{"id":11787,"date":"2012-08-11T06:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11787"},"modified":"2012-08-11T06:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T14:05:36","slug":"watch-the-afghan-whigs-at-lollapalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-08\/watch-the-afghan-whigs-at-lollapalooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Afghan Whigs at Lollapalooza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the beginning of the Middle Ages (1992, turns out), <strong>The Afghan Whigs<\/strong> released a series of brutally-honest and brutally-beautiful albums of the &#8217;90s, capped off in 1993 with <strong>Gentleman<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Afghans were always at their best live (&#8220;incendiary&#8221; comes to mind), and we&#8217;ll never forget their <strong>1993 show at Slim&#8217;s<\/strong>,and the afterglow ride home across the Bay Bridge with their song <em><strong>What Jail is Like<\/strong><\/em> blaring on repeat.\u00a0 After <strong>Gentleman<\/strong>, the band released more strong albums, but ultimately broke up under the strain of life in 2001.\u00a0 The great news is that the band is currently reunited and receiving raves across this great land.\u00a0 To get a flavor, check them out at Lollapalooza last weekend slaying (despite the Afghans-antithetical daylight setting) on <em><strong>Gentleman<\/strong><\/em> and their resonant cover of <em><strong>See and Don&#8217;t See<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t-KnPeP49gk&#038;feature=channel&#038;list=UL<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4DiKiKjPo50&#038;feature=em-uploademail<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the beginning of the Middle Ages (1992, turns out), The Afghan Whigs released a series of brutally-honest and brutally-beautiful albums of the &#8217;90s, capped off in 1993 with Gentleman.\u00a0 The Afghans were always at their best live (&#8220;incendiary&#8221; comes to mind), and we&#8217;ll never forget their 1993 show at Slim&#8217;s,and the afterglow ride [&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-11787","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\/11787","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=11787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}