Blog Topic: New Music

Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Kwazymoto, 'Defamed Fatale' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | August 22, 2017 10:33am

Athens garage-punk group Kwazymoto has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on a new full-length titled Limerance Land—the successor to last year's On Mount Rennie—which it plans to release Friday, Oct. 13.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Timi & Wonderland Rangers, 'Baby's Bread (Hard Times)'

By Gabe Vodicka | August 10, 2017 10:42am

Photo Credit: Ann Conley

Local singer-songwriter Timi Conley is perhaps best known as the founder and spiritual ambassador of the annual Wild Rumpus celebration, but Athenians also know him for his tireless exploration of the funky far reaches of pop. With Kite to the Moon and, more recently, Timi & Wonderland Rangers, Conley crafts thoughtful, ecstatic music designed to make crowds move.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Hand Sand Hands, 'Vowels'

By Gabe Vodicka | June 27, 2017 10:25am

Photo Credit: Annie Marcum

Jon Miller

Local band Hand Sand Hands—the exploratory solo project of musician Jon Miller—has maintained a low profile since releasing the Flagpole fave Good Luck With That in 2014. Now, Miller is set to return with a full-length follow-up, Bad Mountain, out July 7 via Athens label Arrowhawk Records.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Big Morgan, 'Crater'

By Gabe Vodicka | June 23, 2017 10:42am

Photo Credit: Allie Duke

Local rock band Big Morgan formed a few years back and quickly became a favorite of the house-party set, thanks to its manic energy and appealingly goofy songwriting. Though the band's members are arguably better known for their other projects—Juan de Fuca, Trip Lacy and Mad Ace among them—Big Morgan remains an outlet for their more primal rock and roll desires.

Today, we're psyched to premiere a new Big Morgan tune, "Crater." It's from the band's upcoming debut LP, Superpunch!, out later this summer. Stream it below:

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: The Eskimos, 'Surf's Down'

By Gabe Vodicka | June 20, 2017 10:12am

Photo Credit: Sean Dunn

Athens-based psych-rock band The Eskimos called it quits in 2002, but quietly reformed in recent years, after frontman Drew Sinclair's karaoke rendition of an ABBA tune drew rave reviews from fellow patrons at a Decatur, AL bar. Or so the band would have you believe.

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Homedrone: Twenty Athens Bands Contribute Songs to Anti-Trump Compilation

By Gabe Vodicka | June 16, 2017 1:28pm

Artwork by Graham Shirley.

In February, not long after President Trump was inaugurated, two area recording studios—engineer Mike Albanese's Espresso Machine in Athens and Jay Rodgers' Full Moon in Watkinsville—invited 20 local groups over for a marathon weekend-long recording session, during which the bands laid down new songs inspired by the election and its aftermath.

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Homedrone: Stream New Songs From Elf Power, Tunabunny, Art Contest

By Gabe Vodicka | May 4, 2017 10:30am

Art Contest

Looking for new sounds to stream on this cool, cloudy Thursday? Lucky for you, Flagpole dot com has you covered. Here's a sneak peek at three upcoming local records we're pretty dang excited about:

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Nihilist Cheerleader, 'And She Takes It'

By Gabe Vodicka | April 28, 2017 4:18pm

Photo Credit: Mary Merritt

If there's been one band on seemingly everyone's lips lately, it's Nihilist Cheerleader. The young punk four-piece has earned a loyal local fanbase thanks to a scrappy, melodic sound, lyrics that alternate seamlessly between playful and political, and a beyond-their-years comprehension of musical tension and release.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Einschlagen, 'Wolf Tooth'

By Gabe Vodicka | March 9, 2017 10:51am

Athens-based post-punk band Einschlagen is readying the release of its first album, Not Angry, Disappointed, tracked at The Glow Recording Studio and out Monday, Mar. 13 via band member Taylor Chicoine's Perfect Attendance Records.

Today, we're pumped to premiere the record's lead single, the glassy, agile "Wolf Tooth," which features vocals from group newcomer Aubry Meers. Stream it below:

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: murk daddy flex, 'Morgan Middleton, Vox Populi'

By Gabe Vodicka | January 24, 2017 3:43pm

The last we heard from the Classic City's foremost wizard of lo-fi beatscapes, murk daddy flex, aka Terence Chiyezhan, he was bowling Athens over with the Genesis LP, which we called "a kaleidoscopic stew of hip hop beats, global style and multi-genre finesse" in our 2014 review, and which landed at No. 4 in our list of that year's best local records.

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