Flaming Lips, NXNE: Indie Icons Headline Free AOL Spinner Concert in Toronto

Do you realize how long we've been keeping this amazing news to ourselves?!? The Flaming Lips are headlining Spinner Canada's free all-day NXNE concert on Saturday, June 16 at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square! Yes, the Flaming Lips. I know, right?

Toronto's annual NXNE festival seems to grow bigger and more ambitious every year, much like SXSW, its sister fest down in Austin, but the 2012 edition is looking to take the cake, run it out the door, jump into a getaway car and drive across the county line.

And, appropriately enough, the candles on North-by-Northeast's cake are the freaking Flaming Lips. Last year's Spinner.ca NXNE free party featured the likes of Cults, Men Without Hats and the legendary Devo, but we've raised the stakes even further with this year's line-up.

While the rest of the line-up will be announced soon, we just couldn't wait to reveal our three-time Grammy-winning headliners. Not only are the Oklahoma natives renowned recording artists, but as anyone who has seen them perform with furries, puppets, aliens, Santas, confetti, balloons and singer Wayne Coyne's giant hamster ball, their live show is unparalleled.

It will be a great way to celebrate NXNE's 18th birthday party, which runs June 11-17, 2012 and will bring over 650 artists to Toronto for a five-day musical bacchanal before 300,000 attendees.


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NXNE 2011

Cults singer Madeline Follin performs for the NXNE fans at Yonge-Dundas Square on Saturday, June 18, 2011.

Matthew C.X. Langford, AOL

The Canadian Press

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

Members of the group Metric arrive at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's Nfld.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

The Barenaked Ladies pose on the red carpet at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's, Newfoundland.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

Members of the band Hedley ham it up with some Mounties as they walk the red carpet at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's Nfld.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

Hip-Hop artist Classified poses with some Mounties as he walks the red carpet at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's Nfld.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

Hip-hop artist K'Naan poses for the cameras at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's N.L.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

Hip-hop artist Drake poses for the cameras at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's N.L.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber poses for the cameras at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's Nfld.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

Singer Michael Buble arrives at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's Nfld.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

Carloyn Mark and NQ Arbuckle play for the cameras on the red carpet at the Juno Awards Sunday, April 18, 2010 in St. John's Nfld.

2010 Juno Awards: Red Carpet

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