Our favorite blog aggregator, Regator, is taking a walk this Friday and we’re coming along for the stroll. At 6pm, they will start at Twain’s where they will hang until about 8, then off to two of our favorites, Brick Store Pub and Leon’s Full Service, then a quick dip into Mac McGee’s before finishing the evening at The Marlay (formerly the Grange). The entire walk is only about a mile for the whole night and there’s easy access to Decatur MARTA.

It’s just a good time event for the folks of Decatur and anybody else who might like to join us. If you must, think of it as old fashioned social networking – the kind where you actually get out of doors and meet people.

Please RSVP with Regator in the comments section at their blog in the comments or on their Facebook page (but not both, ‘cuz that’s sorta confusing, right?). Follow the crowd on that night on Twitter with hashtag #regcrawl.

One of the joys of live music is finding those bands you will never hear on the radio, never see on the rack at Best Buy (please tell us you don’t buy music there), or see on television (we think).  Most people make music out of love.  That doesn’t mean it’s sappy Journey-esque ballad crap.  That means they have a compulsion to create.

These folks may have day jobs, night jobs, infrequent jobs, whatever.  But they don’t make their living by playing music and more often than not realize that they never will.  You can view this as sad, but that is only the case if they sell the piano or put the guitar under the bed.  If they keep on making music, playing shows, letting those creative energies escape their personal space, then it really is a happy thing.  More often than not, those are the artists we really love.  Every tune may not be perfect, but every single note is sincere.  It’s for that very reason that no matter where you live, you need to discover local music.  That’s also why local is in our name (sorta).  It’s what we love and one of the reasons we pound this keyboard every night.

We really don’t know a darn thing about The Good Graces other than the fact that they will be playing at Twain’s on October 22.  We went to their MySpace page (and you can too – click here), became the third person to listen to “Bad Driver”, and laughed out load when they used the (made-up?) word “jackassery.”  ”I Miss the Nineties” and “Yo No Puedo Hablar Español” are pretty funny too.  There’s plenty of talent in this minimalist folk trio even if it’s the sort of thing you might expect in a Craig Ferguson skit (we’re not sure if he does skits because we’ve never watched it, but we have heard of the show and know it’s on really late when we’re usually hacking at this keyboard).  Anyway, give yourself a chance to discover (and enjoy) something that you might not find anywhere else.  Check out The Good Graces at Twain’s.