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Farewell, Cave9

cave9Bham.fm reported yesterday that long-time Birmingham indie music venue Cave9 had officially closed its doors over the weekend. The local music website has a list of the shows that have been moved to GreenCup Books while also providing a fond farewell for the all ages venue – in all of its forms.

If you weren’t familiar with the venue, here’s a story written for The Birmingham Buzz back in 2008 when it was still on Magnolia Avenue. There’s also the chance that more news will be available from their MySpace profile, their page on Facebook or their Twitter feed in the coming days…

Speaking of switches…

Those of you that follow the r3vrb.com and bham.fm may begin to notice that both sites are loading a little slower than normal this afternoon. If you haven’t heard yet (or haven’t visited them before) allow us to elaborate.

The sites, maintained by former Timetable music writers Sam George and Whitney Sides respectively, have decided to join forces to become a new and improved bham.fm. The changeover is happening behind the scenes right now and will be celebrated with music and fun (how else?) at Speakeasy 1920 tomorrow evening. We’d tell you more, but it makes more sense to check out the announcement for yourselves.

We’ll have an update on Timetable come Monday morning.

It’s official: we suck

At least, based on current area blog launches, we seem to suck at providing information about arts and culture and music. Two new sites have launched in the last week to fill the void that we’ve attempted to fill with Timetable since our inception – bham.fm is a new music blog that will cover local as well as not so local info while bhamsandwich.com will be covering the arts and culture scene. What about Timetable, or the new (but not yet fully functioning like we want it to) calendar, destinations (FYI – submit events here)?

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