While the late nineties were peppered with foul-mouthed shock rock and offensive yet strangely metered personalities who were easy for the media to latch onto and vilify (at least until everybody grew up to realize that Marilyn Mason was not in fact the boogie-man we’d all hoped he’d turn out to be and instead, maybe, was a really nice guy), there was not a long line of bands waiting to step into GG Allin’s urine soaked shoes. And then, freshly [...]
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BLACK LIPS RELEASE NEW VIDEO TO KICK OFF THEIR US TOUR
BLACK LIPS RELEASE NEW VIDEO TO KICK OFF THEIR US TOUR NEW BRIAN BUTLER-DIRECTED “MODERN ART” VIDEO PREMIERED YESTERDAY, TOUR BEGINS TODAY IN CARRBORO Gearing up for what amounts to nearly three solid months of touring (full dates below), Atlanta’s “flower punk” progenitors Black Lips yesterday released a mind warping new video for Arabia Mountain track “Modern Art” via Pitchfork. The song marks the first publicly available taste of the nine album cuts (of 16 total) produced by top 40 [...]
BLACK LIPS ANNOUNCE ARABIA MOUNTAIN ALBUM TRACKLIST, RELEASE DATE
BLACK LIPS ANNOUNCE ARABIA MOUNTAIN NEW MARK RONSON-PRODUCED ALBUM IN STORES JUNE 7th ON VICE RECORDS Founding fathers of Atlanta’s “flower punk” movement the Black Lips are set to release Arabia Mountain, their sixth full-length album, June 7th on longtime label Vice Records. Arabia Mountain was recorded between Brooklyn and Atlanta over the last few months of 2010 and with the collaborative assistance of celebrated DJ and producer Mark Ronson, Lockett Pundt of Deerhunter, and a human skull with a [...]
BLACK LIPS EXTEND US TOUR WEST COAST DATES ADDED AS ANTICIPATION FOR NEW MARK RONSON PRODUCED ALBUM BUILDS
BLACK LIPS EXTEND US TOUR WEST COAST DATES ADDED AS ANTICIPATION FOR NEW MARK RONSON PRODUCED ALBUM BUILDS Atlanta’s Black Lips, notorious master artisans of hook-laden psychedelic garage-pop, and one of the most irresistible live bands around, are extending their US tour this summer. In addition to previously announced dates with Vivian Girls set for this April, the quartet will be bringing their sunny sounds up and down the west coast in June for a run of dates with NY’s [...]
Black Lips US Tour Dates 2011
BLACK LIPS TOUR DESCENDS ON THE US THIS SPRING EAST COAST AND MIDWEST TOUR WITH VIVIAN GIRLS LAUNCHING IN ANTICIPATION OF NEW MARK RONSON PRODUCED ALBUM DROPPING EARLY SUMMER Widely renowned as one of the best rock live acts in the touring circuit, Atlanta’s supreme purveyors of psych-tinged garage-pop Black Lips are set to bring their raucous and jubilant stage antics across the US this summer. Fresh out of the studio with top 40 studio wizard Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, [...]
THE BLACK LIPS TO TAKE OTHER ATLANTA MUSICIANS TO TASK ON BASKETBALL COURT BAND TO DONATE THEIR EARNINGS FROM THE EVENT TO CHARITY, CHALLENGE OTHER PARTICIPANTS TO DO THE SAME
THE BLACK LIPS TO TAKE OTHER ATLANTA MUSICIANS TO TASK ON BASKETBALL COURT BAND TO DONATE THEIR EARNINGS FROM THE EVENT TO CHARITY, CHALLENGE OTHER PARTICIPANTS TO DO THE SAME The band will be receiving $5,000.00 for their participation in the event, the whole of which they will be donating to the Auditory Verbal Centre Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of deaf children, some of whom have been outfitted with cochlear implants in order to play music. [...]
BLACK LIPS DO “DRUGS” ON NATIONAL TELEVISION, KICK OFF 2010 WITH WEST COAST TOUR DATES WATCH THEIR LIVE PERFORMANCE OF “DRUGS” FROM LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY HERE SELECT TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA IN JANUARY 2010
BLACK LIPS DO “DRUGS” ON NATIONAL TELEVISION, KICK OFF 2010 WITH WEST COAST TOUR DATES WATCH THEIR LIVE PERFORMANCE OF “DRUGS” FROM LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY HERE SELECT TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA IN JANUARY 2010 Last week Black Lips took to the airwaves with their live performance of “Drugs”, the rough and rollicking single featured on their most recent album 200 Million Thousand (VICE Records). Filmed during their September 25th New York show supporting Yo La Tengo at [...]
BLACK LIPS PREMIERE NEW VIDEO FOR “LET IT GROW” ON PITCHFORK.TV, PLAY SELECT US SHOWS IN OCTOBER
BLACK LIPS PREMIERE NEW VIDEO FOR “LET IT GROW” ON PITCHFORK.TV, PLAY SELECT US SHOWS IN OCTOBER Black Lips, perhaps the world’s most nefariously consistent live band and raucous pioneers for a new generation of psychedelia-steeped garage rock have released their fourth video from 200 Million Thousand (VICE Records). For the searing gem “Let It Grow”, director Matt Dilmore filmed exclusively with the late 90′s kids camera Vidster, creating a unique effect incomparable in resolution to today’s HD standards but [...]
GRINGO STAR – ADDITIONAL UK TOUR DATES WITH THE BLACK LIPS
GRINGO STAR CONQUER EUROPE WITH …TRAIL OF DEAD, HEAD TO THE UK FOR THE BLACK LIPS TOUR! Playing to sold out crowds almost every night throughout Europe, Gringo Star have made a whole new bunch of fans from being the main support to And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. They now hit the road in the UK with fellow Atlantans, the Black Lips. The hardest working band from the South will return to these shores next [...]
