BURNING DOWN COACHELLA If you weren't there to enjoy the flames and the fire you can watch it here..
Click on the picture below to order the Limited Edition 7" of Bad Kids/Leroy Faster in the UK
We are always trying fresh new ways to keep you , the fan, up to date on what is happening "Now" within the Black Lips Camp. Well......Here it is. The Black Lips Have Launched a Hotline!
just call:
949-TEN-7407. That's 949-836-7407
Just dial and talk to one of us, it's just that easy.
See you in the Pit,
xo, Black Lips
Check out the new video for 'Veni Vidi Vici' Directed by Edward Tegethoff and Black Lips
The Black Lips are what you could call true visionaries of a skeptical age. Even from their very first 7" EP, you could tell they were doing their own thing on their own terms, and of course it didn't sit well, even with the dawning of the 21st century and all it promised. Wildly cross-eyed broken stars destined to waver in their importance in the cosmos, they know no boundaries and they take no pretense. Like a volatile and teetering amalgamation of the SWELL MAPS trying to cover the SWINGIN' MEDALLIONS, it's just not right for this world. Unless you long for theunhinged freedom that comes with music that challenges everything without becoming an unlistenable mess of sound. It's a dazzling catastrophe that needs to be absorbed before it vaporizes into thin air. The fun these guys have is hard to hide either live or on record. Seriously slurred swashbucklers living out the ultimate teenage dream, yet breaking through another layer of remarkable idiocy, transcribed through hallucinations, exasperation, and perfectly casual dick fumbling.
Such perennial sophistication causes the very foundation of "FLOWER PUNK" to be lysergisized, germinated, fertilized, and fully pollenated. Let it Bloom, and it's fruit, will feed the next generation of off-centered, slop-a-licious rock'n roll pioneers for years to come. How the Black Lips manage to walk through the perfumed garden of life is a miracle of modern bullshit, but a miracle nonetheless. Their validity is overwhelming and so refreshing, it almost makes me dizzy, and the way they can find their way through the mundane darkness of modern music and discover their own notes and chords between the lines is unparalleled by their peers. Their substance is real, their new album is prerequisite, and their message is disturbingly clear. Rock'n Roll is soul-stirringly powerful and unpredictable, and there's nothing more important than that. It's noteveryday that a band can exorcize such an atrociously beautiful THIRD album, so it may be hard for you to grasp, like the rest of us. These boys have tapped into a very secret well that everyone wants to drink from. Too bad it's got weird bent rainbows and chunks of shit floating in it.
–Todd Killings, Horizontal Action Magazine 2005
BLACK LIPS IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Black Lips spent their summer vacation in a fashion a bit different than most of us. While we were hitting the beach or chillin in some air conditioning, the Black Lips did a tour of duty through Israel and Palestine and were VBS correspondents to boot. Wanna see? Check it out:
The Black Lips in Israel!
D.I.Y. baptism at the River Jordan
Mudbaths and hash on the Red Sea
Israeli TV! Tonite with Lyor Shlyne. House party on the Kibbutz.
The West Bank: The Black Lips acoustic performance in Bethlehem with Palestinian kids.
In conjunction with the film, the Black Lips made us a little scrap book of pix and blurbs about their time overseas. Check the VICE Records site and Pitchfork Media for more on the Black Lips' summer vacation.
THE BLACK LIPS IN THE NY TIMES
Check the video here:
VIDEOS FROM VBS.TV
"Boomerang"
"Sea of Blasphemy"
"Stranger"
Americana Moonshine
