The Flaming Lips

About The Flaming Lips

Even within the eclectic world of alternative rock, few bands are as brave, as frequently brilliant, and as deliciously weird as the Flaming Lips – riding one of the more surreal career trajectories in pop music. After years in the underground, a major-label deal scored during the early-’90s alt rock craze gave them a bigger platform for their mix of psych, noise-rock, and bubblegum melodies, spawning the unlikely Top 40 hit “She Don’t Use Jelly.” At the turn of the century, they delivered a pair of lush and heartfelt masterpieces with 1999’s The Soft Bulletin and 2003’s Grammy-winning Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Later, they took their experimental and pop impulses in wildly different directions. – notably collaborating with Miley Cyrus.