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Oklahoma City Community & Non-Profit on wimgo A version of this column appears in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. Tornado benefit performances continue Tickets are on sale Friday (today) for the July 23 Rock for Oklahoma fundraiser that will feature Kings of Leon, The Flaming Lips, Jackson Browne, Built to Spill and special guests at Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W Reno.

Kings of Leon and The Flaming Lips will lead an all-star lineup performing at the “Rock for Oklahoma” tornado relief benefit July 23 at Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W Reno. The concert also will feature Jackson Browne, Built to Spill and special guests, according to a news release.

In his usual colorful way, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne sent out several Tweets @waynecoyne with Instagram photos revealing that his home near Oklahoma City’s Plaza District was flooded in Friday night’s devastating storms. He even tweeted out this morning a picture of today’s sobering cover of The Oklahoman, which unfortunately features another horrifying photo of a tornado.

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips are pre-selling fan-designed T-shirts to raise money for Moore tornado relief. Two days are left for people to submit their T-shirt designs at www.threadless.com/theflaminglips. You can view the dozens of designs that have already been submitted at www.threadless.com/theflaminglips/submissions.

A version of this story appears in Wednesday’s The Oklahoman. Read more of my interview with Toby Keith in the coming day. Toby Keith Foundation’s 10th annual fundraiser brings in $1 million The Toby Keith & Friends Golf Classic, along with its Denim & Diamond dinner and auction, benefits the country music star’s foundation and its primary project: the construction of the OK Kids Korral, a home-away-from-home for Oklahoma children fighting cancer and their families.

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips will be the musical guests performing tonight on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” Fallon’s show airs at 11:35 p.m. weekdays on NBC. Julie Bowen and Demi Lovato also will be guests on tonight’s episode.

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have released a very NSFW video for the song “You Lust,” from their 2013 album “The Terror.” There’s lots of writhing, lots of wires and lots of nudity involved, plus a weird pink toad and a roving monkey.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Oklahoma City-based experimental rockers The Flaming Lips, which formed in 1983. The band has been staying busy, recently releasing their new album “The Terror,” a special Record Store Day remastered vinyl of their 1997 experimental opus “Zaireeka” and various music videos, as well as playing shows.

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have been releasing videos of them performing tracks from their new album “The Terror” live. Last week, I posted the video of their live performances of “Try to Explain,” and now here are the videos for the title track and “Look … The Sun Is Rising.” As a bonus, check out the Lips’ “The Terror” medley.

Is there anything better than two psychedelic Oklahoma City bands swapping songs in a flurry of creativity? Not really. Veteran rockers The Flaming Lips and young act Horse Thief happen to be on the same label, Bella Union, in the U.K., and their latest albums – The Lips’ 13th studio effort “The Terror” and Horse Thief’s debut EP “Grow Deep, Grow Wild,” – happened to drop across the pond on the same day, which happened to be April 1.

A limited quantity of The Flaming Lips’ Record Store Day 2013 release is available now on the band’s online store. This year for RSD, the Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers released a special vinyl edition of their experimental 1997 album “Zaireeka.” The box set includes four discs, designed to be played on cue and simultaneously, producing nothing short of a symphonic experience.

Oklahoma City Live Music on wimgo Record Store Day is almost here, and Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips and Broken Arrow retro rocker JD McPherson are among the wide array of recording artists who will be offering exclusive goodies this Saturday.

Along with unleashing today their 13th studio album, “The Terror,” Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips released the video for “Try to Explain,” one of the tracks from the album. The video was shot locally at Kamps Lounge, and even better, it is SFW so you don’t have to wait to watch it.

Oklahoma City-based alternative rockers The Flaming Lips unleashed their new studio album, “The Terror,” today. Along with the digital and CD versions of the album, “The Terror” is available as a special Direct-To-Consumer, Limited-Edition Silver Vinyl double-LP set, housed in a two-pocket gatefold jacket with printed sleeves.

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne is encouraging fans to be optimistic that the Oklahoma City-based alternative rockers’ anthem “Do You Realize??” will be restored to its status as Oklahoma’s official state rock song. As my excellent colleagues Gene Triplett and George Lang are reporting, a spokesman for Republican Gov.

Leave it to Oklahoma City rock star Wayne Coyne, frontman for The Flaming Lips, to use his love of confetti to antagonize a savage beast. Coyne appears on this week’s episode of comedian T.J. Miller (“She’s Out of My League”) web series “The Gorburger Show,” and not surprisingly, things get even weirder than usual, which doesn’t even seem possible but is so, so true.

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips will release their 13th studio album, “The Terror,” on April 16. But NPR is giving fans a First Listen of the album, which even frontman Wayne Coyne has described as disturbing. Click here to access NPR’s free advanced streaming of the album.

Edmond punk-rock-pop duo Skating Polly – stepsisters Kelli Mayo, 13, and Peyton Bighorse, 17 – released their sophomore album “Lost Wonderfuls” Tuesday on iTunes. The album is due out April 16 on CD from the SQE label, reports The Oklahoman Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett.

Oklahoma-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have been honored as the recipients of the first annual Grulke Prize. Named in honor of beloved South by Southwest Creative Director Brent Grulke, who died in August 2012, the Grulke Prize is divided into three categories: Developing U.S.

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips gave a purposefully disquieting performance of “Look … The Sun Is Rising” Wednesday night on the “Late Show with David Letterman.” The darkly foreboding song is the opening track off their upcoming 13th studio album, “The Terror,” due out in the U.S.