Pages tagged “Hope For Agoldensummer”

Here's the list of my top albums of 2008, which I begrudgingly cobbled together after being told, no, I was not allowed to vote for last year's Everybodyfields album in all ten spots. Don't believe anyone who tells you music journalists have it easy! Life is hard.

After four days of Bonnaroo, AthFest felt wonderfully local. Instead of trying to decide between Cat Power and The Avett Brothers, I was watching bands I'd never heard of—some good, some bad. And the bad ones left me plenty of time to reconnect with friends in Trappeze, Athens' coolest pub, which also happens to be run with one of my old bandmates.

One set that I wasn't going to miss, though, was Bill Mallonee's. Paste first launched as a company in 1998 by releasing a live album from his old band, Vigilantes of Love, and he played several Vigilantes songs with his new wife, Muriah Rose, including "Skin," about Vincent Van Gogh. Not many folks write lyrics this good:

Hope For Agoldensummer, a dreamily named Georgia roots-music trio, takes an earthy approach to its merchandise. Yes, the group sells T-shirts and albums on its website. But it also sells handcrafted soap.