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The Flaming Lips plan to release a lot of new music during 2011. Just don't expect it to all come out in conventional forms.

In fact, the Oklahoma art rockers plan to make an art out of bringing their fresh material into the world. Already this year the group has released a limited edition EP hand-delivered to record stores by band members and "Two Blobs F**king," the latter via 12 separate parts on YouTube that are meant to be heard together, preferably on iPhones.

Next week the group rolls out four songs on a USB drive that's buried inside a brain that's encased in a life-size skull -- all made from seven pounds of Gummi-style candy gelatin.

Also on tap, frontman Wayne Coyne told Billboard.com, is a working stomp box effects pedal that plays another four songs, as well as old-fashioned flexi-discs that will be distributed on the backs of cereal boxes and in an issue of Mad magazine.

"We've done 14 or so records, and you're always scrambling around trying to do something different," Coyne explained. "Everybody's in the same quagmire now; How do you release music? What would be interesting? I'd just like to release music all the time and just put it out in all kinds of weird formats and not just collect it until we're ready to put out every two years or so. It's just by luck that we run into people that are willing to help us and... want to do something radical with us."

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