Big Apple Music Scene — So apparently, the Flaming Lips are working on a song that is six hours long. You heard me: Six. Hours. Long. While they are certainly not the first band to record an epic, I haven't heard of many bands recoding a song that is THAT long, so this is p... more info

Guardian Music — We were liveblogging, red carpeting and, er, red wining at the Mercurys as Polly Jean walked away victorious. As for you? You were mostly slagging off the Beatles ...All the chatter from this year's Mercury prizeRebecca Nicholson gives Mercury prize ... more info

Guardian Music — From Dub Side of the Moon to Dave Depper's Ram Project, the heroically pointless act of covering an entire album is one of pop's odder habits. Peter Paphides tries to rationalise itThe footnotes of pop are littered with all sorts of heroic but arguab... more info

NME — The epic track is being prodcued to raise money for charity more info

Guardian Music — For £61 your name can feature on the track Found a Star On the Ground, currently being recorded by Wayne Coyne and coHave you ever wanted to have your name as a lyric in an hour-long Flaming Lips song? How about a two-hour Flaming Lips song? Three h... more info

Topix — The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne and drummer Steven Drozd, back, perform during a concert at The National in Richmond, Virginia, Sunday, May 15, 2011 Aside from being the largest local music festival of the year -- closing in on 200 bands at 18 ... more info

Impose Magazine — There's something eerily familiar about Dead Gaze's "It's Not Real" that we can't quite place. It is as though the radio dial caught a muffled pop-transmission from a late 90s Top 40 station. R. Cole Furlow keeps his vocals submerged,... more info

The World Forgot — A few years ago I had the fortunate experience of seeing the Flaming Lips close out a festival.  This, of course, was when festivals were awesome and you could spend two days watching amazing bands play back to back and not be completely broke at th... more info

ContactMusic — A series of New York concerts due to feature rockers the Flaming Lips and Interpol has been cancelled in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. The gigs, also including sets by rap icon Q-Tip and dance star Girl Talk, were set to take place in Long Beach ... more info

Stereogum — Last month, the Flaming Lips got together with Providence noise kings Lightning Bolt to release a collaborative EP and drop the skree-bomb video for “I Wanna Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage.” Now they’ve posted the second video from th... more info