The Flaming Lips are releasing their 12th studio monstrosity later this year and according to a SPIN report, Embryonic features some extra-special guests: MGMT and Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Frontnut Coyne sent some sounds and ideas via e-mail and telephone and in what we’re sure was a flash of glittered genius, something gnarly was born. That something will be sandwiched somewhere amid the many layers of psychedelia Embryonic—a double album which Coyne claims is similar to the Lips’ masterstroke the Soft Bulletin—promises.

—Meryl Natow

Not that long ago, MGMT were just two of the many sort of dirty-looking, kind of hippie-vibing kids in Brooklyn. On August 5th and 6th they will opening for Paul McCartney at Boston’s Fenway Park. McCartney recently declared his admiration for the duo’s music and suggested they might collaborate on “some more dancey stuff,” so now that they will most certainly be hanging backstage, expect that pairing to actually happen and for MGMT to become the richest sort of dirty-looking, kind of hippie-vibing kids in all the world. Let that be a lesson to you, Williamsburg: Don’t change a thing.

Beck has announced that he is embarking on a new project entitled Record Club, and it’s a pretty exclusive club. Every week Beck will have an unrehearsed, one-day session with another artist (such as MGMT, Devendra Banhart, or Jamie Lidell) and record a classic album to be posted on his website. First up on the list of classics to be tackled is The Velvet Underground & Nico, and his version of “Sunday Morning” has already been released as a bonus 7″. This project brought to you, for free, courtesy of the internet. (via Rolling Stone)

Who’s brain is this video more damaging to? Ours or the little dude who stars in it? Fight on, little dude, we’ll be over here cowering under our desks!

They released their latest EP last month, and we have been on a Suckers-love streak since our interview with them a few weeks ago, so we figured, why not stream their latest video for their new single “Easy Chair” for you?
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