The Flaming Lips have created a subculture in the eclectic world of indie rock. The Flaming Lips experience is one which will last in your soul for a lifetime. From the mid-90s to now, they have crafted their own unique sound, pushing away from the mainstream. Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles", "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" and "Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".

Mac DeMarco affectionately refers to his music as 'jizz-jazz.' The 26 year-old Canadian born DeMarco just released his third album, "This Old Dog," in April 2017.