Pages tagged “The Melting Point”

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: