In 2012, Columbia re-released Lump , a discount greatest-hits compilation.
At the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards , “Paradise” won Best Rock Video .
The trio of Hooper/Kane/Hooper continued to tour regularly thereafter, and the Grapes of Wrath announced that they were beginning work on a new album. Two newly recorded tracks from these sessions were issued on the band’s 2012 compilation Singles (EMI). To mark this release, the band was joined by guests…
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In 2012, the band reconvened to record a triple AAA side single for Louder Than War Records for release on Record Store Day and performed at the Incubate festival .
and also played at the Big Day Out music festival.
On May 23, 2012, the surviving members of Mad Season (Mike McCready and Barrett Martin) reunited at the Showbox Theatre in Seattle for Mike’s annual benefit concert for Crohn’s disease . They were joined by Loaded singer Jeff Rouse and The Rockfords bassist Rick Friel.
2011 ended with an announcement by the band on 29 December of a new extended play titled The Chill Out Sessions , a collaborative effort with British DJ Draper.
An article in The Guardian on 24 December 2011, entitled “The Guide’s guide to the next 12 months”, claimed that the band were set to reunite in 2012 with a new album planned, but was later denied by official sources and confirmed to be a mistake by the article’s author.
On December 18, 2011, the band appeared on Nick Jr. Channel ‘s Yo Gabba Gabba! , and performed a song called “Every Snowflake Is Different (Just Like You)”.
On 17 December 2011, the group performed ‘A Night of National Treasures’ at O 2 Arena in London to celebrate the band’s 25 years to date, and enter into a period of hiatus where the eleventh studio album was written.