In the pantheon of legendary bands from Athens, Pylon is often cited as one of the most iconic. The band was originally formed as a short-term project in 1979 by Randall Bewley, Michael Lachowski, ...

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 ...

Event celebrates a major retrospective box set of the band’s work, out Nov. 6 Athens band Pylon had three lives — four if you count its most recent reincarnation as Pylon Reenactment Society. The ...

In the do-it-yourself punk era of the late '70s, Pylon rose to fame almost completely by accident. The band started when Michael Lachowski, the current public relations coordinator for the Georgia ...

In 1979, Michael Lachowski wrote a lengthy letter to Robert Croker, his former art professor from the University of Georgia. Spanning nearly 24 pages in a college exam blue book, the letter was a ...

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 ...

Two albums by legendary Athens band Pylon have been reissued on vinyl as part of a limited run of color LPs. "Gyrate", the band's first studio album originally released in 1980, and "Chomp", released ...

Pylon came out of the small college town of Athens, Georgia, at the dawn of the Eighties, playing a new kind of Southern rock that stunned people at the time and has continued to make converts ever ...

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 ...