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Afghan Whigs + Usher at SXSW
Video: The Afghan Whigs were joined by pop star Usher and Sinkane at SXSW 2013. Watch the performance and read reviews.
Fader Interview with Greg Dulli
Includes footage from the band’s private show in Los Angeles for Fader.
Dulli Joins Afterhours in Rome
Greg Dulli joined Afterhours on stage in Rome last night for a melding of “La Vedova Blanca (White Widow)” and “My Time (Has Come)”. Afterhours were the opening act for The Afghan Whigs’ Rome performance. Dulli and the band have a long history, with Manuel Agnelli joining The Twilight Singers on tour as keyboardist and Dulli’s work co-writing, recording and producing with Afterhours.
News
The Afghan Whigs Schedule 10/5 NYC Show
The Afghan Whigs will perform at Terminal 5 in New York City on October 5th with special guests Eagles of Death Metal. General on sale date is this Friday at noon. However there will be a pre-sale beginning tomorrow at 10AM EST. Pre-sale Link: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004892BC28B8BF Password: AfghanWhigs2012 More Info
Afghan Whigs Announce Prague, Warsaw Dates
08/14/12 Warsaw, Palladium – Tickets 08/15/12 Prague, Lucerna Music Bar – Tickets
Afghan Whigs Headed to Australia
The Afghan Whigs have been confirmed for Australia’s Splendour in the Grass festival on Friday, July 27th. Tickets and Information here.
Rolling Stone Baseball: Best Baseball Movie
Week three of Rolling Stone’s Baseball Panel asks the question: What is the best baseball movie? Read all the responses Greg Dulli’s response: The Bad News Bears. I read once where someone called it the Casablanca of kids movies, and I agree. It’s quotable and the character interaction is memorable because it’s so well written. One of Walter Matthau’s finest moments as an actor and Tatum O’Neal and Jackie Earle Haley are wise beyond their years. Vic Morrow is fantastic as the antagonistic asshole Yankees…
Rolling Stone Baseball: Fantasy Commissioner
Week 2 of Rolling Stone’s “High and Tight” baseball roundtable is online. Greg Dulli contributed the following as an answer to: What are the three things you’d do if you were the commissioner of Major League Baseball for a day? 1. No batting gloves. I’m tired of watching guys fiddle with their gloves between every pitch. It makes the game longer than I need to be there. Toughen up your sissy hands and play baseball. Vlad Guerrero doesn’t need batting gloves and neither do you….
The Afghan Whigs to Play Lollapalooza 2012
The 2012 lineup of Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival will include a performance by The Afghan Whigs. The festival is August 3-5 in Grant Park. The performance times will be released in June. Cincinnati Citybeat’s Reaction
Dulli in Rolling Stone’s Baseball Expert Panel
Celebrating the “rock & roll” beneath baseball’s staid exterior, Rolling Stone presents a weekly baseball roundtable with eleven musicians that also happen to be die-hard baseball fans. Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers is a featured panelist. View Greg Dulli’s Card Walk-Up Song: “Night Prowler” by AC/DC. “It has the strut and proper menace of a classic entrance song. Plus, its slinky groove allows you to warm up without breaking a sweat. I would also wear the pentagram necklace that Bon Scott…
Entertainment Weekly: Dulli on ATP, New Music
Read the article at Entertainment Weekly “Curator” is sort of an amazing title. How did you approach it? I had crazy lists: Reincarnate Elvis Presley. Reincarnate John Lennon and George Harrison, and put Beatles back together. I just made a list of things that I like and I wanted to see and tried to balance styles.
McKagan Cites Gutter Twins as “One of the Best”
In his column for ESPN.com, former Guns N’ Roses bassist and current Loaded leader Duff McKagan cites The Gutter Twins as “maybe one of the best live bands to tour … ever”. Read McKagan’s review of Mark Lanegan’s “Blues Funeral”
Greg Dulli Talks Whigs Reunion with Rolling Stone
Read the full interview at Rolling Stone On playing Afghan Whigs songs again for the first time in a decade: “Playing something I had frankly forgotten about was completely like rediscovering the songs,” he tells Rolling Stone. “It was like cleaning out your drawer or a closet – ‘Oh, look at this, I remember this. I used to love to wear this.’ It was sort of like that. There were certain songs I was overjoyed to meet again.” Dulli also mentioned a planned electronic album…