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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ll never forget the first time I saw Vanessa Briscoe Hay take the stage with Pylon at The 40 Watt in Athens, Ga. in the early 1990s. She was the Tasmanian Devil come to life, a ball of energy ...

Pylon Reenactment Society, a new band fronted by Pylon singer Vanessa Briscoe Hay, have announced their debut album. Magnet Factory is out Friday, February 9, 2024, via Strolling Bones Records. The ...

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 ...

What people used to call the “college rock” genre back in the ’80s didn’t start with those great early R.E.M. albums. You know, the ones before Michael Stipe and crew started annunciating, graduating ...

In the early ’80s, Athens, Georgia had the most exciting and hyped-up underground rock scene in the country. The college town was home to crossover alt-stars R.E.M. and the B-52’s, as well as tons of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by Strolling Bones Records shows "Magnet Factory" by Pylon Reenactment Society. (Strolling Bones Records ...