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Titus Andronicus' Stickles: 'I Don't Need the People of Athens'
Titus Andronicus' Athens show last month ended with singer/guitarist/weight-of-the-world-carrier Patrick Stickles (who, by the way, seems like a really fun guy who would not at all ruin your BBQ) berating audience members and ranting about slavery. It was weird.
Shortly after, Impose Magazine caught up with the outspoken frontman to ask about the show, where a concertgoer passed out mini-Confederate flags in an apparent attempt to troll the politically-minded group, whose breakthrough album The Monitor was based on the Civil War.
Stickles, who spends a fair amount of time in the interview talking about how "Irish" and "punk" he is, casts his ire far and wide, complaining about the Georgia Theare staff (they "weren't giving me the things I needed to do my job effectively and give the kids their money's worth"); the crowd ("by the end of the show it's a bunch of fucking bros beating on each other in some kind of weird, homoerotic ritual"); the perpetrator ("I was ready to choke him out. I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't been tied down to the guitar."); and a host of others.
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Hendershot's to Announce New Location at 'Press Conference' Tonight
The Hendershot's-Transmetropolitan lease battle, which has ended with the former leaving its Oglethorpe Ave. location, has been well documented here. Perhaps in response to our intrepid coverage (but likely just because he's a jokester), Hendershot's owner Seth Hendershot will hold a taped "press conference" tonight at 7:30 p.m. to formally announce his venue's new spot.
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New Videos: Powerkompany, Grape Soda, Mad Axes
Powerkompany
Hello, friends. I've been out of town for several days and thus Homedrone posting has been sparse and I've got a thousand million emails to delete, I mean respond to, and so here's a quick VIDEO ROUNDUP:
The video for Powerkompany's "It's Not the Last," a terrific track from the band's terrific new album I Am More Than This is just as elaborate and, y'know, artsy and stuff as the group's music. Dig:
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Stream k i d s' New Live Album; Tapes Available Tonight at Flicker
Today, local noise-pop band k i d s dropped are US, a new live album recorded by producer David Barbe earlier this year during a show at Caledonia Lounge. Below, you can stream the entire thing in all its raucous glory, but you can also pick up one of 20 limited edition, handmade cassettes at the Birdhouse Collection's final show of a monthlong residency tonight at Flicker Theatre & Bar.
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Hendershot's Leaving Current Location in June
Hendershot's Coffee Bar owner Seth Hendershot tells Flagpole that his bar and music venue will indeed vacate its current Oglethorpe Avenue location.
As we reported back in March, Hendershot's and the adjacent westside location of Transmetropolitan, the latter of which controls both properties, were at odds over the terms of a lease renewal. A proposed increase in Hendershot's rent, as well as the issue of who would control the lot's few parking spaces, were the key points of contention in the dispute.
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Hear Outer Spaces' Matador 7-Inch; Say Goodbye Tonight at Go Bar
Local folk-pop group Outer Spaces, a.k.a. Cara Beth Satalino and friends, has just released a new 7-inch as part of Matador Records' Singles Going Home Alone series, wherein subscribers receive a new and exclusive single in the mail each month of the year. Below, stream the single, "I Was Divided" and the B-side, "Eternally Fifteen."
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Peep the Hypnotic Trailer for Washed Out's New Album
Today it was revealed that Washed Out, the musical alias of newly Athens-based sound explorer Ernest Greene, will release Paracosm, the group's third full-length, Aug. 13 via Sub Pop. The album was recorded with Athens native/in-demand indie producer Ben Allen, whose previous credits include Animal Collective and Reptar.
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New Music From NYMPH (Feat. Former Members of Dark Meat): 'Battle Funk'
Below, stream "Battle Funk," a 10-minute tune from Brooklyn soul-noise outfit NYMPH's upcoming album New Millenium Prayer. The band, which recently built on its already strong Athens ties by inviting several former members of Dark Meat—namely Jim McHugh, Jason Robira and sometime Flagpole contributor Jeff Tobias—into the fold, has built its psych-addled worldbeat into something muscular and beautifully freakish.
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