Black Lips have announced that they will be heading to the UK this September for a brief tour. The band released their new album “Arabia Moutain” earlier this month which featured production by Mark Ronson and Deerhunter’s Lockett Pundt. You can see the tour dates below.

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Black Lips and Vivian Girls are both releasing new albums this year; with the Black Lips working with producer Mark Ronson and Vivian Girls being helped by new drummer Fiona Campbell, after all members work on their own side projects. The tour will start with a date in Miami before the bands set sail on the Bruise Cruise from February 25 to 28 with Surfer Blood, Thee Oh Sees, the Strange Boys, Ty Segall, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Turbo Fruits, Jacuzzi Boys, Ian Svenonius, and DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubi. After that the bands will tour North America in April. You can see the tour dates below.

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Black Lips’ Jared Swilley and Wavves’ Nathan Williams seemed to have had a fight in Brooklyn bar Daddy’s after Wavves played a show at the Market Hotel on Friday. The confrontation seems to have stemed from some words that Jared Swilley had to say about Nathan Williams after his meltdown at the Primavera Festival in Barcelona, Spain that resulted in him having to cancel his European tour. Jared Swilley had originally said somethings about Nathan to NRK back in June: (more…)

A guerilla marketing campaign was started in NY in an effort to promot their show in the Bowery Ballroom on March 10. The Black Lips marketing team came up with the idea to draw on movie posters and other artists poster with black sharpie. All they did was color the lips black and write the date (3-10-08) on them. They didn’t even care if it was another artists poster as you can see from the Goldfrapp poster. We’ll since it got me talking about them I don’t think it was a bad way to advertise, although I don’t understand why they put the wrong date on some of them. You can see the other posters here

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