Blog Topic: Video

Homedrone: Old Smokey Gets Back to Nature With New Video

By Gabe Vodicka | August 28, 2013 4:03pm

Hey there. You doin' alright? Work got you down? Here's a relaxing new Old Smokey video to help you ease into the latter part of the week.

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Homedrone: Watch the Album Trailer for Shonna Tucker's A Tell All

By Gabe Vodicka | August 28, 2013 11:22am

The debut record from Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy, A Tell All, is out Oct. 15. It's gonna be good. You can stream three tracks from it here, and pre-order that shit over here.

Below, watch the album trailer, in which Tucker talks about her writing process and the new record ("I think everyone's gonna dig it") and the band runs through some of them sweet, sweet tunes.

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Culture Briefs: Whet Your Appetite for Destruction with ESPN's UGA-Clemson Trailer

By Gabe Vodicka | August 26, 2013 3:53pm

Destruction of the Clemson Tigers, that is. AMIRITE?

Some of us over here on Foundry Street are pretty damn pumped for this Saturday's Georgia-Clemson matchup. To further fan the flames of our fandom, ESPN has been playing the commercial below as a trailer of sorts for the game.

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Homedrone: Watch a New Chris Ezelle Video

By Gabe Vodicka | August 26, 2013 11:07am

Photo Credit: Josie Ballard Ezelle

Chris Ezelle

Local singer-songwriter Chris Ezelle's record Monticello was one of the coolest surprises of this past spring, a somewhat experimental take on Americana that explored the murkiest corners of Southern folk and blues music.

Back in March, we premiered the video for "The Loveless Cafe," a "weirdly eerie" song whose visual accompaniment was similarly unsettling. Below, watch another Monticello clip. This one's for "As Far As the Gas Can Go," a snail-paced dirge from the album. It's a highly surreal, black-and-white affair.

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In the Loop: UPDATED: Possibly Plagiarized Speech Inspires Georgia Tech Students to Even Greater Heights of Nerdiness

By Blake Aued | August 22, 2013 8:43pm

You have got to see Georgia Tech sophomore Nick Selby's welcome to the North Avenue trade school's 2013 freshman class (below the jump). It's like a battle speech from Braveheart re-enacted by Screech from "Saved by the Bell" and scored by Richard Strauss.

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Homedrone: Watch Scab Queen's Vaporous 'Wind Torn' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | August 19, 2013 2:00pm

Local sound artist Michael Lauden has been on a tear with his Scab Queen project of late, releasing two pretty remarkable EPs, Brags and Bodies, in as many months (read Flagpole's dual review). Today, Lauden sent over the link to a video for "Wind Torn," a two-part Bodies track that recalls early Animal Collective in all its looping, pastoral, psychedelic glory.

Watch:

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Homedrone: Washed Out's Ernest Greene Shows off Athens Home Studio

By Gabe Vodicka | August 1, 2013 11:18am

In this just-released installment of the Creators Project video series, Ernest Greene (pictured above) of synthpop outfit Washed Out describes the instrumentation and processes behind his upcoming album Paracosm, out Aug. 12 via Sub Pop. In the video, Greene, who is newly relocated to Athens, shows off his home studio and also visits Atlanta's Tree Sound for a chat with owner Paul Diaz.

Watch after the jump:

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Homedrone: Watch MTV's Athens-Based Web Pilot

By Gabe Vodicka | July 25, 2013 12:21pm

Remember when all those MTV cameras were filming you a few months ago? Turns out it was for a new web series—for the media giant's new MTV Other venture—called "This is the Place." The pilot episode, set in Athens, was posted today. Watch it below.

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Homedrone: Watch The Humms' 'Sleepy' New Video

By Gabe Vodicka | July 9, 2013 3:20pm

Here's a hypnotic new clip from the garage-psych freax over in the HUMMS camp.

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Culture Briefs: Patterson Hood, Nancy Denson, Spencer Frye, Others Talk Mayonnaise

By Gabe Vodicka | July 9, 2013 2:31pm

In this promo video for the upcoming Tomatoes at Terrapin fundraiser, the local brewery's annual benefit for the Athens Nurses Clinic—you can eat tomato sandwiches and drink beer while supporting a good cause and who doesn't like all those things—local celebrities debate the merits of mayonnaise.

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