Blog Topic: Video

Culture Briefs: Here's Even MORE Footage of Athens in the '90s

By Gabe Vodicka | October 2, 2013 4:49pm

Three means it's a trend, right?

Granted, the above video has been online for several years; still, it's worth a watch in the wake of those other recent discoveries. Uploaded by YouTube user Chip Woods and titled "Driving Through Athens - 1991," is, for the first couple minutes, exactly what the title suggests.

But then it shifts gears, and there's something about the overwhelming silence, coupled with the bird's eye view of a downtown street, the impossibly '90s parking-deck graffiti (sample: "YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS!") and the competing realization that wow, nothing really ever changes—it makes the clip feel more poignant than maybe it ought to.

Plus: Vernon Thornsberry, captured from above.

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Homedrone: Hear a Song from Ruby the RabbitFoot's Normaltown Records Debut

By Gabe Vodicka | October 2, 2013 2:31pm

Today Normaltown Records announced their latest signee: local outfit Ruby the RabbitFoot. The group, led by songwriter Ruby Kendrick, established itself with the No Weight No Chain LP, a solid collection of folky pop tunes that centered on Kendrick's airy sense of melody.

But if "Coffee & Honey," a video for which can be streamed after the jump, is any indication, the band's Normaltown debut—said to be called New as Dew and out spring 2014—will be a vast departure for the group.

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Homedrone: Here's Some More Video of Athens in the '90s

By Gabe Vodicka | October 1, 2013 11:57am

Another day, another time capsule. The video above comes from reader Chip Shirley, who says:

I shot and edited this as a 'would be' monthly TV show for a local Athens channel that went out of business just as I had it finished. For years I thought the files were corrupted and useless. I just discovered that it was my equipment for playback that was malfunctioning. For all the great Athens artists who let me record them I have this brief offering and great thanks. Hope you enjoy!

The charming but rather awkwardly edited 25-minute clip features footage of Widespread Panic's infamous "Panic in the Streets" concert, as well as music videos from Jucifer and Leguano and live footage of the 8-Track Gorilla.

Cue nostalgia train in 3, 2, 1…

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Culture Briefs: This Stirring Georgia Football Promo is Actually Worth Watching

By Gabe Vodicka | September 27, 2013 4:47pm

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Homedrone: Bro-on-Bro Violence in Muuy Biien's New Video

By Gabe Vodicka | September 27, 2013 12:58pm

Here's a newly released video from local punks Muuy Biien, for the track "Another Degradation," from the band's 2012 album This is What Your Mind Imagines. The black-and-white clip for the 49-second tune features members of the band and several of their former Birdhouse colleagues wrasslin' each other to the ground.

Video after the jump.

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Homedrone: This Belle and Sebastian Video Was Filmed in Athens in 1998

By Gabe Vodicka | September 17, 2013 1:31pm

During a chat last week with Elf Power frontman Andrew Rieger (look for that Q&A online and in the paper tomorrow), the subject of the upcoming Neutral Milk Hotel tour came up. It led to a mention of filmmaker/Jackass collaborator Lance Bangs, an E6 pal who shot the now-famous Live at Jittery Joe's performance, which in turn prompted an offhand recollection from Rieger of a Belle and Sebastian music video that Bangs shot in Athens around the same time.

Above, watch that video, for the Boy With the Arab Strap tune "Dirty Dream #2," and revel in the sunlit, forever-young glory that was—and, despite the steady townie hang-wringing over things like politics, preservation and big box stores, still very much is—Athens.

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Homedrone: Relive Jason Aldean's Sanford Stadium Show with Night Train to Georgia

By Gabe Vodicka | September 13, 2013 11:07am

Back in April, country megastar Jason Aldean made history as the first musical act to play between the hedges with his "Night Train" tour. The show, which featured guest appearances from Ludacris and Kelly Clarkson, was by all measures a smashing success.

Now, the singer is releasing a concert film documenting the experience. The aptly named Night Train to Georgia is out Oct. 15 and available for pre-order now (though why would you wanna do a thing like that), and yesterday fans "unlocked" the DVD's cover art by retweeting Walmart. That's some goddamn SYNERGY!

After the jump, watch the trailer.

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Homedrone: Video: Mumford & Sons Try to Snap Pics at Clermont Lounge, Get the Ol' Heave-Ho

By Gabe Vodicka | September 12, 2013 11:41am

This hilarious bit of news is being picked up by everyone from Creative Loafing to TMZ, but it's worth noting that the original scoop came from Starcasm, whose source was none other than Athens' Uncle Pizza, aka Jubee of Jubee and the Morning After. Because he was there, for some reason.

After earnest, old-timey-ish folk-rock outfit Mumford & Sons played Centennial Olympic Park Tuesday night, they did what all celebrities visiting Atlanta do: they ate at Antico went to the Clermont Lounge, that dimly lit bastion of middle-aged stripperdom.

Read on after the jump.

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Homedrone: Here's a Panda Twerking to Big Freedia

By Gabe Vodicka | September 9, 2013 12:02pm

Big Freedia

Former Flagpole music editor Michelle Davis, who's currently in Washington, D.C. on some fancy law-school internship, shot this video of a panda bear twerking to Big Freedia's "Ass Azz Everywhere" at the Smithsonian's National Zoo:

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In the Loop: Watch Oconee Street Methodist's Steeple Topple

By Blake Aued | August 29, 2013 12:49pm

Joe Dennis, the PR coordinator for Oconee Street United Methodist Church, submitted this video of theburned church's steeple being torn down.

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