Vice Records - MP3 Blog

Today is the day, kids. Raise your tequila glass high and toast to the release of Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo. We've been anxiously awaiting this day to share the final clip from the Black Lips' mission to Tijuana with the tune "Stranger." Featuring the mad action you've come to expect from a Black Lips clip, we also get the wisdom from a hazy but successful night in Tijuana. There is an inexplicable bit of a girl in a bikini washing a car, while Jared tells us, "It was more about the crowd than acutally us, becuase every one was part of the band." Check out the final clip and check to see if the boys are coming to play near you and become part of the band.

Black Lips "Stranger" live video
Black Lips "Stranger" download to your iPod

Bob Dylan does a radio show on XM where he plays his favorite music and riffs on what he plays - pretty much exclusively stuff from the 40s/50s/60s. And it seems he really digs Mike Skinner. In his "eye" themed episode, after Ruth Brown's "Teardrops From My Eyes" and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's "She Winked Her Eye," the Streets get an introduction unlike any we ever imagined we'd hear as Dylan fondly leads into the Streets' "Dry Your Eyes." We're pretty sure it's less than kosher to post this MP3, so grab it while you can.

The Streets introduced by Bob Dylan "Dry Your Eyes"

Something about Busy P's "Rainbow Man" brings the old PBS show 3-2-1 Contact to mind. Perhaps it's the sense of wide-eyed discovery. Perhaps there's something in the descending synth line that stirs memories of the theme song. Whatever the case, this track off Ed Rec Vol 2 is as head-bobbingly addictive as anything Ed Banger Records has smacked us with thus far. VICE is proudly releasing Ed Rec Vol 2 for your computer to download on March 6 and for your hands to clutch to your heart on April 10.

Busy P "Rainbow Man"

This week on "As the Young Men Survive Tijuana," the Black Lips cruise the prostitute and Mariachi lined streets before ripping through yet another pogo-inducing track off Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo, out next Tuesday on VICE. This weeks' episode features Mexican teens screaming the words to a traditional jam played by a Tijuana Mariachi band that look less than thrilled to be there, while later the kids rock so hard they take Jared down. This clip has one of our favorite moments from Tijuana when Jared has enough taunting from one of the kids and moves his mic aside to head-butt the kid away while never missing a beat. Fitting moment for a track called "Sea of Blasphemy."

Black Lips "Sea of Blasphemy" live video
Black Lips "Sea of Blasphemy" download to your iPod

This week, another clip from the Black Lips show in Tijuana that was recorded for posterity for their first VICE release, Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo. In this weeks episode, Jared gets his ass smacked, two drunkards roll around on the floor in some new form of foreplay we have yet to fully understand and our buddy Felipe flashes some naked cheeks. What we learn is Tijuana is a strange place that thwarts comprehension. Who's ready to Boomerang?

Black Lips "Boomerang" live video
Black Lips "Boomerang" download to your iPod

Our favorite band of naked Norwegians are coming back to storm America in March. Our friends Lansing-Dreiden and the Field remixed "Come Out" last year, check out what Dave P & Adam Sparkles did to the track and get ready to be lifted. These boys know how to make you do the blissful closed-eye head-bob dance all night long.

120 Days (Dave P & Adam Sparkles Remix) "Come Out"

VICE is proud to present the new release from Panthers. The Trick, out April 10, roars, growls, pounces and stomps through 32 minutes of sleek and deadly rock. If you know Panthers from their 04 LP Things Are Strange, you'll recognize lead purrer Jayson Green's howl, the familiar deafening pounding from drummer Jeff Salane, the stalking, crouching bass of Geoff Garlock and the stabbing attack of Justin Cherno's guitar. If you're new to Panthers, welcome to the deafening sound coming from Brooklyn. This is the smokey basement where hard-rock, stoner-rock, hardcore, punk and balls out rock and roll come together to lash out and get down.

This fall when we saw Panthers they were playing 15 feet up in the air in a warehouse in Brooklyn, with a crew of skateboarding kids riding an indoor half-pipe on the other side of the room at the legendary KCDC skate shop. The kids stood with heads tilted back like they were watching an air show rip above them and Panthers pummeled the gathered masses with 3 minute bursts of magic, including "Uncertainly."

Panthers "Uncertainly"