Did you get your tickets to see Menomena on Friday night at Cafe Du Nord? Hopefully you did, because the show is sold out. As we've said before, this record is already on our top 10 of '07, so if you haven't checked the band out yet - what are you waiting for? OK maybe you're broke or you've fallen and you can't get to Amoeba, so we're going to hook one of you up with their amazing album Friend and Foe plus a really nice poster courtesy of their label Barsuk. Since we're currently locked out of our fancy contesting tool, only you close readers will be rewarded with a chance to win: just email yours truly for your chance.

On a more somber note, it was a dark day for internet radio earlier this week as the Copyright Royalty Board just substantially increased the fees internet radio sites must pay to record labels -- fees not paid by traditional radio stations. This is a move that BAGeL Radio founder DJ Ted predicts "will kill off every last independent online radio station and websites like Pandora." SomaFM, another amazing internet radio station operating out of SF, reports that they need to "raise at least $15,000 each month to meet our minimum operating budget." Needless to say, most internet radio DJs don't have that kind of money sitting around. Read Ted's entire post here and if you want to support internet radio, please take 2 seconds to sign the petition. And get your BAGeL Radio and SOMA-FM while they're still hot! (Our hourlong show airs on BAGeL at 4pm & 10pm PST today).

Since South by Southwest, the largest music festival in the world, kicks off next week, most tour vans are currently being magnetically drawn to Austin, Texas. Or perhaps San Francisco is simply spent after all the Noise Pop madness (read SFist Rita's coverage and check out Julie Schuchard's photos). Nevertheless, there are still a few shows of interest happening in the city this week.

On Friday, Bright Eyes play the first of two sold out shows at Great American. On Saturday night, you have a chance to see a whole mess of musical legends in the same room, plus contribute to a worthy cause. Tiffany Travalent, a talented artist and designer who worked at the Fillmore and Warfield for several years, has been dealing with some physical complications which have been causing her severe and crippling pain. You can read all about her story here. She must be a pretty amazing person, because check out the friends who are coming to her rescue: Eric McFadden (P-Funk), Les Claypool, Bernie Worell, Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads), Zigaboo Modeliste (The Meters) and many many more. In addition to the music there will be a raffle and a live auction with a partial list of items including signed instruments, signed posters, tours, gift certificates, etc. Tickets start at $25 in advance, but you can donate as much as you'd like, and $100 gets you a pre-show meet & greet with musicians, drinks, hors d'oeuvres, a commemorative poster and a copy of the night's show on CD. Also on Saturday night, The Long Winters, West Indian Girl and The Morning Benders are at The Independent.

On Sunday afternoon at 4pm, catch an acoustic set of the gentle warblings of Swedish chanteuse El Perro Del Mar in the tiny Aquarius Records! We are very excited about this! Then on Monday night, check out El Perro Del Mar at Great American (with Rosie Thomas and Thao Nguyen). We find the animation and singing utterly charming in her video for "God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get)".

On Tuesday, Third Eye Blind play the first of two nights with openers The Upwelling at The Fillmore. This piques our curiosity because 3EB is from San Francisco and used to be insanely popular, but then at some point seemed to have fallen off the side of the earth, with mention of Stephan Jenkins usually only cropping up in the context of his relationship to Vanessa Carlton or the Gettys. It's unclear how we ended up with a promo copy of their second record Blue so many years ago, but instead of getting on our nerves, it got under our skin. So what are they going to play at The Fillmore? New music? Old hits? All of the above? If you go to the show, let us know what happened.

On Wednesday, as SXSW kicks off in Austin, Texas, we will sit here in our San Francisco apartment in a moment of silent sadness over the first year we've skipped SXSW since we started going a decade ago. *sniff*