Flowering Toilet ❤ Well loved in their home town of Athens, GA, but little known outside of it, Pylon broke up too early to capitalize on the brief media fascination with the town… Read full post »
Armagideon Time ❤ Don't mind me, I'm just taking a few minutes to calibrate this nifty piece of equipment (copped from Chris Sims ) toward the prevailing local conditions: Pylon - Cool (from… Read full post »
Setting The Woods On Fire ❤ The Southeastern United States was the epicenter of jangly 80s music, in particular Georgia and North Carolina. Here are some of my favorites from the great Southeast. GEORGIA The grandfathers… Read full post »
B-Town Hit Parade ❤ Ég tel það viðeigandi fyrir opnun útskriftarsýningar Listaháskólans, að koma með nokkur artý og framúrstefnuleg nýbylgjulög. Gallsúr og alfróð um myndlist og svissneska hönnun. Sjáumst niðri á Kjarvalsstöðum. Orchestral Manoeuvres… Read full post »
Merry Swankster ❤ Deerhunter - "Cool" (Pylon Cover) (Market Hotel, Bushwick, 4.11.08) Whoah, this unARTigNYC fella is fast. The full blow-by-blow from the Microcastle premier will come next week, but for now we… Read full post »
Timedoor ❤ I had a little fun recently sifting through the dollar CD shelf at Half Price Books. Read full post »
An Aquarium Drunkard ❤ The rise of file-sharing, and digital music providers such as eMusic, have made it much easier to be a Pylon fan than the days of yore when one had to… Read full post »
20 jazz funk greats ❤ Where to Now?, run by our pals James Hines (Nascent zine/Black Banana/13 Monsters), James Tranmer (Go Faster/The Sticks) and Matt offers you a constant smorgasbord of obscure & tasty nuggets… Read full post »
Some Velvet Blog ❤ The Road To Rock 'n' Roll - Joe Strummer Sister Midnight - Iggy Pop I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner I Think I'm In… Read full post »
brooklynvegan ❤ DOWNLOAD: Pylon - Cool (live @ Little Kings - Apr 4, 2007) (MP3) (via) Pylon @ Earl Club, Atlanta, GA - Nov 1, 2007 (CRED) Oxford Collapse sent out this… Read full post »
Sound Bites ❤ There was no doubt who was playing, as they had actual pylons on stage, lit up with bulbs underneath, bathing the proceedings in a warm crimson. It matched with the… Read full post »
Warped Reality ❤ Legendary Athens, GA group Pylon is playing two dates this week in New York City —one on Wednesday at Mercury Lounge, the other at the Music Hall of Brooklyn. I’m… Read full post »
Recidivism. ❤ "Apparently all the talent in The Pink Floyd was in the word 'the.' Who could have ever predicted that?" -- Tom on the creative juice concentrated in the band's crucial… Read full post »
Just Press Play ❤ If your feeling a bit woozy, you could do a lot worse than stick on the debut album from Arp . Lots of minimal, pulsing pleasantness. The record 'In Light'… Read full post »
33/45 ❤ Pylon, Chomp (DB Records 1982) With the Athens GA hometown and the R.E.M. cover of "Crazy" on Dead Letter Office , I always associated Pylon with jangle-pop, but as the… Read full post »
Merry Swankster ❤ This week saw the first ever CD release of Pylon 's classic 1980 debut, Gyrate . It had been languishing in scattered crates and fraying sleeves for nearly three decades… Read full post »
24 Hour Party Pooper ❤ By far, the most significant record news this week is the reissue of Pylon 's album Gyrate .Repackaged (for the first time ever on CD) and bundled with bonus tracks… Read full post »
Lessons From Things ❤ "Forget the picture. Volume is pleasant. Turn up the volume. Forget the picture." Pylon ~ Volume Pylon ~ Working Is No Problem from Gyrate Plus by Pylon Thanks for reading… Read full post »
Sound Bites ❤ I'm not one for "heritage rock" but I must admit I got excited today when I saw that Pylon were playing Mercury Lounge next month. They, along with the B-52s… Read full post »
Lessons From Things ❤ I'm resting comfortably in St James Infirmary. Dr Moz says I should heal without any scars, but he won't stop looking up my skirt. The rehabilitation regime is target practice… Read full post »
Indietastic ❤ To loosely paraphrase James Murphy : Atlanta, I love you, but you're kicking me out. Maybe that's why I've been up at 4am every night this week posting reviews instead… Read full post »
An Aquarium Drunkard ❤ For displaced Southerners, the 1984 documentary, Athens, Ga: Inside/Out, is both the cause and cure for homesickness. Available on DVD, the film documents the Athens, GA music scene of the… Read full post »
Merry Swankster ❤ it's not often that I throw myself to the mercy of the lurking readership as I do now, but we all know how frustrating it is, in our continually coddled… Read full post »
Some Velvet Blog ❤ The weekly Throwback Thursday usually hits on Thursday but with vacation and business travel my schedule has been a little crazy. So, now that I'm settled back at SVB world… Read full post »
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