For the second straight week the show will feature fewer new songs than usual, in part due to the fact that fewer packages than usual (by about half -- I wonder if my last "480 Minutes" post offended some folks?!) arrived this week. Maybe it's just the pre-turkey slow down. Speaking of which, next Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, and since pretty much no one in the US works in offices on that day (and those that do are consumed with coming up cruel and brutish ways to murder the person who forced them to be in the office), so next week there will be a re-run. For those that do tune in, you will be treated to a classic episode, perhaps the Best Music of 2007 show? We'll see.

New music today from Maus Haus (San Francisco, CA), Belle and Sebastian (Glasgow, Scotland), Eagles Of Death Metal (Palm Desert, CA), Hush Arbors (Virginia), Listing Ship (Los Angeles, CA), The Loom (Brooklyn, NY), Mount Eerie (Anacortes, WA), and Quitzow (Hudson Valley, NY).

Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show runs live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, is rebroadcast starting at 8 p.m., then twice more on Saturday. On Saturday night at midnight we return to regular BAGeL Radio programming.

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The Breeders @ Slim's 11/15/08

Kim Deal of The Breeders

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

O'Death/ Hillstomp/ The Theater Fire @ Bottom of the Hill 11/21

Little Dragon/ Anomie Belle/ *Manuok @ Cafe du Nord 11/23

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs/ Sassy!/ Delaney Davidson @ Bottom of the Hill 11/28

BAGeL Radio Presents...

The Rumble indie rock dance night featuring guest DJ Golden Gram of Rogue Wave @ Harlot 12/3

Joe Strummer Tribute featuring The Armagideons/ Eric McFadden/ The Hooks/ RubberSideDown/ Dead Ringers/ The Ferocious Few @ Bottom of the Hill 12/7

Leopold & His Fiction/ Excuses For Skipping/ Man-Miracle/ Maus Haus @ The Uptown (Oakland) 12/9

Wilderness/ San Serac/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ Bottom of the Hill 12/11

18th Dye @ Bottom of the Hill 12/12

*X @ Slim's 12/26 & 12/27

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

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

Recent Friday playlists: http://bagelradio.com/radio/playlists

Gratuitous political content: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R-Slimeball) lost his re-election bid, closing the door on Sarah Palin's quick route to Washington D.C. One door closes for Sarah, another opens: Yahoo! Boss Yang To Step Down -- what better job for America's newly crowned queen of the yahoos than the head of Yahoo!?

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Beginning this Sunday (9/23/08) at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr. Pepper's Web site thanks to a promise the company made earlier this year stating that if the famously delayed Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy album was released in 2008, they'd buy everyone in America a soda.

Read more, not that I posted this for any other reason than as an excuse to share the titular pun.

for the week ending 11/18/08

Top 30 Airplay
Rank ARTIST Recording Label
1 WIRE Object 47 Pink Flag
2 PRETTY AND NICE Get Young Hardly Art
3 VIVIAN GIRLS Vivian Girls In The Red
4 OASIS Dig Out Your Soul Big Brother-Reprise
5 FRANK TURNER Love Ire And Song Xtra Mile
6 18TH DIE Amorine Queen Crunchy Frog
7 LOQUAT Secrets Of The Sea Talking House
8 JAY REATARD Matador Singles '08 Matador
9 PLUS/MINUS Xs On Your Eyes Absolutely Kosher
10 COLD WAR KIDS Loyalty To Loyalty Downtown
11 STARFUCKER Starfucker Badman
12 HOT LAVA Lavalogy Bar/None
13 SEBASTIEN GRAINGER Sebastien Grainger And The Mountains Saddle Creek
14 STANDARD Swimmer Partisan
15 MINISNAP Bounce Around Magic Marker
16 END OF THE WORLD French Exit Flameshovel
17 PEACHCAKE What Year Will You Have The World? Subtractive
18 PASSION PIT Chunk Of Change Frenchkiss
19 MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO'S Animal/Not Animal Epic
20 HUSH NOW The Hush Now Self-Released
21 FRENCH MIAMI French Miami Self-Released
22 GRINGO STAR All Y'all My Anxious Mouth
23 LONGWAVE Secrets Are Sinister Self-Released
24 THE CURE 4:13 Dream Suretone-Interscope
25 PICA BEATS Beating Back The Claws Of The Cold Hardly Art
26 DEAD TREES King Of Rosa Milan
27 LAND OF TALK Some Are Lakes Saddle Creek
28 SHAKY HANDS Lunglight Holoscene/KRS
29 BIRDMONSTER From The Mountain To The Sea Fader
30 SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY Expensive Vomit In A Cheap Hotel Science Of Sound

Radio 200 Adds (new releases added to rotation)
Rank ARTIST Recording Label
1 RELIGIOUS KNIVES The Door ECSTATIC PEACE!
2 THAT HANDSOME DEVIL A City Dressed In Dynamite Modern Savage
3 WINTERSLEEP Welcome To The Sky Labwork

Labels: "BAGeL Radio Airplay", CMJ Chart

Today "480 Minutes" features quite a bit less new music than usual because certain radio promo companies are failing in their capacity as "filter." Instead of choosing good badns with good records these shady companies are simply promoting anything that people pay them to promote. While this might sound like good business, it is not -- every crap record they send out makes them less of a "trusted source," which hurts the good acts they promote. There was a time when I would get packages from promo company X and think, "Cool!" and look forward to listening to the contents. Now when I get packages from promo company X, they go to the bottom of my pile. For every strong release they send me, they send five things that are either inappropriate for an indie rock station or just plain crap, and for that reason those plummet on my list of priorities. Weeding through all of thatHot Topic faux-punk rock and boring, bland generic Coldplay/ Jack Johnson wastes hours and hours of music directors' time. It's almost criminal.

Over-booked promo companies -- you know who you are. Take a look in the mirror, give a listen to the stuff you are promoting, and remember you have a reputation to maintain. Or perhaps, by this point, a reputation to rehabilitate.

Bands & labels - check out the current roster (and overall amount of stuff) on the plates of the the radio promo companies you are considering using before you decide to throw your business their way.

New music today from The Decemberists (Portland, OR), A Block Of Yellow (London, Canada), Chop Chop (Cambridge, MA), Neil Gaiman (Minneapolis, MN), Red Wire Black Wire (Brooklyn, NY), Religious Knives (Brooklyn, NY), and The Rollo Treadway (Brooklyn, NY).

Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show runs live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, is rebroadcast starting at 8 p.m., then twice more on Saturday. On Saturday night at midnight we return to regular BAGeL Radio programming.

Reach out and e-touch us during the show via:

e-mail: feedback@bagelradio.com
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
AOL/iChat: bagelradiolive
MSN Msgr: bagelradio@hotmail.com
GoogleTalk: bagelradio@gmail.com

Recent Gig Photos: http://bagelradio.com/photos

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

*John Doe/ Kathleen Edwards @ The Great American 11/14 tickets (hope to see you there!)
*The Breeders @ Slim's 11/14 & 11/15
Impossible Shapes/ Devon Williams @ The Hemlock 11/15

The Ruby Howl (CD Release)/ Virgil Shaw @ The Cyclone Warehouse 11/15

The (International) Noise Conspiracy/ Night Horse/ Maldroid @ Bottom of the Hill 11/16
Rachael Yamagata/ Meiko/ Thao Nguyen @ The Great American 11/17

Love Is All/ *Vivian Girls/ Nodzzz @ Bottom of the Hill 11/20

O'Death/ Hillstomp/ The Theater Fire @ Bottom of the Hill 11/21

Little Dragon/ Anomie Belle/ *Manuok @ Cafe du Nord 11/23

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs/ Sassy!/ Delaney Davidson @ Bottom of the Hill 11/28

BAGeL Radio Presents...

The Rumble indie rock dance night featuring guest DJ Golden Gram of Rogue Wave @ Harlot 12/3

Joe Strummer Tribute featuring The Armagideons/ Eric McFadden/ The Hooks/ RubberSideDown/ Dead Ringers/ The Ferocious Few @ Bottom of the Hill 12/7

Wilderness/ San Serac/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ Bottom of the Hill 12/11

18th Dye @ Bottom of the Hill 12/12

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

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

Recent Friday playlists: http://bagelradio.com/radio/playlists

Labels: "480 Minutes"

...where do they all come from? Apparently from a city hospital in Liverpool.

After years of saying the title character of the Beatles song "Eleanor Rigby" was entirely ficticious, Paul McCartney's office may have revealed the truth behind the name.

According to the UK newspaper The Independent, a teacher of special needs children who taught an autistic boy to play "Yellow Submarine" on the piano wrote to McCartney to tell him that his song helped bring the child out of his limited world. In her letter she also asked for a half million pound ($800,000) donation for a facility for teaching music to children with learning difficulties and other disabilities. What she claims she got from McCartney's office was the document above, a page from a 1911 account log showing payments to hospital employees including a scullery (kitchen) maid by the name of E. Rigby.

At auction, the document may fetch the half million pounds the teacher was hoping for, despite McCartney's continued insistence that the Eleanor Rigby he wrote about was not based on a real person.

for the week ending 11/11/08

Top 30 Airplay
Rank ARTIST Recording Label
1 WIRE Object 47 Pink Flag
2 FRANK TURNER Love Ire And Song Xtra Mile
3 SEBASTIEN GRAINGER Sebastien Grainger And The Mountains Saddle Creek
4 VIVIAN GIRLS Vivian Girls In The Red
5 OASIS Dig Out Your Soul Big Brother-Reprise
6 PRETTY AND NICE Get Young Hardly Art
7 LOQUAT Secrets Of The Sea Talking House
8 MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO'S Animal/Not Animal Epic
9 MINISNAP Bounce Around Magic Marker
10 HOT LAVA Lavalogy Bar/None
11 STANDARD Swimmer Partisan
12 18TH DYE Amorine Queen Crunchy Frog
13 PASSION PIT Chunk Of Change Frenchkiss
14 PICA BEATS Beating Back The Claws Of The Cold Hardly Art
15 TEITUR The Singer Cheap Lullaby
16 BIRDMONSTER From The Mountain To The Sea Fader
17 COLD WAR KIDS Loyalty To Loyalty Downtown
18 SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY Expensive Vomit In A Cheap Hotel Science Of Sound
19 LAND OF TALK Some Are Lakes Saddle Creek
20 ROSEBUDS Life Like Merge
21 UNIVERSE NARROWS The Little Machine Cossack
22 JAY REATARD Matador Singles '08 Matador
23 PLUS/MINUS Xs On Your Eyes Absolutely Kosher
24 END OF THE WORLD French Exit Flameshovel
25 HUSH NOW The Hush Now Self-Released
26 THE CURE 4:13 Dream Suretone-Interscope
27 PEACHCAKE What Year Will You Have The World? Subtractive
28 DEAD TREES King Of Rosa Milan
29 O'DEATH Broken Hymns, Limbs And Skin Kemado
30 LONGWAVE Secrets Are Sinister Self-Released

Radio 200 Adds (new releases added to rotation)
Rank ARTIST Recording Label
1 FRENCH MIAMI French Miami Self-Released
2 GRINGO STAR All Y'all My Anxious Mouth
3 HER SPACE HOLIDAY XOXO Panda, And The New Kid Revival Mush
4 ORIGAMI GHOSTS Short Momentum Hand To

Labels: "BAGeL Radio Airplay", CMJ Chart

Recently I reconnected with a high school friend via Facebook and he asked for some music recommendations. Here is the off the top of my head list of my favorite new bands of the last few years that I sent him: The Wombats, The National, TV On The Radio, Okkervil River, Cloud Cult, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, The Heavenly States, Silversun Pickups, Cold War Kids, and The Thermals. Hope you find something in there you like, Phil!

Labels: "lala forecast"