“Athens, Georgia is the place to be if you're in the junk business. The tiny college town an hour east of Atlanta hosts a legion of musician-tinkerers eager to scrounge through junkyards and scrap-heaps looking for raw materials with which to build their elaborate noisemaking contraptions.
Empire State-- comprised of brothers Jay and Tim Nackashi, who are also in Beekeeper, and Alex McManus, a sid”