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BLACK LIPS - Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo
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| Rock musicians will forever be plagued with the ongoing duality of quality of recording vs. quality of live performance. If a live show is too much like one's album, people are bound to call it boring. But if the live show is a lot less polished than the album, people are bound to say it sounds bad. And then there's the plague of the alternate live version; that's another issue altogether....full text |
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| PitchFork |
| Somewhere in the 1930s, guitarist Les Paul began taking a 4x4 plank of wood with stings and a pickup to his club performances to get the volume he desired. When he attached the wings of another guitar to each side of "the log," as he called it, he solved his feedback problem and the funny looks from the audience dissipated....full text |
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| RollingStone |
| Atlanta rockabilly punks the Black Lips are one of the best live bands in America, a fact they prove on their debut for Vice Records, Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo. This twelve-song sonic apocalypse -- recorded live, as the story goes, at a mariachi club in Tijuana -- serves as an excellent introduction to these debauched rockers, who already have three albums out on various small labels....full text |
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