The joy of six

Are the Flaming Lips on a mission to prove that nothing is too out there for them to try? We've had the album that consists of four different discs to be played simultaneously; we've had the science fiction film which, according to one YouTube commenter, "makes Eraserhead seem like the Carebears movie"; work has begun on Yoshimi: The Musical. And now it's the six-hour-long song, all for charidee. At that length, let's hope it's rather better than their recent collaboration with Lightning Bolt, 'I'm Working At NASA On Acid', which sounds like David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' slowly and painfully running out of oxygen...

In other music news:

* The Guardian are streaming the new Mogwai EP Earth Divisions here - very decent of them. 'Tis good, though not much new.

* Spotlight Kid - formed by former Six By Seven drummer Chris Davis - have been put in the, er, spotlight by the Guardian's Paul Lester. Credit to those commenters who corrected Lester's claim that Disaster Tourist is their debut album - that would be Departure, released way back in 2006. Good to see Nottingham lad Davis getting props, though.

* I'm not yet convinced by the new Los Campesinos! single 'By Your Hand', the first from forthcoming album Hello Sadness, but the video is a neatly appropriate collision of twee and violent.

* Nevermind is twenty years old - hard to believe - and to mark the occasion Everett True has set out to bust a few myths about grunge. Say what you want about latter-day Smashing Pumpkins, Everett, but you ain't going to change the fact that Siamese Dream and good chunks of Gish and Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness are genius.