NME — Black Lips have confirmed to NME.COM that they will play some UK festival dates this summer. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Passion Pit & The Wrens @ the BV party @ Radio Room - yesterday (3/19/2009) Three down, one to go - by that I mean BrooklynVegan parties at SXSW this year. The pictures above come from yesterday's epic day party... more info

NME — Black Lips, The Soft Pack, Rosie and the Goldbug and Peggy Sue were among the acts who played shows last to close the second day of musical action at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. more info

The Culture Of Me — Garage rock meets performance art any time a group like Black Lips come around.  The same can be said for Omaha natives (and Team Love members) Flowers Forever.  They're fronted by Derek Presnall, who you may recognize as one of the two bo... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bettye LaVette: "Heart of Gold (Neil Young cover)" [mp3] other Bettye LaVette posts at Largehearted Boy The Black Lips: "I'll Be With You" [mp3] from 200 Million Thousand other Black Lips posts at Largehearted... more info

JamBase — PARK THE VAN'S GOLDEN BOOTS TO TOUR WITH DR. DOG AND CAVE SINGERS WINTER OF OUR DISCOTHEQUE DUE JANUARY 2009 Golden Boots Park the Van and Tucson natives Golden Boots have had a mighy fine 2009 so far. The band released their new album Winter of ... more info

Altsounds — *Black Lips* can announce the release of brand new single “*I’ll Be With You*” on May 18th complete with band made, super 8 shot, xmas themed video to be premiered the end of this month. The doo-wop fan favourite will be ba... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — 2009 is evidently the year of the headache inducing record sleeve. First up there was Animal Collectives swirling magic eye piece for 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' and now comes the cover for '200 Million Thousand' the new album from flower punks Blac... more info

NME — Pete Doherty's 'Grace/Wastelands' faces stiff competition in the album chart this week, most likely from Ronan Keating, who releases his 'Songs For My Mother'. Other notable new releases today (March 16) come from Black Lips, Hatcham Social, Bonnie '... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Faith-Ann Young DOWNLOAD: Black Lips - "O Katrina!" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Monotonix - "Ride" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Lucero - "What Else Would You Have Me Be" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Abe Vigoda - "Don't Lie" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Cut Off Your Hands -... more info