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Bullet the Blue Sky

Post-Parlo Records owner Ben Dickey has moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., following the merger of his Falsetto Booking Agency with Ground Control Touring, which books Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the entire Saddle Creek Records stable. Dickey, who also manages Crooked Fingers and Mates of State, will continue booking Austinites I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, Explosions in the Sky, Okkervil River, and Zykos, whose second LP is due Oct. 4 on Post-Parlo.

Alejandro Escovedo has booked a two-night stand Oct. 1-2 at the Texas Union Theater. "I hear he's feeling much better," says Cactus Cafe/Theater manager Griff Luneburg.

Chilly post-punk provocateurs A Tiger Named Lovesick are going on ice as bassist Alex Ramirez relocates to Tokyo. As a parting gift, Tiger's second album should be in the can by the time Ramirez leaves following a Sept. 5 send-off show at Beerland with This Microwave World and Dead Whale Tide.

Jane Bond and Colin Gilmore kick off the Austin Music Co-op's "Sunday Dinner Series" 5pm Sunday with food from Hoover's. $10.

Song of the Year (so far): Hollowpoint's "Baby Mama." A UPN sitcom waiting to happen.