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The Flaming Lips will celebrate two decades since their 10th studio album ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ with a deluxe reissue, as well as anniversary shows in London and Washington, DC.The band will release a six-CD box set edition on November 25, with a five-LP vinyl edition following on April 14 next year, both via Warner. The CD version – which will also arrive on streaming platforms – includes 50 previously-unreleased tracks, and “dozens” of rare cuts such as B-sides, demos, remixes, live versions and other rarities.

The Flaming Lips and young fan Nell Smith have shared their second Nick Cave cover – listen to their version of ‘The Ship Song’ below.As announced last month, the band have teamed up with 13-year-old Smith for a full cover album of Cave songs, with ‘When The Viaduct Looms’ being released on November 26.Smith has been attending Flaming Lips gigs for three years and caught the attention of frontman Wayne Coyne after being spotted at the gigs with her father several times. The pair eventually exchanged contact details and recorded the covers album together remotely during the pandemic.In a statement about the collaboration, Coyne said: “It is always great to meet excited, young creative people.

The Flaming Lips have delivered a dreamy performance of ‘Mother I’ve Taken LSD’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – you can watch it below.The song appeared on the group’s last album, ‘American Head’, which was released in 2020.Earlier this year, the group performed another ‘American Head’ song on US television – this time on Jimmy Kimmel Live! That song was ‘Will You Return / When You Come Down’.Aside from a handful of special “bubble” live shows earlier this year, the group postpone touring as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Nick Cave has shared his thoughts on The Flaming Lips’  recent cover of the Bad Seeds track ‘Girl In Amber’, which they recorded with 13-year-old fan Nell Smith.The Flaming Lips’ version of ‘Girl In Amber’ emerged last week as part of a whole Nick Cave covers album, that the band recorded with Smith.

The Flaming Lips have teamed up with a young fan for a new Nick Cave covers album.The album, ‘Where The Viaduct Looms’, arrives on October 25 and The Flaming Lips have shared a preview of a cover they recorded with young 13-year-old fan, Nell Smith. They have covered the 2016 Bad Seeds track, ‘Girl In Amber’.Smith has been attending Flaming Lips gigs for three years and caught the attention of frontman Coyne after being spotted at the gigs with her father several times.

The Flaming Lips have announced a string of UK and Ireland tour dates that will kick off in 2022 after a tour of North America.The band took to social media earlier today (May 3) to announce they will be heading out on tour in support of their most recent album ‘American Head’.The tour will begin with a series of US dates in late 2021, before proceeding into 2022 with shows in the UK and Ireland, starting in Leeds on May 25 and ending in Ireland on July 22, with a stop at London’s O2 Kentish Town in between.The dates, which you can see in full below, follow the Oklahoma shows The Flaming Lips performed during the coronavirus pandemic, in which both the band and audience stood in protective bubbles for the concert’s duration.JUST ANNOUNCED:

Flaming Lips, Courtney Marie Andrews, Low, Weyes Blood and Richard Thompson are among the names to have contributed bespoke covers to a new album celebrating the life and work of Bob Dylan.With the icon set to celebrate his 80th birthday on May 24, Uncut‘s June issue comes with ‘Dylan Revisited’ – a covermount CD made up of 14 cover versions of choice cuts from Dylan’s songbook recorded exclusively for Uncut, as well as a previously unreleased track from the man himself.“Being asked to cover a Dylan song is quite difficult,” Thompson admits in the magazine.

Beachy Head have shared a dreamy new track, ‘All Gone’ – you can listen to it below.Last week (March 22), it was revealed that members of Slowdive, Flaming Lips, The Soft Cavalry and Casket Girls had joined forces to form the new supergroup.Beachy Head comprises Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell and Christian Savill, Flaming Lips drummer Matt Duckworth, Ryan Graveface (Casket Girls, Dreamend) and Steve Clarke (The Soft Cavalry).After releasing new single ‘Destroy Us’ last week, the group also announced that their self-titled debut album will be released on April 30 through Graveface’s eponymous record label.You can listen to their latest single, ‘All Gone’ below:According to the liner notes on Bandcamp, the album’s creation was a gradual process.

Slowdive, Flaming Lips, The Soft Cavalry and Casket Girls have joined forces for an album under a new band name, Beachy Head.Beachy Head comprises Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell and Christian Savill, Flaming Lips drummer Matt Duckworth, Ryan Graveface (Casket Girls, Dreamend) and Steve Clarke (The Soft Cavalry). The group’s self-titled debut album will be released on April 30 through Graveface’s eponymous record label.The first single, ‘Destroy Us’, a lo-fi, ethereal track, is out now through Bandcamp.