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Hear the First Single from the New Drive-By Truckers Album
Photo Credit: David McClister
Last month, we told you all about the upcoming release from local rockers Drive-By Truckers: It was gonna be called English Oceans, had some great album art and would be out Mar. 4 via ATO.
Don't worry: All that is still true. And now we've even got a little taste of the record for ya. "Pauline Hawkins," a Petterson Hood-penned tune that appears as the fourth track on English Oceans, is reportedly based on an upcoming novel by Oregon-based author and musician Willy Vlautin. Stream the rollicking tune after the jump.
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Flagpole's Other Favorite Albums of 2013
Powerkompany
This week, we published our top 10 list of local albums released in 2013 as voted on by members of our music staff. And while all those releases were certainly great, there was a ton of other great stuff that we thought deserved some recognition. After the jump, check out a bunch of other albums that received votes in our writers' poll (and one that came out just past our deadline), with links to Flagpole's original coverage where available.
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Stream Gripe's Final Album via NPR (Yes, Really)
Back in June, we published a Q&A with local grindcore workhorse Gripe, wherein band members revealed that their upcoming album, In His Image, would be the group's swan song. On Jan. 14, that album will finally arrive (via North Carolina imprint Hygiene Records), but you can hear the whole thing early via NPR's First Listen.
More after the jump.
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2014 Athens Hip Hop Award Nominees Announced
Yung'N Restless
Just in time for the new year, the nominees for the second annual Athens Hip Hop Awards have been announced. Once again, the awards aim to celebrate not only the musicians, promoters and DJs that comprise the local scene but also its many adjunct support systems: Barber shops, soul food restaurants and poets find homes on this year's ballot.
More after the jump.
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Live Review: The Whigs, New Madrid, Velveteen Pink at Georgia Theatre
If you’re tired of making New Year’s resolutions that you can’t keep, let me offer an alternative: How about you resolve to listen to more of the bands that rang in the New Year at the Georgia Theatre Tuesday night?
Shortly after 9 p.m., New Madrid took the stage to a sizable crowd. Having won Artist of the Year at the 2013 Flagpole Athens Music Awards and garnering a recent Pitchfork mention, the band is poised to become Athens' next big thing. The group is in awfully good hands under the guidance of David Barbe, so I eagerly await the rest of its forthcoming album, Sunswimmer (due in February via Normaltown Records).
More after the jump.
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Gabe Vodicka's Top 10 (Non-Local) Albums of 2013
Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine
Because in my line of work the lack of a personal year-end list is punishable by death, and after much internal debate, I have ranked my top 10 non-Athens albums of 2013. They are listed after the jump. And stay tuned, folks: Flagpole's top 10 local albums of the year will be posted online Jan. 8 and in that week's print issue.
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Who's Playing What at This Weekend's Lou Reed Tribute Shows
Friday and Saturday evenings, the 40 Watt Club will host a tribute to recently departed songwriter and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed featuring 18 local bands, each of whom will play two or three Reed-penned tunes of their choosing. Proceeds from the event will benefit AIDS Athens and the MAC AIDS Fund. Read our calendar pick here.
Reed tribute concerts have been happening all over the country of late, but the Athens event has a pretty neat-o distinction, in that two of the offspring of Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker—Richard and Kate Mikulka—will perform. (The former is a member of local rock outfit Pilgrim, and the latter blows the baritone sax in indie-soul group The HEAP.)
After the jump, find out who's playing what songs.
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Dusting it Off: The Dream Scene's Christmas Album
Dusting it Off is a blog series where Flagpole's music writers unearth local albums from days gone by.
The Dream Scene, the arguably brilliant, retro-futurist pop project helmed by local musician Javier Morales (Grass Giraffes, Quiet Hooves), has had a typically busy 2013, recording tons of material and putting it out it in bits and pieces—on Soundcloud, on cassette—but Morales' most indelible release came in 2009, when he collected four years of holiday-themed recordings onto one stellar LP.
Music after the jump.
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