Blog Topic: Video

Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Athens Rising, Excerpt Four: Taylor Chicoine

By Gabe Vodicka | August 22, 2018 3:08pm

Photo Credit: Athens Rising

The first full-length documentary in a planned series "that aims to celebrate the creative class in the Classic City," Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project chronicles Athens' multifaceted arts and music scenes, with an additional focus on dance, food, comedy, theater, festival culture and more.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Athens Rising, Excerpt Three: Joel Hatstat

By Gabe Vodicka | August 15, 2018 10:30am

Photo Credit: Athens Rising

The first full-length documentary in a planned series "that aims to celebrate the creative class in the Classic City," Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project chronicles Athens' multifaceted arts and music scenes, with an additional focus on dance, food, comedy, theater, festival culture and more.

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Grub Notes: Flagpole Premieres: Athens Rising, Excerpt Two: Chef Garrett Macfalda

By Gabe Vodicka | August 8, 2018 10:38am

Photo Credit: Athens Rising

Garrett Macfalda

The first full-length documentary in a planned series "that aims to celebrate the creative class in the Classic City," Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project chronicles Athens' multifaceted arts and music scenes, with an additional focus on dance, food, comedy, theater, festival culture and more.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Athens Rising, Excerpt One: Volumes Hip Hop

By Gabe Vodicka | August 1, 2018 10:30am

Photo Credit: Athens Rising

The first full-length documentary in a planned series "that aims to celebrate the creative class in the Classic City," Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project chronicles Athens' thriving current arts and music scenes, with an additional focus on dance, food, comedy, theater, festival culture and more.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Wanderwild, 'Day 31' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | June 29, 2018 10:30am

Photo Credit: Alec Stanley

Meticulous local indie-pop outfit Wanderwild released its debut LP, In Due Time, in November, which we called "an artful and ambitious full-length that pulses and shimmers its way through nine thoughtfully composed tracks." Today, we're pleased to premiere a video for the record's glimmering closing number, "Day 31."

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Fairburn Royals, 'Number 5 Radio' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | June 27, 2018 10:38am

A player in Athens' early-aughts melodic-indie-rock scene that centered on bygone venues like Tasty World and spawned fondly remembered acts like The Pendletons and The Eskimos, Fairburn Royals released three albums on Atlanta's Two Sheds Music before calling it quits in 2005. In 2016, singer Matt Lisle returned to Georgia, and the band was reborn.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: Don Chambers, 'Your Lovers' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | May 15, 2018 9:30am

Chameleonic local singer-songwriter Don Chambers is set to release a new album, Love of Oblivion, this Thursday. Featuring contributions from an A-list supporting cast, including members of Drive-By Truckers, the Olivia Tremor Control and Southern Bitch, the record finds Chambers veering away from the ambient textures and guitar chaos of his most recent output towards a soulful, classic rock-inspired sound.

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In the Loop: Bertis Downs on the State of Athens Schools

By Blake Aued | May 12, 2018 1:02pm

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Best known as R.E.M.'s lawyer, Athens resident Bertis Downs has been an advocate for—and become something of an expert on—public education for many years.

With new superintendent Demond Means shaking things up (see Karen Sweeney Gerow and Tommie Farmer's recent op-eds for two differing perspectives on Means' reforms) Downs had some thoughts he wanted to share. But he had difficulty putting them on paper, so instead he made this video and sent it to Flagpole.

In it, Downs advocates for continuing the decentralized approach that the Clarke County School District agreed to pursue when it became a charter system.

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: The Shut-Ups, 'We're Gonna Waste Your Time' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | April 11, 2018 12:11pm

Photo Credit: Tansu

After initially teasing a February release, Athens/Atlanta power-pop crew The Shut-Ups are finally officially dropping their anticipated comeback record, Just Another Generation, this Friday. The album's first single, "Don't Get Me Started," is already available to stream on the group's Bandcamp page, and today we're excited to premiere a video for its earworm of a follow-up, "We're Gonna Waste Your Time."

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In the Loop: Watch the Flagpole/DT Productions Mayoral Forum

By Blake Aued | April 3, 2018 6:44pm

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Last Thursday, Flagpole teamed with local video producers DT Productions and the Red & Black to live-stream a forum featuring mayoral candidates Kelly Girtz, Richie Knight and Harry Sims.

The candidates faced questions from me and fellow moderatoes Lisee Pullara, the R&B's editor in chief, and DT President Andrew Levy on topics ranging from affordable housing to sexual assault to the Athens airport.

About 6,000 people watched the forum live on Facebook and Twitter, but in case you missed it—or it was just so entertaining, you feel compelled to watch it again and again—here it is!

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