Blog Topic: Flagpole Premieres

Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Torchiana, ‘Tilt’

By Jessica Smith | May 2, 2020 2:00pm

Matthew Torchiana Hoban

Originally from outside Philadelphia, where he went to school for music engineering and later fine arts, Matthew Hoban relocated to Athens this past August to pursue a MFA at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Inspired by the lineage of lo-fi rock, including Elephant 6 bands, he’s been songwriting for over a decade and home recording for nearly as long. His project Torchiana—which borrows his mother’s maiden name and his own middle name—takes a hallucinatory psych folk singer-songwriter approach.

Below, check out a new video for “Tilt,” a single off of his upcoming album.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Joe Willey and the Movin’ Men Cover ‘Sister Morphine’ In Socially Distanced Video

By Jessica Smith | May 1, 2020 12:00pm

Nelita Rose and Joe Willey / George and Yuria Hatori

Responding to the COVID-19 crisis, local musician Joe Wiley has collaborated with a handful of notable names to create a music video that follows the suggested guidelines of sheltering in place.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Dope KNife, ‘Life in Bottles’

By Jessica Smith | April 30, 2020 12:00pm

Dope KNife

Released on 420, Dope KNife’s new EP, Breakbeats n’ Vandalism, is a collection of seven boom bap tracks that show off the rapper and producer’s versatile songwriting ability. Not to be mistaken for throwaways, these recordings represent sonic or narrative ideas that stand independently from his previous albums, which have carried cohesive, intentional moods and themes.

Below, watch a new video for “Life in Bottles.”

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Baby Tony and The Teenies, 'Desolate Hills'

By Jessica Smith | April 24, 2020 12:00pm

Photo Credit: Sara-Anne Waggoner

Baby Tony and The Teenies

It’s undetermined when or how Baby Tony and The Teenies new album, Baby’s Got It, will be released, but bandmates Eli Saragoussi and Max Boyd have decided to go ahead and put a nice little teaser out into the universe.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Nicholas Mallis & The Borealis at the Pity Party

By Jessica Smith | April 23, 2020 5:30pm

Nicholas Mallis & The Borealis

Though we won’t have Nicholas Mallis & The Borealis’ in-person album release party—originally slated for Sunday, Apr. 26 at Buvez—to look forward to this week, we can take a look back to the glam pop band’s set at The Pity Party from a few months ago. “Habitable World” is a spacey dance track and a much-needed mental escape.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: WesdaRuler Live at the Pity Party

By Jessica Smith | April 16, 2020 4:15pm

WesdaRuler

It’s time for another blast from the past at the Pity Party! Lean back and vibe along to local hip-hop artist WesdaRuler as he’s joined by Louie Larceny during his November set at the beloved house venue.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Ryne Meadow, 'Hot Air Balloon' Video

By Jessica Smith | April 15, 2020 4:00pm

Ryne Meadow

A message of hope to anyone who feels silenced or otherwise debilitated from depression, local singer-songwriter Ryne Meadow’s sophomore album, There Are Clouds In The Sky, traverses experiences impacted by mental health issues and existential dread, ultimately arriving on the other side with a vulnerable, newfound resilience.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Shehehe, 'Your Hands' Video

By Jessica Smith | April 10, 2020 1:00pm

Hoping to lighten the mood of everyone stuck at home right now, Shehehe released a new music video for “Your Hands” in anticipation of the punk band’s upcoming album, Pet Songs.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Ghostflower at The Pity Party

By Jessica Smith | April 9, 2020 2:20pm

Ghostflower

Can we all agree to never, ever take house shows for granted again? Taylor Chicoine of The Pity Party, a cozy house venue in the Boulevard neighborhood, intended to reboot his beloved backyard spot back up this month. Though a pair of confirmed shows had to be canceled due to the pandemic, he’s been hard at work editing videos of prior performances for your quarantine entertainment. Chicoine also recently partnered with videographer James Preston of Athens Rising, so we can look forward to even more creatively shot videos in the future.

Relive the magic of Miami band Ghostflower below.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Nana Grizol, 'Future Version' Video

By Jessica Smith | April 7, 2020 1:30pm

Nana Grizol

Local label Arrowhawk Records announced a new album by folk punk sweethearts Nana Grizol today called South Somewhere Else. Seventeen years in, songwriter Theo Hilton—who moved from Athens to New Orleans in 2016—uses the band’s fourth album to explore ideas pertaining to the Southern queer experience, activism and allyship, and complicated histories of place.

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