BAGeL Radio Friday Live 5/5/06-Coachella Pix!

May 5

Written By Ted

Alec of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

... including the one above are posted here, with a few samples included beneath this post. Bands photographed include The Walkmen, Wolfmother, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, TV on the Radio, Eagles of Death Metal, Depeche Mode, The Rakes, Youth Group, Mates of State, Metric, Wolf Parade, Bloc Party, Gnarls Barkley, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Go! Team, Dungen, and Art Brut. I hope that you enjoy them. There are also photos from the Art Brut/Birdmonster show this week, bringing my total bands photographed thusfar to 114. In 2006. Seriously.

I had an amazing time, as usual, at Coachella. The big difference for me between this year and previous ones is that there were more bands that repulsed me than in the past. Not just bands that I didn't like, or bands that I thought sucked, but bands that were so out-of-genre that they made me shout, "Go home and give me back my festival!" From a selfish standpoint, having multiple Bonnaroo-ish bands play the festival is not necessarily a bad thing -- they drew people away from the bands I wanted to see. Sure, they also drew more tie die and patchouli and dreads and ratty beards and awful fashion to the festival, but what can you do...?

I've got some cool stuff to give away today including speaker sets from Logitech. To enter to win send an e-mail to 5 friends (include feedback@bagelradio.com) explaining why they should listen to the BAGeL Radio Friday Live broadcast. Winners will be chosen at random, but the quality and amount of gushing included will be appreciated.

New music today by artists including Anaura, Cut Copy, DeVotchKa, DulceSky (fellow shoegazer fans, check this band out!), Elf Power, Jeremy Warmsley, Jolie Holland, Jon Auer, The KBC, and Shooting At Unarmed Men (spawned of McClusky).

Today's BAGeL Radio Friday Live show starts at 9 a.m. Pacific Time and runs until 5 p.m. PT -- please tune in and request songs and stuff via:

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Recently posted BAGeL Radio gig photos

BAGeL Radio Presents...The CA. Homegrown Music Series:
Push To Talk/ Audyre Sessions/ Street To Nowhere
Mezzanine, S.F., CA. 5/3/06

Art Brut/ Birdmonster
Great American Music Hall, SF, CA. 5/1/06

Coachella 2006 Day Two (part two)
featuring Dungen/ Art Brut
Empire Polo Field , Indio, CA. 4/30/06

Coachella 2006 Day Two (part one)
featuring Youth Group/ Mates of State/
Metric/ Wolf Parade/ Bloc Party/ Gnarls Barkley/
Yeah Yeah Yeahs/ The Go! Team
Empire Polo Field , Indio, CA. 4/30/06

Coachella 2006 Day One
featuring The Walkmen/ Wolfmother/ Clap Your
Hands Say Yeah!/ TV on the Radio/ Eagles of
Death Metal/ Depeche Mode/ The Rakes
Empire Polo Field , Indio, CA. 4/29/06

Bay Area Gig eList of upcoming shows

Bellrays/ Boyjazz/ Turn Me On Deadman @ BoTH 5/5
*Essex Green/ Irving @ Rickshaw Stop 5/6
Richard Buckner and Doug Gillard of Guided By Voices @ BoTH 5/6
Acid Mother's Temple/ The Antarticans/ Je Suis France @ BoTH 5/7
Destroyer @ Cafe du Nord 5/8
Blood On The Wall/ Physic Ills/ Death Of A Party @ BoTH 5/8
Starlight Mints/ Dios (Malos) @ BoTH 5/9
Epoxies/ Teenage Bottlerocket @ BoTH 5/12
John Vanderslice/ Laura Veirs @ Independent 5/12
Pants Pants Pants/ Sign For Stereo @ Make-Out Room 5/13
*The Fall/ Birdmonster @ Independent 5/14
*The Fall/ Birdmonster @ Independent 5/15
Mission Creek Music Festival (MC) presents...
*Hijack The Disco/ Cloud Cult/ The Ebb & Flow/ Radius @ Make-Out Room 5/16
(MC) Dead Science/ Rykarda Parasol/ Holy Kiss/ Death of a Party @ Elbo Room 5/17
(MC) Love Is Chemicals/ Scrabbel/ Peloton/ Fake French @ Make-Out Room 5/18
*I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness/ The Rogers Sisters @ Independent 5/22
+Beck @ The Fillmore 5/25

** BAGeL Radio Presents...a free show!
The CA Homegrown Music Series featuring:
Herms/ Teri Falini (7" release)/ Dear Kerosene @ Mezzanine 6/7

* = I'm there
** = I'm DJing
+ = I need tickets, can you help?

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