I love the Black Lips. I've seen them four times. I'm seeing them a fifth time this coming August, on a boat cruise, the day I fly back from Vegas on a red eye. I really love the Black Lips...

...so much so, here's a video of their performance from the Primavera festival that features no discernible song (quite obviously and as YouTube link indicates, they were playing 'Bad Kids' when this broke loose).

HT Brooklyn Vegan

Enjoyed my second consecutive Record Store Day on Saturday, spending a healthy portion of the afternoon traipsing around the West and East Village in New York City. I managed to make it to seven record stores in only two-and-a-half hours, having varying levels of success at each. Mainly, I wanted to dabble in the exclusive releases of the day - which the clerk at Good Music more than overtly implied made me an anesthetized music buyer - and possibly buy on a whim. Ended up mixing in a little live music and an interesting encounter with a Greenpeace man-on-the-street ("I want to talk to your beard!"). Here's a quick round-up of the stores I hit up:

Generation Records: Caught the last half hour of Cymbals Eat Guitars set (pictured above). This band is kind of one note, if you ask me.

Good Music: I hate you guys.

Gimme Gimme Records: Special RSD Promotion: anything in the dollar crate is free. I grabbed a live Talking Heads Double-LP, presumably free of charge b/c missing one of the LPs

Other Music: Made my only special to Record Store Day purchase - Fragments, a 4AD sampler. Nice Nice was DJing.

Bleecker St. Music: After resisting the $32 dollar price tag on the Modest Mouse 'The Moon & Antarctica' reissue for a third time, this is where I realized that all the stores in this part of town got the same lot of exclusives. Bought the Black Lips second record on colored vinyl, 'We Did Not Know The Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow'

Bleeckerbobs: I went here also.

Fat Beats: Last year, it was about 115-degrees and humid as hell in Fat Beats. This year it was only about 95. Caught some of this guy's DJ set.

Good times. If you were out and about on Record Store Day in your respective cities, leave a comment or hit me up @mikehayes19 and let me know who and what you saw, and what you purchased.

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We Fun: Atlanta GA Inside/Out, a DVD documentary about the Atlanta music scene, featuring Black Lips, Deerhunter, King Khan, and others.

Found via Pitchfork's Guide To Record Store Day

Wouldn't mind getting my hands on that.

Say what you want about the poor quality of pictures that my phone takes, that's not the point. Rather I want to alert all Brooklyn and New York City show-goers that Brooklyn Bowl is great place to see a show, especially if you meander over to the side of the stage by the lanes.

As far as the show went, it was probably the calmest of the three Black Lips shows I've been too. Of course, the last time I saw them (Pitchfork Festival) Ian Saint Pé smashed his guitar after the first song, and Cole Alexander doused the crowd with a fire extinguisher. And the time before that (Music Hall of Williamsburg, sometime in 2009) most of the audience - save for me and several others - wound up onstage with the band. The only real hijinks of note last night came when Alexander and Saint Pé smooched eachother - a stage stunt that contributed to them being banned in India last year. The show was still raucous and fun to the point where it made me regret a lot of the smart decisions I've made in my time.

 

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