VIDEO OF THE DAY: “JUSTICE AFTER ALL” BY BLACK LIPS

Georgia’s Black Lips are one of the truly great live bands of the twenty-first century, playing their garage-surf punk with an infectious wild abandon. Anything can happen at their shows, and often does. At an outdoor concert a few years back, the manic crowd broke down the front barrier, nearly crushing the photographers in the photo pit; without missing a beat, the band helped people onto the stage, keeping the music going, the party never stopping. Later, bassist Jared Swilley floated atop the audience, lifted toward the heavens. Essentially, the quartet feels the same way about music as they do about pizza; “Pizza is a snack for children at birthday parties and sleepovers. Don’t try and make it fancy,” they recently tweeted. Swilley, guitarists Cole Alexander and Ian Saint Pé, and drummer Joe Bradley are currently touring behind their first studio album in three years, the rockin’ Underneath the Rainbow (Vice, March 2014), which features such awesome tunage as “Drive-by Buddy,” “Funny,” “Do the Vibrate,” and “Nightmare Field.” (You can stream the album here.) The Black Lips will be playing Vans House Parties on July 3 with Nightbirds (admission is free with advance RSVP). If you’re lucky enough to get in, you might notice a special aroma as well; the band worked with olfactory scientists to create such scents as ocean, cedar, moon, denim, squid ink, fire, and semen (“if the man only ate fresh plums for about a week”), which are disseminated throughout the show in recognition of “the powerful effect of scent on emotion and memory,” as if their shows aren’t memorable enough already.