køpper said:
Black Lips are definitely garage punk. You can hear '60s punk in their music, esp. '60s trash like the Keggs, et al. Just because they got big doesn't make them any less garage punk. Same for the White Stripes, Hives, etc. It's all good. If you don't like a particular band's style, that's fine. But don't demean them by saying they don't fall within a certain genre...
You could argue for the Black Lips but I can't see it in the White Stripes. Sure Jack White's background was in garage rock but the White Stripes were always a very commercial sounding band which for me is very un-garage punk. Its nothing against Jack White but the White Stripes were always a band designed to sell millions of records. For me personally a part and parcel of garage punk is to not be that.