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

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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