THE FORMULA: The Ronettes – Girls + Distortion
Atlanta’s Black Lips have been playing their dirty blend of Sixties pop and rockabilly punk since middle school, when they all used to skateboard together and grillz-sporting guitarist Ian St. Pe (the band’s eldest member at 25) would buy his bandmates beer and cigarettes. By 1999, bassist/vocalist Jared Swilley and guitarists/vocalist Cole Alexander had been kicked out of high school for what Swilley calls “victimless crimes” like smoking cigarettes, and the whole band was living in an ex-frat house on the Georgia Tech campus. They whiled away their days playing music and practicing for their future lives as rock stars by tossing TVs off the roof of the house during daylight hours and playing music until dawn. (more . . . )

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