ContactMusic — Rockers the Flaming Lips have announced a fifth New Year extravaganza with Yoko Ono in their native Oklahoma Wayne Coynes band will perform two Freakout concerts with Ono and the Plastic Ono Band in Oklahoma City on New Years Eve 31Dec11 and New Year... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - As Wayne Coyne tweeted earlier today, THE FLAMING LIPS have announced they will perform two shows to celebrate the New Year at the Bricktown Events Center in Oklahoma City, OK on December 31 and January 1, 2012.... more info

Guardian Music — Alec Feld's debut album might be called Dark Matters, but it trips the light fantastic with sheer manic joyHometown: New York.The lineup: Alec Feld (music, production).The background: Alec Feld is a New York producer who grew up listening to Chicago ... more info

Guardian Music — Pair are among first signatories of Occupy Musicians, a campaign supporting movement against income inequalityLou Reed and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello are among the first signatories of Occupy Musicians, a campaign supporting Occupy Wall S... more info

Guardian Music — If you like the hypnagogic soft rock of Ariel Pink and glo-fi slow jams of Washed Out, this will be right up your alleyHometown: Philadelphia.The lineup: Benjamin Louisiana (more instrumental/less vocal) and Thomas Crystal (more vocal/less instrument... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Like any Scottish band that plays anything even vaguely ambient it’s impossible not to think of Mogwai, and the experience is similar: The Scottish Enlightenment make music that you get lost in. At other times they could almost be The Flaming Lips... more info

Guardian Music — Roundhouse, LondonOnly four songs in and the PA cut out, the sirens blared and the Roundhouse was evacuated. Had Kentucky's My Morning Jacket tripped the inhouse prog alarm, or had the venue overloaded trying to work out what sort of band they are? E... more info

Guardian Music — The director-turned-musician turns editor for this week's Film & MusicFive things we learnt from David Lynch's stint as editorSometimes a fish will tell you how it wants to be cookedThe block-and-tackle is a mysterious and powerful deviceDuran Duran ... more info

KEXP Seattle — Happy Halloween! While music may not have the same effect as candy, there’s still several treats being served up today. Starting things off is the release of The Flaming Lips‘ 24-hour song “7 Skies H3,” which you can now stream over at their ... more info

Stereogum — The latest product of the Flaming Lips’ sonic experimentation is a 24-hour-long song called “7 Skies H3,” which is, you know, a full 18 hours longer than the recent “I Found This Star On The Ground.” If you were fretting about Halloween pla... more info