Thursday night I had the pleasure of seeing The Whigs perform at Starr Hill. Rolling Stone named The Whigs one of the top ten acts to watch in March of 2006 and said they “may well be the best unsigned band in America”.
This is all very cool to me because I went to high school with the lead vocalist/guitarist Parker Gispert and the drummer Julian Dorio. They are both extremely nice human beings which makes their recent success all the more heartwarming.
It was a great show. They sounded amazing and had a lot of energy. Go to their website to listen to their album, Give’Em All a Big Fat Lip, or read more about them at Independent News and about their new record contract with ATO in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.