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The band's newest album, "200 Million Thousand", was recently released on Vice Records.

Album review: Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand

By NELLY GOCHEVA | CityOnline Magazine

The naughty 'flower punk' quartet from Atlanta returns with their new 14-track fifth studio album. Guitarist Cole Alexander, bassist Jared Swilley, drummer Joe Bradley and guitarist Ian Saint P: é are not teenagers anymore but they definitely continue to have fun while making their energetic psych-rock music.



Notorious for their insane live shows - where bandmates strip off their clothes, make out with each other and urinate on stage, this time around the Lips deliver a terrific mixture of catchy dirty melodies, reinvented vintage garage rock nuggets and '60s pop tunes.

It's kind of ironic when the chaps sing that they're "trapped in a basement" here. Luckily for us, music-wise they're anything but trapped and with their increasing popularity and commercial success they're more likely to be living in a penthouse any time soon.

The serious guitar work in the opener "Take My Heart" (which by the way strikingly reminds of The Doors) and the wicked punk-rock sound of "Drugs" are perfect examples of Black Lips sensitivity to musical experiments. If you liked the 2007's "Good Bad Not Evil", you'd love this one. Filthy fusion of chaotic youth and serious art.

Pick of the Album: "The Drop I Hold", featuring Cole Alexander rapping. Surprise with a twist.

Current Affairs

London Olympics: Green or in the red?

By KAROLINA TAGARIS | CityOnline Magazine

When London successfully bid for the 2012 Olympics the bill was estimated at a mere £2.4bn. In 2008 this rose to £9.35bn and in January 2009 Britain officially entered a recession for the first time in 18 years. Considering this backdrop Karolina Tagaris explores whether Britain be able to keep its promise to be the "greenest games in modern times"?

Travel

Camping out in Botswana

By LISA REINISCH | CityOnline Magazine

Botswana's wilderness is full of otherworldly experiences. You wake up to the grunting laughter of hippos, are transfixed by the hypnotic gaze of googly-eyed giraffes, and startled by the familiarity of a lion's roar. Lisa Reinisch tells what it's like to set up camp in the wilds of Botswana.

Arts

Recessionary art

By NAJATE ZOUGGARI | CityOnline Magazine

Photographer and Samaritan volunteer Hege Sæbjørnsen's new exhibition presents a challenging artistic response to the gloomy atmosphere reinforced - if not produced - by the financial crisis. Najate Zouggari chats with Hege Sæbjørnsen about the story behind the exhibition now showing in Clerkenwell.