Primitons

While Georgia and the Carolinas were Southern hot spots in the jangle pop sweepstakes of the 1980s, the Primitons demonstrated that there were great modern pop bands brewing in Alabama, too. The Primitons (the name was meant to be an abbreviation of "Primitive Tones") were formed in Birmingham, Alabama in 1984 by guitarist and vocalist Mats Roden and drummer and accordionist Leif Bondarenko, who had previously worked together in the band Jim Bob & the Leisure Suits. Teaming with bassist Brad Dorset, who studied alongside Roden at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, the group bega...