Atlanta garage rock band Black Lips released Drop I Hold, an iTunes-only EP, last Wednesday. Known for their impressive live shows and for finding their place in the vast gray-zone between hype and substance, their new EP features a track from 200 Million Thousand, their latest album on VICE Records. Along with their questionably ironic mustaches and aviator shades, Gary Grice, better known as GZA, can be found dropping a new verse on the speak-songy psychedelic title track. I'm pretty stoked, mostly at the prospect of a new music video, which could potentially end with Cole Alexander bursting through the wall, haloed in stage lights, screaming at the whole Wu-Tang Clan with a scarf tied around his microphone. Here's hoping.
Euro tourdates:
05.14.09 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape
05.15.09 - Nottingham, UK - Nottingham Trent University
05.16.09 - Sheffield, UK - Rollerpalooza
05.17.09 - Cardiff, UK - The Globe
05.20.09 - Leeds, UK - TJS
05.21.09 - Liverpool, UK - Liverpool City Sound Station Festival
05.22.09 - Dublin, IE - Crawdaddy
05.23.09 - Glasgow, UK - The Classic Grand
05.24.09 - Manchester, UK - Academy 3
05.26.09 - London, UK - Electric Ballroom, Camden
05.27.09 - Amsterdam, AN - Melkweg
05.28.09 - Paris, FR - Vilette Soniques at Cabaret Sauvage
05.30.09 - Barcelona, ES - Primavera
06.01.09 - Essen, DE - Pfingstfestival
06.02.09 - Bremen, DE - Tower
06.03.09 - Copenhagen, DK - Loppen
06.04.09 - Stockholm, SE - What We Do Is Secret
06.05.09 - Stockholm, SE - Debaser Medis
06.06.09 - Malmo, SE - Debaser
06.08.09 - Bergen, NO - Hulen
06.09.09 - Oslo, NO - John Dee
06.10.09 - Aarhus, DK - Musikcafeen
U.S. tourdates:
06.18.09 - Toronto, ON - NXNE
06.19.09 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar
06.26.09 - Athens, GA - Athfest
06.27.09 - Nashville, TN - Sonar
07.02.09 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
07.18.09 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Festival
07.23.09 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
07.24.09 - Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
