Blog Topic: New Music

Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Juna Announces New Album, Releases 'On Patience' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | August 25, 2014 3:44pm

Local band Juna will release a new album, the follow-up to last year'sHeteroglossia (Flagpole review), on Sept. 27 via Cohosh Records. Titled On Courage, the new album contains six tracks of sprawling, churning gloom-rock.

Drummer Sasha Schilbrack-Cole tells Flagpole the new record was recorded by engineer Ben Wills (Family and Friends, Of the Vine) and mastered by Joel Hatstat. That's the cover art above.

In addition to the band's established influences, the album introduces some exciting new flavors to its already complex post-rock mix. Shades of Laughing Stock-era Talk Talk, for instance, show up in the album's contemplative opener, "On Patience."

Below, watch the video for "On Patience":

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Homedrone: On the Rise: Hear the New EP from Waitress

By Gabe Vodicka | August 22, 2014 10:54am

If there's a general trend to speak of happening now in Athens music, it's a move towards the raucous, propulsive, atonal guitar music of mid-'90s Dischord, Touch and Go and their ilk. Bands like Pinecones and The Powder Room have done their part to remind us that rock's not dead, man, and now comes yet another no-nonsense local group eager to get your lazy ass back in the pit.

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Homedrone: Coyotes in Boxes On Their YOWLER EP, Track By Track

By Coyotes in Boxes | August 21, 2014 3:56pm

Nashville/West Virginia folk-rock outfit Coyotes in Boxes celebrate the release of their YOWLER EP with a free show Friday at The World Famous, where attendees will also receive a free download of the new release. We asked the band to explain the inspiration behind each song on the EP. Plus, check out an exclusive stream of "Astrid," the record's second track.

We’re proud of the work on our first album, and Curtis and Fox, but for our new, six-song EP, we wanted to capture a more eccentric side of the band. YOWLER represents our move to East Nashville from Huntington, WV nicely—the production is slicker and weirder. The songs were inspired as much by cultural archetypes and our own invented mythology than any particular artists that we’ve been listening to lately. Here’s our track-by-track run down on what gave life to YOWLER.

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Homedrone: The Weekly Three: J Mascis, Pallbearer, FKA Twigs

By Gabe Vodicka | August 18, 2014 4:15pm

J Mascis

This week's new finds from the great beyond:

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Homedrone: The Weekly Three: David Kilgour, Lewis, Gobby

By Gabe Vodicka | August 12, 2014 2:48pm

David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights

This week's finds from the great beyond:

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Homedrone: Watch a New Video from Pinecones

By Gabe Vodicka | August 5, 2014 4:44pm

Not Pinecones.

The wonderful mystery that is Athens/Atlanta four-piece Pinecones only grows thicker and more irresistable every day. The band is basically Jon Hamm's beard in rock and roll form.

Here is a new music video for the studio version of "Sleep is Forget," a tune that first surfaced on the excellent live cassette Plays Cosmic Hits.

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Homedrone: The Weekly Three: Spoon, The Unicorns, New God

By Gabe Vodicka | August 4, 2014 11:19am

Spoon

This week's new discoveries from the great beyond:

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Homedrone: The Weekly Three: Joyce Manor, Stephen Steinbrink, Twin Peaks

By Gabe Vodicka | July 29, 2014 12:32pm

Stephen Steinbrink

This week's new discoveries from the great beyond:

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Homedrone: The Weekly Three: Wolves in the Throne Room, Shabazz Palaces, Braid

By Gabe Vodicka | July 14, 2014 12:42pm

Shabazz Palaces

This week's new discoveries from the great beyond:

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Homedrone: Hear a Track from Harvey Milk Bassist Stephen Tanner's New LP

By Gabe Vodicka | July 10, 2014 11:33am

Photo Credit: John Fell

Local sludge/doom/post-comedic metal trio Harvey Milk has been "on hiatus" since 2010's bleak, bone-crushing, career-defining A Small Turn of Human Kindness—which, BTW, you can stream on Bandcamp, along with much of the band's back catalog.

But fans of the group have reason to celebrate today, as it has been revealed that HM bassist Stephen Tanner—he of unkempt mane and perpetually befuddled facial expression—has constructed a solo LP under the name Music Blues (!). Inspired in part by a bout of depression brought on after the death of Tanner's friend (and former Maserati drummer) Jerry Fuchs, Things Haven't Gone Well is out Aug. 26 via Thrill Jockey, and you can pre-order the album on "shit-brown vinyl" here.

Noisey's got the premiere of "91771," the record's leadoff track, along with an extended Q&A with Tanner, who recorded the album in Athens while staying at HM frontman Creston Spiers' house but now lives in New York City. Below, stream the song and check out some of the best bits from the interview:

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