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  Watch Usher Sing Genre-Mashing 'Climax' With the Afghan Whigs at SXSW

  March 18, 2013 – Greg Dulli's Afghan Whigs, who reunited last year, have never shied from mixing sultry R&B into their brawny rock. Last May, they celebrated their first TV gig in more than a decade by covering a couple of songs by soul singer Mary "Queenie" Lyons. …
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  ATP 2012: How Was the Festival's First New York City Staycation?

  September 24, 2012 – In its fifth year on America's East Coast, the 2012 All Tomorrow's Parties festival was the first to be docked in Manhattan, as the organizers dialed back from far-flung lost weekends in the Catskills and Asbury Park. …
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  Photos From ATP New York 2012: The Lost Weekend Where Philip Glass Opened for Frank Ocean

  September 24, 2012 –  …
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  Lollapalooza 2012: 10 Best and Worst of Day One

  August 4, 2012 – SPIN's intrepid team has invaded Chicago's Grant Park, attempting to see as many of the 30 essential sets at this year's Lollapalooza as possible while avoiding the twin evils of 21st-century festivals (no, not Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie: bad-attitude bros and foul corndogs). …
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  Afghan Whigs-Curated ATP Festival Moves to New York, Loses Louis C.K.

  July 13, 2012 – All Tomorrow's Parties, SPIN's favorite weekend getaway of the year, has just turned into a monster staycation. …
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  Greg Dulli on Reuniting Afghan Whigs, Retaining Some Mystery

  June 21, 2012 – Greg Dulli is a lot of things: lead singer for sultry rockers the Twilight Singers, occasional actor, part owner of New Orleans' R Bar. But he's no longer "ex-frontman" for '90s R&B punks the Afghan Whigs. Eleven years after splitting, the seductively seedy bad boys have reunited to play the Lollapalooza and All Tomorrow's Parties festivals, as well as undertake their own U.S. tour this fall. …
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  The Afghan Whigs Play First Show in 13 Years: The Full Report

  May 24, 2012 – The Afghan Whigs released Up In It, their Sub Pop debut, in 1990. They played their last shows in 1999. It is very safe to call them a '90s band. …
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  Watch Afghan Whigs Play First TV Gig in Decade-Plus

  May 23, 2012 – Afghan Whigs will play their first show in 13 years tonight at New York City's Bowery Ballroom, but first the recently reunited rockers stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. During the broadcast, they gave a full-throated performance of their first new recording in five years, a strummy cover of Mary "Queenie" Lyons' "See and Don't See," from her 1970 Soul Fever. …
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  Grab Afghan Whigs' First Recording in Five Years: 'See and Don't See'

  May 18, 2012 – In a conversation with SPIN's Steve Kandell earlier this year, Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli said he preferred not to disclose which four covers he and his recently reunited outfit had recorded alongside new material just a month earlier. Today, the band unveiled a chilly acoustic take on Mary "Queenie" Lyons' "See And Don't See", a song from her lost 1970 classic Soul Fever and a clear influence both then and now. …
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  Metallica's Orion Fest Adds Metal Stage, ATP Picks Up Godspeed!

  March 8, 2012 – The Jersey shore is about to get a lot louder: both the Greg Dulli-curated ATP I'll Be Your Mirror and Metallica-curated Orion Music and More festivals have both just piled on a feast of new acts to their lineups. ATP's big "get" this week is adding seminal post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor to the fray which, we reported, already boasts the Roots, Louis CK, and the return of the Afghan Whigs. …
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