Southern Shelter
  • lucasjensenusalucasjensenusa
    This is really apropos of nothing, but I just wanted to give a shout to my pal, Sloan Simpson, and his amazing blog, Southern Shelter: http://www.southernshelter.com.



    Sloan has been tirelessly chronicling the Athens, GA (and ATL) music scene without real compensation for a few years now and his recordings and attitude are just top-notch.  He records these shows and then posts MP3s and FLAC files of them just because he wants people to hear what we've got going on down here.  If you want to hear new tracks from an Athens band like Dark Meat (half of their most recent set was new!), there's a good chance Sloan has already got live versions of them.  He's a real champ.



    Check out this awesome set he caught from Elf Power at our Prom last year: http://southernshelter.com/2006/08/elf-power-40-watt-8506.html



    They did "Ghostbusters" and "Cinnamon Girl" in the same set.  That's pretty rad.



    Anyway, I'd love to see more people link to him and use stuff from his site (with permission, of course!).  It's wonderful to have him as a resource.
  • largehearted boylargehearted boy
    Sloan almost singlehandedly deepened my love for the Drive-By Truckers with all the live shows of theirs he taped and shared.



    Southern Shelter is great, Sloan plugs both the great Athens bands of past and present, famous and up-and-coming.
  • aquarium drunkardaquarium drunkard
    cheers for bringing this up, Lucas.  over the years Sloan has documented many, many live ath/atl shows that I would have never heard living 3,000 miles away.  was thrilled when he started a music blog last year.
  • 24hourpartypooper24hourpartypooper
    Agreed whole-100%-heartedly! Sloan Simpson is tireless. Easily as important as all those art-school photographers in the early 1980's who documented the Athens scene, if not more. His broad taste in music is a total plus, too. For example, there's a TON of bands at Southern Shelter that I would go see/have gone and seen (EG:I used to go see Dashboard Saviors constantly in the early 1990's) but, were I Simpson, wouldn't always feel like dragging along a bunch of equipment to record them. You know, I'd just go to the show. But Sloan takes his stuff EVERYWHERE! Seeing him crammed up against the back wall of Whirlyball trying to record Deerhunter while hipsters and doo-dads were all milling about trying on their latest cool-pose is proof positive of his dedication to his craft.
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