoyable aesthetic. The primary melody rides on TOPS-like guitar... more info

Stereogum — Mac DeMarco appears in the latest video for guitar string company Ernie Ball's String Theory, a series in which musicians talk about their relationships and approaches to guitar. "I never thought I would do the music thing. Never wanted to play guita... more info

Stereogum — Mac DeMarco is everywhere this week: in Charli XCX's "Boys" video, on @Midnight , and apparently joining some children in a jam session with the Internet's Steve Lacy and Matt Martians. Clothing company UNIF apparently has some kind of summer kids' p... more info