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The music of Athens, Georgia includes a wide variety of popular music and was an important part of the early evolution of alternative rock and new wave. [1] The city is well known as the home of chart-topping bands like R.E.M., Widespread Panic, The B-52's, and several long-time indie rock groups. [1]
R.E.M. was an American alternative rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by ... [60] R.E.M. onstage in 2008 ... the late 1970s and early 1980s "had taken whole ...
Musical groups founded in Athens, Georgia. Pages in category "Musical groups from Athens, Georgia" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
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.
David Prince left the band in 1966 and joined a psychedelic band in Athens called October People. [5] One of the venues they played in the late 1960s was the Shelby Teen Club in July 1968. Other groups to play there in that period were The Attractions, The Embers and The Monzas. [ 6 ]
Since the dawn of time, rock bands have been giving themselves really stupid names. This was especially true in the 1960s when anyone with 20 hits of acid and a thesaurus could name a band ...
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]
In early 1990, the Uptown Lounge, which had served as a competitor to the 40 Watt for much of the 1980s, was closed at its original location at 140 E. Washington St. Shortly before closing the Uptown, its owners reopened the Georgia Theater as a music venue, which became the largest venue in town. With the Georgia Theater taking over as the ...