The Residents are an avant-garde music and visual arts group who have created nearly sixty albums, created numerous musical short films, designed three CD-ROM projects, and undertaken six major world tours. Throughout their career, spanning nearly four decades, they have maintained complete anonymity. All public relations, interviews and promotions are handled by their spokesgroup, The Cryptic Corporation.

The Residents are an avant-garde / experimental music and visual arts group largely shrouded in mystery and myth. The Residents formed in 1972, not before, due to the fact that they celebrated their 25th anniversary in 1997 with a live performance in Germany (Live At The Fillmore). After several decades in the music business they are yet to reveal to their fans their names or faces, or to give interviews. Their best-known device for preserving their anonymity has been covering their heads with g