From sharing stages with the Meat Puppets and Murder Junkies to clearing out abortion protesters with raw noise, Birmingham’s Grossest National Product (GNP) wore the title of "the worst band in town" like a crown. Explore their legendary history following the Prank Records vinyl reissue of their 1985 demo.
Birmingham’s Dirty Little Secret Tucked into a weathered corner of Birmingham’s Southside, The Nick sits at 2514 10th Avenue South. This no-frills venue stands as a defiant relic of Alabama’s music scene. It’s a dive bar turned punk-rock shrine, slinging cold beer and raw tunes for more than four decades.…
When Hardrock Gunter cut “Birmingham Bounce” in 1950, he lit a spark that would leap from country boogie into the earliest stirrings of rock ’n’ roll. Following the Birmingham Bounce means tracing that rhythm through the city’s honky-tonks, juke joints, and studios, where grit and swing built a sound that still reverberates to this day.
