Blog Topic: Flagpole Premieres

Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Deep State, 'Time Unrivaled'

By Gabe Vodicka | September 27, 2017 12:41pm

If there were an award for hardest-working rock band in Athens, it'd surely go to Deep State. The pop-punk four-piece has seemingly remained on the road since releasing the excellent Thought Garden in April, and it's somehow found time to begin prepping another new LP, reportedly titled The Path to Fast Oblivion.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Blanko, 'Hallelujah' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | September 21, 2017 10:21am

Relatively new Athens project Blanko isn't a band in the traditional sense. Rather, it's an audio-visual outlet for the skewed musings of local songwriter and artist Larson Collier, known for playing with indie rockers Big Morgan.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Elf Power, 'Cycling Aimlessly' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | September 19, 2017 3:02pm

Photo Credit: Sandra Rek

Local indie-rock stalwarts Elf Power are riding high after releasing Twitching in Time, a career highlight, back in May. Following a summer tour with Tobin Sprout, the band is settling back in to Athens life and ushering in autumn with an animated collage video for Twitching in Time gem "Cycling Aimlessly," which we're pleased to premiere today.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Donny Knottsville, 'Strawberry Chandelier' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | September 6, 2017 10:50am

Athens rapper Malcolm Walters, aka Donny Knottsville, maintains a prolific recording schedule, having released a string of solid mixtapes over the past few years, and in July he dropped his most complex and cohesive album yet, Celestial Seasons, which you can download for free on Bandcamp.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Kwazymoto, 'Defamed Fatale' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | August 22, 2017 10:33am

Athens garage-punk group Kwazymoto has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on a new full-length titled Limerance Land—the successor to last year's On Mount Rennie—which it plans to release Friday, Oct. 13.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Timi & Wonderland Rangers, 'Baby's Bread (Hard Times)'

By Gabe Vodicka | August 10, 2017 10:42am

Photo Credit: Ann Conley

Local singer-songwriter Timi Conley is perhaps best known as the founder and spiritual ambassador of the annual Wild Rumpus celebration, but Athenians also know him for his tireless exploration of the funky far reaches of pop. With Kite to the Moon and, more recently, Timi & Wonderland Rangers, Conley crafts thoughtful, ecstatic music designed to make crowds move.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Hand Sand Hands, 'Vowels'

By Gabe Vodicka | June 27, 2017 10:25am

Photo Credit: Annie Marcum

Jon Miller

Local band Hand Sand Hands—the exploratory solo project of musician Jon Miller—has maintained a low profile since releasing the Flagpole fave Good Luck With That in 2014. Now, Miller is set to return with a full-length follow-up, Bad Mountain, out July 7 via Athens label Arrowhawk Records.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Big Morgan, 'Crater'

By Gabe Vodicka | June 23, 2017 10:42am

Photo Credit: Allie Duke

Local rock band Big Morgan formed a few years back and quickly became a favorite of the house-party set, thanks to its manic energy and appealingly goofy songwriting. Though the band's members are arguably better known for their other projects—Juan de Fuca, Trip Lacy and Mad Ace among them—Big Morgan remains an outlet for their more primal rock and roll desires.

Today, we're psyched to premiere a new Big Morgan tune, "Crater." It's from the band's upcoming debut LP, Superpunch!, out later this summer. Stream it below:

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: The Eskimos, 'Surf's Down'

By Gabe Vodicka | June 20, 2017 10:12am

Photo Credit: Sean Dunn

Athens-based psych-rock band The Eskimos called it quits in 2002, but quietly reformed in recent years, after frontman Drew Sinclair's karaoke rendition of an ABBA tune drew rave reviews from fellow patrons at a Decatur, AL bar. Or so the band would have you believe.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Cicada Rhythm, 'Sky Bird' Video (Pity Party Session)

By Gabe Vodicka | June 13, 2017 10:17am

Folk trio Cicada Rhythm has been a Flagpole fave since the then-duo of Andrea DeMarcus and Dave Kirslis moved to Athens in 2013. In 2015, the group released its official debut via Normaltown Records. Since then, the band's been gigging steadily and working on new material.

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