Tickets are on sale for a June 2nd Black Lips show in NJ. This show is the day after they play their third show in a row at Terminal 5 with the Raconteurs. Then from Hoboken they move on to Boston. (thx Keith!)

Friday April 11th @ LOCATION TO BE EMAILED TO TICKET HOLDERS

:: ATLAS SOUND + secret longtime buds band
:::: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome WOLF
:::::: more guests tba

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we're selling advance tickets to next Friday's ATLAS SOUND + secret
buds show. Only ticket holders will be emailed the location.
----> tickets go on sale @ 5PM SAT, 3/5 @ CINDERS GALLERY
----> [ 103 Havemeyer St @ Hope St - 718.388.2311 ]
----> location will be emailed to ticket holders @ 7pm night of show
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I ended up seeing Atlas Sound twice at SXSW - first at the Pitchfork Party and then again the next day at Mess With Texas. Both were pretty good. Ryan Muir saw them at Mess With Texas too. More of his photos below....

Continue reading "Atlas Sound + secret guest Friday in Brooklyn, ticket info"

Pitchfork: Do you plan to interrupt recording at all this summer for any tours?

Cole Alexander: I don't want to tour so much. We're known as this touring band, and I'm kind of sick of that. I don't want to burn out by just being a live band, so I really want to block off the whole summer just to record. We'll do the occasional show here and there. I think we're doing a show at McCarren Park in New York with Deerhunter and King Khan and His Shrines, but, beside that, I want to focus on recording. I feel like, when we die, it's easier to live on through records than live shows.

Black Lips are playing Terminal 5 in NYC in May (with the Raconteurs). All dates for both bands below....

Continue reading "Black Lips - 2008 Tour Dates (Terminal 5)"

by Leia Jospe

Black Lips also played Bowery Ballrooom last night. More pictures from Other Music below....

Continue reading "Black Lips @ Other Music, NYC - pics"

I was wandering around LES, when I stumbled upon this guy was defacing the following movie posters. I went back to scene of the crime the next day. To find that another poster was put on top. It was just a promotion for the Black Lips / Quintron & Miss Pussycat at the Bowery Ballroom on March 10th. [all photos by URBANBLITZ] (via Gothamist)

Continue reading "Black Lips are here, you may have seen the posters"

Vampire Weekend @ Other Music, NYC (Bao Nguyen)

Vampire Weekend (who are also playing in a store this Monday night) played Other Music during CMJ (pictured), and now you can watch it online. The Clean played Other Music too, and that is also up for viewing.

Toumani Diabate is on tour, playing Bowery Ballroom on January 31st, AND playing Other Music on January 30th.

Taken By Trees is going on tour, playing Hiro Ballroom on February 22nd, AND playing Other Music on Febuary 21st.

Black Lips are going on tour, playing Bowery Ballroom on March 10th, playing Music Hall on March 11th, AND playing Other Music on March 11th.

Blood on the Wall is playing Music Hall on February 22nd with Cause Co-Motion!, AND Other Music on February 20th. All tour dates below...

Continue reading "Toumani Diabete, Black Lips, Taken By Trees, Other Music, Blood on the Wall, 2008 Tour Dates"

DOWNLOAD: Dead Confederate - The Rat (live on KEXP) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Dead Confederate - Get Out (MP3)

Like Deerhunter & Black Lips, Dead Confederate are from Atlanta, GA, and are playing a show in Athens, Georgia show on December 5th. Unlike Deerhunter & Black Lips, Dead Confederate's music didn't immediately do anything for me. Their name does keep coming up though - KEXP likes them, and they're signed to Razor & Tie. New Yorkers can give them a try tonight @ Mercury Lounge (Nov 28, 2007). The Head Set, Drug Rug, Falcon and Five Times August are also on the bill.

I previously reported that Black Lips are touring in 2008 - two NYC shows included. Since then, even more (non-NYC) shows were announced. All tour dates below....

Continue reading "Dead Confederate (tonight), updated Black Lips tour dates"

DOWNLOAD: Black Lips - Not A Problem (Live from Tijuana) (MP3)

You may have heard the news that Deerhunter are going on hiatus. Well, don't get too emotional about it, because their definition of "hiatus" is five months off of touring at the most. They're scheduled to play ATP in May, and their last show before the "hiatus" is December 8th in Spain. They're also playing a couple of hometown shows with their fellow Atlantans Black Lips on November 30th & December 5th.

Not on hiatus, Black Lips (also playing ATP) will be touring in February and March. Tickets are now on sale for shows at Bowery Ballroom on March 10th, and one the next day at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Insound is giving away a free Black Lips DVD with purchase of Good Bad Not Evil. Bomp! is selling a limited edition LP featuring music by Cole Alexander of Black Lips & Bradford Cox of Deerhunter (or get it for free). Download Atlas Sound (Bradford solo)'s latest track HERE. All known tour dates below....

Continue reading "BLACK LIPS Tour Dates, DVD + DEERHUNTER (not) on hiatus"

DOWNLOAD: Black Lips - Veni Vidi Vici (Diplo Remix) (MP3)

Springboard Films has announced that the Black Lips (VICE) have signed on to star in the feature film, Let It Be. Scheduled to begin production in May of 2008, Let It Be takes place during the late eighties in the post-punk American underground rock scene. Atlanta's notorious Black Lips will play a fictional band who become a symbol of the changing cultural landscape. The movie will be filmed throughout the Southeast and will include notable music of the period and new music written by the band.

Continue reading "Black Lips to star in a movie ++ updated Tour Dates"

DOWNLOAD: The King Khan & BBQ Show - Love Yo So (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The King Khan & BBQ Show - Fish Fight (MP3)

The King Khan & BBQ Show is a Canadian Garage rock duo from Montreal, Quebec. The band is comprised of former Spaceshits bandmates Mark Sultan and Blacksnake. Mark Sultan, under the pseudonym BBQ, contributes vocals, guitar, tambourine, bass drum, and snare drum; while Blacksnake, currently using the pseudonym King Khan, provides lead guitar and vocals. [Wikipedia]

Continue reading "The King Khan & BBQ Show - 2007 Tour Dates (tonight)"

As advertised, the Black Lips played a crazy set of music at Sound Fix, that in circus-fashion, included costumes, burlesque dancers, a dixie land band, a crazy man, confetti, a fire-eater, and a march over to the Music Hall of Williamsburg for their second proper-headlining show in NYC in two days. Leia Jospe took these photos....

Continue reading "Black Lips marched from Sound Fix to Music Hall"

Black Lips @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC - Sept 18, 2007 (CRED)

I gotta say, if there's anything still subversive about white boys playing twangy R&B in 2007, it's that these four bros have the BEST time just being their skinny little degenerate selves. They are a band in that way that to picture them doing normal things just doesn't compute. They are Rock and Roll in the present tense. All the time. At least they were last night for 50 or so minutes. [the simple mission]

DOWNLOAD: Black Lips - Cold Hands (live from Israel) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Black Lips - Not A Problem (Live from Tijuana) (MP3)

Black Lips @ the 2007 Siren Festival in Coney Island (CRED)

Come on down and join in the revelry at the Black Lips Circus at Sound Fix in Williamsburg (110 Bedford Ave Brooklyn, NY), Wednesday September 19 at 7:00 PM.

What is the Black Lips Circus? You'll have to come to Sound Fix and find out. But keep in mind, it's the Black Lips we're talking about here....

Afterward, lace up your deck shoes for a rollicking trip down Bedford Ave as the band leads the Bad Kids Parade to the brand new Music Hall of Williamsburg (66 North Sixth St Brooklyn, NY) , where the Black Lips will truly christen Brooklyn's newest venue with their unparalleled rock stylings.

Continue reading "Black Lips add 3rd NYC show (a circus?) ++ 2007 Tour Dates"

DOWNLOAD: Black Lips - Not a Problem (MP3)

The Black Lips @ Maxwell's, NJ - July 19, 2007 (CRED - Leia Jospe)

PETA protest, NYC - July 20, 2007 (CRED - Jefferson)

NEW YORK (AP) -- While commissioner Roger Goodell was meeting with officials of the ASPCA, about 50 people urged the NFL to "Sack Vick" Friday in a demonstration outside the league's headquarters following the indictment of Michael Vick on dogfighting charges.

"Sack Vick!" chanted the demonstrators, organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as they walked peacefully in front of the Park Avenue building. Many held dogs who had the "Sack Vick" signs on their backs and one woman brought a pit bull, the breed killed in the dogfighting operation the Atlanta quarterback is accused of sponsoring. [Yahoo News]

What else?

DOWNLOAD: The Cribs - Men's Needs (CSS remix) (MP3) (NSFW VIDEO)
DOWNLOAD: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo (live On The Tonight Show) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Gang Gang Dance - Nomad For Love (cannibal) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Band - Look Out Cleveland (MP3)

Levon Helm @ Summerstage, NYC - June 28, 2007 (by Sandwich!)

Is anyone going to see Bob Dylan at Jones Beach tonight? What about Rush on Monday?

Rodrigo y Gabriela and Vietnam for free in Central Park on Sunday might just qualify as the show of the weekend. JDH and Dave P are DJing too. It's really too bad that it's going up against Man Man, Illinois, Dengue Fever, and What Cheer Brigade at McCarren Pool which is also free. I hope for both of them that this rain lets up by then. Dengue Fever is also doing an in-store at Sound Fix on Sunday. (though is a show there even technically an "in-store" anymore?)

PS1 kicks things off in Long Island City this weekend with DFA.

Seymore Saves the World is the new band of ex-Tapes n Tapes bassist Shawn Neary. Take a look at their tour dates at MySpace and you'll notice they're visiting NYC this weekend.

The Stills and Malajube are playing shows at Maxwell's, and also in the park that Manu Chao just played.

Groove Collective, Ravi Coltrane, Craig Harris help Celebrate Brooklyn this weekend too. Ozomatli, Babylon Circus & DJ Joro Boro are at Summerstage earlier the same day.

Gang Gang Dance headline Bowery Ballroom Saturday night. They're also involved in the 77 drum Boredums thing that's coming up soon.

Morrissey isn't doing so well. Hopefully he makes it to MSG on Saturday.

The Fiery Furnaces tour is about to arrive. They'll be playing some new songs off their new album Widow City - out on Thrill Jockey Records in October. (man, they change labels a lot don't they?)

Although Cake Shop's website lists Saturday night's show as "JASON TRACHTENBURG and pals", I'm being told the show will be a full-on Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players "open rehersal", and "a chance to see something new and be witness to the development of some new concepts that are being developed for the Edinburgh Fringe in Aug. A lengthy Q and A session will also occur."

Langnorne Slim and others are playing a benefit for the Drew Goren memorial fund at Luna Lounge.

The Polyphonic Spree tour gets to Warsaw this weekend. Pharoahe Monch plays a late show at Highline Ballroom. There's comedy going on.

Although they were some of the displaced tenants, Sam Champion is not playing the Pizza Plus benefit at Southpaw on July 13th with Teenage Prayers and The Legendary Captain Greech + the Shrimp Shooters. Wait a minute - who are The Legendar Captain Greech + the Shrimp Shooters???

Sam Champion are for sure playing at South Street Seaport tonight though - with Ra Ra Rabbit........I mean...

Don't forget about Citysol, and Britta Persson too.

WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON? Wanna win a limited edition Black Lips/Yacht split 7-inch? Details below....

Continue reading "What's goin' on?"

DOWNLOAD: Black Lips - Not a Problem (MP3)

Maxwell's, Silent Barn, Siren, Bowery Ballroom, and like Jose, the Music Hall of Williamsburg....

Continue reading "BLACK LIPS - Live in Tijuana video + 2007 Tour Dates"

The person who posts the cleverest name for this tour in the comments wins a pair of tickets to the show of their choice (on this tour).

Matador recently signed The Ponys. VICE recently signed the pee-drinking Black Lips. In March they're both touring together. They'll be in Texas suspiciously close to the dates of SXSW. On March 26th they play Bowery Ballroom in NYC.

All tour dates for both bands below...

Continue reading "Matador's Ponys touring w/ Vice's Black Lips | WIN"

"Atlanta-based quartet Black Lips have found a new home for their southern-fried garage punk. After two albums with Bomp and one on In The Red, the band has now signed with Vice and is already working on two records for their new label." [CMJ]

Previously
Black Lips Tour Dates
The Black Lips | 3 NYC Dates this week
The Black Lips @ Mercury Lounge, NYC | pics

"Be Your Own PET welcomes John Eatherly as their new drummer. The sixteen year old has been a long-time pal of the band and hales from Nashville, TN. As well as being in BYOP Eatherly is in Jonas Stein's side project, Turbo Fruits and in Nathan Vasquez's side project Deluxin."

"BYOP are currently on the road. Remaining tour dates as follows":

9/25 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe
9/26 – Montreal, QUE – Main Hall
9/28 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
9/29 – Brooklyn, NY – Southpaw

Continue reading "Be Your Own Pet new 16-year old drummer | 2006 Tour Dates w/ Black Lips"

The band that pees in their own mouth, The Black Lips are playing three shows in NYC this week. Two of them are opening for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Roseland. The third is Friday at Place in Greenpoint.

DOWNLOAD I've got a knife (MP3)

"Their domain is the garage, bitch—not some enchanted forest. They're fucked-up, Atlanta-bred, corn-fed Pucks, bedraggled in flannel." [Village Voice]

"For the record, yes, a Black Lips dude peed in his own mouth and spit it on the crowd or so I was told. Gross." [Loose Record]

Continue reading "The Black Lips @ Mercury Lounge, NYC | pics"