Let's get together

So they've done the sci-fi film, they've done the collaboration with Lightning Bolt, they've done a six-hour charity song, they're now working on Yoshimi: The Musical and releasing "a 24-hour track, embedded ina real human skull". What could possibly be next for the Flaming Lips? Well, how's about the small matter of collaborations with Nick Cave, No Age, Deerhoof and Lykke Li, amongst others? The mooted album is shaping up to be quite something...

Certainly, the prospect of hearing the fruits of those hook-ups fills me with rather more joy than of enduring whatever Jack White and the Insane Clown Posse can muster, especially when its German title 'Leck Mich im Arsch' translates as 'Lick My Ass'. Shouldn't they be working on a protest song directed against the FBI's criminalisation of Juggalos or something?