Blog Topic: New Music

Homedrone: The Weekly Three: Parkay Quarts, Mark McGuire, Bedhead

By Gabe Vodicka | November 11, 2014 12:23pm

Photo Credit: Ben Rayner

Parquet Courts

This week's new finds from the great beyond:

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Homedrone: Hide Your Kids: Hear a Spooky Halloween Tune from Madeline

By Gabe Vodicka | October 31, 2014 12:00pm

In honor of the holiday, here's a brand new tune from Madeline. It's about this, which is pretty terrifying. Happy Halloween!

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Homedrone: Stream a New T. Hardy Morris Tune

By Gabe Vodicka | October 23, 2014 2:13pm

Dead Confederate frontman T. Hardy Morris, he of Flagpole's favorite local album of 2013, has debuted a new single titled "Painted On Attitude" in advance of a November tour that will find the songwriter traveling up the Eastern seaboard and into Ohio.

"Painted On Attitude" is billed as a shift in Morris' sonic approach, and it does feel like a departure, taking the subdued grunge-folk of Audition Tapes and piling on pedal steel and punk fuzz.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Scooterbabe, 'Know That I Don't Want You'

By Gabe Vodicka | October 23, 2014 12:13pm

Photo Credit: Anna Pence

Though it has played steadily around town for the last couple years and gained a respectable local fanbase in the process, indie-pop trio Scooterbabe has but one EP to its name, a self-titled, five-track effort released last November.

Now, the band is set to drop the follow-up, again in EP form. The new one is titled[email protected] (yes, that is the name of the damn thing) and is out Oct. 28 digitally and in the near future on cassette via Pizza Tomb.

The four-song record finds the band honing the C86-inspired sound it has put forth since the beginning. For fans of noisy, navel-gazing jangle-pop, it's a must-listen. Flagpole's Gordon Lamb is blunt in his assessment: "No one in Athens has played well-crafted, distortion-free pop of this type and caliber in a very long time."

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Homedrone: Watch a New Video from Honeychild

By Gabe Vodicka | October 17, 2014 11:18am

Photo Credit: Nathan Baerreis

Honeychild is gearing up to release Surrender, the pop follow-up to the tropical American Beach (Flagpole review). An Indiegogo campaign has been in the works for a while, and though the group has thus far raised less than half of the desired $8,000, there's still another week-plus for folks to donate.

And the band is making it easy to do so: At Honeychild's show Saturday, Oct. 18 atHendershot's—where they'll play the new record in its entirety—frontlady SJ Ursrey tellsFlagpole she will have a laptop set up where folks can pre-order the album through the Indiegogo page.

Below, watch the recently released, Shannon Moncrief-directed video for "Make Out," a tune from Surrender.

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Homedrone: Watch a Fiery New Video from Chief Scout

By Gabe Vodicka | October 15, 2014 4:25pm

Chief Scout, the pet project of Athens-based songwriter and guitarist Trey Rosenkampff, has been steadily gathering buzz, earning high marks from in-the-know locals for its scrappy guitar pyrotechnics and energetic live shows.

A two-song single is scheduled for release Oct. 28, with a five-song EP to follow next year. To tease the new material last month, Rosenkampff offered a stream of "Run Away From Home," the single's high-octane A-side with an impossibly catchy chorus.

Now there's a flame-filled video, directed by Andrew Schwab, to accompany the tune. Check it out below:

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Homedrone: The Weekly Three: Caribou, Ex Hex, Sunn O))) and Scott Walker

By Gabe Vodicka | October 13, 2014 1:55pm

Photo Credit: Jonah Takagi

Ex Hex

This week's new finds from the great beyond:

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Mark Rogers & Mary Byrne, I Line My Days Along Your Weight

By Gabe Vodicka | October 10, 2014 11:15am

Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez

Mark Rogers and Mary Byrne call New York City home these days, but the pair cut their musical teeth in Georgia—Rogers with new-folk standouts Myssouri and Byrne with eclectic rockers Hot Young Priest. The album Rogers and Byrne have just crafted as a duo, I Line My Days Along Your Weight, should establish the pair as one of the most vital acts in folk music right now.

Recorded in Brooklyn and set for release next Tuesday, Oct. 14 via Important, I Line My Days Along Your Weight is a striking set of sparse, evocative tunes filled with rich instrumentation—"baritone acoustic, tricone resonator, golden-era flat top, space-age lap steel guitar, upright piano and hundred-year-old mandolin," per the press release—that is unassuming even as it devastates.

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Homedrone: The Weekly Three: Mark Rogers & Mary Byrne, Prince, Godflesh

By Gabe Vodicka | October 8, 2014 1:10pm

Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez

Mark Rogers and Mary Byrne

This week's new finds from the great beyond:

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Homedrone: Watch a Mind-Melting New Future Ape Tapes Video

By Gabe Vodicka | September 2, 2014 1:00pm

The music of local experimental crew Future Ape Tapes is difficult to categorize but easy to lose your mind to: on the group's new album, Pyramirrormid (from which you can hear some samples here), noise-blasted hip hop beats sit comfortably alongside psychedelic sound collage and damaged electronica.

On Friday, Tiny Mix Tapes premiered the video for "Man With the Eagle Eye," a typically mind-melting track from the new tape, which you can nab at the band's show on the UGA campus Wednesday evening or via Hooker Vision starting Sept. 4.

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