New Black Lips Video - "It Feels Alright"
Let's get it out of the way: I'm not usually a fan of Black Lips and their Vice-y mustaches. That said, "It Feels Alright"'s one of the quartet's better songs, especially the more spacious instrumental and psychedelic bits that move beyond the usual Estrus (etc.) cribbing. The video, shot in smeary black and white, finds the Atlanta garage gang cruising with their female friend at the wheel, heading straight into Magic City to see, as the song puts it, some "Magic City titties." Bingo, they find what they're looking for, which means we get to watch Cole Alexander & Co. and an ironic grill doing a lazy-day bump and grind with a handful of scantily-clad women of color. Certainly more lively than the "Veni Vidi Vici" cemetery. Not just because bikinis are usually more interesting than graves.
Good Bad Not Evil is out on Vice. The guys are out on tour, often with the Raconteurs.
05/28 - Washington DC @ 930 Club %
05/30 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5 %
05/31 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5 %
06/01 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5 %
06/02 - Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell's
06/03 - Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion %
06/06 - Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
06/07 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore %
06/08 - Detroi, MI @ The Fillmore %
06/09 - Columbus, OH @ LC Amphiteather %
06/10 - Cincinnati, OH @ National City Pavilion %
% w/ The Raconteurs
Posted at 11:03 AM by brandon in Tour Dates, Video
Tags: Black Lips
Garbage. Pastiche. A cartoon of a cartoon. And isn't that misogyny oh-so-ironic.
Bradford Cox once stated on his blog that these guys write better songs than the bands they cite as influences. The guy has made some seriously crazy statements, but that certainly stands out as one of the most ridiculous.
Among the new garage revivalists, these guys couldn't touch King Khan's butterfly collar.
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Sorry Dude, but the Black Lips are much much much more interesting/talented than the overly conscious garage rock derivative rock of King Khan. I've been into garage rock as long as I can remember and hated much of the garage revival because it was performed by clean white boys trying to tap into that sound and sounding retro. The Black Lips don't pretend to be like their garage forebears but are literally tapping into those same goods and all of them seemingly have similar unforced attitudes.
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p.s.Although this song isn't their strongest, Veni Vidi Vici and others are just as good as anything the Troggs ever wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq5-gLkIzFc
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