On April 5, 2012, the band announced on Twitter that their then-new album would be titled Fight or Flight .
The band was booked to enter a recording studio in April 2012, however, the members ultimately used this time for personal musical projects as opposed to recording Brand New.
No Plans , their seventh studio album, was released in April 2012, with Kevin Shirley producing, which peaked at No. 2.
In April 2012, Love, Erlandson, Auf der Maur and Schemel reunited at the Public Assembly in New York for a two-song set, including “Miss World” and the Wipers ‘ “Over the Edge”, at an after-party for the Hit So Hard documentary. The performance marked the first time the four members…
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In April and May 2012, the band embarked on a European greatest hits tour.
In April, the band announced that a box-set entitled Blur 21 —containing all seven Blur studio albums, four discs of unreleased rarities and three DVDs—would be released in July.
New York on March 25
The band’s fifth studio album, Temple of Thought , was released on 21 March 2012, and debuted at #3 on the Finnish charts. Alternate versions of “Kamikaze Love” and “The Lie Eternal” were released as singles on 13 April 2012 and 6 July 2012, respectively, in Finland via Insomniac and…
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A press conference was held on the same day to announce a summer North American tour called The Tour , co-headlined by Mötley Crüe .
Kiss appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on March 20, 2012.