Pylon – vintage music video

PYLON has unearthed the original video for their single “Beep,” shot by the band and their crew on Super-8 and VHS in the early ’80s.

Pylon, from Athens, Ga., was part of the great wave of early-‘80s bands that weren’t one thing or another, but rather were several great things at once: simultaneously elusive and loud, meditative and piercing, with equal mixtures of dance-groove and discomfort.”

– The New York Times



Originally conceived as “video postcards” from Pylon’s travels around the country, the music video for “Beep” documents the band as they traveled the US in the early ’80s. Edited together by Pylon’s Michael Lachowski, the video saw the light of day exactly once, when it aired on MTV’s “120 Minutes.” After showing up on MTV, the video was forgotten until it was re-discovered in 2009.

Pylon – Beep from DFA Records on Vimeo.

Download the Beep mp3 here.