What is it with Athens, Georgia? This is the town that birthed the B-52's, the Elephant 6 collective, and R.E.M., who were still a really important, not to mention rocking, band while they still lived there. This is all to say nothing of the Indigo Girls. Well now it's all about the Whigs, whose latest album Mission Control came out a couple months ago. It's good stuff--plenty of hooks, reverb heavy vocals, the kind of alt rock I always thought they stopped making around 1996 is alive and well on this record. I saw them at the Paradise Rock Club when they were in Boston last week, and they tore the place apart opening for Drive-By Truckers--by the end of their set, just about everyone was a fan of these guys. The band's Myspace has a handful of songs to stream, and the album is for sale on eMusic and at finer digital and retail stores. Here's a video of them playing an acoustic version of "Right Hand on My Heart." (I'm pretty sure this was at SXSW)
The Whigs - "Right Hand On My Heart" (Tripwire Acoustic Session) from The Tripwire on Vimeo.
That is some nice clean video quality--props to the guys at the Tripwire for hooking it up on Vimeo.
The Whigs [myspace.com]
Mission Control [emusic.com]
"Right Hand On My Heart (Acoustic)" [vimeo.com]
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