“The second we became a band we believed in the music and ourselves and what we were doing“, says Parker Gispert, who along with Hank Sullivant on bass/vintage electric piano and Julian Dorio on drums, compose Athens Georgia’s the Whigs. We are all sitting in the REAX loft after the Whigs delivered a fiery set of pop fringed rock at the Orpheum in Ybor City and as we talk it occurs to me that they remind me of the good things about so many of the early 90’s indie acts that I admired so much before the ‘indie’ tag became such a hip reference. It’s possible that they can credit their recent popularity to the fact that what you see is what you get: 3 recent college graduates with dispositions of English and Philosophy that met in Athens GA about 3 years prior and decided to write great accessible indie pop songs without any wish-I-was-from-London posing or I-am-so-misunderstood-in-my-eyeliner posturing. Great songs recorded or live delivered by a band that confesses “…we play as hard we can regardless of if it’s us in front of hundreds of people or if it’s only 10”.  This is a return to form for college rock