Super Furry Animals reconvened for one performance on 29 February 2012 at Cardiff City Stadium before a Wales v Costa Rica Gary Speed Memorial Match, in tribute to the late Welsh footballer and team manager.
On 26 February 2012, the band released a new song titled ” R U Mine? ” on their YouTube channel. On 4 March, it went to No. 23 on the UK singles chart on downloads alone. On 21 April, the song was released as a single, with the track “Electricity”…
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On 23 February 2012 Gorillaz released ” DoYaThing “, a single to promote a Gorillaz-branded collection of Converse shoes which were released shortly after. The song was a part of Converse’s “Three Artists, One Song” project, with the two additional collaborators being James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and André 3000…
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On 21 February 2012, they were awarded the Brit Award for Best British Group for the third time.
A DVD was released by The Cinema Guild on February 21, 2012,
which took place on 12 February 2012 in Los Angeles, and the band performed with Rihanna at the ceremony.
L’Arc-en-Ciel then announced that they would be releasing their twelfth studio album, and gave fans who bought “Chase” a sneak peek with a live internet broadcast of the band mastering the album on December 26 on Ustream . They also announced that their alter ego band P’unk-en-Ciel would be releasing…
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On February 7, 2012, the Lemonheads will release Hotel Sessions on Hall of Records/Breath of Saltwater – an intimate recording documenting a Sunday night that Evan Dando spent recording new songs with just an acoustic guitar (and some revealing commentary) in a hotel room in Bondi Beach, Australia. The 14…
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On February 7, 2012, Metallica announced that it would start a new music festival called Orion Music + More , which took place on June 23 and 24, 2012, in Atlantic City. Metallica also confirmed that it would headline the festival on both days and would perform two of its…
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The magazine American Songwriter named Gotye their Writer of the Week for the week of 6 February 2012. On 31 May 2012, Gotye announced that he would release a digital compilation of the 10 official remixes of “Somebody That I Used to Know” on 8 June.