The Afghan Whigs

One Night Only: The Velvet Underground Pay Tribute to Nico and Allen Ginsberg

Tonight, fans of the Velvet Underground will get to see their idols pay tribute to two of their most revered friends and collaborators--just not on the same stage. At Housing Works, Lou Reed will be celebrating the vinyl and digital re-issue of Allen Ginsberg's FIRST BLUES. Across the East River, Jo ... More >>

Great Moments In Greg Dulli

Greg Dulli is no GG Allin--to the best of our knowledge, the frontman of the recently reunited Afghan Whigs has never taken a big sloppy shit onstage then hurled his feces into the crowd (well, maybe metaphorically he has). But he's definitely teetered on the dangerous edge of rock 'n roll for the b ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/21/12

In no particular order, here are ten can't-miss shows in New York this weekend. For the Voice's full rundown of New York concerts, hit up villagevoice.com/concerts. See Also: - All Tomorrow's Parties Preview: Founder Barry Hogan on the Festival's Move to New York City - Fear of a Talibam! Planet - ... More >>

Hot Snakes On Their All Tomorrow's Parties Reunion

The All Tomorrow's Parties festival, which will be held this weekend at Pier 36, continues to honor the ever-nostalgizing indie world with reunions among the kind of small-scale and beloved acts that seemingly passed into the mist long ago. This year's slate includes the Afghan Whigs, Captain Beefhe ... More >>

Venerated Festival All Tomorrow's Parties Comes to New York City

Good taste wins

WHEN FRIDAY COMES AROUND

All Tomorrow’s Parties curate your weekend of shows

Live: The Summerland Tour Lets A Decades-Old Sun Shine In At Roseland

Summerland Tour: Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Lit, Marcy Playground Roseland Ballroom Wednesday, July 18 Better than: Watching Empire Records on basic cable. We make the "remember the '90s" joke around these parts a fair amount, but this week the alt-rock strain of that decade has been stu ... More >>

Q&A: The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli On Getting The Band Back Together, The Art Of Comedy, And Bad At-Bat Music

Tonight at the Bowery Ballroom, the Afghan Whigs—the Cincinnati torchbearers for damaged soul music—return to the stage after 13 years on hiatus, and if their performances on last night's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon are any indication, tonight's sold-out show will be full of the band's ... More >>

Afghan Whigs Are Uptown Again

The emotional anthropology behind the band's return

This Week In The Voice: The Afghan Whigs Return; El-P And Killer Mike Team Up; Turing Machine Honors Its Drummer's Legacy

This week in the Voice, out now: I chat with Greg Dulli about the return of his powerhouse soul-punk outfit the Afghan Whigs; Jayson Greene talks to Killer Mike and El-P about their shared love of hip-hop and working together on R.A.P. Music; and Brad Cohan looks at the way Turing Machine completed ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: "Gary Jones" Wants Your Nudes

This week in the Voice, out today, Camille Dodero writes about the FBI's investigation of revenge porn entrepreneur Hunter Moore, noting: "as more unsuspecting subjects ended up on Is Anyone Up, more of them claimed that they'd been hacked -- that someone had actually gained access to their e-mail a ... More >>

Meshuggah

Jonathan Toubin Returns! The Return Of New York Night Train Is Imminent

After a lengthy recovery from a freak accident where a car crashed through a hotel room and landed on him while he was asleep, Jonathan Toubin is ready to thrill crowds with his deeply dug musical selections again. His New York Night Train party will make its triumphant return to Brooklyn Bowl on Ma ... More >>

Q&A: Wussy's Chuck Cleaver And Lisa Walker On The Cincinnati Scene, Playing Music With Your Ex, And Shaking The "Critic's Band" Tag

It's high time Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker, the core of Cincinnati crust-stained yet dreamy jangle-pop heroes Wussy, get uttered in the same breath as holier-than-thou lady/dude combos like John Doe & Exene, Ira & Georgia, Mac & Laura, and Thurston & Kim. The rough-and-tumble, whiny disposition of ... More >>

Tickets To The Afghan Whigs ATP Go On Sale Monday; Louis CK (!), The Make-Up (!!), Scrawl, The Roots, Mark Lanegan On The Bill

Tickets for the 2012 iteration of All Tomorrow's Parties' I'll Be Your Mirror Festival—happening September 21-23 in Asbury Park, and headlined by the reformed Afghan Whigs—go on sale on Monday morning, and the festival has released a partial list of who's scheduled to play the three-day ... More >>

Five Cover Songs To Take You Into Your Weekend

Antony's heartwrenching take on "Crazy In Love" last night capped off a week where cover songs were seemingly dropping into my lap on a daily basis. Why not take time out of your schedule to enjoy them now?

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part The Sixth: Was 2011 The Best Year For Women In Music Ever?

​Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. Hi again everyone, Sure, there was lots of great music put out by women this year—my Pazz and Jop top tens will ... More >>

Premiere: Lightouts' Decadent Video For "The Eloise Suite"

​Another band that resides on the early-'90s fascination street we traveled down last week is slippery Gowanus duo Lightouts, who resurrect the melancholy chug and darkly sexy swagger of bands like The Cure, Girls Against Boys, JAMC and Afghan Whigs and impolitely jam it into the drum machine ... More >>

The Afghan Whigs Are Getting Back Together And Playing Next Year's I'll Be Your Mirror Festival In Asbury Park

​A year and change ago SOTC emerituses (emereti?) Rob Harvilla and Zach Baron said it seemed at least a bit likely, and now it's really happening: The Afghan Whigs, the Cincinnati chroniclers of suffering for love while swaddling one's self in soul to help ease the pain a bit, will be getting ... More >>

Download: The Mighty Fine's Sweaty, Greg Dulli-Assisted "Ready To Roar"

Jasper Coolidge​The Mighty Fine are Brooklyn's sweatiest, sexiest, grimiest soul-punks, something Jonathan Toubin would want to will into existence at a humid 4 a.m. loft party. Their latest album Get Up To Get Down (out now via Drug Front) is all the gnash-and-gnarl of the Dirtbombs' Ultragli ... More >>

Q&A: Gabriel Kahane On Distracted Listening, Internet Addiction, And The Golden Age Of Pop That Was 2003

​This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>

How Much Would You Pay To See The Concert Of Your Dreams?

​The Daily Swarm got wind of an eBay auction for a pair of tickets to Elephant 6 cult hero Jeff Mangum's September 9 show at the Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, which predates his appearance at the Portishead-curated ATP in Asbury Park by about three weeks. The asking price for the chance to be ... More >>

Four Pieces Of Evidence In Support Of The Notion That You Go See The Twilight Singers Tonight

Tonight the Twilight Singers, the current project of former Afghan Whigs frontman/Gutter Twins half Greg Dulli, perform at Webster Hall. My bias toward this band and Dulli's grimy revival of old soul tropes has been chronicled in this space before, but I'd be remiss in not urging you to attend ton ... More >>

Greg Dulli Finds Religion

The Twilight Singers' Dynamite Steps plumbs new depths of dark spirituality

CMJ Day One: Greg Dulli Seethes, Thrills, And Banters Hilariously At Bowery Ballroom

Go ahead, ask him about the Yankees. Photo by Caryn Rose.​Greg Dulli Bowery Ballroom Tuesday, October 19 Better than: Leaving the lights on. "Could we bring the lights down a little bit, please?" asked Greg Dulli after the first song of his Bowery Ballroom set on Tuesday night. And immediat ... More >>

Urge Overkill Play Mercury Lounge Tonight; Tickets Still Available

​Given the public's abiding interest in '90s bands that may or may not have reunited, we thought we'd point out that proudly hedonistic Chicago power-pop goofballs Urge Overkill are taking another crack at it, playing their first live show in forever tonight at Mercury Lounge, and at least las ... More >>

Week In Review: Kill Harvilla, But Get Belly To Reunite First

​It was the week White America lost its mind, as did the guy who wrote a song called "Kill Harvilla" and sent us both the lyrics (not bad) and the instrumental MP3 (very bad). But we here at SOTC prefer more constructive exercises, like listing every '90s band that hasn't reunited yet. A lot o ... More >>

Download The Twilight Singers' "Blackbird And The Fox"; See Frontman Greg Dulli At Bowery Ballroom October 19

​Stupendous Cincinnati sleaze-rockers Afghan Whigs just made our list of '90s bands that haven't reunited yet, but ex-leader Greg Dulli has no apparent interest in reliving the past, and his projects since -- the Twilight Singers especially -- are plenty sleazy themselves. A new TS record is s ... More >>

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

Live: Alan Braxe at Studio B

Alan Braxe Studio B Saturday, March 7 During my college years my fellow scholars invented something called the "Time-Change Riot." On the night of the spring-forward daylight-saving shift, and thus apparently robbed of a whole hour of bar time, the spurned drinkers, ejected into the streets, el ... More >>

Gutter Twins Unite

Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan conspire in the gutter

The Drive-By Truckers' Worst Song, Played on the Ugliest Guitar

How an appalling tune will finally make you appreciate them

Valentine's Day Music Listings: Ways To Avoid Yr Loneliness

Unkool Thing

The Muggabears tend to the guitar-centric '90s indie-rock flame

Provincializm: Pearlene, Dirty South As Gravitron

Live: Mastodon and Against Me, the Underground Rock Tour of the Year

The Death and Possible Rebirth of Alt-Rock Radio

Show Me Your Undies

Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

Backstabs in the Material World

It’s All in the Past Now; Money Changes Everything

Grape of Wrath

Half and Half

Eunuch Hauteur

God Is in the Details

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