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Unbreakable – Allmusic

allmusic.com Unbreakable: A Retrospective
by Andy Kellman
Unbreakable’s track list looks much like a latter-day Afghan Whigs set list, albeit one without valiant attempts at covering the Rolling Stones or Stevie Wonder. Plenty enough is provided to ensure satisfaction, but like a Whigs live set, several songs are missing in action, lost to time constraints — and, [...]

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Unbreakable – PopMatters

The Afghan Whigs: Unbreakable (A Retrospective) – PopMatters Music Review 8/10
One of the best things about music is that one can always finding something new, even self-proclaimed music hacks who should know everything and anything about all bands. The Afghan Whigs were one of those groups that always seemed to get their just desserts among [...]

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Moon Maan’s landing

Local Music: Moon Maan’s landing
Former Afghan Whigs guitarist Rick McCollum has two new CDs out this month, and he’s proud of both.
By Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune
It was mostly coincidence, but good timing nonetheless: The same day Rick McCollum finally issued the debut album by his rhythmic soul-punk band Moon Maan, Rhino Records put out the [...]

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Moon Maan – Theremin Thrash

City Pages – Theremin Thrash
by Steve McPherson
Wipe your finger along the music on Moon Maan’s self-titled debut album and you’ll come away with a gob of grit and grime—but you’ll also have exposed an anodized, metallic finish. Underpinning the mostly straight-ahead classic-rock vibe of former Afghan Whigs guitarist Rick McCollum’s current project is a most [...]

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Unbreakable – SunJournal.com

SunJournal.com – Ear Worm music reviews
Rating: B +
Instead of simply playing footsie with funk, the Afghan Whigs entered into a committed relationship with it, decorating many of their grungiest numbers with good-time grooves and jazzoid freakiness. A snotty, sepia-toned soulfulness informs the best songs on Rhino’s rowdy 18 track best-of collection. Surprisingly, two new ditties [...]

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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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Super Tuesday

Today’s the day! Unbreakable: A Retrospective 1990-2006 is now in stores.
Here’s the Amazon.com review:
For all Greg Dulli’s earnestness and thorough self-deprecation, maybe he and the Afghan Whigs just showed up to the post-punk, soul-tinted party a little early. Beyond the nervy-edged guitar riffage of “Retarded” and Dulli’s muted, growly vocal, there isn’t a whole [...]

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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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