Years Active: 2007
Band Members: Cole Alexander, Jared Swilley, Joe Bradley, Joe Bradley, Ben Eberbaugh, Ian St. Pe
Influenced by: Swamp Rats, The Sonics
Genre: Rock & Alternative
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Aug 04 2009 11:00AM
by Linda Laban
Filed under: News, New Music, Exclusive
Spinner: Atlanta garage rock ingénues the Black Lips recently issued a remix of their haunting hip-hop cut 'Drop I Hold,' which sees the quartet united with GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. The song was originally released last winter on the Lips' fifth album, ... Read moreJun 19 2009 13:08PM
by Joshua Ostroff
Filed under: Concerts and Tours, Live It Out, Canada
Spinner: Canada's coolest bassist may be in the news because former boss Courtney Love is talking about a new Hole record and tour, but at NXNE Melissa Auf der Maur rocked out with her eponymous band. But based on her performance at Yonge and Dundas Square, ... Read moreJun 19 2009 7:46AM
by Drew Berner
Filed under: Concerts and Tours, Live It Out, Canada
Spinner: You can take the boy out of Canada, but you can't take Canada out of the boy -- at least not out of King Khan. The Montreal expat, now based in Berlin, brought the King Khan and BBQ Show to the Horseshoe Tavern on Thursday night for their highly ... Read more
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08/04/09
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07/27/09
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11/10/09
Black Lips Announce Winter Tour Dates
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10/02/09
Black Lips - "Let It Grow" (tour dates / video) (Mixed Media) The Black Lips have releas...
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10/01/09
New Black Lips Video Black Lips have preimered a new video for the song "Let it Grow" of...
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10/01/09
Carrie Brownstein Compares Black Lips' Swilley to Roman Polanski Sleater-Kinney 's Carri...
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09/28/09
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08/20/09
News:Winning Remix for the Black Lips Contest Congratulations to Afghan Raiders from Las...
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08/11/09
The Almighty Defenders (Black Lips / King Khan) (new album / MP3s) (Mixed Media)
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08/04/09
Black Lips Cultivate Unlikely Friendship With GZA Atlanta garage rock ingénues the Black...
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07/27/09
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07/27/09
HEALTH/Black Lips @ Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn 7/26/09
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07/07/09
The Almighty Defenders (Black Lips, King Khan, and Mark Sultan) (new album / MP3) (Mixed Media)
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07/07/09
News:VTech Presents the Monthly FILTER Mixed Contest with the Black Lips The winning tra...
Filter Magazine
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07/06/09
Reviews:Black Lips How do four snotty Atlanta punks mature?
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05/30/09
Atlanta Fire: An Interview with Black Lips (Feature) Jared Swilley may be the son of a p...
PopMatters
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05/29/09
Atlanta Fire: An Interview with the Black Lips (Feature) Jared Swilley may be the son of...
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05/25/09
Reviews:Black Lips How do four snotty Atlanta punks mature?
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03/25/09
New Black Lips Video - "I'll Be With You" This video for resident 200 Million Thousand p...
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03/23/09
SXSW 2009: GZA Joins The Black Lips The Black Lips' songs, especially on 200 Million Tho...
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03/18/09
The daily vid - Black Lips The Black Lips have always been best known for their lives sh...
The Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville FL
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03/13/09
Black Lips, '200 Million Thousand' "Short Fuse" has the collective history of 40 years o...
The Courier-Journal - Louisville KY
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03/12/09
Black Lips now emphasize music over antics As veterans of any touring band will tell you...
Omaha World Herald - Omaha NE
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03/11/09
Blurry India incident has Black Lips flapping again Since its indie start nine years a...
The Kansas City Star - Kansas City MO
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03/06/09
Concert Review: Back in black, the Lips come home It was an atypical, yet somehow approp...
UWIRE
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03/05/09
CD Review: Lips, like coffee, are best when black Black Lips are notorious for causing a...
UWIRE
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03/03/09
Music: Review: Black Lips Five full-lengths in, it's probably time to set aside the fac...
The A.V. Club
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03/01/09
Music: The Black Lips' '200 Million Thousand' You know, it's almost off-putting that mus...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Seattle WA
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02/27/09
CD Review: The Black Lips lack complexity Having gained popularity through their absurd ...
UWIRE
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02/27/09
BLACK LIPS B lack Lips' gig shenanigans are well-documented and largely unprintable.
Boston Herald - Boston MA
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02/26/09
CD Review: Black Lips set new Boundaries on latest Critics' fascination with the Black L...
UWIRE
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10/01/09
Carrie Brownstein Compares Black Lips' Swilley to Roman Polanski Sleater-Kinney 's Carri...
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09/28/09
Wavves and Black Lips Involved in Bar Fight It's no secret that Wavves ' Nathan Williams...
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09/26/09
an official statement from WAVVES re: the Black Lips fight "Talking shit about me on the...
Brooklyn Vegan
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09/26/09
Nathan WAVVES & Jared from Black Lips fought @ Daddy's after the Roseland & Market Hotel shows (there was blood)
Brooklyn Vegan
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08/24/09
Yo La Tengo likes bands (NYTimes) like Kurt Vile & the Black Lips ++ MP3's & 4 new videos (1 w/ Times New Viking)
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08/04/09
Black Lips Cultivate Unlikely Friendship With GZA Atlanta garage rock ingénues the Black...
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08/03/09
Lineup for FYF Fest announced: Headliners include Black Lips, Lightning Bolt and No Age
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07/29/09
The Gaye Blades (not Gay Blades) (mem. of Black Lips) tonight, Georgiana Starlington residency, LiveFastDie...Dead
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07/27/09
Black Lips Irk Security at Rowdy Brooklyn Gig The Black Lips delivered a raucous perform...
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07/23/09
Yo La Tengo - new MP3, tour dates (Roseland w/ Black Lips)
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07/08/09
Supergroup day continues: Zeppelin/Grohl/QOTSA, Almighty Defenders (Black Lips+King Khan), Dead Man's Bones, more
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05/13/09
This week in Music Licensing (De La Soul, the Dodos, Passion Pit, Black Lips, Matt & Kim, Mates of State & more...)
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03/24/09
Golden Triangle playing 3 NYC shows, won the Battle of the Bands where GZA played w/ Black Lips (videos)
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03/22/09
Circle Jerks @ Mess With Texas 2009 (SXSW) - pics & setlist "...and the mighty Circle Je...
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03/20/09
SXSW continues - Radio Room yesterday, Sweden & Norway today + GZA to perform with the Black Lips
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03/13/09
Black Lips played MHOW (pics), playing Mess With Texas in Austin (as are a lot of other bands)
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03/06/09
[Exclusive Video] Black Lips discuss "I'll Be With You" Back in February I highlighted m...
I Guess I'm Floating
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02/27/09
Interview: Black Lips From Atlanta to India, the Black Lips cross the globe in search of...
Washington City Paper - Black Plastic Bag
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02/25/09
Yoko's Cool Cuts Volume 4&5: Morrissey, The Black Lips, Dark Was The Night & much more
Ain't It Cool News
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02/24/09
New Album Releases 02/24/09: Chris Isaak, J.J. Cale, Black Lips, Shemekia Copeland, Joe Bonamassa, Jonas Brothers, The Who, and More
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02/24/09
Top Shelf Tuesday - February 24 Sex Drive is a raunchy teen comedy that surprises not ju...
iFilm
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02/24/09
Tuesday Rock City: Black Lips, Pan-American The dumber Black Lips act, the better off th...
Washington City Paper - Black Plastic Bag
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02/24/09
The Black Lips Dig In [The Last Word] "But whether or not Black Lips have changed their ...
Idolator
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02/20/09
Exclusive Video Premiere: The Black Lips’ Animated Psych-Out “Short Fuse” The video is p...
Rock and Roll Daily
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02/18/09
New Music Report: Matt and Kim, Black Lips, Plus Von Bondies Also this week, RollingSton...
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01/29/09
Daily Downloads (Youth Group, Black Lips, and more) « 1 Down, 51 To Go "Marvel Zombies: ...
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01/16/09
Just Announced: Black Lips, Cursive, Fall Out Boy, Gaslight Anthem, The Little Ones Afte...
Ear Infection
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01/14/09
Daily Downloads (Vetiver, Black Lips, and more) « Try It Before You Buy It (January 13th...
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12/23/08
mp3: new black lips :: "starting over" new vivian girls :: "girl don't tell me" (beach b...
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12/10/08
Passion Pit, Black Lips, AC Newman & other tickets on sale OK Go play Music Hall of Will...
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