Some people got mad at me for the blog post below. They say I am being too harsh on the poor, misunderstood folks at SoundExchange. Screw SoundExchange, and screw those who refuse to see SX for what it is: a front for the RIAA in it's latest attempt to gain a stranglehold on all possible media outlets.

Uh, errrr, uh, yes, well, uh, thank you, Jim. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

The next BAGeL Radio Presents... event is only days away (5/29), please tell your friends about it, blog about it, post a note about it at the office, and buy your tickets in advance here. The featured band of the night is San Francisco's own Magic Bullets, whose most excellent debut album is released that day. Already 3 songs from A Child But In Life Yet A Doctor In Love have been in regular rotation at BAGeL Radio, making the album one of the Top Albums of 2007 (So Far). (The rest of that list will be revealed during the 6/22/07 edition of "480 Minutes" and is likely to also include The Wombats and The National). Support for Magic Bullets comes in the form of Berkeley's The Morning Benders and SF's Rescue Me.

Today's show will include new music by They Might Be Giants, Amateurs, Satellite Party (Perry Farrell's new outfit, which has its moments, including a song featuring the first "new" Jim Morrison vocal track in about 30 years), Lavender Diamond, Diamond Jim, Tuatara, HeadQuarters (Brooklyn's long overdue answer to The Stone Roses?), Saturna (shoegaze part 2), Les Sans Culottes, Trevor Childs ("anybody who says they got god on their side makes me terrified"), and Spoon.

Please tune in, the program runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, and don't forget you can request songs and stuff via:

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'Twas A Hermit Week

Upcoming Bay Area Gigs of Interest:

DeVotchKa @ The Grand 5/25

Louis XIV @ The Independent 5/25

The Clientelle/ Beach House/ Mellow Drunk @ Great American 5/26

*Wallpaper/ Electric Soft Parade / Gavin Castleton @ Bottom of the Hill 5/27

Electrelane/ Tender Forever @ Great American 5/29

BAGeL Radio Presents...along with The SF Bay Guardian and KALX:

Magic Bullets (CD Release)/ The Morning Benders/ Rescue Me

@ Cafe du Nord 5/29

*The Black Angels/ VietNam/ Sprindrift/ Greg Ashley @ The Independent 5/30

*The Hold Steady/ Illinois @ Slim's 5/30
Voxtrot/ Sound Team/ Au Revoir Simone @ Great American 5/30

The Bay Bridged Presents....Social Studies/ Tempo No Tempo/ Lovely Public @ Rickshaw 5/31

Brakes Brakes Brakes / Scissors for Lefty @ Popscene 5/31

*Chris Garneau @ The Hemlock Tavern 5/31

The Arcade Fire @ The Greek Theatre (Berkeley) 6/1 & 2*

Matt & Kim/ The Mall / TBA @ Bottom of the Hill 6/2

The Raveonettes/ Electric Duo/ Midnight Movies @ Cafe du Nord 6/2

The Cliks @ Cafe du Nord 6/4

Young Galaxy/ Bellavista / From Bubble Gum To Sky @ Bottom of the Hill 6/6

*Gliss/ The Otherside / Tremble Low @ Bottom of the Hill 6/7

Mice Parade/ Tom Brosseau/ Kim Kira @ Bottom of the Hill 6/8

Menomena @ Independent 6/8

Mystery Jets/ White Rabbit @ Cafe du Nord 6/11

*Hot Chip/ The Boggs @ The Fillmore 6/12

*Noisettes/ The Maccabees @ Popscene 6/14

Dan Deacon/ Video Hippos @ Bottom of the Hill 6/19

Low @ Great American 6/19 & 6/20

Shearwater/ Jamie Stewart / Minus Story @ Bottom of the Hill 6/20

*Tarwater @ Bottom of the Hill 6/22

*The National @ Bimbo's 6/27

*The Veils @ Cafe du Nord 6/28

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