The enhanced CD, their debut on Vice, features live drunken footage sure to scare the chemical romancers and other posers. With a pocketful of classics, many recorded here---especially the vile “Sea of Blasphemy,” but including “Dirty Hands,” “MIA” and “Everybody’s Doing It”—the Black Lips more than keep their crown as best band alive.  Full text...

Loud, fuzzy, and super fun set of rock `n' roll debauchery that showcases Black Lips thriving in their element.   Full text...

A rare live album that's not just different enough from the studio records to justify its release, but possibly all that beginners and dilettantes need from the band. The Black Lips nearly destroy their songs here, but out of an earnest, palpable love for the material.  Full text...

This twelve-song sonic apocalypse -- recorded live, as the story goes, at a mariachi club in Tijuana -- serves as an excellent introduction to these debauched rockers, who already have three albums out on various small labels.  Full text...