Category Archives: Afghan Whigs Press

Billboard.com: Sup Pop’s Essential 20

From Billboard.com’s Music Milestones
Afghan Whigs – “Up In It” (1990)
Like a Midwestern Houellebecq on a whiskey bender, Greg Dulli isn’t afraid to skewer his own desires while chasing skirts. While not as strong as their later efforts, “Up In It,” is an excellent portrait of a band finding their identity as chroniclers of dark desires [...]

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Whigs Links

Two Whigs links arrived in my inbox this morning:
Afghan Whigs Get Comical – Whigs references in a comic strip? Guess so.
Suburban Voices – Afghan Whigs Interview from the Gentlemen era (PDF Download). Originally posted at Operation Phoenix Records.
thx as always, bea!

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The Cincinnati Post – Whigs release retrospective

The Cincinnati Post – Whigs release retrospective CD on Rhino
By Rick Byrd
The Afghan Whigs, never high-profile mainstream stars even in their hometown, are getting the prestigious Rhino Records treatment.
California-based Rhino, the leading record company for reissues, compilations and heritage packages, today releases the 18-cut “Unbreakable (A Retrospective 1990- 2006) making the Whigs the first Cincinnati [...]

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Don’t wait for Whigs reunion

The Enquirer
Dulli helped compile greatest hits, but won’t be playing them again
When you think of a band getting the retrospective treatment from Rhino Records, the California record label specializing in archival reissues, you think of long-gone or antiquated bands like Foreigner, the Doors or the Doobie Brothers. You wouldn’t think of the Afghan Whigs, Cincinnati’s [...]

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Afghan Rebels

City Beat: The Afghan Whigs, one of Cincinnati’s greatest musical exports, rise again with career retrospective
BY Brian Baker
Like anyone who was in Cincinnati in the late ’80s and aware of local music, I have profound and personal recollections of The Afghan Whigs. The first came just before the band’s 1988 self-released debut, Big Top Halloween, [...]

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Pitchfork Reviews I’m a Soldier/Magazine

Pitchfork: Forkcast
New Music: The Afghan Whigs: “I’m a Soldier” / “Magazine”
Pretty much every song Greg Dulli has ever written is about how he wants to have sex/do drugs with you or how he used to have sex/do drugs with you and doesn’t want to anymore. Somehow, he’s been doing this for two decades and it [...]

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Conjure Them

HARP Magazine
By Fred Mills
Greg Dulli is in a good—make that a great—mood. He’s in his favorite city, New Orleans, working on the debut from the Gutter Twins (his collaboration with Mark Lanegan), about which he enthuses, “I don’t know where it’s going yet; it’s schizophrenic. But I guarantee that if you like music at all, [...]

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Afghan Whigs Return ‘Unbreakable’

Spinner.com
The Afghan Whigs will get a well-deserved retrospective, ‘Unbreakable,’ due May 1, but former Whigs frontman Greg Dulli is quick to point out that the collection is not a greatest hits. “We didn’t have any hits. We were an album band,” he told Spinner. “I felt very strange picking songs out of their context just [...]

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Greg Dulli Talks ‘Soldiers’

SPIN.com: Greg Dulli Talks ‘Soldiers,’ New Gutter Twins Project
At the request of Rhino Records, the Afghan Whigs reentered the studio to record two new tracks for their retrospective, Unbreakable (out May 1), their first release since 1998’s 1965. “I’m a Soldier” and “Magazine” were the resulting songs, which have joined a tracklisting including tunes like [...]

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Pitchfork: Afghan Whigs Retrospective Revealed

Pitchfork: Afghan Whigs Retrospective Revealed
On May 1, Rhino Records will release Unbreakable (A Retrospective), an 18-track overview of the Afghan Whigs’ dark, decadent career. Notice how it isn’t called Unbreakable (Greatest Hits), because the Afghan Whigs didn’t really have any hits. It also isn’t called Unbreakable (Best Of), because “Summer’s Kiss”, “When We Two Parted”, [...]

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