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  EXCLUSIVE: Mayhem in Atlanta With the Black Lips

  July 11, 2011 – Riding mattresses down the street and lighting guitars on fire may be wild shenanigans for the average Joe. …
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  Black Lips: The Road Warriors

  June 10, 2011 – Or,How to Succeed in (the Music) Business Without (Looking Like You're) Really Trying (and While Occasionally Peeing in Your Best Friend's Mouth). The Black Lips clean up just fine. …
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  Black Lips, 'Arabia Mountain' (Vice)

  June 7, 2011 – Sure, they're howling about molested superheroes and E. coli-ridden steak, not the rain in Spain, but Atlanta's Black Lips under-go something of a My Fair Lady sprucing-up on their sixth album. In the hands of dapper producer Mark Ronson, the glibly sloppy, lo-fi brats are almost sculpted into garage-punk sophistication, adding extended psychedelic guitar lines, fleshed-out percussion, even retro-soul sax. …
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  FIRST LISTEN: Black Lips' New LP 'Arabia Mountain'

  May 25, 2011 – On their sixth album, Arabia Mountain (out June 7), Black Lips stepped up their game by hiring superproducer Mark Ronson for their most polished collection of garage-rock yet. Ever have a jones to hear snot-nosed punks sing about molested superheroes?? …
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  Lady Gaga Doc, Trail of Dead Tour + More

  May 18, 2011 – With her new album Born This Way out next Monday, MTV will air a Lady Gaga documentary in which the pop star reveals the influence of Bruce Springsteen on her latest songs. The doc premieres Thursday, May 26. [Billboard] ...Trail of Dead have announced plans for a West Coast tour to support their excellent new album The Tao of the Dead. The 8-date trek kicks off on June 15 in Pomona, CA, and wraps up on June 23 in Seattle. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  May 6, 2011 – This week, Steven Tyler published his salacious new memoir,Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?, Lady Gaga debuted her freaky new video for "Judas," and Black Lips premiered "Modern Art," the raucous first single from their upcoming record Arabia Mountain, out June 7. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: Download Black Lips' First Single

  May 2, 2011 – The Black Lips are no less rowdy these days -- check out this insane clip from their recent sold out NYC gig for proof -- but Arabia Mountain, their upcoming album, finds the quartet working with savvy producer Mark Ronson to tighten their rambunctious garage rock. …
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  My Favorite Things: Black Lips' Cole Alexander

  April 7, 2011 – This week: Cole Alexander, singer-guitarist for Atlanta garage-rockers Black Lips, whose sixth studio album, Arabia Mountain, is set to drop June 7. FAVORITE SONG:"'The Last Mile of the Way' by Rev. Julius Cheeks. It's a soulful Christian song about death from the late-1950s. It makes most punk bands look tame." FAVORITE ALBUM:"Purple Rain by Prince. My mom took me to the movie when I was a baby and breast-fed me in the theater. …
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  Black Lips Defend Their Southern Pride

  March 29, 2011 – Rowdy Atlanta rockers the Black Lips have a new record coming out on June 7 titled Arabia Mountain, and guitarist Ian St. Pé tells SPIN that the Mark Ronson-produced album "is hot!"But, as is the band's wont, there's a ton of tongue-in-cheek comedy as well: One of the songs, "Spidey's Curse," tells the story of Spider-Man being molested. "People don't know that happened," says frontman Cole Alexander. …
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  Best Photos from SXSW: Day 3

  March 19, 2011 –  …
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