The Flaming Lips answer your questions in the new issue of Uncut, out tomorrow.
Wayne Coyne takes your queries, as well as those from famous fans, on subjects including David Bowie, Oklahoma City and his favourite bugs.
Asked how he came to meet William Burroughs, Coyne explained that the band spent time hanging out with the Beat icon in Lawrence, Kansas, not far from Oklahoma.
“We ended up spending this extraordinary day with William and his friends, shooting pistols. For me it’s a big deal just to shoot guns at all, but to shoot guns with Burroughs?”
Bruce Springsteen has disclosed he's been seeing a therapist since 1982. Speaking to David Remnick for an interview in The New Yorker magazine, Springsteen admitted, "You cannot underestimate the fine power of self-loathing in all of this."
Springsteen reportedly began attending counsellling sessions while he was working on his Nebraska album.
Coming into work on the bus this morning, it occurred to me that the Christopher Nolan film I most wanted to watch again was Insomnia. I remember it being the least tricksy of Nolan’s films; a sharp, intelligent thriller, heavy on style and atmosphere, which seemed less concerned with the kind of ingenious puzzles and narrative twists that the director deployed in Memento, The Prestige and Inception.
Sales of "old albums" have overtaken sales of "new albums" for the first time over the last six months in the US.
Sales of "old albums", which are classified as LPs that have been on sale for longer than 18 months, numbered at 76.6 million over the last six months, with sales of "new albums" numbering at 73.9 million, reports OC Weekly.
According to chart analysts Nielsen, the biggest "old album" sellers have been Whitney Houston and Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits, while Adele's 21 remains by far the biggest seller in the "new albums" category.
David Bowie is to release a 40th anniversary limited edition 7" of his 1972 single, "John, I'm Only Dancing".
'John, I'm Only Dancing' was originally released on Friday, September 1, 1972 on RCA as the follow-up single to "Starman", it reached number 12 on the UK singles charts, although it never appeared on one of Bowie's studio albums. Recorded too late for inclusion on the Ziggy Stardust album, it was considered for the following year's Aladdin Sane, but never made it on to the final running order.
Tom Waits appeared on Monday evening's edition of Late Night With David Letterman, where he performed "Chicago", from his most recent album, 2011's Bad As Me, live for the first time.
Musicians joining Waits on stage included his son Casey Waits on drums, long time bassist Larry Taylor, guitarist David Hidalgo, keyboardist Augie Myers and guitarist Big Bill Morganfield.
You can watch Waits' performance on the CBS show below.
