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Link: http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2 011/11/07/polaroids-fun-fun-fu n-fest-2011/black-lips-vivian- girls/ Kickball Katy is known as one the QTest BBs in the entire indiesphere. Jared Swilley is known as 'one of the bad boys of indie.' What happens when they get together and pose 4 a Gorilla Vs. Bear polaroid? The are TOTES canoodling, but most importantly, they both LOOK REAL GOOD, BBs. This is great news, especially after the death of Zooey Deschanel and Benjamin Gibbard . We need more of the [...]

Atlanta's The Black Lips formed as teenagers, right before the turn of the millennium. Just a year or two later, while still in high school, the punk-influenced, retro-obsessed four-piece started... Continue reading "Q&A: The Black Lips' Jared Swilley On Rowdy Shows, Punk's Influence and Playing Antarctica" >

Talking to Jared Swilley about Black Lips’ upcoming release, 'Arabia Mountain', I couldn’t help but feel proud: This band has matured a great deal in the past decade. Swilley says that the album is the band’s best to date and that its recording re-energized the group. And although Jared can’t promise vomiting, pissing, man-kissing, or any of the band’s usual on-stage debauchery, he can promise that this music is the best thing he and his bandmates have ever done. He is not one to bullshit about albums, he mentioned publicly that he wasn't totally proud of their previous album, '200 [...]

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