Black Lips

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Black Lips is a 1960s-style garage rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. Still teenagers, they formed in 2000 when the band guitarist Cole Alexander and bassist Jared Swilley were in, The Renegades, and the band guitarist Ben Eberbaugh was in, The Reruns, split up. Drummer Joe Bradley joined a few months later. They released their first four-song 7-inch in November 2001 on their own [Die Slaughterhaus] label. In 2002 they recorded songs that would eventually comprise their self-titled Bomp! Records debut. Just days before a national tour was to begin in December 2002, Eberbaugh was driving a car that was struck by another driver going the wrong way on a highway. He was killed but the band soldiered on because they knew he would want them to keep going [1]. The band's first album was released in 2003 and consisted of most of their recorded material to date. Eberbaugh was replaced by Jack Hines, a friend of the band members, but he too was eventually replaced by current guitarist and oldest band member Ian Brown a.k.a. Ian St. Pe [2].

Black Lips have a reputation for crazy live shows that include vomiting, urinating in the mouth (and sometimes then spitting the urine on the audience), playing guitar with a penis, fireworks, and pubic hair being set on fire. They have slowly built a fanbase that appreciates their energy and style of incorporating blues, rock, soul, country, and punk and making something shocking and refreshing for the 21st century, or something the band refers to as "flower punk". They gained more national attention in 2006 with features in Spin and Rolling Stone magazines.

Black Lips have released three studio records, and their fourth release will be " Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo", or in English "The Brave Of The New World". It is a live album recorded in Tijuana, Mexico that was initially set to be titled Live in Tijuana. This fourth record will be released as their Vice Records debut on February 20, 2007. The band has said it will also include DVD footage from the chaotic show. The track list is as follows [3]:

- M.I.A.
- Boomerang
- Sea of Blasphemy
- Stranger
- Not A Problem
- Hippy Hippy Hurrah
- Boone
- Everybody’s Doing It
- Fairy Stories
- Dirty Hands
- Buried Alive
- Juvenile

The east coast dates of their accompanying tour in early 2007 will be shared with fellow garage rock band the Ponys[4].

In December 2006 Black Lips recorded 20 songs for a new studio album for Vice, due out later in 2007. Band members have said record label In The Redmay put out an album in 2007 consisting of previously recorded songs that have never been released. The rumored title of that compilation is "Last Of The White Niggers"[5].

Band Members

Cole Alexander (Old King Cole Younger) - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Sampler (2000 - present)
Jared Swilley - Bass Guitar, Vocals (2000 - present)
Joe Bradley - Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Piano, Organ (2000 - present)
Ian St. Pe - Lead Guitar (2005 - present)
Jack Hines - Lead Guitar (2002-2005)
Ben Eberbaugh - Lead Guitar (2000 - 2002 = deceased)

Discography

Ain't Comin' Back 7" - 2002 (Die Slaughterhaus Records)
Freakout 7" - 2002 (The Electric Human Project)
Ain't Comin' Back 7" - 2003 (Munster Records)
Black Lips - 2003 (Bomp! Records)
Live At The Jam Club 7" - 2004 (Shake Your Ass Records)
We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow - 2004 (Bomp! Records)
Live @ WFMU - 2005 (Dusty Medical Records)
Does She Want 7" - 2005 (Slovenly Records)
In and Out 7" - 2005 (Slovenly Records)
Let it Bloom - 2005 (In the Red Records)
Born To Be A Man 7" - 2005 (Varmint Records)
Party at Rob's House 7" - 2006 (Rob's House Records)
Valientes Del Mundo Neuva - 2007 (Vice Records)

Black Lips

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