When Jessica spoke with Black Lips last year about their then-unreleased 200 Million Thousand, she reported the flower-punks were trying to get "a member or two of Wu-Tang Clan on a track," the band adding: "Maybe not for the album, but for a remix or something or an EP later on down the road. We'll see. We're keeping our fingers crossed." Somet...

Sonic Youth, The Gossip, Black Lips and Deerhunter are among the bands that will headline Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party this summer.

AthFest is the annual arts and music festival held each June in historic downtown Athens, GA

The Black Lips' songs, especially on 200 Million Thousand, possess a nice fuzzy texture and the Atlantans appropriate great garage-isms, but I've always been less than enthused by the band, because from carefully marketing their "escape" from India to embodying every clichéd Vice signifier on earth and the "we are loose canons" live antics, the...