Black Lab

    
                                                                                                      
 Black Lab: a brief history

                                                                                                                 
 In 1998 Black Lab was signed to Geffen Records and mesmerized modern-rock radio with the singles Wash It Away and Time Ago, both Top-40 hits on alternative rock and pop formats. Their debut, Your Body Above Me, was hailed The next big thing
Contributions to soundtracks included: Cant Hardly Wait, Varsity Blues, Permanent Midnight, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 In 2002, after signing and un-signing with Epic Records, the band found themselves on the soundtrack of Sony Pictures' Spider-Man,    opening another chapter for Black Lab. Paul Durham produced the band's second album, See the Sun with new guitarist/programmer Andy Ellis. Starting from scratch and free from a major label.
 Black Labs Passion Leaves a Trace (2007),  also a self- produced album that attracted national media attention through the single-day, world-wide viral campaign called "Bum Rush the charts,"  their song Mine Again was promoted through podcasting, blogs and email.  The song peaked at #11 on the U.S. iTunes rock chart and broke the top 100 in fifteen other countries (#2 in Holland!).  
 In 2010, Black Lab released its fourth proper album, Two Strangers, featuring twelve new songs that swing from cold-wave desperation to indie-pop celebration to post-grunge thrust.  
  
 The album A Raven Has My Heart will be out April 8. These songs were written from desperation to do something new, to break out of the familiar patterns we had developed, to sing in a more neutral precise way, to write more honestly, and to make music that we would like to listen to. This shit is dark and heavy and lush with a serious lift.