MP3: Black Lips – “Short Fuse” from 200 Million Thousand, out February 24 on Vice.

This mp3 ends with a British girl telling you to “get more music at vicerecords.com.” Normally, that would be the kind of thing to really annoy me, but actually it’s fairly unobtrusive, and really, who gives a shit? It’s not like we’re saving the mp3 to listen to repeatedly and put on mix tapes anymore. Promo mp3s are ephemeral.

This is the second mp3 Vice has given out in the past couple of weeks. I guess they realize they need something new for folks to listen to when they read about the band’s crazy adventures in India, where they barely escaped with their passports and their lives…