Due to potential severe weather, The Flaming Lips concert on Tuesday, June 25th will be moving from the McGrath Amphitheatre to the Alliant Energy PowerHouse.

Inclement weather is a safety hazard for show personnel, attendees, and staff, and the change of location has become necessary to be able to provide the best and safest experience possible. Current tickets will be valid in a comparable location. Tickets are still available for The Flaming Lips and can be purchased at the venue box office or online at www.CREventsLive.com. For any ticketing questions, please contact the Alliant Energy PowerHouse box office at 319-731-4510.

YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS

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).”