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On Nov. 2^nd, the Atlanta-based group Black Lips -- whose riotous shows are notorious along the East Coast -- took the stage at Sin-e, on the Lower East Side.  The start was rocky: mechanical malfunctions, plus ‘we were really rushed,’ drummer Joe Bradley later said.  Yet, armed with bullets, a wig, and a tambourine, the Black Lips more than made up for it.  Beneath a VICE banner and before a tightly-packed crowd, the new darlings of psychedelic-garage-rock screamed, spat (and caught it in their mouths, in the case of guitarist/vocalist Cole Younger), and led the audience in their ‘dirty hand’ toward salvation.  Between Bradley’s monstrous drumbeats and booming voice, Ian St. Pe’s shiny gold teeth and steady guitar riffs, Younger’s theatrics, and Jered Swilley’s relentless bass guitar and vocals, it’s a belligerent, intoxicating blend.  ‘Hippie bullshit, minus the hippies and the bullshit,’ wrote critic Dani Nosebleed earlier this year.  Amen. 

See: The Black Lips perform “Wild Man” at sin-e.

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Special thanks to Sin-e, sin-e.com