Blog Topic: Video

Homedrone: Behold Immaterial Possession’s Surreal Super 8 Film for ‘Midnight Wander’

By Jessica Smith | May 15, 2020 3:30pm

Immaterial Possession has just released a new single for “Midnight Wander,” a surreal black-and-white music video shot on Super 8 film. The video beautifully showcases the artistic talent and performative nature of members Cooper Holmes, Madeline Polites and Kiran Fernandes, who outside of Immaterial Possession, perform together in the abstract theater troupe Peepa Show. Joined by drummer John Spiegel, the band creates a psychedelic world full of optical illusions, mystical characters and hand-painted sets.

The mysterious, entrancing song will appear on Immaterial Possession’s debut album, which is on track for a digital release through Cloud Recordings on July 24 and a physical release later on.

Below, watch the new video for “Midnight Wander.”

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Torchiana, ‘Tilt’

By Jessica Smith | May 2, 2020 2:00pm

Matthew Torchiana Hoban

Originally from outside Philadelphia, where he went to school for music engineering and later fine arts, Matthew Hoban relocated to Athens this past August to pursue a MFA at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Inspired by the lineage of lo-fi rock, including Elephant 6 bands, he’s been songwriting for over a decade and home recording for nearly as long. His project Torchiana—which borrows his mother’s maiden name and his own middle name—takes a hallucinatory psych folk singer-songwriter approach.

Below, check out a new video for “Tilt,” a single off of his upcoming album.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Joe Willey and the Movin’ Men Cover ‘Sister Morphine’ In Socially Distanced Video

By Jessica Smith | May 1, 2020 12:00pm

Nelita Rose and Joe Willey / George and Yuria Hatori

Responding to the COVID-19 crisis, local musician Joe Wiley has collaborated with a handful of notable names to create a music video that follows the suggested guidelines of sheltering in place.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Dope KNife, ‘Life in Bottles’

By Jessica Smith | April 30, 2020 12:00pm

Dope KNife

Released on 420, Dope KNife’s new EP, Breakbeats n’ Vandalism, is a collection of seven boom bap tracks that show off the rapper and producer’s versatile songwriting ability. Not to be mistaken for throwaways, these recordings represent sonic or narrative ideas that stand independently from his previous albums, which have carried cohesive, intentional moods and themes.

Below, watch a new video for “Life in Bottles.”

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Space Brother, 'Silhouettes'

By Jessica Smith | April 25, 2020 12:00am

Space Brother

Space Brother has just dropped a new album, Question Eternal?, via Bear Tooth Collective today. Self-produced, mixed and mastered by Donald Whitehead, the album represents two long years of writing far out goodness.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Baby Tony and The Teenies, 'Desolate Hills'

By Jessica Smith | April 24, 2020 12:00pm

Photo Credit: Sara-Anne Waggoner

Baby Tony and The Teenies

It’s undetermined when or how Baby Tony and The Teenies new album, Baby’s Got It, will be released, but bandmates Eli Saragoussi and Max Boyd have decided to go ahead and put a nice little teaser out into the universe.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Nicholas Mallis & The Borealis at the Pity Party

By Jessica Smith | April 23, 2020 5:30pm

Nicholas Mallis & The Borealis

Though we won’t have Nicholas Mallis & The Borealis’ in-person album release party—originally slated for Sunday, Apr. 26 at Buvez—to look forward to this week, we can take a look back to the glam pop band’s set at The Pity Party from a few months ago. “Habitable World” is a spacey dance track and a much-needed mental escape.

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In the Loop: Mayor Girtz Urges Athens Residents to Stay Home

By Blake Aued | April 21, 2020 1:02pm

Photo Credit: Chris Scredon

Athens-Clarke County Mayor Kelly Girtz is urging local residents to keep sheltering in place and businesses to stay closed despite Gov. Brian Kemp saying that some businesses can begin to reopen later this week.

Girtz appeared on CNN this morning to discuss Kemp partially lifting his statewide shelter-in-place order.

"I'm exhorting everybody in this community to continue sheltering in place. Do not reopen," he said. "It's like telling your quarterback, 'We don't have a helmet for you, we don't have pads, but just get out on the field and try not to get sacked.'"

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: WesdaRuler Live at the Pity Party

By Jessica Smith | April 16, 2020 4:15pm

WesdaRuler

It’s time for another blast from the past at the Pity Party! Lean back and vibe along to local hip-hop artist WesdaRuler as he’s joined by Louie Larceny during his November set at the beloved house venue.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Nana Grizol, 'Future Version' Video

By Jessica Smith | April 7, 2020 1:30pm

Nana Grizol

Local label Arrowhawk Records announced a new album by folk punk sweethearts Nana Grizol today called South Somewhere Else. Seventeen years in, songwriter Theo Hilton—who moved from Athens to New Orleans in 2016—uses the band’s fourth album to explore ideas pertaining to the Southern queer experience, activism and allyship, and complicated histories of place.

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