The Whigs preview new songs at surprise Athens show

Last night Athens’ much-heralded power trio played an unannounced show at the hometown venue Tasty World.

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Last night Athens’ much-heralded power trio the Whigs played an unannounced show at the small hometown venue Tasty World, debuting a number of songs off the band’s upcoming third full-length. The sign on the club’s door announced the band as the Bumpkin Café - something the club owner came up with, said drummer Julian Dorio - but text messages and Twitter work fast, and soon enough the club was bustling with a few scene vets and more than a few still-in-town-for-the-summer college kids eager to check out the tunes.-

Over the past month the band has been holed up in its Athens practice space working out the new songs’ kinks, and frontman Parker Gispert recently decamped to Newnan, Ga., for a little time among the trees, a little time upon the lake to get some more lyric writing done before heading into the studio next week and out on tour later this summer.-

Here, we’ll let Gispert explain it:-

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How are the new songs? More after the jump: