Party Out of Bounds

The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia

Ranked #99 in Athens

Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown's Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider's look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes, and legendary lore to chronicle the 1970s and 1980s and the spawning of Athens bands such as the B-52's, Pylon, and R.E.M. Their creative momentum helped to usher in a new wave of music on a national and international level, putting Athens, Georgia, on the map.



Brown takes the reader on a heady, keg-beer-fueled...
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