The Black Lips are no more than 35 years old but can already boast a career spanning more than 15 years. Regarded a “subculture danger”, the founders of the group, Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley, were kicked out of school in the post-Columbine period and took to the roads of America, where they created what they called "flower-punk", a hippie punk without rules or limitations serving both as a life mantra and a live slogan.
After seven studio albums, including one recorded with Amy Winehouse's producer, Mark Ronson, The Black Lips perform their eighth album, Satan’s Graffiti or God's Art?, live at the Arte Concert Festival, an event that promises to be as explosive as their previous live shows - for which the band is renowned.
Dishevelled, edgy, intense, the group's shows, in which the band members give 150% and the audience frequently ends up on stage, are not to be missed under any pretext.