Flipp was formed in the late 1990's by frontman, Schizo-Boy, Brynn Arens. While messing around with a video camera with cofounder, drummer, Kilo Bale, recording a friend's light show, the guys found themselves with an awesome video for the remake of The Who's, “My Generation” which Brynn describes as,...“what the song would have sounded like if Sonic Youth would have wrote it...” Seeing the great response to the video, Brynn realized he would have to find two other members that were as sick and twisted as he was to complete this rock band Flipp. With brother Chia Karaoke Arens on every instrument he can get his hands on, including Flipp cereal, and space-punk Freaky Useless on bass, Flipp was complete.

One of Flipp’s very first gigs was playing the first Edgefest outdoor rock concert festival. The band appeared on MTV news after they incited a mud throwing war and was shown with singer Brynn Arens “mooning” the crowd while thousands threw mud at his digitally blurred out bottom. The nation’s first impression of the band! Since then, the band has played every Edgefest concert and is always the big hit of the festival. 1997’s appearance, the band dumped a half-ton of Flipp cereal on the crowd getting national press. 1999’s appearance, the band hired 5 boyband *Nsync look-a-likes to enter the stage in place of Flipp. When the crowd went crazy, booing and throwing things at the boys, Flipp entered the stage through a 12 foot Flipp cereal box and proceeded to beat the tar out of the 5 impostors causing the crowd to go ballistic. There’s still talk, to this day, among the people who were there that swear it really was *Nsync and that Flipp really did kick their asses!

Shortly after, the band won a nation wide MTV “unsigned” band contest. Thousands of bands sent in videos and the staff at MTV along with Rob Zombie, sifted through the tapes and chose Flipp’s self produced, one camera, one take, video of their version of The Who’s classic, “My Generation”. Winning the contest granted the band a trip to Detroit to open a concert featuring The Ramones, The Misfits and White Zombie as well as being the feature of the MTV “Warming up the Zombie” TV special. The show featured the band being interviewed by Kennedy and showed them playing live at the concert. The video was also shown frequently on MTV’s 120 Minutes video show.

The “My Generation” video was ranked #4 in the top ten on the nationally seen Video Network, “The Box” even before the band signed their major label deal with Hollywood Records.

April 15th 1997 Flipp’s debut album was released and the band celebrated by loading their gear onto a flat bed truck and driving it through downtown Minneapolis in 30 degree weather at 10:00 PM. They parked the truck directly in front of the main doors of the Minneapolis Post Office. The busiest hour of the year at the Post Office, Tax Day. The band performed twenty minutes before the police were dispatched. Even during the police presence, and after some crazed person cut the cords from the generators, the band played another song and then made a clean getaway through the crowd of frenzied fans. The stunt was covered by all of the local news stations.

FLIPP'S debut album was #11 in the Minnesota records sales charts! It out sold U2! FLIPP'S debut album entered the college charts at #149 and reached #100 shortly there after with virtually no national exposure.

Flipp was nominated for 5 Minnesota Music Awards in 1997. 1. Best Rock Band-FLIPP 2. Best Major Label recording- Flipp-FLIPP 3. Best Male Vocalist-Brynn Arens 4. Best songwriter-Brynn Arens 5. Best Instrumentalist-Chia Karaoke. (The band would make no acceptance speeches that year, but they would triumphantly return to take home awards for Best Rock Band in 1999 and Best Hard Rock Band and Best Hard Rock Recording for “Blow It Out Your Ass!” in 2001.)

The summer of 1997 found Flipp on tour supporting Cheap Trick. Cheap Trick fans are a very hard bunch to impress, yet Flipp was the talk of the tour. Their name was being thrown all over the press and even on Cheap Trick web sites. By the end of the tour, people were waiting to see this band everyone was talking about. It's safe to say the tour was a huge success for the band. Not to mention, hanging out with their heros everynight.

At the beginning of the Cheap Trick tour, at Taste of Chicago Festival, Flipp had a helicopter fly over the 50 some thousand fans and dump a half-ton of Flipp cereal on them. The pilot was later arrested for littering and the story reportedly found its way to the National news show, "Hard Copy".

Flipp’s song “I Don’t Care”, from their debut album, appeared in the Major Motion Picture “Chasing Amy” by the famous director Kevin Smith, who directed “Mall Rats” and “Clerks”.

In 1997 the band started their own annual, local rock concert called Teenage Rampage. The band, single handedly, created this event which recently celebrated its third hugely successful show. Countless high school bands, from across the state, enter every year. They send in a tape or video and then national concert promoters and record executives choose two winners every year. One winner gets to open the Teenage Rampage concert and the other headlines it. Yes, headlines! Other prizes for the winning H.S.bands included getting their picture and name in local newspapers and TV news shows as well as free gear and recording time at top dollar recording studios. The concert has been held at the world famous First Avenue and has sold out every year. The event receives tons of local press, print and TV coverage and was featured on the teen show “Whatever” which was the most watched and requested episode in the show's history.

In 1998 the band, via a fan’s web site, invited their fans to a private show which was to be recorded for a live EP CD. The band released the CD in a Flipp Cereal box with actual Flipp cereal and the CD inside. The CD was sold at record stores across the Midwest and was the best selling live CD of the summer.

The band made a cameo appearance in the 1999 Troma Film's movie “Terror Firmer”. The band was asked to have a couple of songs appear in the soundtrack. After hearing the song’s, horror movie guru and Troma's founder, Lloyd Kaufman, asked the band to appear in the movie. The movie and soundtrack were such a success that Lloyd invited the band back out to New York to appear in the highly anticipated sequel to “The Toxic Avenger”, “Citizen Toxie”. (The band’s self produced video, “Oh Yeah…”is expected to be featured on the DVD version for the “Terror Firmer” movie.)

Flipp played the 1999 Woodstock festival in Rome New York and was a huge success. Flipp Central, an fan driven and supported web site, was flooded with e-mail from across the country after their show at Woodstock. Many of them who have never heard of the band before and said they were the highlight of their Woodstock weekend. That and the price of water.

Here in 2001, about to leap into 2002, Flipp is still taking over the world. The summer of 2001 found the band on tour with Everclear. Crossing the country and taking no prisoners, the band turned on countless rock fans looking for the fun in rock. They found it in Flipp.

Flipp is a band that has always gone the extra mile for their fans and visa-versa. Throughout their short career so far the band has performed in the strangest of places for the strangest of reasons. They will send their crew to some fan’s garage and perform for kids who can’t get into clubs. Even with their busy schedule, they find time to do this twice a summer usually causing a great flood of press where ever the show may be. The band has allowed the fan site, Flipp Central, to hold contests in which winners get to meet the band in the most unusual circumstances. One winner got to go on a shopping spree with the members of Flipp where the band bought the winner a brand new guitar and amp as well as lunch! Another winner got to have the band play in his garage. Anything to get closer to their fans. Lead singer, Brynn Arens explains. “We want to hang with them [fans] because they're cool! It's not like they bug us. They're our friends and they're a gas to hang out with! If it wasn't for them, we'd be playing to ourselves in a garage. So why not play at their garage?”

Following their shows, the band is never above going out and meeting their fans. They love the interaction and sharing themselves with the very people that make it all possible, the fans, the Flippheads! Flipp has based itself on being a people’s band; a band for the kids. After all, they themselves are still just a bunch of kids looking for a real rock & roll good time.

Flipp sells out every local show they play. From First Avenue to a few select venues in the Midwest, the band is a crowd favorite everywhere they go. Flipp’s power is in their live show and nobody ever walks away from a Flipp concert the same way they walked in. This band converts fans every time they show up! With lead singer Brynn Arens, the schizo boy fronting the band with his demented, street smart prowess and "in-yer-face" attitude; drummer Kilo Bale with his relentless pursuit of the "perfect groove" and insatiable lust for partying with his fans with his 4 foot bong; Chia Karaoke’s sense of humor and full-on attack of percussive bliss playing just about anything he can get his hands on, including Flipp cereal; and the mohawked Freaky Useless's thrusting attack of his Intergalactic bass and his cosmic interlude with the nether regions of space with his flaming Jet-Pack, this band delivers a “real” rock show. With old school, tear-your-head off guitars and a modern day presence, in a world of “shoe-gazing” bands who forgot what it means to entertain a crowd, this band brings back what rock has been missing for so many years. A show and the music all held together with a “fuck you” attitude! And isn't that what rock and rock was meant to be?