Black Lips have confirmed to NME.COM that they will play some UK festival dates this summer.

Black Lips, The Soft Pack, Rosie and the Goldbug and Peggy Sue were among the acts who played shows last to close the second day of musical action at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

Black Lips have announced details of tour of UK and Ireland for May.

When we evaluated the Black Lips' 200 Million Thousand, the general idea was catchy, interestingly textured songs, boringly predictable shtick. In the Chris Taylor-animated, drummer Joe Bradley-directed video for "Short Fuse" we get zero shtick, because the Atlanta band's not around to pour their PBR on our heads or remind us they once went to a...

New Black Lips album 200 Million Thousand, which Pitchfork's Jason Crock awards a 7.3 today, veers off into echoey oddness just when you might've expected the Atlanta garage-rockers to take their critical acclaim and start cruising toward Main Street. As the Byrds-tinged "Short Fuse" shows, though, Black Lips still have a way with catchy songs t...