Blog Topic: New Music

Homedrone: On the Rise: Hear New Music from Kingsley Bloom, Milk and the Honeys

By Gabe Vodicka | July 3, 2014 11:53am

Kingsley Bloom's Youtometoyou EP

A couple new discoveries to help get you through the last day of the workin' week before the BIG AMERICAN WEEKEND:

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres! Hot Fudge: 'Other Side of the Gates'

By Gabe Vodicka | June 26, 2014 10:24am

Psych-rockers Hot Fudge are gearing up to celebrate the release of a damn solid debut, #1 Tape, this Friday. In advance of the release show, we're pleased as punch to premiere the album's second single, which you can stream below.

"Other Side of the Gates" follows the pumped-up "To Be One Ask One," which you heard way back in January. Where "To Be One" was tightly wound, scuzzed-out and power-poppy, the new tune is a lovely, extended, somewhat Floydian psych jam that ends in a raucous guitar assaul

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres! Semicircle: 'Underground River of Glass'

By Gabe Vodicka | June 19, 2014 12:47pm

Since 2010, Reptar drummer Andrew McFarland has operated on the side under the nameSemicircle, attaching the moniker to "any number of little projects and experiments I did," he says, before deciding to transform it into a sort of performance art project. Early on, McFarland brought a rotating cast of characters into the fold in hopes of maintaining a vibrant, if admittedly volatile, creative atmosphere.

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Homedrone: Glow Studio's Jesse Mangum Launches Label, Shares New Brothers Track

By Gabe Vodicka | June 18, 2014 1:17pm

Best known for manning the boards at The Glow Recording Studio just outside of town, engineer Jesse Mangum (a finalist in this year's Flagpole Athens Music Awards, BTW) has announced the launch of a new, EP-only record label, MOEKE Records.

Below, you can hear the first taste of the imprint's output, a new tune from local pop group Brothers, a band we included in this week's list of AthFest picks:

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Homedrone: Stream the New Circulatory System Album

By Gabe Vodicka | June 16, 2014 10:53am

Photo Credit: Stacey-Marie Piotrowski

Mosaics Within Mosaics, the upcoming third album from Circulatory System, the local psych-pop band led by songwriter Will Cullen Hart, is officially out June 24 via Cloud (though rumor has it there are already some LP copies available at Wuxtry downtown). Today, you can stream the record in its entirety via NPR, who have some very nice words to say about it, too.

From the NPR post:

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Homedrone: Hear the First Single from Dream Boat's New Album

By Gabe Vodicka | June 4, 2014 12:15pm

Athens/Madison, WI-based duo Dream Boat wowed with its 2012 self-titled debut, a gauzy, blissed-out collection of earthy psych-folk numbers. Now, the group is preparing a follow-up, The Rose Explodes, due out Sept. 16 via local labels Cloud and Arrowhawk.

Below, stream the record's first single, the stonerriffic "Way Out."

While you're at it, click over to Dream Boat's website, which currently features a profoundly trippy homepage loop. I've had it open in a Chrome tab for like 10 minutes now and I don't think I will ever close it.

Dream Boat plays Hendershot's Coffee Bar Saturday, June 21 as part of this year's AthFest Club Crawl.

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Homedrone: New Louie Larceny LP On the Way; Watch the Album Trailer

By Gabe Vodicka | June 2, 2014 3:40pm

Since the demise of Wu-obsessed local hip hop collective Mad Axes, its members have mostly lain low (the notable exception is Austin Darnell, who continues to ply his traditionalist trade with The Darnell Boys). But that doesn't mean they haven't been busy. Recently, chief MC Louie Larceny let it slip to Flagpole that he has a debut solo full-length in the works.

The new stuff is "the dopest material I have ever touched," he says, adding:

This will be a full length album. I am recording it all with Joel Hatstat. Joel is also dropping sonic working-man's-gems all over the record. The album will have many special guests. Along with Jordan, and Joel, guests will include: Ruby the Rabbitfoot, long time Deaf Judge yoga veteran Cubenza, the artist formerly known as "So-Hi", San Francisco based multi-media-artist Mr. Fish and many more… I have been talking with a few former members of Dark Meat (Athens) and Lee Harvey Oswald (Atlanta) to capture some pagan energy on the tape too.

Check out the album trailer below. The clip features a snippet of a tune reportedly titled "White Money," with a beat provided by Jordan Scott of defunct grindcore outfit (and NPR faves) Gripe.

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Homedrone: Stream the New Camper Van Beethoven Album

By Gabe Vodicka | May 30, 2014 11:57am

Photo Credit: Sanna Olsson

Camper Van Beethoven, the long-running, David Lowery-fronted indie outfit, will release its third LP since reuniting a decade ago on June 3 via 429 Records. El Camino Real is described by the band as a counterpart to last year's La Costa Perdida, and features 11 tracks of Cali-inflected pop-rock.

Link to stream after the jump.

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Homedrone: Jay Gonzalez Launches Kickstarter to Fund 'Five-Song Rock Medley,' The Bitter Suite

By Gabe Vodicka | May 29, 2014 3:04pm

Photo Credit: Jason Thrasher

Jay Gonzalez is one of the Athens music community's most underheralded treasures, an unfairly talented songsmith who has delighted audiences around town and beyond for years—first as a member of beloved pop-rock groups like Nutria and The Possibilities and more recently as the Drive-By Truckers' secret weapon.

Then came the strange and wonderful LP Mess of Happiness and, shortly after, the nerdy glory that is the acoustic keytar, and Athens suddenly got the picture that Gonzalez was not just an indispensible asset to the scene but some kind of mad, misunderstood genius, a younger Doc Brown, obsessed with time travel but not in the physical sense, determined through his wild-eyed experimentations to return us to the salad days of saccharine soft-rock.

Now comes the news that Gonzalez has completed a 13-minute, five-song power-pop medley called The Bitter Suite, and he wants to release it on limited-edition 180-gram vinyl with a custom etching on the B-side, because of course he does. Thing is, he needs your help to press the damn thing, because pressing records is expensive. And that's where Kickstarter comes in.

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Homedrone: Stream Another Track from k i d s' New Album

By Gabe Vodicka | May 29, 2014 11:35am

Last month, we gave you the first taste of Take Forever, the new album from psych-pop group k i d s (album art above). "were Next Door /III/" hinted at a grimier new direction for the band, and the album's second single, "The Cat," confirms that development.

Stream "The Cat" below:

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