When it comes to alternative rock's biggest complainers, Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins is sad, and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is mad, but only Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs is going to do something about it. "I'll get the car, you get the match and gasoline," Dulli roars as he prepares to set ablaze the city of his discontent in "Going to Town." Masochist that he is, Dulli gleefully...

On the title cut of the Afghan Whigs' new album, singer-guitarist Greg Dulli repeatedly asks, "Do you understand/I'm a gentleman?" – his guttural roar underscoring the irony of his question. Indeed, the Whigs are no gentlemen, pumping out edgy, rhythmically complex cock rock reminiscent of Pearl Jam and imbued with an overwrought misanthropic angst that would embarrass even American Music...