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...