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Black Lips also have a new video out today, for "It Feels Alright" off Good Bad Not Evil. It was filmed at Atlanta's rap-famous Magic City:
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AMG Review of Good Bad Not Evil
Mark Deming
All Music GuideSome bands strive to explore new musical territory each time they go into the recording studio, while others are content to follow the same path throughout their career as long as they improve in some way each time out. The Black Lips seem to be following the latter approach, though you'd be forgiven for not noticing the stylistic differences between their fourth studio album, Good Bad Not Evil, and their earlier efforts. The Black Lips continue to split the difference between Back from the Grave-era garage stomp and the darker throb of post-punk noise merchants like the Fall, but as befits the title, Good Bad Not Evil brings a bit more sunshine into the mix, and the deeper undercurrents of this music come more from the performances than the production and recording, which is clear and crisp by this group's murky standards. Jared Swilley's bass is high up in the mix, carrying a good share of the melodies and adding plenty of minor key tension, while guitarists Cole Alexander and Ian St. Pe use the extra room to shore up the high end with plenty of cheap guitar bashing and Joe Bradley's primal drumming holds the whole thing in place. Good Bad Not Evil finds the Black Lips going for a bit more obvious humor on tunes like "Navajo" and the country-accented "How Do You Tell a Child That Someone Has Died" (I said they were funny, not tasteful), and there's a playful tone to "Bad Kids" and "Veni Vidi Vici" that's lighter than you might expect from this band. But longtime fans looking for the Black Lips' patented low-tech rumble will be rewarded with "I Saw a Ghost (Lean)," "Cold Hands," and "Slime and Oxygen," which are just as unwholesome as you could wish for. Good Bad Not Evil isn't a major leap forward for the Black Lips, but it shows their sound is slowly but surely evolving, and they still rock with a nasty enthusiasm that's bold and compelling; this is quality stuff for your next black light party.
Black Lips Make "It Feel Alright" With New Video
Black Lips' "Veni Vidi Vici" Remixed By Diplo
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Diplo remixed the Black Lips single "Veni Vidi Vici" (latin for I Came, I Saw, I Conquered, which you can hear in the chorus of the song). Vice is going to release the in the UK in December on their VICE Records, but you can download it for free from their website right now. It's a cool ditty - very laid back but catchy. Good guitar twangs. I recommend it even if you don't consider yourself...
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New Black Lips Video, "Veni Vidi Vici"
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They were the words of Julius Ceaser and now the Black Lips are adding a little rock to the famous Latin phrase. The track is off the group's first album for Vice records Good Bad, Not Evil.The Atlanta-based indie rockers will tour the US this winter and follow-up in the UK this May.Black Lips tour dates:1 Feb 2008 Bluebird Denver, Colorado4 Feb 2008 Neumo’s Seattle, Washington5 Feb 2008 Dant.
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That new Black Lips record is good, you should check it out.
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The Black Lips - local and pretty badass.
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Sure, they've been around a while (4 albums), and they're from Atlanta and I should have been a fan by now . . . but the truth is, I'm just now discovering the Black Lips. And in my opinion, they're the best rock band to come out of Atlanta, possibly ever.For everyone who doesn't know their sound, i'll try to make comparisons.Their psychedelic garage side: 13th Floor ElevatorsTheir punk side: T...
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It's not new news.But have you ever had one of those songs that is just contagiously catchy get stuck in your head? I'm not talking about "this is the song that gets on everybody's nerves" ... but a ... song that is much more adult?I burst out randomly in the middle of a maths test with "Bad Kids" by the Black Lips. Yeah. That was awkward. But at least my teacher's chill and laughed it off. Tha...
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Black Lips - Katrina - Pitchfork Music Festival
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I barely took notice of last weekend's news about All Points West music fest in New Jersey (rainy Friday!) and Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. Lots of other blogs covered the two events well enough.But I liked this, found in a Pitchfork tweet today - a fine clip of Black Lips' tearing through their song 'Katrina' from Pitchfork Music Festival. Love those guys.
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