Exclusive Video: Black Lips in the Studio With Mark Ronson

Atlanta's raucous Black Lips and Amy Winehouse/Lily Allen producer Mark Ronson — whose album Record Collection came out in September — might seem like an odd couple. But as Ronson says in this video, "You can tell when you're working with people who love music as much as you do because there's an excitement to it."

Ronson is helming the band's sixth LP, due in the spring, and judging by the material captured here, he hasn't changed what he calls their "lo-fi garageness." The sound is a bit tighter but the songs could have come from any of the group's recent LPs.

The album is tentatively slated for release in April.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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