Stereogum — Festivals curated, Arcade Fire beefed, great record released, pants optional: that's how you have a year. And before the page turns on 2009, the Flaming Lips are adding to that list of distinctions with one more bit via Tuesday's iTunes release of... more info

Rolling Stone — The Flaming Lips will release their version of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums) digitally starting December 22nd. The Lips’ Dark Side — full title The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwa... more info

Undercover, Australia — Flaming Lips have teamed with Wayne Coyne`s nephews band Stardeath and White Dwarfs as well as Henry Rollins and Peaches to recreate the classic Pink Floyd `Dark Side Of The Moon’. more info

XFM.co.uk — ...And there's a Pink Floyd influence! more info

Guardian Music — With his strutting disco rock, this Bowie acolyte looks set to oust Mika and Scissor Sisters in the glam departmentHometown: Bristol.The lineup: Rollo Jean (vocals, music).The background: Once upon a time, more than the Beatles or the Stones, the Vel... more info

Guardian Music — Songwriter and co-founder of rock band the Alan Parsons ProjectEric Woolfson, who has died from cancer aged 64, was that unusual phenomenon: a hugely successful rock musician who managed to remain almost anonymous. He combined his skills as a songwri... more info

Live Daily — Progressive-jazz trio The Bad Plus [ tickets ] will take to the road for a US tour that rounds out 2009 and runs into the New Year as the group continues supporting last year's "For All I Care." The Minneapolis-based outfit--pianist Ethan Iverson,... more info

Stereogum — Jonathan Meiburg is an artist ahead of his time, titling Shearwater's most recent release Snow Leopard well before Apple could get their paws on it. That said his band's next release seems to recall the past instead, at least according to Matador, wh... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - Oklahoma's own, The Flaming Lips will rock in the new year via Pink Floyd with a performance of the classic Brit band's Dark Side Of The Moon album at the Lips' New Years Eve Freakout !! concert... more info

Rolling Stone — • Aerosmith in Turmoil: Behind the Story • Adam Lambert Vows to “Focus on the Music” • Guns n’ Roses Announce South American Tour • Charges in Jackson’s Death Months Away • Flaming Lips Tackle Pink Floyd for New Year’s • This Is... more info