The Whigs
Mission Control

Originality is overrated. Indeed, there's something pleasantly, comfortably, even lovingly familiar about just about every last element of Mission Co...

It's a long, uphill battle for straight-up, fundamentally solid rock bands like the Whigs, who attempt to uncover new hooks in well-worn territory, ra...

When the Athens, Georgia, trio the Whigs recorded their self-released debut album Give ‘Em All a Big Fat Lip back in 2005, it was completed under the ...

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Since ATO picked up their self-released Give 'Em All a Big Fat Lip in 2006, this Georgia trio has picked up enough gushing band comparisons to fill a ...

"Like a vibration, my reputation is making the rounds at bars," snarls Parker Gispert, kicking off The Whigs' second full-length, Mission Control. It'...

Countless bands are ruined by predictions of their own greatness, and no group has more right to be feeling the heat than Athens garage-rockers the Wh...

The dizzying tom-tom runs and shining buzz-saw guitar blasts that launch "Mission Control" opener "Like a Vibration" demand you sit up and take notice...

These men create punk-music in a somehow commercial way. The lines are different from other bands and the energy, sound can be compared. All the songs are short and they never grow old. It is difficult to talk about the influences or ideas, because they are in the category of plenty. All does not sound like it is done before, but the rhytyhm-section and the voice are outstanding.