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• Live Review: Islands, WHY?, Gemina Pearl Band, Au @ Lenny's, October 31
  For years Hope Sandoval's heavyhearted velvet voice has been a method for my friends and I to find beauty in our darker moments... Read More
  
  
• Live Review: Kurt Vile and the Violators, Lovvers, Carnivores @ 529, November 3
  Carnivores are my new favorite local band. After rising from the ashes of the now-defunct Chainestereo, they've re-formed with renewed vigor and have plenty to show for it... Read More
  
  
• CD Review: Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard -- One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
  Beatnik Jack Kerouac was all about rants and raves. His sentences had no structure and, often, no coherent thought process... Read More
  
  
• CD Review: New Moon Soundtrack
  What a difference a sequel makes. Now that the first Twilight movie has made its millions, everyone has signed up to be on the sequel's soundtrack, creating a nice time capsule piece for the state of indie rock in 2009... Read More
  
  
• Atlanta bands on Twitter
  Here's a list of all the Atlanta bands and venues we found on Twitter (so far)... Read More
  
  
• Keni Thomas singing the National Anthem at the World Series
  I first met Keni Thomas around 2000 when I was in my band Film. His band at the time was Cornbread... Read More
  
  
• Leila's Three Picks of the Week - Halloween Edition!
  Here's what I'd be checking out this weekend for Halloween if I were you... Read More
  
  
• Van Hunt and Patterson Hood Just Announced for Andrews Upstairs Shows
  This upcoming month is an exciting one for Andrews Upstairs... Read More
  
  
• Ticket Alternative Gains New Client - Gateway Event Center in McDonough, Georgia; First Event is Sammy Kershaw, November 7
  We're excited to announce that the Gateway Event Center in McDonough, Ga. is now a Ticket Alternative venue... Read More
  
  
• New Whirlyball Show Announced: Stellastarr*, November 17!
  Atlanta hipsters will already be very aware of the legendary Whirlyball gigs Chunklet have been putting on for many a year...Read More
  
  
• CD Review: The Low Anthem -- Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
  The Low Anthem recorded Oh My God, Charlie Darwin in a log cabin in the middle of a harsh Rhode Island winter... Read More
  
  
• The Atlanta Creative Projects' Night of Music and Photography, November 6
  Local photographer Neda Abghari has been putting together some great pieces for the Atlanta Creatives Project, which features some of Atlanta's greatest DJs and producers (like Dres The Beatnik and Rob Wonder) photographed in their studios with the favorite childhood objects... Read More
  
  
• Music Man--What's Next?
  I recently asked a group of people who I knew to be true music fans what they thought the next wave of music will be... Read More
  
  
• Young Blood Gallery and Boutique Launch Online Store INDI-e BOUTIQUE, Throw a Party
  Atlanta's Young Blood Gallery and Boutique in the Poncey-Highland 'hood is launching their online store INDI-e BOUTIQUE on November 7, and are throwing a party to celebrate... Read More
  
  

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Feature: Live Review: Y-O-U's Last Show, October 10 @ Smith's Olde Bar

• By Leila Regan-Porter
  
  I really should have written this weeks ago. But it's been a bit of a tough one to write. It's fair to say that I have been putting it off.
  
  Let me begin by saying I don't like reading "personal" reviews with first person references. Unless it's on your own blog, or you have a column specific to you, then there should be no appearance of the dreaded "I." This is obviously an exception. Y-O-U was one of the first - if not the first - local band I ever became a true fan of. They were the first band I wanted to put on the cover of the magazine I used to edit, Southeast Performer. And now they are the first local band I admired to break up.
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