The Flaming Lips to collaborate with Nick Cave

Oklahoman psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have revealed their collaboration on a "collection of songs" with Nick Cave, confirming plans to team up with him at the end of his current tour.

"We've done a couple of things with Nick,"said frontman Wayne Coyne. "We already have one really good [track], so that seems like it'll work out."

This year alone, the band has already issued collaborations with Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt and Prefuse 73, with a four-song Deerhoof EP due next month.

According to Coyne, they have also initiated projects with Death Cab for Cutie, Stars, No Age, Lykke Li and even Ke$ha(!). The aim is to collect all of these pairings for a record in April.

To celebrate the release of their new 24-hour song yesterday, The Flaming Lips accepted a 17-year-old girl's invitation to play at her house in West Virginia.

"All of her friends are going to come over," said Coyne. "We're going to play 'Halloween' by The Dream Syndicate and then do one or two Flaming Lips songs before the police show up to shut the thing down."

The band will also appear at MTV's online 'O Music' awards. After an introduction by Yoko Ono, the band will use iPads to perform the Beatles' classic 'Revolution', in tribute to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who passed away on 5 October.