Brooklyn Vegan — Flaming Lips in San Francisco on Halloween 2013 (more by Chris Tuite) The Flaming Lips are about to come to NYC to play the Amnesty International concert at Barclays Center on Tuesday (2/5) (tickets), and after that frontman Wayne Coyne... more info

USA Today Music — A reissue of the band's debut includes an edible skull and a coin good for show admission. more info

NME — Sting will also perform as part of the US TV show's weeklong tribute to the Fab Four more info

Stereogum — Everybody’s celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ arrival in America, even us. But CBS is celebrating extra hard because they hosted the original Ed Sullivan Show broadcast that helped the Fab Four blow up stateside. Thus, the Gram... more info

Time — Madonna will introduce persecuted Russian art collective Pussy Riot when they make their first U.S. appearance at a concert in New York City on Feb. 5. The original Material Girl will introduce Masha and Nadya (full names, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhd... more info

Topix — Upwards of 100,000 people are expected in Austin when the X Games rollerblade through town June 5-8. more info

Consequence of Sound — Plus Queens of the Stone Age, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, and Conor Oberst. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Imagine Dragons, the Flaming Lips, Cold War Kids and Colbie Caillat are among eight acts confirmed to play a new-generation Human Rights Concert benefiting Amnesty International on Feb. 5 at the Barclays Center in New York. more info

USA Today Music — Flaming Lips, Imagine Dragons, Colbie Caillat, Lauryn Hill on the Brooklyn bill more info

411 Mania — They plan on covering more at a concert tonight... more info