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RIP: The Flaming Lips (As We Knew Them)

Do you realize every band you know someday will die?

2:48 PM EST on January 5, 2026

The Flaming Lips – at least how we all knew them – are officially dead.

In case you missed it over the holidays, Steven Drozd – the instrumentalist, musician and vocalist who has been the better half of The Flaming Lips since the 1990s – accidentally leaked on social media that he’s no longer with the band.

Although the news had been floating around the OKC creative class for a while, it was quickly picked up by the national online music press, sparking mass hysteria in pink robot quarters.