Music

Black Lips recording new LP with Mark Ronson

by Ciaran Thompson

Grammy Award winning DJ, producer, musician Mark Ronson who has previously worked with Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Kaiser Chiefs, Ghostface Killah and others, and Atlanta, Georgia’s greatest garage-punk sons Black Lips are working together at last.

According to SPIN, Black Lips are currently finishing their new LP, due out April 5, in New York City with Mark Ronson.

“We’re spending a lot of time and making sure it’s awesome,” singer/guitarist Cole Alexander said. “This album is going to be more commercial. We want to reach a lot more people. We’re still keeping it real.”

Tracks confirmed on the album include “So Long to Carolina,” “Dumpster Diving,” “Wildest Dreams” and “You Keep on Running,” which Alexander said is based “on this book I have called Black Confederates and Afro Yankees in Civil War Virginia.”

Apparently there’s also a song about the former Atlanta Braves mascot Chief Noc-A-Homa who “drank a lot and would pass out in this teepee, that was part of his shtick. He was just a nice guy who rooted for the team. He eventually got fired for running around the field drunk.”