While Black Lips have matured and grown since forming in 1999, the Atlanta-based garage band haven’t “settled down.” Case in point is Apocalypse Love, the group’s 10th album, released last year on Fire Records. Incorporating gospel and country influences, it’s as strange and exciting as the band’s early work, but it also showcases a new depth to the band. Today on Transmissions, Black Lip Jared Swilley joins us to discuss his pentecostal roots, his minister father coming out of the closet, the importance of the Bomp Records catalog, his mentor The Mighty Hannibal, and much more.
Category: Black Lips
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Black Lips
Prior to the release of their ninth record — the incredibly apt titled Sing In A World That’s Falling Apart — Black Lips touched down in Los Angeles for a secret show at Gold Diggers in East Hollywood. The following Lagniappe Session was cut just prior in the studio out back. Having morphed in both personnel and sound in recent years, drummer Oakley Munson runs us through the band’s cover selects, below — from drawing inspiration from Hank Williams to long lost VU nuggets …
AD Presents :: Black Lips / Phoenix Theatre, Toronto – 4/22
Aquarium Drunkard and Collective Concerts present: Black Lips with Natural Child at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto, April 22nd. Tickets available, here . We have a few pairs for AD . . . […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Jared, from Black Lips , is our […]
AD Presents :: New Year’s Eve With The Black Lips, New Orleans
Aquarium Drunkard presents Black Lips New Year’s Eve at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. It’s going to be nuts. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also […]
Black Lips :: Modern Art
Atlanta’s Black Lips just dropped the first mp3 from their upcoming Mark Ronson produced LP, Arabia Mountain, out June 7th on Vice. The band’s take on the Louvre, on drugs, below. MP3: […]
Black Lips :: Good Bad Not Evil
Ahem, speaking of garage rock , those ATLiens, the Black Lips , from my hometown of Atlanta, GA (holla), just released their latest studio LP this week, entitled Good Bad Not Evil . This, the follow up to their live-jam, […]