 The band's last release of 2011 was a 12" EP collaboration with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band to be sold only at the band's annual New Years shows in Oklahoma City.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 limited edition vinyl-only package for Record Store Day on April 21.