If you are heading to Coachella or know anyone who is, do not miss our indispensable Coachella Tips list.

Today will be an atypical edition of 480 Minutes -- usually this show highlights all of the latest playlist additions being added to the station rotation next week. Today, however, we will unveil no new music and instead focus on recent playlist additions plus some all-time great songs.

Also today we will be giving away tickets to the show we are promoting tonight with our friends at Soma FM -- Love Is All (Gothenberg, Sweden), Princeton (Eagle Rock, CA), and Butterfly Bones (SF, CA) @ The Rickshaw Stop. Get in touch when you hear a song by any of those bands during today's 480 Minutes program for chance to win a pair of tickets to the show, or buy tix in advance. April is a little ridiculous for shows in the Bay Area, but I'm going to bite the bullet and try to see every last one. Or at least the ones listed below in the Bay Area Gig eList.

Labels: "480 Minutes", bay area ticket giveaway

Good morning. Some upcoming live music news to get us started -- next week (Wednesday, 4/7) is the April Rumble @ Milk Bar (1840 Haight Street) featuring Pepper Rabbit, Veil Veil Vanish, and Silver Swans. RSVP here for free admission. Hope to see you there. Perhaps dinner at Cha Cha Cha first?

Together with our friends at Soma FM, BAGeL Radio will be presenting an excellent show the following week as well -- Love Is All (Gothenberg, Sweden), Princeton (Eagle Rock, CA), and Butterfly Bones (SF, CA) @ The Rickshaw Stop on Friday, 4/16. Get in touch when you hear a song by any of those bands during today's 480 Minutes program for chance to win a pair of tickets to the show, or buy tix in advance.

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Back from SXSW, where temperatures got down to near-freezing on the final night of the festival. I brought back with me lots of photos plus some stories to tell. The latter will have to wait for the live babbling part of the show, the former can be viewed on Flickr.

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Good morning!

Good news: BAGeL Radio is going to Austin, TX, for the South By Southwest (aka SXSW) Music Festival!

Not such good news: as a result of our travels, this week's edition of 480 Minutes will be a rerun.

Better news (but still not as good as the news about going to SXSW): the rerun is an episode you likely never heard, and certainly never heard in it's entirety. Throughout the day that this episode aired live, we had network difficulties, so except for the most obsessive 480 Minutes listeners, most are unlikely to have caught this one. The playlist included so much great new music that the show ended up quite good despite the dejected (due to technical difficulties) mood of the host.

If you find yourself wandering around Austin aimlessly on Thursday during the day, please stop by The Beauty Bar. I will be DJing the 3rd Annual Bay Area Takeover from 11:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., so stop by and say hi. I'll be the guy with the headphones who is not the sound engineer. The event features some terrific Bay Area bands including Man/Miracle and Geographer.

Also, we will be updating our Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/bagelradio) regarding which shows/events we attend, so add us to your "following."

Have a lovely weekend, everyone.

Ted

Labels: "480 Minutes", rerun

Today's 480 Minutes features a SF Bay Area ticket giveaway -- win tickets to see a special BAGeL Radio Presents... screening of the new White Stripes documentary, Under Great White Northern Lights, at the Roxie Theater by getting in touch whenever you hear a White Stripes song on BAGeL Radio between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific Time today. The screening will be held on Monday, March 15th.

Many thanks to everyone who came out to the Rumble on Wednesday at Cafe du Nord, particularly those with Noise Pop hangovers. Hoodie hoods off to you! What a great set by Twin Tigers of Athens, GA. Awesome, including their cover of "Quiet" by Smashing Pumpkins. Twin Tigers are playing multiple shows around LA this weekend, so if you are in the area, go see them.

Labels: "480 Minutes", bay area ticket giveaway

Another huge stack of excellent submissions this week means another 480 Minutes chock full of brand new, never before heard on BAGeL Radio songs. On top of that, this week it's Noise Pop, the annual San Francisco indie music festival that has opened our ears to much great music over the years.

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This week we had a glut of new releases submitted. Tons. We made it through almost all of it, and can't believe how much good stuff ended up in the pan. Gold, my friends! We've struck gold this week! Today's show (9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Pacific Time) will feature a record 43 new songs getting their BAGeL Radio debuts. That's five brand spanking new songs per hour. Are you hearing this, commercial radio? Take that!

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Hello friends, enemies, listeners, readers, thinkers, creationists (you know, the folks picking the textbooks for our school kids), and all those in between.

Last night my brother and sister went to a Broadway show and sat a few rows seats from U2 lead singer Bono. Shocking, I know, but true. They both told me. Independently of one another. That's how I know they are not lying.

So today marks the return of a part of 480 Minutes that is meaningful to some of you and for others, not so much: contacting the DJ via Instant Messenger. You can make requests, comment on songs that are playing, rag on songs that never should have been played...whathaveyou. Try it, you might like it. Just let the DJ know who you are and where you are IMing from.

Today 480 Minutes will debut new songs by from Malachai (Bristol, England), Polysics (Japan), Seth Augustus (San Francisco, CA), Cold War Kids (Long Beach, CA), Freelance Whales (Queens, NY), Hanne Hukkelberg (Oslo, Norway), Chet (Victoria, BC, Canada), Xiu Xiu (Brooklyn, NY), Laarks (Eau Claire, WI), Phantogram (Saratoga Springs, NY), Dune Tran (San Francisco, CA), Bettie Serveert (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and the new side project by Eddie Argos (of Art Brut) and Dyan Valdes (of The Blood Arm) called Everybody Was In the French Resistance...Now! (Los Angeles, CA)

Please tune in today and every Friday to 480 Minutes between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific Time. If that time doesn't work for you, the show is rebroadcast on Friday nights and then twice on Saturday, so you can get your fix then.

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

Van Dyke Parks/ Clare And The Reasons @ Swedish American Hall 2/12
*Alec Ounsworth @ Cafe du Nord 2/12
De La Soul @ Yoshi's SF 2/13
Billy Joel/ Elton John @ Oracle Arena 2/13
Blowoff (hosted & DJed by Mob Mould and Rich Morel) @ Slim's 2/13
Girls/ Magic Kids @ Great American Music Hall 2/14
The Damned @ Slim's 2/14
Billy Joel/ Elton John @ The Shark Tanks (SJ) 2/16
Brendan Benson/ Frank Fairfield @ The Independent 2/18
G. Love & Special Sauce @ The Fillmore 2/18
Birdmonster/ Boy In The Bubble/ Here Come The Saviors @ Bottom of the Hill 2/19
The Art of Noise @ Project One 2/19 The Junior Panthers/ Addison/ The High-Nobles @ Cafe du Nord 2/19
An Evening with Richard Thompson @ Great American 2/23, 24, 25
Noise Pop 2010
Foreign Born/ Free Energy @ Rickshaw Stop 2/24
Rogue Wave @ Bottom of the Hill 2/24
Scout Niblett @ Cafe du Nord 2/25
John Vanderslice @ Swedish American Hall 2/26

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Tune in this Friday (2/12) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time for a special edition of 480 Minutes. You'll be able to send in requests via Instant Messenger and chat with the DJ in real time. Well, except when he's real busy, then you may have to wait. The most interesting and entertaining IMers will receive priority treatment! If you are on the east coast and snowed in, sleep in, then tune in...480 Minutes will keep you company all afternoon and into the evening!

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Good morning!

Many many thanks to everyone who came out to Cafe du Nord on Wednesday specifically for the BAGeL Radio 7th birthday party. I really appreciate it. It makes me giddy to look back at the more than 300 (!) episodes of 480 Minutes, plus interviews and BAGeL Radio on-air acoustic performances. Who knew the little independent station that could...would...reach so many people? Not I, my friends. Not I.

Thanks also to everyone who came out to see the bands, the event co-sponsors (The Owl Mag and Future Sounds), my co-DJ (Carlton), and of course the bands (Jaguar Love, My First Earthquake, and Butterfly Bones).

Due in part to that party, which also celebrated the 5th anniversary of The Owl Mag and our first Rumble at Cafe du Nord, I didn't get nearly enough sleep this week nor have nearly enough time to compile a new episode of 480 Minutes, so today's program will be a rerun of a previously broadcast show. Next Friday (2/12) we'll have a new show featuring new stuff from Malachai (Bristol, England), Polysics (Japan), Seth Augustus (San Francisco, CA), and Cold War Kids (Long Beach, CA). See you then!

Oh, and if you are on Facebook please join the BAGeL Radio group. Just search for "bagelradio" in the search window, or click this link. Thanks!

Bay Area Gig eList

*The Thermals/ Thao and the Get Down Stay Down @ Great American Music Hall 2/5
Daedelus/ Jogger/ Nosaj Thing @ Mighty 2/6
Rhett Miller/ Leslie And The Badgers @ The Independent 2/6
The Lonely H./ Leopold And His Fiction/ The Blank Tapes @ Bottom fo the Hill 2/6
Nouvelle Vague @ Regency Grand 2/7
Editors/ Antlers @ The Warfield 2/8
St. Vincent/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ Great American 2/8
Vivian Girls/ Best Coast @ Bottom of the Hill 2/9
Alice In Chains @ Fox Theater (Oakland) 2/11
*Wild Beasts/ Still Life Still/ Magic Bullets @ The Independent 2/11
Van Dyke Parks/ Clare And THe Reasons @ SWedish American Hall 2/12
*Alec Ounsworth @ Cafe du Nord 2/12
De La Soul @ Yoshi's SF 2/13
Billy Joel/ Elton John @ Oracle Arena 2/13
Blowoff (hosted & DJed by Mob Mould and Rich Morel) @ Slim's 2/13
Girls/ Magic Kids @ Great American Music Hall 2/14
The Damned @ Slim's 2/14

further listings at http://bagelradio.com/shows

Labels: "480 Minutes", rerun

Hello and happy Friday.

This week I'd like to call your attention to an anti Karl Rove project by bands who are pissed off about the idea of the man behind Dubyah's political career cashing in further on his destruction of the country by publishing a book. It's called Project: Courage and Consequence. Remember when a couple of editors of The Nation published a book called Going Rouge the same day that Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, hit the newsstands? This is the same idea, only with noisy rock bands instead of a collection of essays.

Today 480 Minutes will debut new songs as well a few that have been around for a while but have not yet had their BAGeL Radio debut. The show will feature music from Beach House (Baltimore, MD), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Paris, France), Eels (Los Angeles, CA), The Films (Charleston, SC), Four Tet (London England), Galactic (New Orleans, LA), Nouvelle Vague (Paris, France), Spoon (Austin, TX), Surfer Blood (West Palm Beach, FL), Vampire Weekend (New York, NY), and Yawn (Chicago, IL).

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

Mates of State/ Rubles @ Cafe du Nord 2/1

BAGeL Radio Presents... The February Rumble including The BAGeL Radio 7th Birthday plus The Owl Mag's 5th plus Noise Pop Warm Up @ Cafe du Nord 2/3
featuring Jaguar Love/ My First Earthquake/ Butterfly Bones/ DJ BAGeL Ted. RSVP here for free admission

Vanessa Fighting Cancer Bitchass Benefit
featuring members of Yard Dogs Road Show/ Extra Action Marching Band and more @ Oakland Metro Operahouse 2/5

*The Thermals/ Thao and the Get Down Stay Down @ Great American Music Hall 2/5
Daedelus/ Jogger/ Nosaj Thing @ Mighty 2/6
Rhett Miller/ Leslie And The Badgers @ The Independent 2/6
The Lonely H./ Leopold And His Fiction/ The Blank Tapes @ Bottom fo the Hill 2/6
Nouvelle Vague @ Regency Grand 2/7
Editors/ Antlers @ The Warfield 2/8
St. Vincent/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ Great American 2/8
Vivian Girls/ Best Coast @ Bottom of the Hill 2/9
Alice In Chains @ Fox Theater (Oakland) 2/11
*Wild Beasts/ Still Life Still/ Magic Bullets @ The Independent 2/11
Van Dyke Parks/ Clare And The Reasons @ SWedish American Hall 2/12
*Alec Ounsworth @ Cafe du Nord 2/12
Billy Joel/ Elton John @ Oracle Arena 2/13
Blowoff (hosted & DJed by Mob Mould and Rich Morel) @ Slim's 2/13
Girls/ Magic Kids @ Great American Music Hall 2/14
The Damned @ Slim's 2/14

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Hello and happy Friday.

Are you ready for some classic rock, some classic Alternative Rock (what indie rock used to be called before Nirvana changed all that), and a bunch of brand new music? If so, do tune in.

Today 480 Minutes will debut new songs as well a few that have been around for a while but have not yet had their BAGeL Radio debut. Are you ready? The show will feature music from Amores Vigilantes (San Francisco, CA), The Golden Boys (Austin, TX), Lost Controls (Austin, TX), Los Campesinos (Cardiff, Wales, UK), The Magnetic Fields (New York, NY), The Minor Leagues (Cininnati, OH), The Stuffies (Austin, TX), The Superions (Orlando, FL), Them Crooked Vultures (Led Zeppelin-Nirvana-Queens of the Stone Age).

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

*West Indian Girl/ Birdmonster/ Orange Peels @ Bottom of the Hill 1/22
Cold War Kids/ Alec Ounsworth/ Flashy Python @ The Fillmore 1/23
Phoneix @ The Fillmore 1/26
Cribs @ Bimbo's 365 Club 1/27
Horse Feathers/ TV Mike And The Scarecrowes/ Liquid Indian @ Bottom of the Hill 1/27
The Soft Pack plus Popscene DJs@ Rickshaw Stop 1/28
Polysics/ The Okmoniks/ The Chop @ Bottom of the Hill 1/28
Mates of State/ Rubles @ Cafe du Nord 2/1

BAGeL Radio Presents... The February Rumble including The BAGeL Radio 7th Birthday plus The Owl Mag's 5th plus Noise Pop Warm Up @ Cafe du Nord 2/3
featuring Jaguar Love/ My First Earthquake/ Butterfly Bones/ DJ BAGeL Ted. RSVP here for free admission

Vanessa Fighting Cancer Bitchass Benefit
featuring members of Yard Dogs Road Show/ Extra Action Marching Band and more @ Oakland Metro Operahouse 2/5

*The Thermals/ Thao and the Get Down Stay Down @ Great American Music Hall 2/5
Daedelus/ Jogger/ Nosaj Thing @ Mighty 2/6
Rhett Miller/ Leslie And The Badgers @ The Independent 2/6
The Lonely H./ Leopold And His Fiction/ The Blank Tapes @ Bottom fo the Hill 2/6
Nouvelle Vague @ Regency Grand 2/7
Editors/ Antlers @ The Warfield 2/8
St. Vincent/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ Great American 2/8
Vivian Girls/ Best Coast @ Bottom of the Hill 2/9
Alice In Chains @ Fox Theater (Oakland) 2/11
*Wild Beasts/ Still Life Still/ Magic Bullets @ The Independent 2/11
Van Dyke Parks/ Clare And THe Reasons @ SWedish American Hall 2/12
*Alec Ounsworth @ Cafe du Nord 2/12
Billy Joel/ Elton John @ Oracle Arena 2/13
Blowoff (hosted & DJed by Mob Mould and Rich Morel) @ Slim's 2/13
Girls/ Magic Kids @ Great American Music Hall 2/14
The Damned @ Slim's 2/14

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Hello. We are back, as in really back, not just back from vacation, but back and armed with new music to play for you.

Before we get to that, a quick note about the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Haiti needs our help. The country needs disaster relief desperately, and there are a couple of very easy ways you can help. One is to text 'HAITI' to 90999, which will show up as a $10 charge on your phone bill, and the $10 will go directly to the American Red Cross to help with disaster relief. Another really easy and novel way to donate is via iTunes. Just click here and you will be able to use your iTunes account to donate $5 - $250 to the American Red Cross. Google has also set up a donations page. Please give what you can. And in case you are wondering how Haiti got so poor, it's not because it made a "pact to the devil," as "Christian" broadcaster Pat Robertson asserted to his 700 Club flock (true story). Here's one take on the history that brought Haiti to this point.

In other misery, Jay Reatard died in his sleep in his Memphis apartment this week. He was 29 years old. Check out the documentary below.

Turning attention to the music...

Today 480 Minutes will debut new songs as well as some that have been around for a while but have not yet had their BAGeL Radio debut. Are you ready? The show will feature music from Blakroc (The Black Keys and hip-hop MCs including RZA, Q-Tip, and Mos Def), Florence And The Machine (London, England), The Heavy (Noid, England), The Laughing (Austin, TX), Little Girls (Toronto, Canada), MiC K!NG & Chum (Philadelphia, PA), Oh No Ono (Copenhagen, Denmark), Retribution Gospel Choir (Duluth, MN), Tempo No Tempo (San Francisco, CA), Thee American Revolution (Kennesaw, GA), and We Were Pirates (Washington DC).

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

*The Coup @ The Independent 1/15
Asobi Seksu @ Swedish American Hall 1/17
Har Mar Superstar plus Popscene DJs @ Rickshaw Stop 1/21
*West Indian Girl/ Birdmonster/ Orange Peels @ Bottom of the Hill 1/22
Cold War Kids @ The Fillmore 1/23
Cribs @ Bimbo's 365 Club 1/27
Horse Feathers/ TV Mike And The Scarecrowes/ Liquid Indian @ Bottom of the Hill 1/27
The Soft Pack plus Popscene DJs@ Rickshaw Stop 1/28
Polysics @ Bottom of the Hill 1/28
Mates of State @ Cafe du Nord 2/1

BAGeL Radio Presents...The BAGeL Radio 7th Birthday Party along with The Owl Mag 5th Anniversary and Noise Pop Warm Up gig all combining to mark the return of SF's favorite indie rock noise pop monthly party: The Rumble. The event will feature live sets by Jaguar Love/ My First Earthquake/ The Butterfly Bones, plus resident Rumble DJ BAGeL Ted from BAGeL Radio @ Cafe du Nord 2/3

*The Thermals/ Thao and the Get Down Stay Down @ Great American Music Hall 2/5
Daedelus/ Jogger/ Nosaj Thing @ Mighty 2/6
Rhett Miller/ Leslie And The Badgers @ The Independent 2/6
The Lonely H./ Leopold And His Fiction/ The Blank Tapes @ Bottom fo the Hill 2/6
Nouvelle Vague @ Regency Grand 2/7
Editors/ Antlers @ The Warfield 2/8
St. Vincent/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ Great American 2/8
Vivian Girls/ Best Coast @ Bottom of the Hill 2/9
Alice In Chains @ Fox Theater (Oakland) 2/11
*Wild Beasts/ Still Life Still/ Magic Bullets @ The Independent 2/11
Van Dyke Parks/ Clare And THe Reasons @ SWedish American Hall 2/12
*Alec Ounsworth @ Cafe du Nord 2/12
Billy Joel/ Elton John @ Oracle Arena 2/13
Blowoff (hosted & DJed by Mob Mould and Rich Morel) @ Slim's 2/13
Girls/ Magic Kids @ Great American Music Hall 2/14
The Damned @ Slim's 2/14

Labels: "480 Minutes", birthday

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I was under the weather and unable to produce an original show for this week, so today will be a rerun of a previously broadcast edition of 480 Minutes. In fact, there will be 4 different reruns run back-to-back-to-back-to-back, for those of you who might enjoy 30+ straight hours of me, babbling. The first runs from 9 a.m.-5p.m. Pacific Time. Do tune in.

There was a grand plan to follow-up to last week's smash hit "Best Music of 2009" edition of 480 Minutes with a "Best Music of the Oughts" edition this week. Then I got sick. Show fail. Alas, that special edition will have to wait until the new year.

Please check out the Best Music of the Year lists below. If you click a song name, it will take you to the song in iTunes, if you click an album name, that will take you to the corresponding CD on Amazon. If you prefer CD Universe, please use this link. You can also find an iMix of our Top Albums of 2009 (each represented by one song), and iMixies for our Top 50 Songs of 2009 as well as Top Songs 51-100. Using any of those links at bagelradio.com to buy music helps the artists and scores a commission for BAGeL Radio, so please, try to use our links as the your for all of your purchases (even non-music goods on Amazon!).

Thanks for sharing another great year of music with us here at BAGeL Radio. I saw some snarky year-end lists this year that stopped at 7 or 8 instead of the standard minimum 10, because, list authors claimed, there just wasn't that much great music released in 2009. Isn't it nice to have a clear view of just how wrong those who put snark ahead of the music really are?

Anyway, enjoy the reruns and sifting through the year-end lists, and best wishes to you and yours for a happy and healthy new year. See you in 2010.

Ted

Year-end shows to see in SF:

Dick Dale @ Mystic Theatre (Petaluma) 12/18
Pink Mountain @ Cafe du Nord 12/18
Man-Miracle/Grand Lake @ Uptown Nightclub (Oakland) 12/18
X/The Heavenly States @ Slim's 12/30
X/The Heavenly States @ Slim's 12/31
The Morning Benders/Miniature Tigers/AB and The Sea @ Bottom of the Hill 12/31

Labels: "480 Minutes", rerun

Good morning and welcome to the The Best Music of 2009 edition of "480 Minutes." Click here to see results from previous years.

At 10 a.m. Pacific Time we will start a countdown with the #50 song of 2009, and I expect we'll get to #1 near 1:30 p.m. After that will be an out-of-order playlist of songs #51 to 100, arranged for maximum aural pleasure. Also included in that post-Top 50 set will be a countdown of the top 30 albums of 2009, plus the top 15 local San Francisco Bay Area releases of the year.

There was science involved in divining the rankings, including scouring all of our 2009 playlists to determine spin counts, how many songs from albums got played, etc. Truth be told, the parts not covered by science (including the hacking away with a machete before surgically paring the lists down their final form, plus final touches and tweaks), were all made with an almost complete disregard for objectivity.

2009 was another banner year for music as the Dubyah Hangover and Great Recession continue on. If you don't believe me, that's all the more reason to tune in today.

It is recommend that you take notes while listening so you can go buy some of these amazing records over the weekend. This will not only make you cooler, it will make you a better person for having supported mainly independent artists and independent labels who need your money to keep doing what they do -- make great music. It could also make your friends cooler if you decide to buy some of this music for them -- music makes an excellent holiday gift.


If you miss any portion of the show during it's original air-time, don't fret. It will be re-broadcast again tonight (Friday December 11th, 2009) beginning at 5p.m. Pacific, and then again twice tomorrow (Saturday December 12th, 2009) at 9 a.m. and 5p.m. Pacific.

Due to Digital Millennium Copyright restrictions, I cannot publish the list of the Top 100 Songs of 2009 until after this program and re-runs have aired, so expect to see a blog post published to this space on Sunday containing a complete run-down of the Top 100 Songs, Top 30 Albums, and Top Bay Area releases of 2009.

Please tune in every Friday to "480 Minutes," which airs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time. Due to the "Best of..." nature of this edition, requests are completely pointless today, but if you have comments, corrections, criticisms, please do get in touch via e-mail (feedback@bagelradio.com).

Also, feel free to post your Best Music of the Year selections in the comments section below.

Thanks, and enjoy the show!

Labels: "480 Minutes", best music of the year

Hello! Please take a moment to vote for me in the SF Bay Guardian Favorite Bay Area DJs contest. I haven't won since 2007, so I'm due! You can vote for me in the Favorite Bay Area DJ: Bar/Lounge category (Ted Leibowitz, The Rumble @ Harlot) and the Favorite Bay Are DJ: Satellite/Internet Radio (Ted Leibowitz, BAGeL Radio, 480 Minutes, bagelradio.com) categories. Thanks!

Today 480 Minutes will debut no songs. Seriously. None. It's that time of year where the submissions pile up and we just don't care -- we're too busy going back through the thousands of great songs released this year. Said thousands have been whittled down to a few hundred (the list is at 157 at the moment), with the ultimate goal being to devine the Top 50 Songs of 2009. Those 50 will be featured, in reverse order, during the Friday 12/11 edition of 480 Minutes beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. The Best Music Of The Year edition is always popular, so please be sure to get in early to ensure you don't get shut out by the listener limits. Or buy a Live365 Preferred Membership. It will cost you $6 a month if you sign up for a year, $8 a month if you sign up for a quarter, and you won't have to worry about getting shut out of BAGeL Radio.

So, getting back to the original point of that paragraph no new stuff, but lots of recent stuff and classics as well. I can ramble, can't I?

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

The final Rumble of 2009, the final Rumble of the 2000s. the final Rumble at Harlot...next Wednesday, 12/9. Be there for DJ overload featuring guest DJ Aaron Axelsen, Keenhouse, Lexicondon, Baron Von Luxxury, Good Luck at The Gunfight, and resident Rumble DJ BAGeL Ted. I'll be on early this month, from 8-9:30, so go out for dinner right after work and then come straight to Harlot. We promise not to make fun of your work clothes, and besides...it's dark in there. Click here to RSVP for free admission.

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Today it's going to rain...at least here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Last time it rained I busted out a giant umbrella and got soaked anyway. This time I've busted out the giant cat hair-covered Columbine raincoat -- not getting soaked this time, Ms. Nature. Sorry. I may scare a few children, but I will be dry.

Today 480 Minutes will debut songs by Audra Mae (Los Angeles, CA via OK), Capgun Coup (Omaha, NE), The Cribs (West Yorkshire, England), The King of Rocksprings (Brooklyn, NY), Hot Lava (Richmond, VA), Sleep Whale (Denton, TX), and Vampire Weekend (New York, NY).

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

Gig Photos:
The Pixies @ The Fox Theatre, Oakland 11/8/09

Black Francis Of The Pixies

The Drums @ Popscene 11/12/09

The Drums

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

Labels: "480 Minutes"

The second Friday in November (today) has historically been the cut-off for when we listen to new music for consideration for our year-end lists. Seeing as we have a couch full of unopened packages plus a playlist of 547 not yet reviewed songs, methinks we will have to extend that deadline by a week. Hopefully we will still be able to cobble together said year-end lists and put them all into a show on Friday, 12/11. That year-end show is always one of the most popular of the year, so pushing it to 12/18 when people may already be leaving for holiday vacations is something to avoid.

Speaking of new music, today 480 Minutes will debut songs by Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Philadelphia, PA), Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze, London, England), Julian Casablancas (The Strokes, New York, NY), Spiral Stairs (Pavement, Stockton, CA), Weezer (Los Angeles, CA), White Denim (Austin, TX), We All Have Hooks For Hands (Sioux Falls, SD), and Frightened Rabbit (Selkirk, Scotland). Let us know how you feel about the new stuff by sending feedback to feedback@bagelradio.com

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

Labels: "480 Minutes"

...when the Yankees are World Series Champions. I know, many of you don't like the fact, but it's true. Think about it -- Yankees win, Democrat in the White House. Last time the Yankees were winning a championships there was a Democrat in the White House. Time before that, in the late 1970s...Democrat in the White House. Coincidence? I think not.

Thanks for all of the congrats, especially from those of you I know are not fans of the 2009 World Series Champion New York Yankees. That was really sweet of you guys.

Anyway, tons of new music for you today, I am sure we can all agree that that is a good thing. New stuff getting it's BAGeL Radio debut today includes The Asteroid Galaxy Tour (Copenhagen, Denmark), Brilliant Colors (San Francisco, CA), Cold Cave (Philadelphia, PA), Drink Up Buttercup (Philadelphia, PA) (see, no hard feelings, Philly!), Letting Up Despite Great Faults (Los Angeles, CA), Locksley (Madison, WI), The Rentals (Los Angeles, CA), and Wolfmother (Sydney, Australia).

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

Labels: "480 Minutes"

Today's program will be a rerun of a previously broadcast edition of 480 Minutes. This happens when the Yankees are in the World Series. It cannot be helped. Go ANSKY!



480 Minutes will be back with an all-new edition next Friday, 11/6.

So for this Rerun we are going to try something a little different -- instead of one 480 Minutes program repeated throughout today and tomorrow we will have 4 different previously recorded 480 Minutes programs play back-to-back-to-back-to-back. Serving suggestion: go buy a case of the energy drink of your choice and listen to hosted BAGeL Radio programming for 40 straight hours beginning at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (11 a.m. Mountain, 10 a.m. Central, 11 a.m. Eastern, 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time). If you guys like the strung together hosted shows we will consider doing this more often, perhaps during the overnight hours when a host to keep you company might be nice. Please let us know what you think at feedback@bagelradio.com.

Bay Area Gig eList (upcoming shows of interest):

*10/30 Art Brut @ Cafe Du Nord (2 shows!)
10/30 No Age @ Great American
10/30 Melt Banana @ Slim's
10/30 Pine & Battery/ New Montgomery/ OONA/ The Hi-Nobles @ Bottom of the Hill
10/31 Loquat/ LoveLikeFire @ Bottom of the Hill
11/1 Rakes @ Slim's
11/1 Skinny Puppy @ The Regency Grand
11/1 Shonen Knife/ Ty Segall/ Dreamdate @ The Uptown (Oakland)

**11/4 BAGeL Radio Presensts...
The Rumble @ Harlot featuring Please Do Not Fight/ Apes Of Wrath/ The Frail (DJ Set)/ DJ Omar of Popscene RSVP here for free admission

11/5 Port O'Brien @ Bottom of the Hill
*11/6 Dinosaur Jr. @ The Fillmore
11/6 Battlehooch/ Ghost And The City @ Bottom of the Hill
11/7 Mister Loveless/ The Downer Party/ Holy Rolling Empire @ Bottom of the Hill
*11/8 & 11/9 Pixies (performing Doolittle) @ Fox Theater (Oakland)
11/8 The Dutchess And The Duke/ Greg Ashley/ El Olio Wolof @ Bottom of the Hill
11/9 Raveonettes @ Bimbo's
**11/12 The Drums @ Popscene w/ guest DJs BAGeL Ted & Miles

More upcoming shows: http://bagelradio.com/shows

Labels: "480 Minutes", rerun

Well it's late October and that means Halloween, playoff baseball, and leaves a-turnin' colors. Even here in the Bay Area this year, the leaves are a-turnin' colors. It's pretty. It's also pretty amazing. Not as amazing as the baseball playoffs have been (umpiring notwithstanding), but amazing nonetheless. Go ANSKY!

Also amazing was the Treasure Island Music Festival (photos) last weekend. Sunday was perhaps the single strongest festival lineups I've ever seen. Highlights were Bob Mould playing pretty much all Sugar and Hüsker Dü songs, The Walkmen (they are hit or miss and no doubt this was a 'hit' performance), Spiral Stairs (aka Scott Kannberg of Pavement fame), and The Flaming Lips who were more than just the icing on the festival cake. It would have been worth standing outside in the cold all day just for them. If you've never seen The Flaming Lips take my advice and see them at your next opportunity. Even if you don't like their music, the live show is a spectacle that must be experienced. Take a day off work, drive a couple of hundred miles, fly...whatever it takes, next time they play anywhere near you, go. No excuses.

Today on BAGeL Radio we will feature brand-spanking new music from Man/Miracle (Oakland, CA), Middle Distance Runner (Washington, DC), Thao (Oakland, CA), and They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NY).

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

The 2009 Treasure Island Music Festival (click to see all the photos):



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

Labels: "480 Minutes"

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

Labels: "480 Minutes", riaa, riaa sucks

Why "The Classic Rock Edition?" I don't know. Maybe it's because the wife went to see Foreigner at the Fillmore last night, so when I was compiling the playlist that influenced me. Never fear, there is no Foreigner in today's playlist, but there are songs from classic rock juke box heroes like The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Queen, amongst others.

More importantly, today on BAGeL Radio we will feature brand-spanking new music from Amazing Baby (Brooklyn, NY), The Black Hollies (Jersey City, New Jersey), The Gossip (Portland, Oregon), The Headlights (Champaign, IL), Hockey (Portland, Oregon), Noah And The Whale (London, England), Pearl Jam (Seattle, WA), Pet Lions (Chicago, IL), A Place To Bury Strangers (Brooklyn, NY), Times New Viking (Columbus, OH), Two Hours Traffic (Prince Edward Island, Canada), Vivian Girls (Brooklyn, NY), and Windmill (London, England), featuring perhaps the finest cover art of 2009 :
As always, we'd love to hear your feedback on the latest playlist additions and whatever else is on your mind. Write to us at feedback@bagelradio.com.

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

Many thanks to DJ Aaron Axelsen of Live 105/Popscene and DJ Tom Thump, as well as to the bands who performed, Man/Miracle and Fitz & The Tantrums, for making our final Rumble at Harlot great fun. It will be sad to leave our home venue of the past two years, but we look forward to getting started at the Rumble SF's new home, The Rickshaw Stop, on Wednesday 11/4.

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

Labels: "480 Minutes"