Blog Topic: Listomania

Homedrone: Gabe Vodicka's No. 5 of 2016: Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool

By Gabe Vodicka | December 28, 2016 7:05pm

From now until Jan. 1, Flagpole Music Editor Gabe Vodicka is counting down his top 10 (non-local) albums of 2016.

5. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool

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Homedrone: Gabe Vodicka's No. 6 of 2016: John K. Samson, Winter Wheat

By Gabe Vodicka | December 27, 2016 5:03pm

From now until Jan. 1, Flagpole Music Editor Gabe Vodicka is counting down his top 10 (non-local) albums of 2016.

6. John K. Samson: Winter Wheat

I was, at one point, a pretty fervent Weakerthans fan, and some (maybe not-so) latent teenage part of me was thrilled by the fact that John K. Samson had recruited members of his former band to flesh out his latest solo record. Winter Wheat nods to Samson's past, but it was also one of two records released around election time (stay tuned for the other) that helped me cope with a troubled present and prepare for an uncertain future.

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Homedrone: 11 Days of Christmas: Ludacris' Liquor and Condoms

By Blake Aued | January 1, 2017 10:23am

Photo Credit: David Barnes/UGA Athletics

Ludacris performs at G-Day.

As the Flagpole staff takes a much-needed break over the holidays, we're reposting 11 of our most popular, most important, funniest and/or otherwise noteworthy stories of this most dismal of years. Look for a new post each day through Jan. 2.

New Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart wanted to bring 90,000 fans to Athens for the Bulldogs' annual spring practice game, and what better way to do it than to hire gazillion-selling rapper Ludacris to perform on G-Day?

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Homedrone: Gabe Vodicka's No. 7 of 2016: Kanye West, The Life of Pablo

By Gabe Vodicka | December 26, 2016 5:00pm

From now until Jan. 1, Flagpole Music Editor Gabe Vodicka is counting down his top 10 (non-local) albums of 2016.

7. Kanye West: The Life of Pablo

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In the Loop: 11 Days of Christmas: 2 Many Chainz

By Blake Aued | January 2, 2017 9:00am

This is a locally owned business.

As the Flagpole staff takes a much-needed break over the holidays, we're reposting 11 of our most popular, most important, funniest and/or otherwise noteworthy stories of this most dismal of years. Look for a new post each day through Jan. 2.

In August, a UGA student wrote a dumb column for The Red & Black about how students prefer chains to local businesses. It outraged a lot of people, and I was bored, so I wrote a takedown that wound up being the most-read article on our website of the whole year. Read it again here.

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Culture Briefs: 11 Days of Christmas: RIP Jack Davis, a Damn Good Dawg

By Blake Aued | December 31, 2016 10:53am

Photo Credit: Jack Davis

As the Flagpole staff takes a much-needed break over the holidays, we're reposting 11 of our most popular, most important, funniest and/or otherwise noteworthy stories of this most dismal of years. Look for a new post each day through Jan. 2.

Illustrator Jack Davis—a UGA graduate renowned for his satirical cartoons in Mad magazine as well as his popular Georgia Bulldog-themed drawings—died July 27 at the age of 91. From Arts Editor Jessica Smith's obituary:

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Homedrone: Gabe Vodicka's No. 8 of 2016: Pinegrove, Cardinal

By Gabe Vodicka | December 25, 2016 5:00pm

From now until Jan. 1, Flagpole Music Editor Gabe Vodicka is counting down his top 10 (non-local) albums of 2016.

8. Pinegrove: Cardinal

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Homedrone: Gabe Vodicka's No. 9 of 2016: Samara Lubelski, The Gilded Raid

By Gabe Vodicka | December 24, 2016 12:00pm

From now until Jan. 1, Flagpole Music Editor Gabe Vodicka is counting down his top 10 (non-local) albums of 2016.

9. Samara Lubelski: The Gilded Raid

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Homedrone: Gabe Vodicka's No. 10 of 2016: Kendrick Lamar, Untitled Unmastered

By Gabe Vodicka | December 23, 2016 3:12pm

From now until Jan. 1, Flagpole Music Editor Gabe Vodicka is counting down his top 10 (non-local) albums of 2016.

10. Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered.

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Culture Briefs: 11 Days of Christmas: Celebrity Beefs

By Blake Aued | December 29, 2016 9:00am

Tituss Burgess on "The Late Show."

As the Flagpole staff takes a much-needed break over the holidays, we're reposting 11 of our most popular, most important, funniest and/or otherwise noteworthy stories of this most dismal of years. Look for a new post each day through Jan. 2.

It didn't rise to the level of R.E.M.'s feud with Donald Trump in 2015, but two celebrities with Athens ties—Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood and actor Tituss Burgess—both mixed it up with the powers that be in 2016, and judging by the online traffic, Flagpole readers loved it.

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