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Atlanta-based quartet Black Lips have found a new home for their southern-fried garage punk. After two albums with Bomp and one on In The Red, the band has now signed with Vice and is already working on two records for their new label. Their first release, due January 23, is Live In Tijiuana, a live album (duh!) featuring their greatest hits, as well as some new tracks. A totally brand-new full-length is due sometime in the spring. For now, the skuzzy, funny band is keeping busy out on the road with Be Your Own Pet. Their already-in-progress tour continues through next weekend, where it will end in Atlanta, and tonight makes a stop in Brooklyn at Southpaw.

Black Lips Tour Dates:
09/29 - Southpaw - Brooklyn, NY*
09/30 - Boston, MA - Middle East*
10/01 - Northampton, MA - Pearl Street*
10/03 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church*
10/04 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar Lounge*
10/05 - Washington, DC - Black Cat*
10/06 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle*
10/07 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn*

* With Be Your Own Pet

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Oxanna Cpin happily reclines on a couch with popcorn in hand to watch her favorite TV show, "G-Spot," on a giant wall-mounted flat-screen.

It was a fast dash, as the 19-year-old Toronto store clerk nearly missed the season premiere of the homegrown comedy about Gigi, a B-movie actress played by Brigitte Bako ("Red Shoe Diaries"), and three girlfriends bedding porn stars and Hollywood movers.

"I love Gigi. She acts like a porn star might, except every guy she goes out with cheats on her," Cpin giggles.

But what makes the scene noteworthy is this is not Cpin's living room.

She is instead seated in an Emergency Viewing Station, or a 28-foot trailer outfitted with three TV screens and couches by Showcase, Canada's drama cable channel. The idea is that fans of Showcase's weeknight 10 p.m. dramas who are too harried to be home for fall season premieres can view them on the road.

Sara Moore, senior vp marketing and publicity at Showcase parent Alliance Atlantis Communications, says the marketing stunt aims to illustrate how her network's fall 10 p.m. lineup is TV that can't be missed.

"You need to do whatever you need to do to be on your couch at 10 p.m.," Moore says of the message behind Showcase's marketing campaign.

The souped-up trailers will be out on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver from August 29 to September 10 to hype season premieres for popular U.S. cable dramas "Weeds," "Rescue Me," "The L Word" and "Six Feet Under," as well as "G-Spot."