ATHENS’ NEXT BIG THING
 “You’re going to ruin the tour, all for this interview,” says The Whigs frontman and guitarist, ParkerGispert, laughing in response to my request to have him speak loudly into the phone due to technical difficulties. The Whigs are headed to their first concert on a two-month tour of the Northeast after recently signing with ATO, which is re-releasing their debut Give ‘Em All a Big Fat Lip.
As debuts go, it doesn’t get much better: Each song unfurls with hook
after hook of sweet melodious college radio pop/rock, all punctuated by
Gispert’s shaky, earnest vocals. It wasn’t long ago that The Whigs,
while still students at the University of Georgia, were considered one
of the best unsigned bands in the country. But Gispert, along with
drummer Julian Dorio and bassist Hank Sullivan, had little doubt what
they wanted to do after graduation: “We bought a bunch of equipment on
eBay, recorded the record, then sold it all back on eBay,” says Gispert
of Lip, which was puton tape for free in a SAE fraternity house. It’s
this same ingenuity in their music that guarantees that The Whigs will
be the next Athens band to leave a huge musical footprint. Tyson Schuetze
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