The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Fun Fact:  For the 2012 Record Store Day, Mastodon released two separate vinyls.  The first was a split 7-inch with Feist (with each artists covering one of the other artist's songs).  The second release was a cover of the Flaming Lips' ... more info

Stereogum — Reykjavík’s annual Iceland Airwaves festival returns this November, and we’re giving away a pair of tickets. The fest brings major international and Icelandic talent to the city’s music venues, CMJ- or SXSW-style, and this year’s lineup incl... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown —  Fun Fact:  The Antlers ground-breaking concept album, Hospice, was inspired by The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin and Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Here are the 11 Best Songs By The Antlers: No Windows (Burst Apar... more info

NME — The band also features Steven Drozd and members of Linear Downfall more info

Stereogum — Electric Würms is the side-project duo of longtime Flaming Lips partners Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd, and they’ve just announced the impending release of their new EP Musik, Die Shwer Zu Twerk, set to arrive later this summer. The EP’s first si... more info

Stereogum — Some folks on social media are #NotHappy that Pharrell wears a Native American headdress on the new cover of Elle UK. You’ll remember that last month, the appropriation of a Native American headdress was at the center of a fight between Flaming Lip... more info

Nialler9 — Colm Moore took his camera down to Kilmainham where he caught pics of The Flaming Lips, Warpaint, Flying Lotus, ASIWYFA and more at Forbidden Fruit. I didn’t make it in for all the weekend but I enjoyed the visual show from Flying Lotus but I came... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis It's been a while since America has seen UK trio The Young Knives on these shores. The band from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, fronted by brothers Henry and Thomas Dartnall, have continued making their distinctive, eccentric and decidedly British... more info

NME — 'With a Little Help From My Fwends' will come out on October 28 more info

Stereogum — If you’ve kept up with the Flaming Lips for the past few turbulent weeks (or, honestly, years), you may be encouraged to learn that they have some actual new music coming out, even if that new music does involve one Miley Cyrus. For a while, we’v... more info