Blog Topic: Video

Culture Briefs: UGA Football's Preseason Hype Video Will Make You Weep Like a Baby

By Gabe Vodicka | August 27, 2014 1:35pm

Football—particularly college football—comes with a metric ton of baggage. What's happening to these poor players' brains? Why aren't they paid? Are their First Amendment rights being violated, to boot? And why the hell are nonconference SEC schedules soinsubstantial?

But. Forget all that negative stuff for three minutes and watch the warm, beautifully shot, faith-in-humanity-restoring, holy-shit-we're-gonna-win-a-championship-aren't-we 2014 Georgia football hype video below.

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In the Loop: Watch Video of Gov. Nathan Deal Telling UGA Students He Presumes They're Undocumented

By Blake Aued | August 27, 2014 12:06pm

From left, Kevin Ruiz, Carver Goodhue, Preethi Raja and Lizbeth Miranda. Photo via Sarah Young/Twitter

Last night, Flagpole broke news about four University of Georgia students who challenged Gov. Nathan Deal at a College Republicans meeting about the state ban on undocumented students attending UGA. We obtained video of the confrontation this morning.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Old Smokey, 'Vacant Lot' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | August 26, 2014 2:52pm

Avant-folk group Old Smokey released a stunning sleeper of a record, Wester Easter, in April via Cloud. (Read our feature on the band here.) Now, we're happy to premiere the music video for "Vacant Lot," a taut and textural tune from the album.

Says frontman Jim Willingham of the clip, directed by former Flagpole scribe John Britt:

We shot it up in a quarry somewhere between Carlton and Elberton about 45 minutes north of Athens. We also used a location of an amazing vintage/antique/junk market run by our friend in Carlton. Most of the latter half of the video takes place in the owner Jimmy's fantastical sculpture garden.

Watch below:

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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: Video: Patterson Hood Takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

By Gabe Vodicka | August 21, 2014 1:09pm

It has *gulp* reached our shores.

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Homedrone: Yes, That's Ruby the RabbitFoot Holding Hands With Macklemore in This Music Video

By Gabe Vodicka | August 12, 2014 12:38pm

Seattle band Fences unveiled a music video for their song "Arrows" yesterday. The tune features Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, which in and of itself is not news, even if we gave a hoot; all those folks have worked together before.

But Athens residents watching the clip were surprised to see a familiar face among the highly stylized, Wes Anderson-like sets and confusing circus imagery. Yes, that's local singer-songwriter Ruby Kendrick—aka Ruby the RabbitFoot—holding hands with Mr. 'More in the still above.

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Homedrone: New Green Gerry LP Coming Soon; Watch a Video for 'La La Lonely Maria #1'

By Gabe Vodicka | August 7, 2014 11:00am

Though songwriter Gerry Green now resides in Los Angeles, he got his musical start in Athens, wowing crowds around town with his psych-tinged folk-pop and helping to establish the volatile local arts collective Birdhouse Collection before splitting for the West Coast.

As Green Gerry, Green has released two stellar LPs, 2010's Odd Tymes and last year's King Baby (Flagpole review); both showcase the songwriter's ear for strange melody and not-of-this-world lyricism.

Now, local video company Dominar has released a very dirty (you'll see) music video for "La La Lonely Maria #1," a pop-forward King Baby tune.

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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: Watch Vice's 'Made in Athens' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | July 28, 2014 2:23pm

Patterson Hood

Filmmaker (and former Athens resident) Lance Bangs is working with Vice music blog Noisey on a Budweiser-sponsored video series titled "Made in America." Each episode spotlights a different U.S. city, with a particular focus on said city's music scene.

Last month, Bangs and crew journeyed to Athens to shoot footage for a Classic City episode. Today, Noisey premiered the end result.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres! Don Chambers: 'Grow Back Into the Ground' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | July 25, 2014 10:55am

Photo Credit: Jason Thrasher

After releasing a quiet and meditative solo album, 2013's A Sudden Loss of Elevation, local songwriter Don Chambers assembled a crack backing group and got weird. Disquietude, out earlier this year, was an unwieldy collection of textured folk tunes, industrial noise pieces and other back-room experimentations.

As a whole, it sounded a bit like a mind slowly unraveling, and the video for "Grow Back Into the Ground," which you can stream below, doesn't do much to restore confidence in Chambers' psychic fortitude. The stark, creepy clip matches up nicely with the song's haunted folk vibe.

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