Performer: The Flaming Lips

Type of music: Psychedelic pop/rock

About: The Flaming Lips are selling whiskey.

It makes perfect sense that the Flaming Lips would sell their own whiskey (Brainville Rye, $124.99, available this October), because nothing the band has done in its 33-year history has made perfect sense.

Not the blowout stage shows featuring life-sized puppets, animal costumes and flying saucers.

Not their music, whimsical psychedelic pop that found an unlikely audience during the super-serious “grunge” years.

And not their lead singer, guitarist and visionary, Wayne Coyne.

Coyne wrote an entire album about living without love (“The Terror,” 2013). And yet, he is most famous for a lush romantic ballad (“Do You Realize??”) that was (briefly) the official state rock song of Oklahoma.

“Most artists with a just slight hint of curiosity are always experimenting with music,” Coyne told The Independent (U.K.).

So, of course, the band’s latest is a synth-heavy remake of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” featuring Miley Cyrus, Tegan and Sara and Moby, with all proceeds going to veterinary care for pets.

Makes perfect sense.

Discography: “Hear It Is,” “Oh My Gawd!!!…The Flaming Lips,” “Telepathic Surgery,” “In a Priest-Driven Ambulance (with Silver Sunshine Stares),” “Hit to Death in the Future Head,” “Transmissions from the Satellite Heart,” “Clouds Taste Metallic,” “Zaireeka,” “The Soft Bulletin,” “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” “At War with the Mystics,” “Embryonic,” “The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends,” “The Terror,” “With a Little Help from My Fwends.”

You might have heard: “Do You Realize??,” “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” “She Don’t Use Jelly,” “Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)” (Grammy Award winner, Best Rock Instrumental Performance, 2002).

Playing at SlossFest: The Flaming Lips will perform on the Steam stage Sunday, July 17, from 8:45 to 10 p.m.

Sloss Music and Arts Festival takes place at the historic Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham July 16-17 and features 40 performers on four stages. Tickets can be purchased here.