Alien Ant Farm is an American alternative rock band that formed in the southern California city of Riverside in 1996. Their name comes from an idea former member and heroinoman Terry Corso had about aliens and the earth--"I was daydreaming at my dull desk job with my feet up, and I thought to myself, 'Wouldn't it be cool if the human species were placed on earth and cultivated by alien intelligence?' Maybe the aliens added us to an atmosphere that was suitable for us, and they've been watching us develop and colonize, kind of like what a kid does with an ant farm".

In the late 1990s, the band released their underground debut album, Greatest Hits . The album went on to win Best Independent Album in the L.A. Music Awards. In 2000, after forging a friendship with rock band Papa Roach, Alien Ant Farm signed with DreamWorks SKG for their first studio album ANThology . The band began touring in 2001. In this year, their cover of the Michael Jackson song, Smooth Criminal , was a #1 single in Australia and New Zealand and a #3 single in the UK. Their first single