L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Tickets for the Flamings Lips' two-night June stay at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery will go on sale Friday at 2 p.m. A two-night pass for the June 14 and 15 gigs will go for $80, not including any surcharges, and... more info

Stereogum — Both MGMT and the Flaming Lips played the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis last Friday, and together they did this version of MGMT’s “Kids” during the latter band’s headlining set. Maybe it was a way to distract themselves from thinking... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Weezer @ Roseland Ballroom in 2010 (more by Chris La Putt) Yeasayer head out on tour later this month with the Smith Westerns and Hush Hush. That tour concludes with a show at Terminal 5 in NYC. Yeasayer appear at... more info

Gigwise — They join Lady Gaga... more info

Guardian Music — Mariah Carey had twins to the sound of her hit We Belong Together. Here's our birthing playlist . . .As if the royal wedding hadn't spread enough joy over the bank holiday weekend, singer and America's Got Talent judge Mariah Carey gave birth to twin... more info

Guardian Music — (Domino)Chicago's Smith Westerns started in thrall to compilations of 60s garage rock, such as Nuggets, before their listening habits moved on a few years – to David Bowie when he was still wearing makeup, Marc Bolan in silver lamé and the like. T... more info

Totally Fuzzy — April 20th 2011 Fleet Foxes performed a session for Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show live at Maida Vale Studios. They played a large amount of material mainly pertaining to Helplessness Blues, but they threw in old familiars as well. Maida Vale ... more info

Stereogum — The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne personally delivered a handful of life-sized gummi skulls to Oklahoma Record store Guestroom Records at exactly 4:20 pm yesterday (if you want things to get delivered at exactly 4:20 pm on 4/20, you’ve got to do it y... more info

NME — First two tracks from band's new EP released more info

Altsounds — The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl) will be the opening act on May tour dates with the Flaming Lips. Following their debut album, Acoustic Sessions, and an acoustic tour, the band will be playing in May as a 5-pie... more info