State Theatre & 98.9 WCLZ present

The Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Thu, July 25, 2024

Thompson's Point

Doors: 6:00pm - Show: 7:30pm - all ages

$49.50 advance
$59.50 day of show

PARKING

All Thompson’s Point shows are rain or shine. Buy tickets in person (without fees) at the State Theatre box office Fridays 10am-5pm, or the night of any State Theatre show. The Thompson’s Point Box Office opens 2 hours before doors day of show. Please note that ticket prices may fluctuate based on demand. On-site parking is very limited, buy in advance above. CLICK HERE for more transportation info.

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The Flaming Lips

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).”