the whigs’s members were friends in high school. The band used to sell their CDs out of their truck on campus. the whigs began performing at the college dive bar Chief. The bassist used to listen to his grandmother's record constantly as a child.

The most current album from the whigs took half a year to put together. The group is in the first leg of the tour accompanying for their new project.

Critics have often commended the whigs for their playfulness with the audience at concerts. Omaha music critic Wade Kaplan has always commented on band’s honest lyrics. the whigs’s latest record has received inspiring reviews from all the critics, including Jeff Reiner from San Francisco and Preston Okerblom from Atlanta.

the whigs signed the record deal, and fully expected that they would last past the first album. The group is constantly touring now, rarely taking a week or night off. the whigs was offered a record contract after their single was heard on K101.5. The group's members had horrible jobs when they started playing, just biding time until they would hit the big time.

the whigs realized they had finally made it in 1989, when the group's first fan club was started by Anna Smith. After playing nation wide, the group’s fan club exploded from the handful of fans around Concord to thousands in every city throughout the country.

the whigs appreciaites their fans and wants to give them a good show, so they play past hits along with the new singles. The group has an obsession with Franchise in Albany and are sure to play a performance every year. the whigs’s tickets are available at TheSeats.com, along with the latest tour information and concert schedules.