“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 ...

Pylon’s new album is a recently rediscovered live recording from 1983. While the Athens music scene is now considered hallowed ground for indie rock fans across the globe, in the beginning it was the ...

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 ...

With Live, recorded at Pylon's final show in 1983, we hear a document that breathes and heaves, as these post-punk-disco mutants perform at the... There was only one copy of Athens, GA: Inside/Out in ...

Regrets? When it comes to her band, post-punk cult legends Pylon, Vanessa Briscoe Hay has few. They had a short but influential career, and the way she sees it, that's more than they ever hoped to ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Vanessa Briscoe Hay and Michael Lachowski, founding members of Athens’ own Pylon, ...

With Armistead Wellford and friends playing Love Tractor, Swimming Pool Q's. Doors open at 8 p.m. July 29. $15-$18. The EARL, 488 Flat Shoals Ave. S.E., Atlanta. badearl.com. With Armistead Wellford ...

Every scene has a spirit. In New York and Los Angeles, it’s all about competition, turf wars fought with guitar riffs and unique aesthetics, while San Francisco runs on free love and open-mindedness.

Today marks a bittersweet, yet celebratory day for one of the first trailblazers who put the Athens, Ga., house party college-rock scene on the American underground map in the 1980s: fiercely ...

There was only one copy of Athens, GA: Inside/Out in town, or at least that's what Vision Video would have you believe. You had to stake a claim to the VHS tape at Vision Video's Broad Street location ...