Premature Evaluation: Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
Black Lips are savvy motherfuckers, ostensibly building a successful career by playing '60s and punk-inspired, lo-fi garage rock (or, what they call "flower punk") that isn't better or worse than the inoffensive garage rock (not called "flower punk") made by a zillion other bands. They mix in some lite elements of Southern soul and rap (take a listen to "The Drop I Hold") here/there, but you can dig into Estrus, Crypt, In the Red (Black Lips old label home), Get Hip!, Bomp (BL's other past la...
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Black Lips are savvy motherfuckers, ostensibly building a successful career by playing '60s and punk-inspired, lo-fi garage rock (or, what they call "flower punk") tha... more info
I Guess I'm Floating — Who else but Black Lips! The kings of flower-punk are back on February 24th with their third LP for Vice Records, a little gem called 200 Million Thousand. The ruffian f... more info