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Pylon (band), founded in 1979, was an American new wave/post-punk band from Athens, Georgia, United States. [36] The band's danceable sound, a blend of new wave, post-punk, jangle pop, [37] alternative rock and funk rock, [38] influenced the Athens music scene and the 1980s American pop underground.
Pylon was an American new wave/post-punk band from Athens, Georgia, United States, [1] who were active from 1979 to 1983, 1989 to 1991, and 2004 to 2009. The band consisted of singer Vanessa Briscoe Hay, guitarist Randall Bewley, bassist Michael Lachowski, and drummer Curtis Crowe. They released three studio albums and a number of singles from ...
The Primates were one of the original post-punk / rock bands to come out of Athens, Georgia in the mid 1980s. Their loud, fast in-your-face hedonistic style was reminiscent of West Coast bands X and The Minutemen, but peppered with a definite influence of traditional country music.
During the 1980s, Buck's "economical, arpeggiated, poetic" style reminded British music journalists of 1960s American folk rock band the Byrds. [ 7 ] : 77 Buck has stated "[Byrds guitarist] Roger McGuinn was a big influence on me as a guitar player", [ 7 ] : 81 but said it was Byrds-influenced bands, including Big Star and the Soft Boys , that ...
The band would gain prominent local publicity, being in a scene that produced The B-52's, Love Tractor, and Pylon, all of which would receive varying degrees of success in the future. [4] The band also opened a spinoff of the famous local Athens 40 Watt Club called the 40 Watt East in May 1980, which was opened across the street and later ...
A fan vote of more than 8,000 participants resulted in the Athens Rock Lobsters edging out another music-themed name, the Classic City Panic, which would've honored the Athens rock band Widespread ...
The Seney–Stovall Chapel in Athens, Georgia, was where R.E.M. recorded two songs for the film. Athens, GA: Inside/Out is a 1986 documentary film about the mid-1980s music scene in Athens, Georgia. [1] [2] The film has been described as "the definitive portrait of the city's world-renowned music scene." [3]
Along with CBGB, the Whisky a Go Go, and selected others, it was instrumental in launching American punk rock and new wave music. [1] [2] The 40 Watt Club was the primary performance space for numerous "Athens bands", including Pylon, R.E.M., Love Tractor, Dreams So Real, Guadalcanal Diary, The Primates, Modern Skirts, and others.