Wednesday 06.04.08: Aquarium Drunkard Presents THE WHIGS / THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE @ echo

The Whigs || Listen

You have to hand it to an Americana/garage-rock band that can condense its sophomore effort into 11 tracks, totaling just 37 minutes. Why? Well, for one, because there are just too many ego-driven double albums out lately, and two, because it’s refreshing to hear a group that realizes less can be more. With “Mission Control,” that’s just what Athens, GA, trio The Whigs [ tickets ] have proven.

The album kick-starts with hard-punk force, then drifts through some freewheeling neo-psychedelica and finally exits with an organic, stimulating anthem of horns and heavy riffs, all without getting stale. Swanky southern moodiness, steady driving raw guitars and inspiring choruses saunter and shuffle throughout the album. It’s a hodgepodge of ’90s grunge-pop vibrancy and classic rock, which amounts to lots of identifiable points of reference. – LiveDaily

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The Henry Clay People || Listen

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8pm / $13 / all ages