Stereogum — The Flaming Lips are pretty into gimmicks right now — they have packaged songs inside of gummy skulls and gummy fetuses this year — and so it should be of no surprise that the band’s latest weird product/release format is light and animation to... more info

Guardian Music — This prolific Canadian should provide pathological record collectors with a long list of musical must-haves to hunt downHometown: Vancouver.The lineup: Jamison (vocals, music).The background: Do you suffer from that annoying and expensive syndrome wh... more info

Guardian Music — Family of fan killed in US concert disaster may sue headline actOne month after a 22-year-old fan died in the collapse of stage rigging at the Indiana State Fair in America, her family may sue the band whose concert she was there to see. Sugarland ha... more info

NME — Band also say release will come with a special strobe light toy more info

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