Sales Benefit Habitat For Humanity

    ATLANTA, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The team of "genuinely warped Atlanta-
based individuals" who brought us http://www.yall.com, has compiled a mouth-watering
CD companion for its hip Southern website, proclaiming it "the best damn
Southern sampler you've ever heard."  Featuring bands from Six Mile, S.C. to
Austin, Texas, Ya'll: The CD showcases 19 independent-but-likely-to-sign-with-
a-label-any-day-now bands. (In fact, Athens, Ga.-based "Five Eight" joined
Velvel Records shortly after the CD was produced and its cross-town "rival"
"Trinket" is currently in negotiation with a major label.)  Proceeds from CD
sales on both the website and the ongoing concert tour benefit Habitat for
Humanity, one of the South's most successful charitable programs.
    Y'all: The CD opens listeners' ears to a range of talent outside the now-
stereotypical Southern sounds of R.E.M. and Hootie & the Blowfish, exposing
them to eclectic, sometimes twisted, sometimes soulful sounds from garage pop
and cabaret punk to rock-a-billy and swing to funk and R&B.
    Music fans can listen to excerpts from the CD at http://www.yall.com (no
apostrophe necessary) -- the self-declared "webzine of the South" -- on the
"Y'all CD Drive-Thru" page.  Requirements are: A current version of Shockwave
Plugin (available for download from a link on the site), a 28.8 modem, a sound
card and "that Y'all spirit."  Interested buyers can purchase the CD on the
site for $10 at the "Y'all Mart," where other yall.com goodies, like t-shirts
and ball-caps are also sold.
    For a live listen, check out yall.com's free CD tour, currently making its
way around the South.  The tour started Labor Day Weekend in Charlotte, N.C.,
and continued on to Chapel Hill, N.C. and Louisville, Ky.  Future stops
include: New Orleans (Sept. 24), Atlanta (Sept. 28), Orlando, Fla. (Oct. 1),
and Nashville, Tenn. (Oct. 10).  Visit yall.com to read about the bands and
enter the "Y'all CD Tour Scavenger Hunt" to win a trip to the final stop in
Nashville.
    The bands featured on Y'all: The CD are: "8 1/2 Souvenirs;" "The Blacktop
Rockets;" "Catfight!;" "The Changelings;" "The Continentals;" "Five Eight;"
"Galactic;" "The Gotee Brothers;" "Gumption;" "Joe, Marc's Brother;" "The New
Orleans Klezmer All-Stars;" "The Penetrators;" "Seek;" "Tony Tidwell & The
Scalded Dogs;" "Trinket;" "The Union;" "Vagantis;" "Vaudeville;" and "Victor
Mecyssne."  (See band fact sheet below for more details.)
    yall.com is a specialty niche Web site created by Atlanta-based Cox
Interactive Media as the "South's Alternative Multimedia Webzine," offering
the 18-34 age group a cross between a Southern gothic novel, Bikini magazine,
National Lampoon and the Dukes of Hazzard.
    Cox Interactive Media (http://www.cimedia.com), a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises,
Inc., has created local city sites, such as AccessAtlanta.com
(http://www.accessatlanta.com) and Austin360.com (http://www.austin360.com).  These city
sites provide users specific information unique to their communities as well
as opportunities for online interaction with users through community bulletin
boards and chat rooms.  Specialty sites like FASTBALL.com (http://www.fastball.com)
and yall.com (http://www.yall.com) have also been established to focus on specific
topics which have regional or national appeal.
    A leading media company, Cox Enterprises, Inc. includes Cox Newspapers,
Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book publishing), Cox Broadcasting,
Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production, research, publicly traded Cox
Radio, Inc. (NYSE: CXR)) and publicly traded Cox Communications, Inc.
(NYSE: COX) (cable distribution, programming, broadband communications) in
addition to Cox Interactive Media.  The company is the world's largest
operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions, providing financial
services, government auctions, online services and price guides.


                   YALL.COM CD TOUR BAND DESCRIPTIONS

    Athens, Ga.
    -- Five Eight                  Alternative power pop
    -- Trinket                     Alternative power pop
    -- Vaudeville                  Cabaret punk

    Atlanta
    -- The Blacktop Rockets        Straight-forward rock-a-billy
    -- Catfight!                   All-girl garage pop
    -- The Changelings             Ethereal gothic a la Dead Can Dance
    -- The Continentals            Alternative swing and twang
    -- Seek                        R 'n B
    -- The Union                   Americana with splashes of hard rock

    Austin, Texas
    -- 8 1/2 Souvenirs             20's swing like the Squirrel Nut Zippers

    Chapel Hill, N.C.
    -- Gumption                    Alternative "twee" pop

    Nashville, Tenn.
    -- The Gotee Brothers          Hip-Hop
    -- Joe, Marc's Brother         Pop a la Elvis Costello
    -- Vagantis                    Hard college rock
    -- Victor Mecyssne             Bluesy folkster

    New Orleans
    -- Galactic                    Old school funk and soul
    -- The New Orleans Klezmer
       All-Stars                   A Mix of Yiddish music and Dixieland jazz

    Six Mile, S.C.
    -- Tony Tidwell & The Scalded
       Dogs                        Alternative country rock

    Tuscaloosa, Ala.
    -- The Penetrators             Surf

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