The post ends with a list of the artist’s believed to have attempted to manipulate the charts on the Hype Machine, including Atlanta band, The Constellations, among them.

When asked to comment on their suspension, The Constellations were completely unaware of the situation, asking “We don’t know what you are talking about, other than Elijah was in ISS [In School Suspension] his whole high school career. Is that it?”

Small town note, this was at the same high school I attended, North Atlanta High School.

There’s some fiery discussion on the blog post about the validity of Hype Machine’s actions. Perhaps these bands are just victims of naive publicists, outdated marketers or overzealous fans? They are leaving it up to you decide. Despite their possibly questionable promotional techniques, The Constellations are a great collection of local musicians and should not be passed up. Just feel free to pitch them some white-hat tips.

[mp3] The Constellations – Setback
[mp3] The Constellations – Perfect Day
[mp3] The Constellations – Love Is A Murder (featuring Cee-Lo)

Tonight, Pabst Blue Ribbon is hosting the film “Blue Velvet” at 9:30PM at the Plaza Theatre.

ABC’s “The Bachelor” is casting in Buckhead today. Book your last minute nail appointments!

The Photo Cat bike race was held Saturday in Castleberry Hill to benefit Sopo Bicycle Co-Op. The photos may make you two-wheelers envious.

Tonight Whole Foods in Buckhead is holding a free wine tasting tonight at 7 PM. RSVP to alisha.bess@wholefoods.com.

MomoCon is throwing a Summer Gaming Festival this Saturday, June 27. Five bucks gets you 13 hours of board/card/RPG gaming and retro gaming.

Thursday, June 25 marks the 2nd Annual Alternative Car Show in Atlantic Station. The event is from 11-4PM in Central Park. Free hotdog lunches and Italian ices will be provided to registered commuters who are wearing the ASAP+ limited edition 2009 Fuel Nice t-shirt.

1. EveryBlock has finally come to Atlanta! Track news in your neighborhood. EveryBlock Atlanta
2. Magic Wands have a great new video for their single, “Warriors.” Video on YouTube
3. The founders of one of my personal favorite music sites, Last.fm, have stepped aside. Story from Mashable
4. The drought is over! You can water your lawn again. (If there’s anything left of it.) More from WSBTV
5. The Ferst Center For The Arts at Georgia Tech has announced their 2009/2010 Season Ferst’s Calendar of Events
6. Drive A Faster Car Editor-In-Chief, Tessa Horehled, and Contributor, Jonathan Williams, are heading up to Bonnaroo tomorrow and will have updates from the road with artists playing this year’s festival. You can also follow our trip on Twitter for live coverage.

Miley Cyrus is shooting her new movie on Tybee Island this summer. Georgia is quite the hot bed for filming right now thanks to recent incentives. Never been a better time to go stalk Atlanta Hartsfield Airport for celebrities.

The Atlanta Public Schools and Atlanta Development Authority strike deal over TAD funds. Lord knows APS needs it. Thomas over at Fresh Loaf has the full story.

Free and cheap booze this week: Tonight, drop by the new 5 Seasons Westside opening from 5:55PM – 8PM for free beer, food and music. You can also swing by La Tavola tonight for a free glass of wine at (password–”twitterwine”). There is also $1 Widmer beer at Stella all week.

For those of you who can relate to the feeling of searching for a power outlet on long days or nights out to squeeze a little charge into your iPhone, check out this great and cheap portable charger — grab this one from Encore for only $20 with shipping! I’ve been getting two full charges from dead on it.

Apparently we’re number one on Google for “atlanta humor blog.” What kind of humor do you guys want to see on Drive A Faster Car?

You’re out on the town. Hit one spot but it’s not really what you’re in the mood for. Looking for the next place to go? See where your friends are and what they are up to with FourSquare. It’s a very addicting and fun iPhone/BlackBerry application that allows you to do just this in a super easy mobile dashboard. Tons of other great functions such as location mapping, badges (yes, like when you were in boy/girl scouts), and convenient contact to your friends directly from inside the application.

Young Atlanta rapper MC Dolla, born Roderick Anthony Burton II, shot and killed in LA: Dolla, R.I.P.
URB reports that Atlanta Rapper Murder Suspect in Custody

“Did you know Atlanta has the third-highest LGBT (lesbian, gay and both teams) population per capita of any major U.S. city?”
Scott Henry over at CL breaks down Mayoral candidates: Gay for votes

Ladies: You interested in a BlogHer meetup in Atlanta in June? Voice your opinion on where and when.
Let’s Have An Atlanta Area BlogHer Meetup in June! Who’s in?

In early 2008, the Polaroid Company announced that they would stop production on all of their instant films to focus on digital technology. Artist and photographer, Ryan Nabulsi, is showing his work using Polaroid photographs as source imagery to address the medium’s death this Saturday.
“Polaroidland” opens this Saturday, May 23rd at MINT Gallery

Gang of Four, Menomena Members Form Faux Hoax

The Atlanta Tumblr Meetup at Clermont Lounge is tonight, Tuesday, April 21st. Karaoke starts around 10ish, but the meetup will begin at 9:30PM to give Blondie some cans to crush in her boobs.

As you may have noticed, a couple of weeks ago there was the appearance of a new little box over in the right sidebar underneath Drive A Faster Car‘s event calendar. That’s right, DaFC’s on Twitter!

You can keep up with the stuff going on in Atlanta and myself (your Editor, Tessa) in between the blog posts you will find here. I will also be doing Twitter-exclusive giveaways in the near future so be sure to go follow DaFC!

If you’re not familiar with Twitter, here’s a great video that might help you get an idea:

If you’re on board with Twitter, come warm up with other Atlanta Twitter users (commonly referred to as “tweeple” “tweeps” or similarly) tonight at the Atlanta Tweetup (Twitter + Meetup = Tweetup) and avoid the chaotic holiday shopping traffic tonight.

Whether you are new to Twitter, registered and want to understand it better or hooked to the point your closest friends only communicate to you through it – all are welcome. It’s a very casual meetup and commonplace to have dinner, drinks and conversation. This particular group meets once a month but tweetups can be organized by any Twitter user! To be sure you will know when the upcoming tweetups are, I’d recommend joining the ATL Tweeters group on Facebook or of course, you could just follow me as I will always be posting information about these tweetups as a co-host!

Note: Thinking Man Tavern is located within walking distance of Marta. If you think you might have a little too much fun or just want to reduce your carbon footprint, we encourage you ride the train!

For Atlanta travelers at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, 3M Privacy Filters. is creating an Airport Haven on November 25–26,2008 —two of the busiest travel days of the year — in the Executive Conference Center on the 3rd floor of the Atrium between the North and South terminals.

I will be working the promotion and down in the Atrium from 8am – 5pm today, feel free to drop by the table in the Atrium and say hi! Happy travels.

“I got a call from the VP of anti-piracy at one of the majors. After I picked up the phone his first words were, “Justin, I just have one question for you: where do I send the summons and complaint?” The conversation picked up from there. There was no summons, it was an intimidation tactic setting the tone for the business development meeting he was proposing, the true reason for the call. Around the same time another one of the big four’s business developers reached out to me, too.”

Quote from Justin of Muxtape in the great story of where they’ve been and where they are going.