{"id":11462,"date":"2012-07-16T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11462"},"modified":"2012-07-16T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:18:03","slug":"the-afghan-wigs-release-frank-ocean-cover-and-add-california-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-07\/the-afghan-wigs-release-frank-ocean-cover-and-add-california-tour-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afghan Wigs Release Frank Ocean Cover and Add California Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s jumping on the <strong>Frank Ocean-liner<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>The Afghan Whigs<\/strong> have today made their cover of <strong>Ocean&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><strong>Lovecrimes<\/strong><\/em> available as a free download at the widget below or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theafghanwhigs.com\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In the Whigs&#8217; defense, they have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rq_SoNctIvI&amp;feature=player_embedded\"><strong>covering the song live<\/strong> <\/a>well before all the recent hoopla. Ocean originally released the song in 2011 on his debut mixtape, <strong>Nostalgia, Ultra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lovecrimes<\/strong><\/em> follows the Whigs&#8217; recent release of <em><strong>See And Don\u2019t See<\/strong><\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-05\/the-afghan-wigs-reunited-and-performing-on-the-jimmy-fallon-show\/\"><strong>their performance of the song on The Jimmy Fallon Show<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The band also announced today the addition of new shows in California and elsewhere.\u00a0\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t seen &#8217;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).\u00a0 Tickets for all shows go on sale this week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"topspin-widget topspin-widget-email-for-media\"><object id=\"TSWidget156307\" width=\"358\" height=\"367\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"highlightColor=0xb3b3b3&amp;theme=black&amp;widget_id=http:\/\/cdn.topspin.net\/api\/v1\/artist\/19611\/email_for_media\/156307?timestamp=1342453539\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn.topspin.net\/widgets\/email2\/swf\/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1342463876\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed id=\"TSWidget156307\" width=\"358\" height=\"367\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.topspin.net\/widgets\/email2\/swf\/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1342463876\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"highlightColor=0xb3b3b3&amp;theme=black&amp;widget_id=http:\/\/cdn.topspin.net\/api\/v1\/artist\/19611\/email_for_media\/156307?timestamp=1342453539\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><strong>THE AFGHAN WHIGS 2012 TOUR DATES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7\/25\/12 Melbourne, AUS Hi-Fi Bar<br \/>\n7\/26\/12 Sydney, AUS Factory Theatre<br \/>\n7\/27\/12 Byron Bay, AUS Splendour In The Grass \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n8\/3\/12 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n8\/4\/12 Chicago, IL Metro \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n8\/7\/12 Helsinki, FI Circus<br \/>\n8\/9\/12 Oslo, NO Oya Festival \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n8\/10\/12 Goteborg, SE Way Out West Festival<br \/>\n8\/11\/12 Rees-Haldern, GR Haldern Pop Festival \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n8\/14\/12 Warsaw, PL Palladium<br \/>\n8\/15\/12 Prague, CZ Lucerna Music Bar<br \/>\n8\/17\/12 Hasselt, BE Pukkelpop<br \/>\n8\/19\/12 London, UK Koko<br \/>\n9\/22\/12 New York, NY I\u2019ll Be Your Mirror Festival<br \/>\n<strong>9\/26\/12 Boston, MA House Of Blues<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>9\/27\/12 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory <\/strong><br \/>\n9\/28\/12 Washington D.C. 9:30 Club \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n9\/29\/12 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small\u2019s Theatre<br \/>\n10\/3\/12 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre<br \/>\n10\/5\/12 New York, NY Terminal 5 \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n10\/12\/12 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Music Festival \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n10\/19\/12 New Orleans, LA Tipitina\u2019s<br \/>\n10\/20\/12 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade<br \/>\n10\/21\/12 Carrboro, NC Cat\u2019s Cradle<br \/>\n10\/24\/12 Detroit, MI Saint Andrew&#8217;s Hall &#8211; SOLD OUT<br \/>\n10\/25\/12 Cincinnati, OH Bogart&#8217;s \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>\n10\/28\/12 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre<br \/>\n10\/30\/12 Denver , CO Ogden Theatre<br \/>\n<strong>11\/2\/12 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom<br \/>\n11\/3\/12 Seattle, WA Showbox<br \/>\n11\/7\/12 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore<br \/>\n11\/9\/12 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Additions In <strong>Bold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s jumping on the Frank Ocean-liner.\u00a0 The Afghan Whigs have today made their cover of Ocean&#8217;s Lovecrimes available as a free download at the widget below or HERE.\u00a0 In the Whigs&#8217; defense, they have been covering the song live well before all the recent hoopla. Ocean originally released the song in 2011 on his debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}