black lips
They have really black, black lips. Their live shows are truly wild parties. They’ve ended some of their performances naked, drunk, kissing each other, dancing with a chicken and pissing up against the sound desk. They’ve got black, black lips because they’re big-mouths and they’ve been on the receiving end of a few hidings in their time alright. Probably deserved them, too. But it’s impossible not to love Black Lips. Here are three examples of what we are on about. One, last year The New York Times gave the prize "The Hardest Working Band" to them because they gave 12 concerts in 3 days at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Reason number two for loving these guys happened last October: They appeared on national American television for the first time on the Night with Conan O’Brien show. And they remembered Bush and the floods in New Orleans. So they sang "O Katrina". They won’t be asked back again... The third reason brings us a bit closer to home. They’ve toured the Basque Country. They’ve played in Gaztetxes, small concert halls and bars. They even played a private by-now mythical concert in a house in Legazpi (check it out on youtube.)
These boys from Atlanta got together in the year of Our Lord 2000 and have played dirty garage rock ever since. Cole Alexander, Jared Swilly, Ben Eberbaugh and Joe Bradley were the original "Black Lips". Eberbaugh was killed in a traffic accident in 2002 and his place was taken by Ian St. Pé. This underground band have no qualms about mixing rock, blues, doo-wop, country and punk and are currently preparing their latest offering which will be released next year. It’s probably too late now. They are becoming famous and this type of article doesn’t really help, but we will not lose hope… maybe one day these "Black lips" will play at a party in one of our gaffs. Who knows!
These boys from Atlanta got together in the year of Our Lord 2000 and have played dirty garage rock ever since. Cole Alexander, Jared Swilly, Ben Eberbaugh and Joe Bradley were the original "Black Lips". Eberbaugh was killed in a traffic accident in 2002 and his place was taken by Ian St. Pé. This underground band have no qualms about mixing rock, blues, doo-wop, country and punk and are currently preparing their latest offering which will be released next year. It’s probably too late now. They are becoming famous and this type of article doesn’t really help, but we will not lose hope… maybe one day these "Black lips" will play at a party in one of our gaffs. Who knows!
