Tag Archives: Guadalcanal Diary

Because Kilkenny Pet cats hailed from Athens, Georgia, and appeared in the Inside/Away film, it must not be implied that they appear to be contemporary local numbers like R.E.M. and Pylon. That assumption is definitely closer to accurate than to fake, though frontman Tom Cheek and organization do lend some …

While often lumped along with such Southern alternative pop rings as R.E.M. and Let’s Energetic, Guadalcanal Journal was distinctly not the same as its peers, using a sound which was simultaneously melodic and rhythmically intense, along with a decidedly literary and religious bent towards the group’s lyrics. And at the …

Because the lead singer for Guadalcanal Journal, Murray Attaway led the music group through four albums from 1984 to 1989. After an acrimonious break-up, he had taken a couple of years off to focus on his songwriting but came back in 1993 on In Thrall, documented for DGC. His brand-new …

This band is quite on top of the “whatever occurred to…” list. Sometimes they used such ferocity and comprehensive over-the-top abandon that it had been an easy task to proclaim them one of the better English rings in age range. But after three information (all excellent) and about five years …

Essentially a two-man project of Massachusetts natives Kirk Swan and Seth Tiven, having a rotating rhythm section, Dumptruck was, for a short moment, one of the favorites of U.S. university radio within the middle ’80s. They mixed the jangly power pop audio from the Southern option scene with smart lyrics …