for the week ending 8/25/08

Top 30 Airplay
Rank ARTIST Recording Label
1 HEAD LIKE A KITE There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere Mush
2 CONOR OBERST Conor Oberst Merge
3 BIRDMONSTER From The Mountain To The Sea Fader
4 JOSHUA LANES The Dance Thunder [EP] Self-Released
5 THE GANG Zero Hits Absolutely Kosher
6 DANDY WARHOLS ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... Beat The World
7 OXFORD COLLAPSE Bits SUB POP
8 DARKER MY LOVE 2 Dangerbird
9 CSS Donkey SUB POP
10 SYBRIS Into The Trees Absolutely Kosher
11 TELEPATHIQUE Last Time On Earth Control Group
12 COLOURMUSIC F Monday Orange February Venus Lunatic 1 Or 13 World's Fair
13 BRAZILIAN GIRLS New York City Verve Forecast
14 LOST SATELLITES Worlds Collide Self-Released
15 LACKTHEREOF Your Anchor Barsuk
16 FRESHKILLS Freshkills Self-Released
17 TAKKA TAKKA Migration Ernest Jenning
18 THE BUG London Zoo Ninja Tune
19 HUMAN HIGHWAY Moody Motorcycle Suicide Squeeze
20 POWERSOLO EGG Crunchy Frog
21 MRANDMRSMAYS Mrandmrsmays magdalena
22 PONYTAIL Ice Scream Spiritual We Are Free
23 FERAL CHILDREN Second To The Last Frontier Sarathan
24 ENEMY UK We'll Live And Die In These Towns Warner-Warner Bros.
25 PAS/CAL I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke And Laura Le Grand Magistery
26 WALKMEN You And Me Gigantic
27 KRISTOFFER RAGNSTAM Wrong Side Of The Room Bluhammock
28 ONE FOR THE TEAM Build It Up Militia Group
29 DEAD AMPS Reloader Self-Released
30 DEATH VESSEL Nothing I Precious Enough For Us Sub Pop

Radio 200 Adds (new releases added to rotation)
Rank ARTIST Recording Label
1 OKKERVIL RIVER The Stand Ins Jagjaguwar
2 AMANDA PALMER Who Killed Amanda Palmer [Sampler] Roadrunner
3 BORN AGAIN FLOOZIES Street Music: 13 Rebellions And... Triple R
4 LYKKE LI Youth Novels LL
5 MODOFAC They Have To Be Watching You Self-Released

Labels: "BAGeL Radio Airplay", CMJ Chart

Next Saturday (8/30) is The BAGeL Radio rockshowdancepartyhybrid featuring Scissors For Lefty, Head Like A Kite, and DJ Ted from BAGeL Radio DJing. Are you ready? I'm not. I've got The Outside Lands Festival this weekend, then I can start to prepare for the booty shaking madness happening Saturday August 30th at The Rickshaw Stop. Tune into "480 Minutes" on Fridays from 9a.m to 5p.m. Pacific Time to win tickets, or buy them from the venue website.

New music today will include songs by Okkervil River (Austin, TX), Woven (Los Angeles, CA), Ezra Furman & The Harpoons (Chicago, IL), Beck (Los Angeles, CA), The Born Again Floozies (Indiannapolis, IN), Lykke Li (Stockholm, Sweden), ModoFac (Glencoe, IL), Pop Levi (Los Angeles, CA), The Stills (Montreal, Canada), Plushgun (Brooklyn, NY), Ra Ra Riot (Syracuse, NY), and Amanda Palmer (Boston, MA). Oh, yeah, and a new Oasis (Manchester, England) song, too.

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 7 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

or send an instant message directly through the BAGeL Radio site on the bottom right of the window where is says "click here to chat," or, give the StudioCam chatroom at http://live.yahoo.com/bagelradio a try:



Recent Gig Photos

Bay Area Gig eList (upcoming shows of interest):

Outside Lands Festival @ Golden Gate Park 8/22, 23, 24

The Union Trade/ Elephone/ One Becomes One Hundred @ Bottom of the Hill 8/27

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

BAGeL Radio Presents...

Scissors For Lefty/ Head Like A Kite/ DJ BAGeL Ted @ The Rickshaw Stop 8/30 - this one's 2 parts rock show 1 part dance party and it's all ages -- buy tickets now!

*Oxford Collapse/ Love As Laughter/ Willow Willow @ The Rickshaw Stop 9/2

Matt And Kim @ Bottom of the Hill 9/2

**The (September) Rumble @ Harlot 9/3

Nine Inch Nails/ Deerhunter @ Oracle Arena 9/5

Walter Meego/ School of Seven Bells/ TBA @ Bottom of the Hill 9/8

The Lower Class Revolt presents...

All Smiles/ The Aimless Never Miss/ Harbours @ Cafe du Nord 9/10

*Squeeze @ The Mountain Winery 9/13

*Miles Hunt (of The Wonder Stuff) @ Cafe du Nord 9/16

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ The Warfield 9/20

*The Wedding Present/ Earlimart @ The Great American Music Hall 9/21

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"

more upcoming shows

News:

hat tip to The Punk Guy

Labels: "480 Minutes", bay area ticket giveaway

I am thrilled that I will get to walk from my house to see Radiohead tomorrow. While one might think such serendipity could only happen once in a lifetime, the fact is I walked from my apartment in The Fens to see Radiohead at Venus de Milo in 1993 when they played in support of their debut album, Pablo Honey. You know, back when "Creep" was the only song of theirs anyone knew, and I was a DJ at that venue.

This weekend they'll be playing at the Outside Lands Fesitval in Golden Gate Park, a venue that abuts my current neighborhood, The Richmond District.

Bands I am looking forward to seeing include:

Friday: Lyrics Born, Black Keys, Cold War Kids, Beck, Radiohead
Saturday: Steve Winwood, The Coup, Liars, Walkmen, Devandra Banhart, M. Ward, Two Gallants
Sunday: (well, I'm not going Sunday, but if I was going on Sunday...) Broken Social Scene, Andrew Bird, Stars, and Rogue Wave.

Labels: music festival, outside lands, san francisco

From Kurt Hanson of AccuRadio:

The Internet radio royalty crisis may be coming to a head, as one of the country's most-beloved webcasters, Pandora, tells the Washington Post that it is on the verge of shutting down over the issue.

As you know, the problem in a nutshell is that whereas all other forms of radio in the U.S. and around the world pay about 3%-5% of their revenues as a royalty to songwriters and 0%-7% of their revenues as a royalty to labels and performers, last year the U.S.'s Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) set that second royalty rate for Internet radio to the equivalent of 70% to 300% of revenues.

While there's a judicial appeal of this decision in progress, plus occasional negotiations going on between SoundExchange (representing labels and musicians) and various subsets of webcasters, plus bills introduced in Congress that would roll back the CRB decision, none of these fixes may happen before Pandora's venture capitalists decide to give up and pull the plug on the service.

What are they thinking?!

I've been talking to several journalists this week about the issue, and the question they always ask me is this: "Trying to bankrupt your industry doesn't make any sense! WHY is SoundExchange doing this?"

Read Kurt's explanation here.

More from Kurt's blog post at Radio And Internet Newsletter:

If Pandora is forced to shut down, the outrage will be huge - among consumers, journalists, bloggers, working musicians, and even Congressional staffs.

That will be the tipping point that either (1) triggers a consumer backlash against the RIAA, which, if expressed in the form of a boycott, as some bloggers have proposed, could cost the industry hundreds of millions of dollars in record sales, (2) leads to belated reasonable negotiations from SoundExchange, and/or (3) spurs Congress to pass the Internet Radio Equality Act.

But Pandora doesn't deserve to be the sacrificial lamb that keeps other webcasters alive. They're loved by millions of listeners, and they've been great for musicians, fair to labels, and generous to their fellow webcasters.

Either SoundExchange or Congress should act quickly enough to stave that outcome off.

Labels: internet radio equality act, pandora, riaa, soundexchange

In a Washington Post article last week Pandora founder Tim Westergren dropped a bombshell: his company is nearing the point where it will be forced to close it's virtual doors. Dire TW quotes include, "We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision," and "This is like a last stand for webcasting."

The success of Pandora's iPhone application, which has attracted tens of thousands of new Pandora users per day, may be the company's downfall -- the more listeners webcasters like BAGeL Radio and Pandora attract, the more it costs in bandwidth and royalty payments, but that does not yet translate into increased revenues, leaving webcasters in a pickle. Today's laws, rates, and marketplace conspire to require webcasters stay small in order to survive. Another option for webcasters is to cut equity deals with the major labels, who then get a say in what's on playlists while effectively cutting out the artists from receiving royalties from digital airplay. Gee, I wonder what internet radio will sound like (cough, Clear, cough, Channel) when that happens!

Over at his muSick in the Head blog, Jason Herskowitz has published a simple and spot-on description of what's going on in the latest battle of the ongoing war waged by The Music Establishment against Any New Technology Whatsoever:

Act 1
* labels give terrestrial radio the rights to broadcast royalty-free (to generate awareness and sales of physical product)

Act 2
* labels want more promotion so they start *paying* to get the content played (payola)

Act 3
* labels told that "pay for play" is illegal and start looking for additional (free to them) promotional outlets

Act 4
* labels want more promotion so they give MTV rights to royalty-free broadcast of music videos

Act 5
* labels see other parts of the music ecosystem starting to make money (or *not* make money, but attracting users) and think "hey, that should be ours too"

Act 6
* labels start demanding/increasing payment on plays (where they used to gladly pay for such a thing and would still be doing so if the federal government deemed it illegal)

Act 7
* streaming/radio ecosystem can't afford to be in the radio business and all exit - or move to royalty free programming (talk, news, etc.) - this is in addition to MTV/VH1's continued shift to reality TV and away from music

Act 8
* labels don't have any promotional outlets to get their content heard

Act 9
* labels continue to explore new media distribution outlets for their content (commercials, soundtracks, etc)

Act 10
* due to limited inventory and increased competition to get song "placement" labels offer royalty-free content

Act 11
* go to Act 1

As if that was not great enough, he tops it off with the classic Albert Einstein quote, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Read more of Jason's writing here.

Labels: copyright royalty board, crb, riaa, soundexchange

for the week ending 8/18/08

Top 30 Airplay
Rank ARTIST Recording Label
1 THE GANG Zero Hits Absolutely Kosher
2 DARKER MY LOVE 2 Dangerbird
3 HEAD LIKE A KITE There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere Mush
4 BIRDMONSTER From The Mountain To The Sea Fader
5 SYBRIS Into The Trees Absolutely Kosher
6 LOST SATELLITES Worlds Collide Self-Released
7 CONOR OBERST Conor Oberst Merge
8 DANDY WARHOLS ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... Beat The World
9 COLOURMUSIC F Monday Orange February Venus Lunatic 1 Or 13 World's Fair
10 LACKTHEREOF Your Anchor Barsuk
11 JOSHUA LANES The Dance Thunder [EP] Self-Released
12 FERAL CHILDREN Second To The Last Frontier Sarathan
13 CSS Donkey SUB POP
14 TELEPATHIQUE Last Time On Earth Control Group
15 OXFORD COLLAPSE Bits SUB POP
16 ENEMY UK We'll Live And Die In These Towns Warner-Warner Bros.
17 MRANDMRSMAYS Mrandmrsmays magdalena
18 ANTHEM IN Anthem In Quiet/Loud
19 PONYTAIL Ice Scream Spiritual We Are Free
20 SUPERGRASS Diamond Hoo Ha Astralwerks
21 SERVICES Eat Prey Love A Touch Of Class
22 FRESHKILLS Freshkills Self-Released
23 CHARLATANS You Cross My Path Cooking Vinyl
24 MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS Dystopia Astralwerks
25 PAS/CAL I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke And Laura Le Grand Magistery
26 BRAZILIAN GIRLS New York City Verve Forecast
27 THE BUG London Zoo Ninja Tune
28 TAKKA TAKKA Migration Ernest Jenning
29 HUMAN HIGHWAY Moody Motorcycle Suicide Squeeze
30 POWERSOLO EGG Crunchy Frog

Radio 200 Adds (new releases added to rotation)
Rank ARTIST Recording Label
1 31 KNOTS Worried Well Polyvinyl
2 WALKMEN You And Me Gigantic
3 KONRAD Loose Canyons Radical Turf
4 KRISTOFFER RAGNSTAM Wrong Side Of The Room Bluhammock
5 ONE FOR THE TEAM Build It Up Militia Group

Labels: "BAGeL Radio Airplay", CMJ Chart

BAGeL Radio Presents...

Scissors For Lefty (SF, CA)
Head Like A Kite (Seattle, WA)

and DJ Ted from BAGeL Radio

at Le Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street, San Francisco, CA.
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
$10/All Ages! Buy advance tickets here.

This is going to be a rock show and a dance party and it's All Ages so bring the kids and show them how to shake their booties to actual music, not the thumpa thumpa lowest common denominator crap you usually hear at dance parties.

Labels: BAGeL Radio Presents..., Indie Rock, rickshaw stop

Just two weeks until the next BAGeL Radio Presents... event, a rockshowdancepartyhybrid featuring Scissors For Lefty, Head Like A Kite, and some DJ named Ted from BAGeL Radio. Mark your calendars: Saturday August 30th at The Rickshaw Stop. Tune into "480 Minutes" on Fridays from 9a.m to 5p.m. Pacific Time to win tickets, or just go buy a few from the venue website.

New music today will include songs by The Ettes (San Francisco, CA), Kristoffer Ragnstam (Gothenburg, Sweden), Obi Best (Los Angeles, CA), Konrad (Rock Island, IL), Lower Class Revolt (San Francisco, CA), One For The Team (Minneapolis, MN), Man/Miracle (Oakland, CA), and The Walkmen (New York, NY).

Today's show may be something of a classics show -- DJ iPod has been spinning me lots of 4- and 5-star songs from the 68k-song BAGeL Radio library this week, which makes me want to do an all-classics show. No can do, too much good new stuff to debut and too much strong recent stuff, but there will be a higher percentage of all-time alt-rock greats than usual.

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 7 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

or send an instant message directly through the BAGeL Radio site on the bottom right of the window where is says "click here to chat," or, give the StudioCam chatroom at http://live.yahoo.com/bagelradio a try:



Recent Gig Photos

Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band
@ Bottom of the Hill 8/2/08 (2nd night)

Conor Oberst

Bay Area Gig eList (upcoming shows of interest):

The Octopus Project/ The Hot Toddies/ Sassy! @ Bottom of the Hill 8/16

*Bob Log III/ Scott H. Biram/ Left Lane Cruiser @ Bottom of the Hill 8/20

Candy Apple/ Dilettantes/ The Stone Foxes @ The Rickshaw Stop 8/21

The Union Trade/ Elephone/ One Becomes One Hundred @ Bottom of the Hill 8/27

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

BAGeL Radio Presents...

Scissors For Lefty/ Head Like A Kite/ DJ BAGeL Ted @ The Rickshaw Stop 8/30 - this one's 2 parts rock show 1 part dance party and it's all ages -- buy tickets now!

*Oxford Collapse/ Love As Laughter/ Willow Willow @ The Rickshaw Stop 9/2

Matt And Kim @ Bottom of the Hill 9/2

**The (September) Rumble @ Harlot 9/3

Nine Inch Nails/ Deerhunter @ Oracle Arena 9/5

Walter Meego/ School of Seven Bells/ TBA @ Bottom of the Hill 9/8

All Smiles/ The Lower Class Revolt/ The Aimless Never Miss/ Harbours @ Cafe du Nord 9/10

*Squeeze @ The Mountain Winery 9/13

*Miles Hunt (of The Wonder Stuff) @ Cafe du Nord 9/16

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ The Warfield 9/20

*The Wedding Present/ Earlimart @ The Great American Music Hall 9/21

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"

more upcoming shows

News: John McCain is a hypocritical ass, the Bush Administration is quietly trying to redefine contraception as abortion, and FOX is a Republican mouthpiece.

Labels: "480 Minutes", bay area ticket giveaway