The Music Fix — Blog: Chicago based Bird Talk have made their first video 'Crown and Coke (Do It! Do It!)' and it's a corker. With Karen O style yelps it's an energetic and danceable garage pop affair reminiscent of flower punks Black Lips. Currently unsigned, th... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Avett Brothers (l) and Black Lips (r) For those of you that are not watching the opening weekend of the college football season, you can catch the FYF Festival this afternoon/evening, and/or The Avett Brothers tonight at The Orpheum Theatre. Luce... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Black Lips @ The Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Bao Nguyen) Deborah Kee Higgins (ATP organizer) to the Village Voice: We have a "No Assholes" policy. You can play once because we don't know you're an asshole, but you can't play... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Black Lips, King Khan & BBQ Show, The Dirtbombs, Jay Reatard and Roky Erickson are among the acts confirmed for the Scion Garage Fest. The free event will take place in Portland, Oregon on October 17th. Also on the bill are The Almighty Defenders... more info

NME — Fans stream onto Atlanta rockers' stage more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Yo La Tengo - Here to Fall (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double Or Triple (MP3) Black Lips @ Williamsburg Waterfront in July (more by Bao Nguyen) NY Times. As an experiment I put your name into... more info

Chorus.fm — FYF Fest: Save Our State Parks (http://www.fyffest.com/) takes place Saturday, September 5th in Los Angeles, and the line-up features *The Black Lips, Converge, Lightning Bolt, Tim & Eric, Matt Skiba, No Age, Lucero, The Thermals, Japanther, Telepath... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — "Lumina started as something I was messing around with at home - I'd been getting really fixated on making electronic recordings that sounded human and warm, all the sounds were made with synths,"The result is this Black Lips cover, set to feature as... more info

NME - The Daily Download — You have to give it to Faris, he knows how to create eery gothic atmosphere. Recently he gave the excellent Memory Tapes track 'Bicycle' a whole new life and now he's turned his attention to Black Lips. [...] Read more! more info

Culture Bully — The Almighty Defenders, the decadent garage rock fan's wet dream featuring members of the Black Lips and King Khan & BBQ Show, have now let out a few teasers from their upcoming self titled debut LP. more info