Blog Topic: New Music

Homedrone: Behold Immaterial Possession’s Surreal Super 8 Film for ‘Midnight Wander’

By Jessica Smith | May 15, 2020 3:30pm

Immaterial Possession has just released a new single for “Midnight Wander,” a surreal black-and-white music video shot on Super 8 film. The video beautifully showcases the artistic talent and performative nature of members Cooper Holmes, Madeline Polites and Kiran Fernandes, who outside of Immaterial Possession, perform together in the abstract theater troupe Peepa Show. Joined by drummer John Spiegel, the band creates a psychedelic world full of optical illusions, mystical characters and hand-painted sets.

The mysterious, entrancing song will appear on Immaterial Possession’s debut album, which is on track for a digital release through Cloud Recordings on July 24 and a physical release later on.

Below, watch the new video for “Midnight Wander.”

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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: 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: Space Brother, 'Silhouettes'

By Jessica Smith | April 25, 2020 12:00am

Space Brother

Space Brother has just dropped a new album, Question Eternal?, via Bear Tooth Collective today. Self-produced, mixed and mastered by Donald Whitehead, the album represents two long years of writing far out goodness.

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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: 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: 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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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Listen to Dream Tent's New EP, 'Songs From the Quarantine Tent Vol. 1'

By Jessica Smith | March 20, 2020 12:00pm

Woolfolk initially planned on only releasing a single today, but after this hellacious week—which has left him and Strout temporarily unemployed and left home alone to jam for the time being—he managed to crank out an entire EP called Songs From the Quarantine Tent Vol. 1.

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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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