About
Also known as: The Black Lips
Few bands have courted chaos quite like Black Lips. The Atlanta garage punk outfit built their reputation on rowdy live shows, boundary pushing antics, and a sound that fuses blues, doo wop, country, and punk into something gloriously ragged. Formed in 1999, they spent the early 2000s grinding out 7 inch records and building a cult following before landing features in Rolling Stone and Spin in 2006. Their Vice Records debut, the live recorded Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo, got tongues wagging over whether it was really captured at a bar in Tijuana. The follow up, Good Bad Not Evil, pushed them onto national TV in the US and the UK. A 2009 tour of India ended with a hasty exit after stage antics risked serious legal trouble, and the band then headed straight to Berlin to record a gospel influenced record with King Khan and BBQ as The Almighty Defenders. That same year they dropped their fifth album, 200 Million Thousand, and played 122 shows across Europe and the US to support it.
