In the summer of 2011, the band played at several festivals in Russia, and toured in Australia and Brazil in early 2012.

* Columbus, Ohio based pop / rock band Casey At The Bat, formed in 2012.

Baltimore, MD heavy metal band Periphery plans to release a concept album entitled Juggernaut in late 2012.

Upon breaking up in July 2012, famous anarchist pop band Chumbawamba issued a statement which compared their own legacy with that of the Dada art movement.

In August 2012, the band released a single called Don ’ t Roof Rack Me, Bro ( Seamus Unleashed ), dedicated to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's former pet dog Seamus.

* The poem may have inspired the 2012 song of the same name by groove metal band Lamb of God.

* 2012 – Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most live shows in different cities over 24 hours.

After the death of band member Greg Ham on 19 April 2012, many stories reported his disappointment at the ruling and " suggesting that this particular case and the ruling completely destroyed his life ".

The reunited band intend releasing The Lost Sirens in 2012 — an eight-track album of outtakes left of the recording sessions from Waiting for the Sirens ' Call.

The band finished the second leg of the Time Machine Tour in July 2011 and released their latest studio album, Clockwork Angels in June 2012 with a supporting tour that began in September 2012.

On March 5, 2012, the band won the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

On September 2012 MTS launched the country ’ s first TD-LTE network, using the TD-LTE spectrum in the 2595-2620 MHz band it secured in February .< Ref >" MTS launches first TD-LTE network in Russia "

The sound itself was heard during a segment of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London as rock band Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was played to the stadium.

On 23 September 2012, the band returned to Looe, Cornwall, fronted by Warne and Burnel.

In November 2011 it was announced they would be playing two shows in 2012 that will feature the original line-up as well as the classic line-up of the band reunited for the first time in many years ; these shows will take place on 25 May 2012 in Manchester at the O2 Apollo and on 26 May in Brixton at the O2 Academy.

The band also opened for Pearl Jam on their 2011 South and Central American tour in November and their European tour in June and July 2012.

:* XXX ( Asia album ), a 2012 album by the band Asia

Following much intensified media speculation, The Stone Roses called a press conference on 18 October 2011 to announce that the band had reunited and would perform a reunion tour of the world in 2012, including three homecoming shows in Manchester.

In June 2012, Chris Coghill, the writer of the new film which is set during the Stone Roses 1990 Spike Island show, revealed that the band “ have at least three or four new tracks recorded .”

150, 000 tickets for the two Heaton Park shows sold out in 14 minutes, with the band then announcing a third show at the venue to be held on 1 July 2012.

On 20 March 2012, it was announced that the band would be headlining Tennent's Vital in Northern Ireland.

Swedish heavy metal band Katana has a song entitled " The Wisdom of Emond ´ s Field " on their 2012 album " Storms of War ".

Cracker's Facebook page mentioned on October 10, 2011, that the band would be working on a new album in 2012.

*" Water Lover " ( May 2012 ), Exotic Gothic 4 ( ed.

Since 2012, PS is the publisher of the Exotic Gothic series, edited by Danel Olson.

Put into different temporal settings, some elements of his original 2008 story “ Arkangel ” from Exotic Gothic 2 reappear in his 2012 frame-novel Hell Train ( a book called “ must read now !” by SciFiNow ), including the Polish town of Chelmsk, and the physical descriptions of its white gold-rivetted damnation train Arkangel, the mysterious conductor and stationmaster, and the town ’ s yokels.

The most recent Doraemon film, Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles ~ Animal Adventure ~, was released on March 3, 2012.

In 2012 Pfizer announced its plan to spin-off its Animal Health group, to be called Zoetis.

Grandin has been featured on major media programs, such as Lisa Davis's It's Your Health, ABC's Primetime Live, the Today Show, and Larry King Live, the NPR show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and written up in Time magazine, People magazine, Discover magazine, Forbes and The New York Times. In 2012, Grandin was interviewed on Thriving Canine Radio to discuss " A Different Perspective on Animal Behavior.

In April 2012, the season premier of Animal Planet's River Monsters featured host Jeremy Wade noodling in Oklahoma and, along with his local guides, winning first place in a flathead catfish weigh-in.

He now stars in the upcoming NBC comedy series Animal Practice alongside Justin Kirk and Bobby Lee, the series will premiere in September 2012.

* Animal Practice ( 2012 )

In 2012, WMS partnered with Large Animal Games to incorporate several of WMS's slot machine games into a cruise ship-themed Facebook game application titled " Lucky Cruise ".

* King Animal ( 2012 )

The Discovery Animal Planet documentary The Zoo is filmed almost entirely on location at Dublin Zoo, and is aired on Animal Planet in the UK in 2012.

David Marr-" Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott " ( 2012 )

Lee co-stars in the NBC comedy series Animal Practice, which began airing in August 2012.

As of January 2012, Animal Planet airs on Astro Channel 556.

In 2012 the Animal Care Center opened.

A new book, The Torah Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom, will be published in 2012.

* King and Lionheart, a song by Of Monsters and Men on their 2012 album My Head is an Animal