The Flaming Lips

Formed in 1983, The Flaming Lips have spent over four decades building their status as one of the most influential and unpredictable forces in American alternative rock. The band are three-time Grammy Award winners, Tony Award nominees, and proud holders of an RIAA Gold certification for their acclaimed album “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”. Named by Q Magazine as one of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die,” their concerts are renowned for their lavish, almost surreal fusion of music, performance, and visual art — filled with confetti, balloons, dazzling light installations, and an explosion of color that blurs the line between stage and audience.

Throughout their career, The Flaming Lips have collaborated with an extraordinary range of artists including Miley Cyrus, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Kacey Musgraves, Yoko Ono, and The Chemical Brothers. Their music has appeared in numerous films, television shows, and commercials — even in a Super Bowl campaign. Alongside their musical legacy, frontman Wayne Coyne has cultivated a distinct visual identity for the band, from iconic album artwork to his traveling art installation “The King’s Mouth,” exhibited in contemporary art museums across the United States.

Their most recent album, “American Head” (2020), marks a return to a more melodic and introspective sound, earning praise as their finest work in over a decade and appearing on numerous year-end best-of lists worldwide. With 22 studio albums, 11 EPs, 11 compilations, and countless experimental projects to their name, The Flaming Lips continue to create with the same curiosity and freedom that made them an enduring American musical institution — a band that has truly built a genre of their own.