This story originally appeared in Issue #1 of Paste Magazine in the summer of 2002, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. Leave it to Bill Mallonee to find the perfect metaphor for ...

I was never an obsessive fan of Bill Mallonee’s late outfit, Vigilantes of Love, though I’ve always admired the band for both its contribution to the development of indie roots-rock and—what was ...

Finding beauty in broken things is a theme in Bill Mallonee’s music that might resonate here in Buffalo. Proclaimed by Paste Magazine to be number 65 among the 100 Greatest Living Songwriter’s ...

At Cornerstone '95 I picked up an album by a band I'd read about, but never heard. The band was Vigilantes of Love, fronted by Bill Mallonee,and it took just that one album – Blister Soul – to turn my ...

Where you know him: Bill Mallonee is a living legend as a songwriter and a performer. He comes to the Flying M Coffeegarage Saturday to perform with Aaron Mark Brown. Mallonee ranks 65th on Paste ...

The Vigilantes of Love -- singer-songwriter-guitarist Bill Mallonee and whatever sidemen he's working with at the time -- have always been dominated by Mallonee's Dylanesque torrent of words. Those ...

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It's always a struggle to find new and interesting words that rhyme with baloney. There's phony and macaroni. and there's even some loose rhymes: Sony, Shoshone, Barry Castiglione. But on rare ...

Athens songwriter Bill Mallonee is the latter, and through his work with Vigilantes of Love in the ’80s and ’90s and a subsequent solo career, he has mined matters both spiritual and universal in ...

As the one constant in the ever-changing Vigilantes of Love, Bill Mallonee used to apply his Dylanesque lyrics to a country-rock that split the difference between the Byrds and Crazy Horse. But since ...