Black Lips

About Black Lips

Garage punk saviors The Black Lips transform from austere country pioneers into a set of Lynchian surrealists, hellbent on recalibrating the history of 21st Century rock‘n’ roll. Their new album ‘Apocalypse Love’ cryogenically mutates all recognized musical bases; it spins yarns about vintage Soviet synths, Benzedrine stupors, coup de’ tats, stolen valor, certified destruction and the creative use of quicksand. Their rapid stylistic evolution has played out over decades of prolific touring and releases, taking them where no garage punk band had gone before - huge venues, network television shows, and major music festivals. Making their living the way they knew how, burning up the road like their heroes – gaining and losing members up and down the highway. 2020’s country ‘Sing In A World Falling Apart’, was their grimiest and most dangerous collection of songs to date, showing a new-found maturity. Forming in 1999, their self-titled debut album was released in 2003, following which their fan base grew with the release of 2004’s ‘We Did Not Know The Spirit Made The Flowers Grow’. The band’s 2007 effort, ‘Good Bad Not Evil’, propelled them onto TV screens on both sides of the Atlantic. Line ups shuffled, stages were invaded, songs were mooted for TV shows and Mark Ronson, Sean Lennon and Black Keys’ Patrick Carney all put in a shift in the producer’s chair. In 2013 they added secret weapon Zumi Rosow who was later joined by Oakley Munson on drums and guitarist Jeff Clarke.