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?”
The Velvet Underground's classic debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, is set to be re-released as a six disc package on October 1.
The 1967 album will be re-released in order to celebrate its 45th anniversary. The six discs will include the original stereo and mono versions of the album, as well as Nico's Chelsea Girl album and two live discs taken from a show at the Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio.
The Strokes have begun work on the follow-up to 'Angles', NME can confirm.
The band, who were last in the UK to headline last summer's Reading And Leeds Festivals, were reported to have been working on new material at the famous Electric Lady Studios in their home city of New York earlier this month, but this was quickly denied by their management and record label.
Damien Hirst has said he believes The Stone Roses are more important than Picasso.
Hirst, who is Britain's richest living artist with a fortune estimated at £215 million, is one of a host of celebrities to have contributed their memories of The Stone Roses ahead of their hugely anticipated shows at Manchester's Heaton Park this weekend.
Writing in the gigs' official programme, which will be onsale at all three of the shows, Hirst simply writes: "The Stone Roses are more important than Picasso."
Plenty of gold in this week’s haul, and not much better than the Duane Pitre album whose sleeve is posted above – a truly excellent record that I must admit I missed when it was released a few months back.
Hi there,
I hope those of you who braved the abysmal weather last weekend to go to the Isle of Wight festival had a good time and made it back unscathed.
No acts have pulled out of the Isle Of Wight Festival, despite heavy flooding throwing the event into chaos, a spokesperson has told NME.
Earlier today, organiser John Giddings told the BBC that he would consider refunding ticket holders if they sent their tickets back. "I'm really sorry" he said. "I really appreciate all the support everyone has given us under the conditions... but the weather has been absolutely horrendous."
Floods have hit the Isle Of Wight Festival site.
The main car park for this weekend's event has become waterlogged, leading to traffic congestion, meaning that ferry operators Wightlink are having difficulty discharging passengers, according to BBC News. Bus services have also been affected.
Legendary German experimental band Can have released a video taken from their new 3 CD boxset of unreleased tracks Can - The Lost Tapes.
The video, for the track "Messer, Scissors, Fork And Light", has been directed by Nick Cave collaborators, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
Can - The Lost Tapes is a three CD compilation of recently unearthed and catalogued archive material from 1968 - 1975. You can read Uncut's review when it goes live on www.uncut.co.uk tomorrow.
Meawhile, enjoy the video here:
