Black Lips

Playing garage-flavored punk rock with a Southern accent, the Black Lips are an Atlanta-based combo who developed a reputation as one of the Peach State's most talked-about bands. Their attack manages to be muscular and ramshackle at the same time, reinforcing the dark, buzzy tone of their performances. The murky frenzy of their early work was well-documented on 2005's Let It Bloom and 2007's Good Bad Not Evil, and an over-the-top live show was preserved on 2007's Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo. The band experimented with cleaner studio sounds on 2011's Arabia Mountain (produced by Mark Ronson) and 2014's Underneath the Rainbow (co-produced by the Black Keys' Patrick Carney), and added funk, hip-hop, and classic pop accents to the swampy tone of 2022's Apocalypse Love.