In 1979, Michael Lachowski wrote a lengthy letter to Robert Croker, his former art professor from the University of Georgia. Spanning nearly 24 pages in a college exam blue book, the letter was a ...

Last year Pylon, an early San Francisco startup, was just trying to build its product and bring it to market with a fresh $3.2 million seed investment in its pockets. That product involved helping ...

In past years, Gilman says, he always stocked at least 1,000 extra pylons in his inventory. By last week’s end, that supply had shriveled to a mere 36, packaged in six boxes of six. (It had been 48, ...

“We were pretty bad at breaking up,” Pylon vocalist Vanessa Briscoe Hay, 60, says over the phone from her Athens, Georgia home. “That quote was basically R.E.M. being very gracious and throwing cred ...

The Athens, Georgia group Pylon were one of the great unsung heroes of '80s post-punk, and Live captures them in December 1983 at the peak of their local popularity. Pylon parlayed some of that renown ...

Pylon came out of the small college town of Athens, Georgia, at the dawn of the Eighties, playing a new kind of Southern rock that stunned people at the time and has continued to make converts ever ...