Blog: The Smudge of Ashen Fluff

Atlanta bubblegum-garage rockers The Black Lips recently fired up their email machine to find a fan-made video for 200 Million Thousand stand-out "Drugs" awaiting them. Like the unsolicited clip for Good Bad Not Evil's "Bad Kids" -- a sly vid that juxtaposed images from The Troubles in Northern Ireland with a bouncing-ball onscreen display of the song's anarchic lyrics -- "Drugs" finds footage from cautionary 70's Health Class videos playing behind the band's celebration of youthful hedonism. The Lips gave an eager NME the chance to run the clip early last week. Somehow they already considered it controversial. Guess that's [...]