They continued to tour throughout 2012, including a short tour of New Zealand and Australia in February/March and several festival appearances in 2012.
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Buck-Tick opened a special website where they announced the creation of their own record label Lingua Sounda, and that its first releases would be a single in spring 2012 and an album in the summer. The Lingua Sounda logo was designed by manga artist Tsutomu…
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“N/A OK” was nominated in the Rock category at the 2012 Canadian Radio Music Awards. The third single from Approved , “Damini”, charted on the hits Canadian rock radio chart.
They took place in January 2012.
Following the release of “DoYaThing” and the making public of Albarn and Hewlett’s fall-out in 2012, Gorillaz entered a multiyear hiatus.
They played subsequent shows in London and South America in December and released Live at the London Troxy , a live album from their performance on 10 December 2011 at The Troxy in London.
Also in 2011, Depeche Mode contributed their cover of the U2 song ” So Cruel ” to the tribute album AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered , honouring the 20th anniversary of the album Achtung Baby . The compilation CD was released with the December 2011 issue of Q .
Throughout the 360° Tour, the band worked on multiple projects, including a rock album produced by Danger Mouse , a dance record produced by RedOne and will.i.am , and Songs of Ascent . The latter was not completed to their satisfaction, and by December 2011, Clayton admitted it would not…
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On 30 November 2011, the band’s own label PiL Official Limited was registered as a private limited company in the UK.
The 2011 soundtrack to Major League Baseball 2K11 (MLB 2K11), released by 2K Sports , single “Anti-Venom” from Questamation . It was also on the Nintendo Wii and 3DS version soundtrack to Need for Speed: The Run , released by EA Black Box and Firebrand Games in November 2011.