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Black Lips unveil new album, tour details

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'Good Bad Not Evil' is out in September

The Black Lips have revealed details of their second album entitled ‘Good Bad Not Evil’, scheduled for release in September.

The Atlanta quartet recorded the album in their home city in Georgia, and features the tracks ‘Katrina’, ‘Lean’ and ‘Bad Kids’.

As previously reported, the band performed a typically entertaining set at the Siren Music Festival at Coney Island, NY on Saturday (July 21) when they brought a live chicken onstage and blasted the audience with thousands of feathers.

The tracklisting is:

‘Lean’
‘Katrina’
‘Veni Vidi Vici’
‘Good Bad Not Evil’
‘Navajo’
‘Lock and Key’
‘How Do You Tell a Child that Someone Has Died?’
‘Bad Kids’
‘Step Right Up’
‘Cold Hands’
‘Off the Block’
‘Slime & Oxygen’
‘Transcendental Light’


Meanwhile ,they head out to support the album in September. The dates are:

Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club (September 12)
Baltimore, MD - Sonar (14)
Washington, DC - Black Cat (15)
Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore at TLA (16)
New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom (18)
Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg (19)
Worcester, MA - The Grind (Clark University) (20)
Cambridge, MA - Middle East (21)
Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa (22)
Toronto, Ontario - The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern (23)
Detroit, MI - Magic Stick (25)
Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom (26)
Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium (28)
Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet (29)
Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock (30)
Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room (October 2)
Kansas City, MO - Grand Emporium (3)
Dallas, TX - The Loft (4)
Austin, TX - Emo's (5)
Houston, TX - The Engine Room (6)
New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks (7)
Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards on Richards (11)
Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café (12)
Pomona, CA - Glass House (17)
West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour (19)
Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex (20)


--By our New York staff.
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