Rolling Stone Names 40 Watt Club One of the Best Clubs in America

Rolling Stone is compiling a list all this year of Venues That Rock. And Athens' 40 Watt Club made the list of Best Music Clubs in America.

Here's what the website says about the fabulous 40 Watt:

Years before Michael Stipe used to stage-dive into the crowd at this legendary Georgia nightclub, the future R.E.M. frontman would count pennies to get in as doormen stared him down. (He later befriended Nirvana's Dave Grohl over veggie sausage at a restaurant the morning after the Seattle band performed at the 40 Watt.) Originally the rehearsal space for local rock heroes Pylon, the 40 Watt morphed into a bona fide club in 1979, drawing the B-52's, Sonic Youth, X, Patti Smith and Drive-By Truckers.

Congratulations, Barrie Buck and Velena Vego!