{"id":88729,"date":"2014-10-29T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=88729"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:41:47","slug":"the-afghan-whigs-till-sverige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=88729","title":{"rendered":"The Afghan Whigs till Sverige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/afghan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-88730\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/afghan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"afghan\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/afghan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/afghan.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; \u00c4rligt talat f\u00f6rv\u00e4ntade jag mig viss unken stank av alternativrockveteraner-f\u00f6rs\u00f6ker-utan-framg\u00e5ng-uppdatera-sitt-sound-till-dagens (*Pixies*). Den f\u00e4llan glider de emellertid ur, delvis tack vare att soundet plockar godbitarna fr\u00e5n deras 90-talsalbum, men framf\u00f6r allt eftersom de verkar ha insett hur givande det \u00e4r att arbeta tillsammans igen<\/em>, skrev v\u00e5r recensent i sin recension av The Afghan Whigs comebackalbum <em>Do to the Beast<\/em> som sl\u00e4pptes tidigare i \u00e5r.<\/p>\n<p>Nu \u00e5terv\u00e4nder det \u00e5terf\u00f6renade Cincinatti-bandet till Sverige f\u00f6r\u00a0tv\u00e5 spelningar. Den 18 februari intar de scenen p\u00e5 Pustervik i G\u00f6teborg och dagen d\u00e4rp\u00e5 kommer de till Strand i Stockholm. S\u00e5 h\u00e4r st\u00e5r det i ett pressmeddelande:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8221;Med frontmannen Greg Dulli i t\u00e4ten slog The Afghan Whigs igenom i b\u00f6rjan p\u00e5 nittiotalet och r\u00e4knas i dag som ett av nittiotalets b\u00e4sta rockband med sin soulinfluerade rock. Efter att ha \u00e5terf\u00f6renats 2011 sl\u00e4ppte de sitt nya album Do the Beast i v\u00e5ras och i februari kommer de \u00e4ntligen till Sverige igen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Afghan Whigs bildades i Cincinatti 1986 och sin debutskiva Big Top Halloween tv\u00e5 \u00e5r senare. Efter att ha signat med legendariska indieetiketten Sub Pop sl\u00e4ppte de uppf\u00f6ljaren Up In It 1990 och tv\u00e5 \u00e5r senare kom Congregation, som b\u00e5da byggde upp en kultstatus kring bandet som ledde att de blev signade till majorbolaget Elektra. Deras riktiga genombrott kom \u00e5ret d\u00e4rp\u00e5 med Gentleman, och under andra halvan av nittiotalet sl\u00e4ppte de ytterligare tv\u00e5 album innan de splittrades 2001. Det dr\u00f6jde tio \u00e5r, under vilka Greg Dulli hade en framg\u00e5ngsrik solokarri\u00e4r i The Gutter Twins och The Twilight Singers, innan bandet \u00e5terf\u00f6renades 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Efter en rad hyllade turn\u00e9er sedan \u00e5terf\u00f6rening och med nya album Do the Beast, som m\u00f6ttes av lysande kritik n\u00e4r den sl\u00e4pptes, i ryggen \u00e5terv\u00e4nder The Afghan Whigs till Sverige f\u00f6r spelningar i Stockholm och G\u00f6teborg.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>H\u00e4r kan du se bandets musikvideo till <em>Algiers<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ovhzeqIaggY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Foto: Emma Andersson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; \u00c4rligt talat f\u00f6rv\u00e4ntade jag mig viss unken stank av alternativrockveteraner-f\u00f6rs\u00f6ker-utan-framg\u00e5ng-uppdatera-sitt-sound-till-dagens (*Pixies*). Den f\u00e4llan glider de emellertid ur, delvis tack vare att soundet plockar godbitarna fr\u00e5n deras 90-talsalbum, men framf\u00f6r allt eftersom de verkar ha insett hur givande det \u00e4r att arbeta tillsammans igen, skrev v\u00e5r recensent i sin recension av The Afghan Whigs comebackalbum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10730,4575,5439,7435],"class_list":["post-88729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-musik","tag-do-to-the-beast","tag-pustervik","tag-strand","tag-the-afghan-whigs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88732,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729\/revisions\/88732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}