Editing The Flaming Lips (section)

===2011 releases===
In January 2011, the Lips announced their intention of releasing a new song every month of the year. In February, they released the first track titled "Two Blobs Fucking". The song exists as 12 separate pieces on [[YouTube]] and must be played simultaneously to be heard as intended.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iHIXaVKQfA | title = Flaming Lips – Two Blobs Fucking – Instructional Video | access-date = November 4, 2011 | date = February 14, 2011 | publisher = [[YouTube]]}}</ref>

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 limited, but was soon leaked on the internet shortly after its release.

In May, the band released its second collaboration EP titled ''[[The Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73]]''. It contains four songs and was released in a similar way to the earlier Neon Indian EP, in that the run was extremely limited and consisted of randomly colored, one of a kind discs. This EP was briefly available on the band's official website but sold out shortly after it was put up for sale.

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 only released at the band's two night show at the [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]] on June 14 and 15. This show was a special two-night, one morning event in which they played the entirety of ''The Soft Bulletin'' one night and a new revamped version of ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' and collaborated with [[Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros]] for a performance of "[[Do You Realize??]]" at dawn of the second day. Also included on this flash drive was a best-of compilation titled ''Everyone You Know Someday Will Die''. It included songs from every portion of the band's career as well as a newly recorded intro. The final June release was the ''[[Gummy Song Fetus]]'' EP which consisted of three songs on a flash drive embedded in a bubblegum-flavored fetus made of gummy bear material.

In July, the band released ''The Flaming Lips with Lightning Bolt'', a collaborative EP with experimental rock group [[Lightning Bolt (band)|Lightning Bolt]], featuring the songs "I Wanna Get High But I Don't Want Brain Damage" and "Working at NASA on Acid". This EP was released on randomly colored vinyl as with the previous two collaborative EPs.

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]]''. Featured in "I Found a Star on the Ground" is [[Sean Lennon]] who, with [[The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger|his band]], opened for the Lips in early 2011. In the song Lennon reads off several lists of names of people who donated $100 to the Oklahoma City SPCA and Academy of Contemporary Music at University of Central Oklahoma. 212 names are featured in the song.

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<ref name=fl24>{{Cite web |url=http://flaminglipstwentyfourhoursong.com/ |title=7 Skies H3 |access-date=December 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217075519/http://flaminglipstwentyfourhoursong.com/ |archive-date=December 17, 2011 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> and was made available for purchase as a hard drive encased in an actual human skull, limited to 13 copies.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}

The band's last release of 2011 was a 12" EP collaboration, [[The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band]], sold only at the band's annual New Years shows in Oklahoma City.