Name: The Flaming Lips
Start: 2024-07-20T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Stage AE

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
THE FLAMING LIPS
SAT, 20 JUL 2024 at 07:00PM EDT
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 10:00AM EST
Announcement: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 10:00AM EST
Released in July 2002, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots remains the commercial high-water mark in The Flaming Lips’ wild four-decade journey, giving the GRAMMY® award-winners their first RIAA certified Gold Record. As the eagerly awaited follow-up to 1999’s masterwork, The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi proved that singer/guitarist Wayne Coyne and multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd had yet another masterpiece in them.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a sci-fi-themed quasi-concept album that cast The Flaming Lips’ most playful and profound songs to date in a wondrous swirl of ambient electronics, digital beats, and psychedelic splendor. The record yielded the band’s top-streamed track, “Do You Realize??” (a timeless stargazing anthem that, in 2009, was named the Official Rock Song of the band’s native Oklahoma) and also landed the Lips their first-ever Grammy Award® win for the cosmic album-closing instrumental “Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia).”