The Flaming Lips

American rock band

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2025 AJ Slaughter begins filling in for Steven Drozd, who is no longer touring with the band.
2025 Steven Drozd stops touring with the band for the first time since joining, with his future membership status uncertain.
2023 Nicholas Ley leaves the band.
2021 Bassist and keyboardist Michael Ivins departs from the band, leaving Wayne Coyne as the only remaining founding member.
November 2021 Released 'Where the Viaduct Looms', an album featuring 13-year-old Canadian musician Nell Smith covering nine Nick Cave songs.
August 16 2021 Jake Ingalls announced his amicable departure from the band.
October 12 2020 Performed a unique concert in Oklahoma City during the COVID-19 pandemic, with band and audience members enclosed in protective inflatable bubbles.
September 11 2020 Released sixteenth studio album 'American Head', with the single 'My Religion Is You' previously released on June 6, 2020.
March 13 2020 Deap Lips released their first self-titled album through Cooking Vinyl, which included a cover of Steppenwolf's 'The Pusher'.
2019 Deap Lips band formed as a collaboration between The Flaming Lips (Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd) and Deap Vally (Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
April 13 2019 Released studio album 'King's Mouth' on Record Store Day, with Mick Jones narrating almost every song.
2018 The Flaming Lips won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score for 'Tomorrow Is' from SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
February 28 2018 Announcement of the album release of 'Scratching the Door' and the compilation 'Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Flaming Lips 1986-1990'
April 22 2017 Released 'Onboard the International Space Station Concert for Peace' on Record Store Day, a re-recording of seven tracks from 'Oczy Mlody'.
January 13 2017 Released their fourteenth album 'Oczy Mlody', featuring a guest appearance by Miley Cyrus.
January 27 2016 The Flaming Lips began recording a new album with Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Roads Studio.
2014 Matt Duckworth Kirksey joins as drummer and percussionist, replacing Kliph Scurlock. Nicholas Ley also joins on percussion and drums.
2013 Released thirteenth studio album 'The Terror'
2013 Jake Ingalls joins on keyboards and guitars.

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