Is it really the end of March already? Seriously?
Well, the one good thing about another month ending is that the first Wednesday of the next month is coming up soon, and that means it's time for The Rumble. The next one is this coming Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at Harlot and will feature guest DJ Omar of Popscene plus free vodka Red Bulls from 8-9:30. RSVP here for free admission, or click the cassette image.

Today's "480 Minutes" show will feature new songs from The Breeders (Dayton, OH), The Wombats (1st US release, Liverpool, UK), Tapes 'n Tapes (Minneapolis, MN), The Black Keys (Akron, OH), The Black Box Rebellion (Brussels, Belgium), R.E.M. (Athens, GA), Finest Dearest (San Francisco, CA), Doctors & Dealers (Stockholm, Sweden), Foals (Oxford, UK), Mono Taxi (London, UK), Cut Copy (Melbourne, Australia), Eric Avery (of Jane's Addiction, Los Angeles, CA), Moby (New York, NY), Neva Dinova (Omaha, NE), The Parlor Mob (NJ), plus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (UK) and The Raconteurs (Detroit, MI).

By the way, the new R.E.M. album does not suck. In fact, it's really quite good. Many echoes of and nods to their glory days (which for me ended in 1992 with Automatic For the People, and my favorite R.E.M. albums remain Reckoning and Murmur), both musically and lyrically (the words "end of the world" are featured prominantly and repeatedly in the track "I'm Gonna DJ," while Michael Stipe sings something about "feel gravity's pull" in "Sing For The Sumbarine"), yet somehow it doesn't sound like R.E.M. during the Reagan years. I can see some folks, the ones who don't listen closely enough, thinking that R.E.M. is simply returning to safe ground it has already covered. To my ears it's all too urgent and rocking and raw to charge them with such a crime -- on most of the songs it's possible they were actually recorded live, with the band in the same room together, without massive overdubs.

I can't believe I may soon (after several more listens, of course) be able say I love an R.E.M. album again. It's nice that the chance exists.

Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show runs live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, the is rebroadcast starting at 7p.m., then twice more on Saturday. On Saturday night at midnight we return to regular BAGeL Radio programming.

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

e-mail: feedback@bagelradio.com
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
AOL/iChat: bagelradiolive
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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."

Recent photos:

nothing that great this week

Upcoming Bay Area Gigs of Interest:

The Rumble @ Harlot 4/2 featuring guest DJ Omar of Popscene RSVP here for free admission

Ministry @ The Fillmore 4/1 & 4/2
Cribs @ Popscene 4/3

# Oranger/ Parker Brothers/ Blank Stares/ B'Cups @ 12 Galaxies 4/4

Ministry @ The Fillmore 4/1 & 4/2
French Miami/ The New Centuries/ The Special Goodbye @ The Elbo Room 4/2
Cribs @ Popscene 4/3
Birds & Batteries/ Telegraph Canyon/ Social Studies@ Cafe du Nord 4/3
Light FM/ Ted from Music Lovers/ AM Magic @ The Hotel Utah 4/6
* Les Sans Culottes/ The Cuban Cowboys/ The Gun & Doll Show @ Cafe du Nord 4/8
Cult of Sue Todd/ Minmae/ Chase Frank @ The Hemlock Tavern 4/10 �
Enon @ Bottom of the Hill 4/13

BAGeL Radio Presents... buy tickets here!

#** Handsome Furs/ Aria C. Jalali @ Bottom of the Hil 4/15

Simian Mobile Disco/ Cut Copy @ Mezzanine 4/26
Islands @ Bimbo's 4/30
Peter (Bjorn and John) Moren @ Swedish American Hall 5/1
Death To Anders @ The Make-Out Room 6/8 �

* = I'm there
** = I'm DJing

# = win tickets during "480 Minutes"

more upcoming shows

Reminder: there's a new start date for my Blogs, Podcasts, and Internet Radio class at San Francisco State University's College of Extended Learning, and it's coming up fast. It's a week from tomorrow, Saturday April 5th. The class meets Saturdays at the downtown SFSU campus, and you can sign up right now for the Spring semester.

Labels: "480 Minutes", sfsu, The RUMBLE

Today we'll be broadcasting live from the floor of the Macworld Expo in downtown San Francisco beginning at about 10 a.m. As usual with these remote broadcasts, the stream may be interrupted briefly right at the start, but I tested it yesterday and expect it to be stable after that initial glitch.

The show today will consist mainly of the indie rock nosie pop you love, peppered with a few interviews of other Macworld exhibitors including Brooke Wentz of The Rights Workshop and Richard Esguerra of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, amongst others.

If you are attending Macworld please stop by the San Francisco State University booth and say hello. We're in Moscone West, booth 4347.

Labels: macworld expo, sfsu

Happy 2008, everyone. Let's hope that last night's strong showings in Iowa by Barak Obama (The Hopeful Future) and Mike Huckabee (The Dark, Oppressive Past) bodes well for the next presidential election. Of course, that assumes that the Bushists will not shred the last vestiges of the constitution between now and them and will allow an election to happen.

Here's some more news -- BAGeL Radio will be broadcasting live from the MacWorld Expo (1/15-1/18) thanks to our friends at the SFSU College of Extended Learning, where I teach a class about Blogs, Podcasts, and Internet Radio. (The Spring semester class meets 3 times: March 1st, 8th, and 22nd). Watch this space for details on broadcast hours and special features including interviews from the middle of MacWorld.

Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show is live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time.

Today's show will feature new music from Cheyenne (Brooklyn, NY), King Of Prussia (Athens, GA), Leopold And His Fiction (SF, CA), The Motion Sick (Boston, MA), The Shackeltons (Chambersburg, PA), Yesan Damen (Seattle, WA), and The Neutrinos (Norwich, UK).

Please get in touch during the show (9 a.m.-5 p.m. Pacific Time) 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 right through the BAGeL Radio site on the bottom right of the window where is says "click here to chat."

Upcoming Bay Area Gigs of Interest:

The Hot Toddies @ The Uptown (Oak) 1/4/08
Midnight Movies/ Apollo Heights/ Veil Veil Vanish @ Bottom of the Hill 1/4/08
Social Distortion @ The Fillmore 1/4, 5, 6, & 8
Black Heart Procession/ Loquat/ El Olio Wolf @ Bottom of the Hill 1/9/08
The Union Trade/ Aimless Never Miss/ Aim Low Kid @ Bottom of the Hill 1/10/08
Audio Out Send/ The Lonelyhearts/ Leigh Gregory @ Hemlock Tavern 1/11/08
Recliner (CD release)/ Smithpoint/ We Are Invisible @ Cafe du Nord 1/11/08
Devendra Banhart @ SF MOMA 1/17/08
Teenage Harlets/ White Barons/ Dead City Rockers @ Bottom of the Hill 1/17/08
The Blakes/ Magic Bullets/ The Blacks @ Bottom of the Hill 1/18/08
Finest Dearest/ Empty Rooms/ Top Critters @ Hemlock Tavern 1/19/08
Rademacher/ Death to Anders @ Make-Out Room 1/20/08
Two Left Feet/ Two Seconds/ Audiophiles @ Bottom of the Hill 1/20/08
Circle Jerks @ Slim's 1/22/08
Mirah/ The Blow @ Great American Music Hall 1/23/08
Howard Jones @ Great American Music Hall 1/24/08
Rykarda Parasol/ Mellowdrone/ Excuses For Skipping @ Cafe du Nord 1/25/08

Au Revoir Simone/ Loquat @ The Independent 1/26/08

The Holy Kiss/ Jail Weddings/ The New Centuries @ The Knockout 1/26/08
Vampire Weekend @ Popscene 1/31/08

BAGeL Radio Presents...

The BAGeL Radio 5th Birthday Party featuring

TBA @ Bottom of the Hill 2/1/08

Social Distortion @ The Fillmore 2/2

Overview/ LoveLikeFire/ The Hundred Days/ The Catholic Comb @ Bottom of the Hill 2/2

#**Indie Rock Dance Night "The Rumble" @ Harlot 2/6/08 featuring resident DJ Ted from BAGeL Radio with guest DJ Amp Live of Zion I

* = I'm there
** = I'm DJing

# = win tickets during "480 Minutes"

more upcoming shows

Labels: "480 Minutes", blogs podcasts and internet radio, macworld expo, sfsu