Album Nerds – Episode 304: Bands Across America – Georgia

Featured Albums:

• The B-52s – Cosmic Thing (1989)
• Mastodon – Crack the Skye (2009)

Episode Highlights: Our summer road trip rolls into Georgia—the “Peach State”—where Southern roots, funk, campy art-pop, and cosmic metal collide.

• Dance through Athens with The B-52s’ neon-colored Cosmic Thing—their joyful, funky comeback that turned grief into glitter, resilience, and universal celebration.
• Travel from Atlanta to the astral plane with Mastodon’s Crack the Skye—a prog-metal masterpiece mixing sludge, mythology, Rasputin, and raw grief into one of the 2000s’ most ambitious albums.
• We dig into standout tracks, the production magic of Nile Rodgers ...