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May 18, 2012 - Beginning at Noon today, The Afghan Whigs will make the song “See And Don’t See” available as a free download at: www.theafghanwhigs.com and Facebook. Originally recorded in 1970 by Marie “Queenie” Lyons, the band’s version of “See And Don’t See” is the first new recording in over five years from the recently reunited group.
Happy Birthday, Greg Dulli…
The Afghan Whigs are having some sort of party online via their Facebook and Twitter pages today circa 10am Central time.
Sending this video out to Greg today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV3VjF64ga4
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
The Twilight Singers posted this on their Facebook page - Rare recording with Greg on vocals singing My Curse, which you likely know from the scorching vocals by Marcy Mays on the Gentlemen LP.
This is on one of the 2 “What Jail is Like” EPs, and it’s very interesting to hear Dulli’s take on it.
one of my favorite songs, one of my favorite groups and you get a cookie if you knew that this was in She’s All That. It makes me want to do a bunch of drugs and stay all night out and about with my boo.
The Afghan Whigs on Late Night with Conan O’Brien
How Greg and Rick of the Afghan Whigs met…
in jail.
Presumably that’s how they know What Jail Is Like.
item recently received by the e-lectronic post about the twitter machine:
to which I say: HOT DAMN.
and also: FULL TOUR, please?
Dear Afghan Whigs,
First and foremost I just wanna say how awesome it is you guys are reuniting to play ATP. But do yourselves, me and everyone else a huge favor by taking this single performance and making a full blown reunion out of it. While I greatly appreciated you guys getting back together to kick out two new jams for Unbreakable a few years ago, you know it as well as I do that your breed of Saturday night indie rock soul is just too damn good only to be revisited for a single show. You owe it to the rest of the world to play all those poetically twisted tales of heartache again - and keeping with the ATP vibe/theme, may I suggest playing Gentlemen in it’s entirety, as well as jamming on a bunch of your other rad songs (Summer’s Kiss, Let Me Lie To You, You My Flower, Crazy, Retarded). It’s been 13 years and the world is your oyster all the more now than ever, and it’s never been a more fitting/better time for your band to take the musical victory lap it always deserved.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
MTV reporting on the scene in Cincinnati… sometime in the early 1990s. Predominantly featuring The Afghan Whigs.
(Source: farfallevendetta)
“Your attention please…”
THE AFGHAN WHIGS announce reunion shows.
Looks like this band’s holiday wish did the trick.
AFGHAN WHIGS.
GOING TO TOWN.
“I’ll get the car… you get the match and gasoline…”
Can’t embed it here, but click through to see the official video.
Do you light The Gaslight Anthem?
Do you perceive PJ Harvey?
Do you often wear your Afghan Whigs?
Are your Crowes not Black but Horrible?
In a dubious attempt to be somewhat mysterious, I’ll ask you - what do all these acts have in common? Well, via the summerskiss blog (which covers the world of Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers and other side projects), comes the news that frontman Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem and his friend Ian Perkins are hatching a side project.
They’re called HORRIBLE CROWES, and count PJ Harvey and the Afghan Whigs among their influences. Their debut record, Elsie, is slated for a release on September 6. This sounds like an intriguing project — and if you know what phenomenal live acts Gaslight Anthem and the Afghan Whigs are, you know that some hellacious live rock is likely to ensue.
The explanatory quote Summer’s Kiss and The Punk Site pulled from Brian was this one:
“Ian and I had a ritual where we’d go to the back on the bus at the end of a show and play each other records, I got him into Afghan Whigs and he got me into PJ Harvey and one day we just thought, ‘we should do something like this.”
For more on the band…Spin.com has an article.
Also, the band already has a Facebook page.
The band also has a blog: Cassettes in the Mailbox.
The only thing that irks me about all this is somehow TGA has managed to not bring their American Slang tour to Washington DC well over a year after the record came out. They have dates scheduled into mid-October, which makes one wonder about the prospects for a Horrible Crowes tour. I know a Hoosier who’s already very impatient for this one.
Playmixt doesn’t mind telling you that he’s been on a mental high since catching Greg Dulli and his Twilight Singers at the 9:30 Club this week. Have been revisiting all those Afghan Whigs albums, and it prompted me to look up whether there were any stories about the songs’ origins.
Greg sang a snippet of Miles Iz Ded on Monday night, the unlabeled closing track off of Congregation. Why was it unlabeled? Wikipedia has what appears to be an answer:
The album was already done when singer Greg Dulli received indirect inspiration on the day Miles Davis passed. Dulli checked his answering machine; there were two messages. The first was from music-biz veteran David Katznelson, providing directions to a cookout. The second, also from Katznelson, was just seven words long: “Miles is dead. Don’t forget the alcohol.” Dulli had his lyric, guitarist Rick McCollum had the riff, and the rest fell into place in the studio hastily, giving us an Afghan Whigs classic and a glimpse of what was to come on their seminal 1993 album Gentlemen. (Recorded at Ultrasuede Studio, Northside.)
In the meantime, enjoy the video for Miles Iz Ded, by the beloved Afghan Whigs. It’s a pretty unsettling video, and I’m adding it to that collection.
(Source: youtu.be)
