"480 Minutes" - New Flaming Lips

What are you going to be for Halloween this year? The wife is all over me about picking a costume, and the best thing I can can come up with is, "I just wanna be me!" That...will...not...do. Any ideas?

Today on BAGeL Radio we will feature brand-spanking new music from Flaming Lips (Norman, OK), The Authors (Montreal, Canada), CF Donohoe (Glasgow/Dallas), Clare & The Reasons (Brooklyn, NY), Exene Cervenka (X), Free Energy (Philadelphia, PA), The Ghost Is Dancing (Toronto, Canada), James Husband (Athens, GA), and Kurt Vile (Philadelphia, PA).

As always, your feedback on the latest playlist additions and whatever else is on your mind will be most appreciated Write to us at feedback@bagelradio.com, and please take the poll below. Also, I don't know how much longer I can bring myself to argue with "flat earthers" on the subject of radio's promotional value, but I felt the need to reply to a piece published in The Huffington Post that might as well come out of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) press office. The HuffPo didn't deem my edited-for-space comment worthy of publishing, so I published the comment as a whole here. Please read it and, whenever you hear "the music industry" aka the RIAA aka the major labels complain on behalf of artists, remember that "the "the music industry" aka the RIAA aka the major labels have been the vampires feasting on the blood of artists for decades.

Please tune in today and every Friday to 480 Minutes between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific Time.

Bay Area Gig eList (upcoming shows of interest): http://bagelradio.com/shows

*10/16 The Who's "Tommy" @ Victoria Theatre
10/17 WHY? @ Great American
*10/17 Treasure Island Music Festival Day 1 @ Treasure Island
*10/17 A Place To Bury Strangers/ These Are Powers @ The Independent 10/17
*10/18 Treasure Island Music Festival Day 2 @ Treasure Island
10/19 Beach House @ Bottom of the Hill
*10/21 Brakes/ Ezra Furman & The Harpoons/ Rachel Goodrich @ Rickshaw Stop
10/22 Echo & The Bunnymen (Ocean Rain w/ orchestra) @ Fox Theater (Oakland)
10/23 Lloyd Cole @ Swedish American Hall
10/23 These Are Powers/ Mi Ami @ The Knockout
10/24 Finest Dearest @ Hemlock Tavern
10/26 Sunset Rubdown @ Great American
10/29 Shonen Knife @ Rickshaw Stop
10/30 No Age @ Great American
10/30 Melt Banana @ Slim's

* = I'm there
** = I'm DJing

For venue information, please visit the Music Links page.

Note: Gig Journal entries (view archive) are now posted on the BAGeL Radio Blog.

More Upcoming Shows at http://bagelradio.com/shows