Bay Area friends, please listen up -- we have 2-day tickets to give away for the Treasure Island Music Festival happening in the middle of the San Francisco Bay a couple of weeks from now, Saturday 9/20 and Sunday 9/21. A 2-day pair is a $230 value, so tune in and listen closely during today's show for your chance to win Treasure Island Music Festival tickets.

The lineup includes BAGeL Radio faves Okkervil River, TV On The Radio, Vampire Weekend, The Kills, Foals, CSS, John Vanderslice, Loquat, The Morning Benders, Port O'Brien, and The Raconteurs.

New music today will include songs by Blackblack (Los Angeles, CA), Captain of Industry (Dayton, OH), Passion Pit (Cambridge, MA), Björk (Deep Space), The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra (Los Angeles, CA), Musee Mecanique (Portland, OR), Three Fantastic (Houston, TX), Universe Narrows (Concord, MA), Low Red Land (San Francisco, CA), Mugison (Iceland), Mason Proper (Alpena, Michigan), The Low Lows (Austin, TX), of Montreal (Athens, GA), Starfucker (Portland, OR), Pontiak (Blue Ridge, VA), The Ugly Suit (Oklahoma City, OK), and , ( Reykjavík, Iceland).

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Recent Gig Photos (click photos to view more from that set)

Outside Lands Music Festival
Golden Gate Park, SF, CA 8/22 & 8/23

Silk E and Boots Riley of The Coup


Lupe Fiasco


Beck


Cold War Kids


Radiohead


Bay Area Gig eList (upcoming shows of interest):

Vin Rouge/ The New Up/ Excuses For Skipping @ Bottom of the Hill 8/29
Dead Ringers/ American Professionals/ Reaction/ Master Volume @ Stork Club (Oak) 8/29
Nine Inch Nails/ Deerhunter @ Oracle Arena 9/5
Michael Hurley/ Tara Jane O'Neil @ Bottom of the Hill 9/5
Death Vessel/ Micah Blue Smaldone/ Dame Satan @ Bottom of the Hill 9/6
Bodies Of Water/ Throw Me The Statue/ Pale Hoarse @ Bottom of the Hill 9/7
Plastic Fantastic Lover/ Jugtown Pirates/ Ralph Dungeon Family Orchestra & Jazzman James/ Honeybody Moonbee @ Bottom of the Hill 9/8
Love Is Chemicals/ The Gold Medalists/ Sweetie 9/9
The Lower Class Revolt presents...
All Smiles/ The Aimless Never Miss/ Harbours @ Cafe du Nord 9/10
Boxcar Saints/ Odessa Chen/ The Revealers @ Bottom of the Hill 9/10
The Cute Lepers/ Druglords Of The Avenues/ Avenue Rose @ Bottom of the Hill 9/11
Desa/ Judgement Day/ 187 Calm @ Bottom of the Hill 9/12
Squeeze @ The Regency Grand 9/12
*Squeeze @ The Mountain Winery 9/13
Xui Xiu/ Evangelista/ Prurient/ Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone @ Bottom of the Hill 9/13
The Flatliners/ Broadway Calls/ Nothington @ Bottom of the Hill 9/14
KAV/ The Otherside/ Gliss @ Bottom of the Hill 9/16
*Miles Hunt (of The Wonder Stuff) @ Cafe du Nord 9/16
These Arms Are Snakes/ sBach/ The Catholic Comb @ Bottom of the Hill 9/17
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ The Warfield 9/20
*The Wedding Present/ Earlimart @ The Great American Music Hall 9/21
*Liam Finn/ The Veils/ Dominant Legs @ Bottom of the Hill 9/23
Spoon @ The Fillmore 9/22, 23, & 24
Born Ruffians/ Plants And Animals/ TBA @ Bottom of the Hill 10/15
Light FM (CD release) @ The Knockout 10/29

* = I'm there
** = I'm DJing
# = win tickets during "480 Minutes"

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News: Sarah Palin, John McCain's choice to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, has international relations experience because (get this) she's from Alaska, which is the closest state to Russia. This according to FOX News. If her expertise on Russia is so great, why didn't she warn us about the recent invasion of Georgia? I wonder if one of Palin's aids presented her with a "Putin Determined To Strike Georgia" memo and she decided it was not as worthy of her attention as trying to get books banned. I mean, I know that whole Russia thing is The Secretary of State's job and supposed area of expertise, but Condoleeza Rice houses her shoe collection all the way over there in D.C., right? How could she have known?

During their RNC speeches Mike Huckabee and John McCain talked about change so much you'd think it had been other party in the White House destroying the country these last eight long years. Pious Mike finished up by relating the story of a high school teacher explaining to her class that their classroom desks were paid for by the sacrifices of war veterans. Gee, Mike, I hate to nitpick, but I'm pretty sure that those desks and books and school buildings and teacher salaries and roads and bridges are all paid for by those things that you demonize: taxes. The AP also did some fact-checking of the claims made in some RNC speeches and found that they "stretched the truth" and Minister Huckabee actually let loose with a "whopper" (which Merriam Webster defines as "an extravagant or monstrous lie"). I know, shocking, Right?

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