Name: Do to the Beast
Brand: The Afghan Whigs

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sp1061

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Sub Pop Label of the Month - September 2016 - Free 12" Sampler with purchase while stocks last

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-04-21

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PIAS

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Standard:20

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0098787106114

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

SPCD1061

2014-04-14

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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The Afghan Whigs

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Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

A soul-influenced alternative/indie rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, the Afghan Whigs were formed in 1986 by vocalist/guitarist Greg Dulli, guitarist Rick McCollum, bassist John Curley and drummer Steve Earle.

After releasing 6 LPs, a number of singles and EPs and a couple of drummers, the group disbanded in February of 2001, temporarily reforming in 2006 to record two new tracks for a best-of compilation.

In December of 2011, the core group of Dulli, McCollum and Curley announced its reformation to play a number of 2012 concert and festival dates, augmented by touring members Cully Symington, David Rosser and Rick Nelson.

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'Do to the Beast' is the first new album by The Afghan Whigs in over a decade and a half. Founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1988, the band has long stood out from its peers, with their savage, rapturous blend of hard rock, classic soul, and frontman Greg Dulli's searing obsessions. The new album serves as both a homecoming - it marks their return to Sub Pop, for whom the Whigs were the first signing from outside the label's Northwest base - and a glimpse into the future of one of the most acclaimed bands of the past thirty years. 'Do to the Beast' proves an appropriately feral title for one of the most intense, cathartic records of Dulli's entire career - one that adds fresh twists to The Afghan Whigs canon. On it, one finds the film noir storytelling of 'Black Love', the exuberance of '1965', the brutal introspection of 'Gentlemen', but rendered with a galvanized musical spirit and rhythmic heft that suggests transcendence and hope amidst the bloodletting. Limited Double LP - 180 gram, 45 rpm with Download.

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Do to the Beast

Music GB

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