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[sic] Magazine Interview with John Curley, Rick McCollum of the Afghan Whigs

[sic] Magazine just published a new interview with John and Rick of the Afghan Whigs. It’s great to hear about the Gentlemen era and the Whigs back story from their perspectives.
2009 [sic] Magazine: Interview – Afghan Whigs

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Pitchfork Feature: Interview: The Gutter Twins

Pitchfork Feature: Interview: The Gutter Twins
Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan are two of the most intimidating dudes in rock’n’roll, their lengthy discographies littered with bad drugs, bad women, and the violence (physical, emotional, and spiritual) that surrounds these bad situations.
As the frontmen for the Afghan Whigs and the Screaming Trees, respectively, they spent the mid-1980s [...]

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Unbreakable – Daily Camera

Box sets and hits collections make great gifts
Most of the Afghan Whigs’ albums were such cinematic affairs — with beginnings, middles and ends — that it’s hard to imagine the band’s songs all scrambled up. Luckily, Greg Dulli and Co. manage to pull it off on this belated send-off, which stitches together 16 of their [...]

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Unbreakable – Junk Media

Junkmedia – 5/5
Dark and decadent, Cincinnati’s Afghan Whigs were either your favorite band or something you found genuinely repellent. There was no middle ground. With songs that delved deep into the male psyche and came up screaming, the Whigs got under your skin— bad.
Frontman Greg Dulli played up his role as smooth motherfucker with such [...]

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Unbreakable – St. Petersburg Times

Grade: A
As leader of the terrifically lost, vastly unloved Afghan Whigs, singer-songwriter Greg Dulli mixed the howling self-hate of the grunge movement with the heart-sleeved hope of arena rockers. The Cincinnati-born band should have been bigger, but its emotionally disheveled leader expected this frustrated fate. There’s a bipolar beauty to Dulli’s songs, with [...]

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Unbreakable – Louisville Courier-Journal

Whigged out
By Jeffrey Lee Puckett
3.5 Stars
Greg Dulli didn’t just wear his heart on his sleeve when leading the Afghan Whigs. He nailed it to his forearm with a railroad spike and then walked down the street, shoving it in stranger’s faces. He didn’t whine about his nail-driven heart, either; he was pissed off, and made [...]

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Unbreakable – Music Emissions

Music Emissions
Dennis Scanlan – 4.5 Stars
How does one begin reviewing a compilation of a band that was so dear to one’s heart? That is the question as I sit with Unbreakable: A Retrospective of The Afghan Whigs playing on the headphones. I know what’s around every corner, I even anticipated correctly the two new recordings [...]

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Unbreakable: The Star Online eCentral

The Star Online eCentral
BARRING a dramatic reversal in fortune, Afghan Whigs are almost certainly going to go down in history as a bunch of also-rans. A group that made a number of good records and the odd, daring stylistic shift, but was neither experimental nor commercial enough to be truly memorable.
Nonetheless, this career-spanning [...]

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Unbreakable – San Francisco Chronicle

If the Afghan Whigs released their first album this year instead of at the tail end of the ’80s, they’d be band of the year among a post-everything demographic looking for something borrowed and something blue. Singer Greg Dulli and company were soulful in a time of anguish; wearing suits in a flannel era. They [...]

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Unbreakable – Blogcritics

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Nik Dirga
The Afghan Whigs might be described as the “contenders” of 1990s rock. They had some hits in the grunge era, but their style was a little too idiosyncratic for them to rise to the top of the charts when every band with a gritty guitar solo was doing that.
The Whigs still boast a fervent [...]

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