Looking for a way to take BAGeL Radio with you? Like, on your commute? Well, it's actually quite easy with an app called Pocket Tunes, which is available for Windows Mobile smartphones, Palm OS smartphones, as well as the iPhone and iPod touch. The fidelity is surprisingly good! Check it out here. It will be even easier to use when BAGeL Radio appears in their tuner, but for now all you have to do is use the Pocket Tunes browser to navigate to http://bagelradio.com and click the yellow play button to get the station streaming right through your phone. Don't forget to bookmark it so you don't have to search for it again.

Today we will have our first round of giveaways for the BAGeL Radio Half Dozenth Birthday Party at Bottom of the Hill featuring Birdmonster, Railcars, and Ricky Lee Robinson. The 18+ show is on Saturday, February 7th, just a week from this Saturday, so get in touch when you hear any of those 3 bands during today's program and you might just win yourself a pair of free tickets. Alternately, buy some no-fee advance tickets here.

Today's show will feature new music from Hot Panda (Edmonton, Canada), Elusive Parallelograms (Milwaukee, WI), The So So Glos (Brooklyn, NY), We Is Shore Dedicated (Berkeley, CA), Cotton Jones (Cumberland, MD), Broken Spindles (Omaha, NE), Hunters, Run! (New York, NY), Cactus's (Nashville, TN), The BPA (Brighton, England), Latvian Radio (Westchester, NY), The Love Language (Raleigh, NC), Mi Ami (San Francisco, CA), Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat (Austin, TX), The Naked Hearts (New York, NY), Robyn Hitchcock (London, England), and Peter Bjorn and John (Stockholm, Sweden).

Please tune in this and every Friday to "480 Minutes," which runs live from 12 noon to 8 p.m. Eastern Time, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific. You can reach me with requests, comments, corrections, criticisms, praise, etc. via:

e-mail: feedback@bagelradio.com
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Recent Gig Photos: http://bagelradio.com/photos

The Knitters/ Dead Rock West
@ Slim', SF, CA 1/23/09

The Knitters


Dead Rock West

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

1/30 John Vanderslice/ Magik*Magik Orchestra/ DJ Aesop Rock (Tiny Telephone 10th Anniversary) @ Great American
1/30 Fruit Bats/ Sera Cahoone @ Bottom of the Hill
1/30 The Music Lovers/ Harbours @ The Hemlock Tavern
1/30 & 1/31 DeVotchKa @ The Fillmore
1/30 -2/1 Bobby Hutcherson @ Yoshi’s Oakland
1/31 West Indian Girl/ Loquat @ Bottom of the Hill
1/31 Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) @ Slim’s
2/2 Matt & Kim/ Hawnay Troof @ Cafe du Nord
2/2 Nickel Eye (Nikolai of the Strokes)/ Low Vs Diamond @ The Independent
2/3 Dean & Britta (Luna) "13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests" 13 silent film tests (including Nico, Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper and Edie Sedgwick) with live performance from Dean & Britta presented by SF Film Society @ Palace of Fine Arts

2/4 BAGeL Radio Presents... The Rumble @ Harlot (RSVP here for free admission or $5 at the door) featuring The Ringers/ Music For Animals/ DJ Omar (Popscene)/ DJ Ted (BAGeL Radio)

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

More Upcoming Shows (updated) at http://bagelradio.com/shows

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

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