Blog Topic: Flagpole Premieres

Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Avery Leigh’s Night Palace, ‘Into the Wake, Mystified”

By Elijah Johnston | March 10, 2020 12:00am

On their captivating debut single, Avery Leigh’s Night Palace step into a unique world that is hard to pin down and impossible to get bored of. The band is the creation of Athens’ own Avery Leigh Draut, a musician with a long list of credits and collaborations that includes everything from symphony orchestras to Jo Lampert of tUnE-yArDs. After several years of recording and touring, Draut and company have settled down to release their first single, which we’re excited to premiere here today.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Wieuca, 'Hale Bop' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | February 14, 2020 11:48am

Athens indie-rock band Wieuca has never been content to settle into just one groove, its sizable discography featuring instinctive forays into alt-country, psych and electropop, to name a few.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Georgia Dish Boys, 'Meme'

By Gabe Vodicka | January 14, 2020 9:09am

Photo Credit: Sloan Simpson

Athens roots-rock band Georgia Dish Boys exude down-home charm, from their hand-stitched cover art to their unorthodox recording methods. Yet the group's music also radiates with weird North Georgia grit, as heard on 2017's cacophonous Get Gone.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Curt Castle, 'Aminoketone' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | January 7, 2020 8:20am

Photo Credit: Jayleigh Harkai

Last January, former Reptar and Semicircle member Curt Castle released a stellar debut, If I'm Here at All, which found the Georgia musician putting a sure-footed electropop spin on his previous bands' exploratory indie rock.

A year later, he's finished a super cool stop-motion video for one of the record's standout tracks, the steady, sparkling "Aminoketone."

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: CannonandtheBoxes, 'November 22nd' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | December 10, 2019 11:05am

Photo Credit: Avery Brooks

Fronted by Rome transplant Cannon Rogers, Athens band CannonandtheBoxes makes melody-centered acoustic music designed to ignite and uplift. Centered on Rogers' velvety singing voice, the group follows in the folky footsteps of local faves Family and Friends on tracks like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," released earlier this year.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Elijah Johnston, 'Find Your Bliss'

By Gabe Vodicka | November 29, 2019 12:05pm

Athens singer-songwriter Elijah Johnston jokingly refers to himself as a "recovering lo-fi addict," and his recent work has indeed found him ditching murky home recordings in favor of a clean, crisp full-band sound.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Bill Jr. Jr., 'Renaissance Man' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | November 26, 2019 8:26am

Led by Vancouver, BC, singer-songwriter Russell Gendron, the music of indie-folk act Bill Jr. Jr."meander[s], dreamlike, through feelings of uncertainty and loss, physical neighborhoods and change," according to the band's bio.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Brendan Abernathy, '3 Blocks Down the Road'

By Gabe Vodicka | November 13, 2019 12:25pm

Athens singer-songwriter Brendan Abernathy spent three years in the local rock band Light Brigade before setting out on his own as a singer-songwriter, using loop-based techniques to add live layers to his rich, melodic confessionals. For the past few months, Abernathy has been on a house show tour of the U.S., and he'll finish up the current run with a show at the 40 Watt Club on Nov. 19.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Sarah Zúñiga, 'I Like Knowing You're Around' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | October 25, 2019 1:52pm

Photo Credit: Logan Potter

Athens singer-songwriter Sarah Zúñiga specializes in the sort of earnest, heart-tugging folk-pop that's made for mid-afternoon drives and sunny poolside hangs. Last year, she released a debut EP, Someday Soon, and now she's back with a lighthearted new single and accompanying video, which we're happy to premiere today.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Hunger Anthem, 'Remedy' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | October 22, 2019 10:21am

Athens power-pop-punk trio Hunger Anthem has been quiet on the release front since dropping 2015's Cut the Chord EP, a five-song slice of hook-laden rock that "bursts with urgency and is packed with jaw-droppingly great tunefulness," per Flagpole scribe Gordon Lamb.

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