Everyone’s jumping on the Frank Ocean-liner.  The Afghan Whigs have today made their cover of Ocean’s Lovecrimes available as a free download at the widget below or HERE.  In the Whigs’ defense, they have been covering the song live well before all the recent hoopla. Ocean originally released the song in 2011 on his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra.

Lovecrimes follows the Whigs’ recent release of See And Don’t See and their performance of the song on The Jimmy Fallon Show.  The band also announced today the addition of new shows in California and elsewhere.   If you haven’t seen ’em live, they are phenomenal (well, they were 20-ish years ago and they played well on Fallon, so time will tell so to speak).  Tickets for all shows go on sale this week.

THE AFGHAN WHIGS 2012 TOUR DATES

7/25/12 Melbourne, AUS Hi-Fi Bar
7/26/12 Sydney, AUS Factory Theatre
7/27/12 Byron Bay, AUS Splendour In The Grass – SOLD OUT
8/3/12 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza – SOLD OUT
8/4/12 Chicago, IL Metro – SOLD OUT
8/7/12 Helsinki, FI Circus
8/9/12 Oslo, NO Oya Festival – SOLD OUT
8/10/12 Goteborg, SE Way Out West Festival
8/11/12 Rees-Haldern, GR Haldern Pop Festival – SOLD OUT
8/14/12 Warsaw, PL Palladium
8/15/12 Prague, CZ Lucerna Music Bar
8/17/12 Hasselt, BE Pukkelpop
8/19/12 London, UK Koko
9/22/12 New York, NY I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival
9/26/12 Boston, MA House Of Blues
9/27/12 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
9/28/12 Washington D.C. 9:30 Club – SOLD OUT
9/29/12 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre
10/3/12 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre
10/5/12 New York, NY Terminal 5 – SOLD OUT
10/12/12 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Music Festival – SOLD OUT
10/19/12 New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s
10/20/12 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
10/21/12 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
10/24/12 Detroit, MI Saint Andrew’s Hall – SOLD OUT
10/25/12 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s – SOLD OUT
10/28/12 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre
10/30/12 Denver , CO Ogden Theatre
11/2/12 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
11/3/12 Seattle, WA Showbox
11/7/12 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
11/9/12 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda

New Additions In Bold