In 1980, Vanessa Briscoe Hay began the first tune on Georgia alt-rock band Pylon’s first album by singing, “Volume is pleasant. Volume is pleasant. Volume is pleasant.” Today, making beautiful noise ...
Athens, to paraphrase some singer somewhere, has so much to answer for — in the annals of alternative rock. For a few halcyon years in the 1980s, the Georgia college town was ground zero for ...
Nostalgia? Pffffft. Despite naming their band “Pylon Reenactment Society,” this band is a living and breathing creative whirlwind. Led by OG Pylon frontwoman Vanessa Briscoe Hay, this Athens quartet ...
In October 1979, 23-year-old Dacula, Ga., native Vanessa Briscoe was just biding her time in Athens after finishing her art degree at the University of Georgia, waiting for her husband to graduate so ...
The B-52s and R.E.M. were instrumental in putting Athens, Georgia, on the musical map a few decades ago. But it was another band who just may have been everyone's favorite in that southern city. They ...
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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 ...
The early-'80s post-punk band Pylon were a hugely important force in the same Athens, Georgia scene that produced R.E.M. and the B-52's. Pylon broke up in 1983 and then reunited a few times over the ...
This cover image released by Strolling Bones Records shows "Magnet Factory" by Pylon Reenactment Society. (Strolling Bones Records via AP) In 1980, Vanessa Briscoe Hay began the first tune on Georgia ...
In 1980, Vanessa Briscoe Hay began the first tune on Georgia alt-rock band Pylon’s first album by singing, “Volume is pleasant. Volume is pleasant. Volume is pleasant.” Today, making beautiful noise ...
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