Vice has released the first song from the Black Lips' forthcoming 200 Million Thousand, Starting Over. In order to obtain said track you "need" to join their mailing list, or so says this page says. The page also says that the song will be sent via email, but I've waited approximately fifteen minutes and no [...]
Got your shopping done? This economy bringing you down? We here at the Mountain have found that a nice homemade gift is the perfect Christmas idea. Try some macrame or origami to give to the kids this year. Or knit a festive and colorful Holiday sweater, sure to get ooohs of surprise and joy on Christmas morn. Ummm...While every post here at the Mountain is special, y'all should really pla...
When we evaluated the Black Lips' 200 Million Thousand, the general idea was catchy, interestingly textured songs, boringly predictable shtick. In the Chris Taylor-animated, drummer Joe Bradley-directed video for "Short Fuse" we get ...
NAME : Black Lips PROGRESS REPORT : Mastering their fifth studio LP, 200 Million Thousand , recorded at their new studio in Decatur, Georgia.Black Lips have been on the grind, going to their office eight hours a day and finishing their new record under inspirational messages ("When the going gets tough, the tough get going." "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.") they've hung on the wall...
A Black Lips concert can get crazy. The band is banned from the famous Athens, GA venue, 40 Watt Club, after lighting their equipment on fire. I thought I even remembered hearing someone tell me that guitarist Cole Alexander strips nude and plays the guitar with his penis, usually leading to his arrest or security calling the show off early. That also happened last night during the band's Londo...
The Black Lips, Atlanta GA’s infamously hard-working band releaed today the Drop I Hold EP, an iTunes exclusive, for their psychedelic ode from 200 Million Thousand. The EP features the original album track, instumental & video, along with that new version that I posted last week featuring a verse from the legendary Wu-Tang member GZA,. The short-player is out today, and for its first week of a.
Yes, you read the title correctly. GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan collaborated with the Black Lips for a secret show at a venue called The Compound during SXSW this past Friday. It’s kinda hard to explain this incredulous collaboration, which in theory sounds incredible, but in practice kind of falls flat. I think the following [...]
I didn't see anything, no sir. But the internet is all abuzz about 2 boys from Team Black Lips & Team Wavves taking their relationship to the next level with a good old fashioned bar brawl on Friday night! There's 2 different accounts - one that places the broken bottle in the hands of Wavves' tour manager and one that says Nathan himself caused the damage to Jared's face. Both claim to be 1...
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...
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.
Moral of the story:If you're a kid, and you're on drugs, be careful with the cookie jar.Black Lips are back in Austin on 10/09 at the Mohawk.myspace.com/theblacklips
If January 16 is your birthday, then you don't have any hugely illustrious company. In music, the only people I know to have been born on January 16 are Ethel Merman, Sade, Paul Webb (Talk Talk), Aaliyah, and (thanks to AJ's awesome Mog Calendar) Nick Valensi from The Strokes. The distinctions of the day are in world events instead. My fun fact about January 16 is that in 550, The Ostrogoths conqu
You can officially call us gleeful at this new thing we just got into from the kids at Grandcrew.com, who host a website dedicated to filming live shows and hosting them online, in their entirety. It's totally stoke-worthy and awesome...
Review by Tim Sendra (Allmusic.com) On the Black Lips fifth studio album, 2009's 200 Million Thousand not much has changed on the surface. Maybe they are a little more together, more focused and tight, but they still have enough ramshackle swagger and loose as a goose sleaze to go around and have enough for seconds. They still pick the bones of garage rock clean, sounding like they should be le...
When we evaluated the Black Lips' 200 Million Thousand, the general idea was catchy, interestingly textured songs, boringly predictable shtick. In the Chris Taylor-animated, drummer Joe Bradley-directed video for "Short Fuse" we get ...
