Today's show will feature a new, exclusive-to-BAGeL Radio track by Loquat. It's an intimate acoustic-y version of "Shaky Like The Flu," a song that will appear in it's full form on Loquat's forthcoming as-yet-untitled sophomore album. The show will also feature Earlimart, it's first-ever Chinese acts (Lonely China Day and Rebuilding The Rights of Statues), plus new Yeah Yeah Yeahs, John Vanderslice, The Born Again Floozies, Holler Wild Rose!, Sweetwater Abilene, and Editors. Finally, there will be selections from an excellent new compilation of Bay Area artists lovingly curated by the folks at The Bay Bridged. Artists on the compilation (The Bay Bridged, Volume 1) include BAGeL Radio playlist veterans Love Is Chemicals, The Dont's, Peloton, Finest Dearest, and The Old-Fashioned Way.

Today's "480 Minutes" program will include new songs by The Big Disappointment (Boston), Buffalo Tom(Boston), The Cribs (Yorkshire, England), Eastern Conference Champions (L.A.? PA.? who knows), Everest (SF), M.I.A. (England), Memphis (Vancouver, BC), Project Jenny Project Jan (Brooklyn), The Sportsman's Club (Columbus, OH), uncuT (Toronto), Venus Infers (Huntington Beach), Virgin Of The Birds (Austin, TX.), Vivek Shraya (Toronto), Wayward Sway (SF), and Zibra Zibra (Minneapolis).

Today's "480 Minutes" program will include new songs by The White Stripes (the album is amazing!), Gogol Bordello, The Polyphonic Spree, The Icarus Line, and a selection of John Lennon covers from the Instant Karma-Save Darfur compilation put out by Amnesty International. Artists include The Flaming Lips, U2, Jaguares, and Green Day. Today's program will also feature the stuff from last week that I didn't get to play (ah, technical difficulties) including Airiel, Arks, The Foundry Field Recordings, Pants Pants Pants, The Beasts of Eden, Block, Panters, & Sean Na Na.