DYNAMITE, SPIT, WHISKEY AND DIRTY ROCK..BLACK LIPS BACK IN LA!!

Atlanta garage rockers Black Lips have been touring heavily after their June release of their sixth album Arabia Mountain.  

If you haven’t heard NME’s review can give you a clue of what to expect: ‘Family Tree’ is a rollicking, leaky banger of an opening track, hair combed with engine grease and zany sax parping away in the background – chalk that one up to Ronson, then. Speaking of whom, the arch swinger’s touch on the record is apparent but surprisingly discreet, his trademark brass applied only sparingly and a hint of Theremin bringing surfy, ‘Good Vibrations’ overtones to ‘Modern Art’ and ‘Bone Marrow’.

The former’s wreckheads-in-an-art-gallery theme perfectly sums up the band’s class-clown appeal (“K-hole at the Dali/Seeing the unknown”), and is one of their best flat-out tunes since ‘O Katrina’. ‘Spidey’s Curse’ talks about Spider-Man getting touched up as a kid and sounds like The Beach Boys – not the sacrosanct, tortured-genius version beloved of Animal Collective, but the feckless thrill-seekers behind ‘Surfin’ USA’.
Black Lips in their performance history have included (per Wikipedia):  “vomiting, urination, nudity, electric R.C. car races, fireworks, a chicken, and flaming guitars. “ Sounds like fun right?!
Their latest stop is Santa Ana's own Galaxy Theatre. They are like dynamite, spit, whiskey dirty rock, and the most fun you’ve ever had all in one!
Galaxy Theater this Sunday, November 13, at 8 p.m.