Blog Topic: New Music

Homedrone: On the Rise: Hear a New Recording from Pinecones

By Gabe Vodicka | May 28, 2014 1:55pm

Got a sec? Let's talk about Pinecones. The mysterious Athens/Atlanta-split four-piece snuck up on the scene in February with Plays Cosmic Hits, a riff-heavy (and uncharacteristically clean) recording pulled from a WUOG "Live in the Lobby" set and released on local imprint Southern Vision via cassette. (That's the album art above.)

I'm not sure how to describe the group's raspy, repetitious rock and roll other than to say it is no goddamn joke. It's also tremendously exciting. The songs on Play Cosmic Hits cull from bands like Lungfish, Wire and The Ex but feel exhilaratingly fresh—maybe because those sorts of no-nonsense, guitar-centric acts haven't been culled from in a while around these parts. (A certain wife of mine thinks the singer's voice kinda sounds like the dude from Silverchair, which I don't wholly disagree with but also don't wholly dislike.)

Pinecones is currently in the studio working on a proper debut, but you can hear a brand new, rock-solid recording of "Cosmosis," a version of which showed up on Plays Cosmic Hits, below:

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Homedrone: Hear Another New Song From Circulatory System

By Gabe Vodicka | May 27, 2014 12:03pm

Photo Credit: Stacey-Marie Piotrowski

Circulatory System

While the world hotly awaits Mosaics Within Mosaics, the third LP from local psych-pop legends Circulatory System, the band has gone and leaked a second song from the 31-track beast of a record. "Stars and Molecules" follows the dense "If You Think About it Now," and is boozier and woozier than its counterpart.

Stream below via the snuggly lovelies at Team Clermont:

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Homedrone: Listen: murk daddy flex Remixes American Football

By Gabe Vodicka | May 16, 2014 4:44pm

American Football

In what has become a familiar move for second-wave emo acts of late, the Mike Kinsella-led indie outfit American Football recently announced it would be reconvening for its first live shows in a decade-and-a-half. The band's sole, self-titled album is also receiving a deluxe reissue courtesy of Polyvinyl.

A couple weeks ago, local beatsmith murk daddy flex dropped a surprise remix of "The Summer Ends," American Football's aching, snaking second track. (Hear the original here.) Today, the YouTube clip picked up traction, with Polyvinyl shouting it out on the label's Facebook page.

Not a surprise: It's really something. Check it out below:

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Homedrone: Hear a New Song from Reptar

By Gabe Vodicka | May 8, 2014 10:34am

It seems like forever since we've heard new music from the local synth-pop miscreants inReptar. A quick check reveals that Body Faucet, the group's Vagrant debut (Flagpole review), came out a whole two years ago. That is, indeed, an eternity.

So it came as a pleasant surprise when member William Kennedy posted a link to the band's SoundCloud page on his Facebook page with the following comment:

wowwwweeeeee reptar's got some new musak yall fer de first time in a sec! the A-side of a soon to be released 7" on Quality Faucet Records its gonna be super k00l listen now

You heard the man. Stream the dense, magnetic "Daily Season" after the jump.

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Homedrone: Watch a Warm and Fuzzy New Video From the Warm Fuzzies

By Gabe Vodicka | May 2, 2014 12:12pm

Photo Credit: Mike White

The unabashed Weezer fanatics that make up local power-pop band The Warm Fuzzies craft hook-heavy tunes that are, well, pretty true to the group's name. So it should come as no surprise that the video for "Oregon," a track from the Fuzzies' brand new album, Extinction, is pretty dang warm and fuzzy.

See for yourself after the jump.

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Homedrone: On the Rise: Watch a New Video from Mothers

By Gabe Vodicka | April 22, 2014 4:03pm

Over the past several months, singer-songwriter Kristine Leschper—a.k.a. Mothers—has firmly established herself as one of Athens music's most essential new acts. Armed with only her formidable voice and one stringed instrument or another, Leschper crafts spare, striking folk tunes that often call to mind Angel Olsen at her most quietly devastating.

After the jump, check out a video of Leschper performing a new tune, "Get Around." The mandolin-powered song, like most of Mothers' output, bobs and weaves before ultimately landing with a crushing emotional left hook. "Tell me when you've had enough," she sings, more dare than reassurance.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres! k i d s: 'were Next Door /III/'

By Gabe Vodicka | April 15, 2014 12:37pm

Local psych-pop crew k i d s, the brainchild of songwriter K. Jared Collins, has been largely inactive for the past several months, but as it turns out, Collins and his rotating supporting cast have just been busy prepping a brand-new album—the looooong-awaited follow-up to last year's live LP are US—appropriately titled Take Forever. Peep the flowery cover art above. The record will be out digitally May 15, but the band is taking pre-orders now via Bandcamp.

The cassette version of Take Forever costs $7; the vinyl version will run ya $17. Collins aims to have the album pressed to white vinyl and ready to ship out in June.

Both pre-orders come with an immediate download of the song "were Next Door /III/," which you can stream after the jump. The tune hints at a scuzzy new direction for the once-R&B-inflected groove-pop crew.

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Homedrone: Watch a New Video from Sam Sniper

By Gabe Vodicka | April 10, 2014 1:44pm

In February, we gave you the first taste of Throwing Rocks, the new album from grunge-rockers Sam Sniper. Now, the group has released a video for "Nothing is Wrong," the album's second single. It's an upbeat and melodic jam, very much in line with the band's stated '90s rock steez.

Check it after the jump.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres! murk daddy flex: 'Glass Music'

By Gabe Vodicka | April 10, 2014 12:57pm

It's no secret that we at Flagpole have a little critical crush on murk daddy flex, the hip hop producer alter ego of local musician Terence Chiyezhan. His first official full-length, MDF, landed at No. 2 on our 2013 Top 10 list. We asked him to play our AthFest showcase last summer. And we got all hot and bothered when he posted a couple teaser clips from his upcoming LP, Genesis, late last year. (That's the album cover above.)

Now, we're tickled pink to provide an exclusive premiere of the first single from Genesis—which drops sometime this summer in CD and cassette form via Pizza Tomb Records—the utterly divine "Glass Music." The dense, immersive tune is a departure from mdf's prior work in tone and focus; where before there was tape hiss and muddied jazz samples, now there is booming low end and crystal-clear treble, well-placed empty space and earth-toned organics.

Check out the song, and the album's tracklist, after the jump.

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Homedrone: Watch a New Video from Cottonmouth, Playing Go Bar Wednesday

By Gabe Vodicka | April 8, 2014 11:46am

After the demise of the Birdhouse Collection, several acts associated with the volatile and experimental-minded musical collective either imploded or went silent. But there have been rumblings of rebirth of late, with goth-punk faves Muuy Biien dropping a stellar second LP later this month and garage-pop miscreants k i d s re-tooling their lineup and sound (yet again) and readying a new album, reportedly called Take Forever.

Cottonmouth, Jacob Deel's noise/beats/avant-pop/whatever project, is back, as well. Last week, Deel released the Skin EP, the precursor to an upcoming full-length titled Man-Cub. That's the cover art above; you can listen to the EP here. After the jump, check out a rather disturbing new music video for "Firce," the record's industrial-inspired opening track.

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