In anticipation of the album’s release, their song, “Sun Blows Up Today”, was featured in a Hyundai Super Bowl XLVII commercial. The band also released a lyric video on Video on YouTube for “Sun Blows Up Today” with animations created by long-time Lips collaborator George Salisbury. The band premiered the…
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The band continued their working relationship with Kesha by appearing on her second studio album Warrior , co-producing and playing on the track “Past Lives” from the album’s deluxe edition. Kesha and the band intended to release a collaborative studio album in 2013, entitled Lipsha ; this was, however, ultimately…
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In November 2012 the band’s Lovely Sorts of Death Records released a collaborative track-by-track reinterpretation of King Crimson ‘s In the Court of the Crimson King with Stardeath and White Dwarfs , Linear Downfall, New Fumes, and Space Face entitled Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn on…
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The Flaming Lips broke Jay-Z ‘s Guinness World Record for the most live concerts (8) in 24 hours, on June 27 and 28, 2012. The attempt was part of the O Music Awards , and was livestreamed online for the entire 24 hours. The attempt started in Memphis on the…
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In January 2012, Pitchfork TV released a forty-five-minute documentary on The Soft Bulletin . The documentary featured several rare archival photos and videos along with interviews from the members, producer Dave Fridmann , and manager Scott Booker. The same year, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was adapted into a musical…
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With their previous contract with Warner Bros. Records having expired in 2011, the band re-signed to Warner Bros. for the United States and to Bella Union in Europe in early 2012. The first release under these new deals was The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends , initially released as a…
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At midnight October 31, 2011, a 24-hour song was released titled ” 7 Skies H3 “. The song played live on a never-ending audio stream on a special website set up by the band and was made available for purchase as a hard drive encased in an actual human skull,…
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In late August, the band announced that it would be recording a six-hour-long song titled “I Found a Star on the Ground”. This, along with two other songs, was released in September packaged with a set of spinning discs with animations on them. This release is officially called Strobo Trip…
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June saw several releases by the band, the first being The Soft Bulletin: Live la Fantastique de Institution 2011 , a live-in-studio recording of the band’s 1999 album The Soft Bulletin which was on a flash drive embedded in a marijuana-flavored brain inside a strawberry flavored gummy skull. This was…
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In March 2011, the Lips released the EP The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian . In April, the band released the Gummy Song Skull EP, a seven-pound skull made of gummy bear material with a gummy brain, which contained a flashdrive with 4 songs on them. This release was extremely…
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