The Afghan Whigs perform at the 2014 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Tom Bray/Staff)
I know I’m in the minority, but the artists I’ve been the most excited about at the 2014 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival have been those who came to fame with their rock music in the ’90s.
Two of those sets stuck out for me yesterday–Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, a power trio whose charged, psychedelic blues garage rock set likely rocked harder than tonight’s headliner, Muse–and The Afghan Whigs.
The band has a new album coming out, “Do the Beast,” and included some of that new material in the set. Singer Greg Dulli was as acerbic as ever, yowling “You’re gonna make me break down and cry” in the new opener and then “Your kiss is poison” in the second song from the set.
Singer/songwriter Van Hunt joined the band for some of the new songs.
However, the band shined the most on its classics, with “Something Hot,” “Algiers” and set closer “Miles Iz Dead.”
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