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The 2004 Austin Music Awards' Best New Band, the Greencards, announced Tuesday they will relocate to Nashville at the beginning of 2005. "Much of the band's business in the future is to be handled by people living in Nashville, and we must physically be there to ensure matters are handled appropriately," the band said in a press release. The winsome bluegrass trio plays the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Capitol Area benefit with the Gourds tonight (Thursday) at La Zona Rosa.

Passing the Greencards somewhere on I-35 as they leave Austin is art-punk trio the Faceless Werewolves, who recently relocated here from Denton.

Austin power-pop vets the Rite Flyers have landed their song "I'm in a Way" on this week's episode of teen-sleuth series Veronica Mars, airing 6pm Tuesday on MTV and later that evening on UPN. It's an inside job: Veronica's creator and executive producer is former Hey Zeus! bassist Rob Thomas. The Flyers jangle the Hole in the Wall Friday, Nov. 12 with the Wannabes and Subset.

John Peel, 65, arguably the most influential DJ in British history, died Monday night while on vacation in Peru. Before spending nearly four decades at BBC pop flagship Radio One, Peel got his start in, of all places, Dallas, where he spun R&B as John Ravenscroft on WRR's Kats Karavan program in the mid-Sixties.