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Today’s Air Loaf features Max Arbes and CL’s Chad Radford chatting about this week’s upcoming shows, including the Deerhunter record release party at the Variety Playhouse (Fri., Oct. 31), the Spooks record release party at Star Bar (Fri., Oct 31), Jay Reatard at Lenny’s (Sat., Nov. 1), and the Legendary Pink Dots at the Earl (Sat., Nov. 1).

Check out Sound Menu for a more comprehensive list of upcoming shows.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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1) Nine Inch Nails and Deerhunter perform at the Arena at Gwinnett Center.

2) The Beach Boys perform at Chastain Park Amphitheater.

3) Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure opens at Theatre in the Square.

4) Linda Robertson discusses and signs her memoir, What Rhymes with Bastard?.

5) Jack Johnson, Rouge Wave and Neil Halstead perform at Lakewood Amphitheatre.

(Photo by Kristin Klein)

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We got a friendly homecoming suprise [sic] last night in Atlanta when Lockett and I got robbed at gunpoint after our show at Lenny’s last night.

-Bradford Cox, of Atlanta rock band Deerhunter, was robbed outside Lenny’s early Sunday along with bandmate Lockett Pundt.

What is the message here? If you live in a poor or immigrant community and are a victim of a crime, you’d better not call the police, or you will probably spend the day down at the jail while they run a background check on you, regardless of whether you are here legally or not.

-DecaturGuy at Atlanta Public Affairs on local police policies that may discourage Latinos from reporting crimes. (Note, I think the arrest DecaturGuy mentions was in Carrollton, not Cobb County.)

Pimp implies in the Ozone interview that R&B singer Ne-Yo is gay, claims that Atlanta is not in the south because “Atlanta is on East Coast time” and accuses certain unnamed rappers (fans are guessing Young Jeezy) of turning his back on powerhouse label BMF after drug charges.

-The HipHop Cosign on Houston rapper Pimp C’s in-print dissing of Atlanta

That settles it. If Pimp C doesn’t like it here, I’m moving.

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DEERHUNTER AT THE EARL ON SATURDAY: Blue man sings the whites.

Saturday’s sold-out show at the Earl in East Atlanta featured not just one, but two rock-snob favorites.

Brooklyn’s the Fiery Furnaces headlined. Led by brother-and-sister duo Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, the group makes “experimental” pop music, by which I mean music that is both grating and unpopular. I like it though.

Local favorites Deerhunter managed to get the writers at Pitchfork to stop fellating them long enough to open the show. Live, the band forgoes the dreaminess and textures of its records, swapping for an amps-to-11 wall of sound. I like it, too. But my ears are still ringing.

(Photo by Andisheh Nouraee)

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