OK,
we're back, and there's so much good stuff to get to, I don't even know
where to begin. That 500-song playlist I've been panning through ended
up being more like 700 songs as I found other things to listen to, and
there's still a backlog of CDs I need to get to, but there was some
quality in there, let me tell you.
As such today's program will contain a host of (over 60!) never-before-heard on BAGeL Radio music including new Wolf Parade (Montreal, Canada), The Notwist (Munich, Germany), The Cute Lepers (Seattle, WA), Okay (Berkeley, CA), Ladytron (Liverpool, UK), Herman Dune (Sweden), The Charlatans (Manchester, UK), Centro-Matic (Denton, TX), The Chap (London, UK), Cineplexx (Barcelona, Spain), Crayonsmith (Dublin, Ireland), The Dimes (Portland, OR), The Dudley Corporation (Dublin, Ireland), Foxboro Hot Tubs (Oakland, CA), The Gang (Brooklyn, NY), The Harbours (San Francisco, CA), Jason Webley (Seattle, WA), Jeff Wagner's Tunnel Of Love (San Francisco, CA.), Little Beirut (Portland, OR), Mono In VCF (Tacoma, WA), My Morning Jacket (Louisville, KY), Ricky Lee Robinson (Oakland, CA), The Saturday Knights (Seattle, WA), Setting Sun (Hudson Valley, NY), Sigur Ros (Reykjavík, Iceland), Sloan (Toronto, Canada), Southeast Engine (Athens, OH), Sybris (Chicago, IL), Taylor Hollingsworth (Birmingham, AL), The Weeks (Jackson, MS), and 60 Watt Kid (San Francisco, CA).
Today listeners will have a chance to win a DVD copy of the acclaimed film about Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, Control, and we continue our ticket giveaway for for The Download Festival at the Shoreline Ampitheatre. The July 19th lineup now includes The Jesus & Mary Chain and Gang Of Four to go along with Atmosphere & Brother Ali, Brand New, Mute Math, Yeasayer, Sia, M83, Mates of State, The Whigs, William Fitzsimmons, Cut Copy, Datarock, Flosstradamus, RJD2, Duke Spirit, Tapes n Tapes, Blitzen Trapper, Louis XIV, Airborne Toxic Event, and De Novo Dahl, amongst others. Buy tickets here for just $20.
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Please tune in
to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show runs live from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, then 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 me during the show via:
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Loquat/ LoveLikeFire/ The Union Trade @ Cafe du Nord 6/20
Panda/ Maldroid/ The Toy Soldiers/ The Felix Dukes @ Bottom of the Hill 6/20
*Death Cab For Cutie @ The Greek Theatre 6/21
*Frightened Rabbit/ Oxford Collapse @ The Independent 6/21
The Blakes/ The Broken West/ Tempo No Tempo @ Bottom of the Hill 6/22
Fleet Foxes/ The Duchess And The Duke/ Mist And Mast @ Bottom of the Hill 6/26
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss @ The Greek Theatre 6/27
Panther/ The Botticellis/ Pickwick/ Winters Fall @ Bottom of the Hill 6/27
Chuck Ragan/ Kevin Seconds/ The City @ Bottom of the Hill 6/28
Camper Van Beethoven @ The Fillmore 6/28
BAGeL Radio Presents...
**The (July) Rumble @ Harlot 7/9 featuing an intimate miniset by The Heavenly States
Constantines/ Ladyhawk @ Slims 7/2
Jet Age/ D.W. Holiday @ The Hemlock Tavern 7/2
Modey Lemon @ The Hemlock Tavern 7/4
Yaz @ The Paramount Theatre 7/7
Retribution Gospel Choir (featuring Alan from Low) @ Bottom of the Hill 7/8
Maria Taylor/ Jonathan Rice/ Nik Freitas @ Bottom of the Hill 7/9
The Parlor Mob/ Lemon Sun/ The Moanin Dove @ Bottom of the Hill 7/10
The Bay Bridged Presents..20 Minute Loop/ Caves/ Man-Miracle @ Bottom of the Hill 7/11
Rykarda Parasol & The Tower Ravens/ Candy Apple/ Death Of A Party @ Uptown Nightclub 7/12
The Police/ Elvis Costello @ Shoreline 7/14, 15, & 16
*Wolf Parade @ The Fillmore 7/17
Stan Ridgway presents Wall Of Voodoo @ The Great American Music Hall 7/17
Joseph Arthur @ The Great American Music Hall 7/18
#The Download Festival @ Shoreline Amphitheatre 7/19 win tickets on BAGeL Radio
The Zombies @ The Grand Regency 7/20
Grand Ole Party/ Sugar And Gold/ Shannon And The Clams @ Bottom of the Hill 7/22
The Duke Spirit/ Aarows/ Scene of Action @ Bottom of the Hill 7/23
Stone Temple Pilots/ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ The Greek Theatre 7/25
The Watson Twins/ Tim Fite/ Okay @ Bottom of the Hill 7/28
Rocky Votolato/ Owen/ Piss Pissedofferson @ Bottom of the Hill 7/29
The Subways/ The Bruises @ Bottom of the Hill 7/30
Bloc Party/ Does It Offend You, Yeah? @ The Fillmore 7/30
The English Beat/ The Fixx/ The Alarm @ Mountain Winery 7/31
Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band/ Dri @ Bottom of the Hill 8/1
Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band/ Dri @ Bottom of the Hill 8/2
**The (August) Rumble @ Harlot 8/6
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From SF Weekly:
Best Internet DJ (2008)
Ted Leibowitz, Bagel Radio
These days, music fans have way too many people clamoring for their attention. MP3 blogs, Pandora, and weekly newspapers (oops!) all tug at listeners' elbows, insisting their opinions are the most reliable. That's why it's nice to have someone you can trust, like Ted Leibowitz of local Internet station BAGeL Radio. For the last four years, Leibowitz has been broadcasting from his S.F. home, carefully selecting the best in current and old-school guitar-driven rock. He occasionally peppers his shows with some hip-hop and electronica as well, but it is the rock in which he excels. During his eight-hour live show every Friday, he culls tracks from his ever-growing collection, playing everything from local upstarts Empty Rooms, buzz band Vampire Weekend, and elder statesmen Pixies and Rolling Stones. Thanks to Leibowitz, listening to radio is fun again.
It's time for the weekly marathon radio program in which you find the albums you are going to buy and listen to all week next week. It happens all the time. You'll see. Next week (Friday, May 30th) will be even worse because besides new songs the show will also contain a countdown of the top songs and albums of 2008 so far, which, of course, you will have to own. Get ready to hock those Kenny G. CDs, you're going to need some quick cash.
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New music featured today during "480 Minutes" will include The Bentleys (San Fernando, CA),
Gnarls Barkley (Atlanta, GA), Booka Shade (Frankfurt, Germany), Canopy (Austin, TX), The National (Brooklyn, NY), The Watson Twins (Los Angeles, CA), Blackstrap (Stockholm, Sweden), The Explorer's Club (Charleston, SC), The Futureheads (Sunderland, UK), Here Here (San Francisco, CA), Little Pieces (Seattle, WA), Midnight Juggernauts (Melbourne, Australia), Peter Von Poehl (Sweden), and Spiritualized (Rugby, UK).
Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show runs live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, then 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 me during the show via:
e-mail: feedback -at- bagelradio.com
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
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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." If you are a Y! user you can also chat in the Yahoo! Live room.
BAGeL Radio Presents...
Magic Bullets/ Lemon Sun/ Rosewood Thieves
-at- Bottom of the Hill 5/8/08
The Heavenly States/ Throw Me The Statue/ Siberian
-at- Bottom of the Hill 4/26/08
-at- Shattuck Down Low 4/26/08
RADWood City Acoustic BBQ 4/20/08
Birdmonster/ The Heavenly States/Mist And Mast/Love Is Chemicals
Vitamin Party -at- House Of Shields 5/23
The New Centuries/ The Dont's/ Man-Miracle -at- The Hemlock Tavern 5/24
Dead Meadow -at- Slim's 5/24
Beirut -at- The Grand Regency Center 5/27
Ladytron/ Datarock/ The Delta Fiasco -at- The Fillmore 5/27
The Cure/ 65DaysofStatic -at- HP Pavillion 5/28
Asteroid #4/ Quarter After/ The Otherside -at- The Rickshaw Stop 5/28
Jamie Lidell -at- Bimbo's 5/28
Swervedriver/ Film School/ Mezzanine Owls -at- The Fillmore 5/29
Sybris/ Ex-Boyfriends/ Unwed Sailor -at- The Rickshaw Stop 5/29
The Fiery Furnaces -at- The Great American Music Hall 5/29
Ladyhawk/ Neva Dinova/ The Parish -at- Bottom of the Hill 5/30
BAGeL Radio Presents... 
buy tickets here!
# The Heavenly States/ Sistas In the Pit/ The Dimes -at- Bottom of the Hill 5/31
20 Minute Loop/ Tartufi/ Yes Oh Yes -at- The Hemlock Tavern 5/31
R.E.M./ Modest Mouse/ The National -at- The Greek Theatre 5/31 & 6/1
Peter Murphy -at- The Grand Regency 6/2
The Long Blondes -at- The Great American Music Hall 6/2
The (June) Rumble -at- Harlot 6/4
The Wombats -at- Popscene 6/5
Vauxhaul Broadcast/ Lemon Sun -at- The Hemlock Tavern 6/5
The Warlocks/ The Black Angels -at- 12 Galaxies 6/6
Los Campesinos/ Parenthetical Girls -at- Bimbo's 6/6
The experimental live studio video feed from Yahoo! Live
may have caused some problems last week, but we're going to give it one
more try because we're just that reckless. Hopefully this old
war-horse of a computer will be able to handle the broadcast,
recording, and video. Give it a gander during showtime (Friday 9
a.m.-5p.m. Pacific), let me know what you think:
http://live.yahoo.com/bagelradio
New music featured today during "480 Minutes" will include The Fashion (Denmark), Low Vs Diamond (Los Angeles, CA), Port O'Brien (Oakland, CA), Miniature Tigers (Phoenix, AZ), Raised By Tigers (Denton, TX), Madelia (San Francisco, CA), William F. Gibbs (SC), Walter Meego (Los Angeles, CA), The Cure (Crawley, UK), Whatfor (Madison, WI), N*E*R*D (Virginia Beach, VA), Oppenheimer (Belfast, UK), Styrofoam (Antwerp, Belgium), Baskervilles (New York, NY), The Ting Tings (Salford, UK), and Mates Of State (CA).
Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show runs live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, then 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 me during the show via:
e-mail: feedback-at-bagelradio.com
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
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GoogleTalk: bagelradio-at-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." If you are a Y! user you can also chat in the Yahoo! Live room.
One of these days I will once again find the time to edit, tag, and post photos from the shows I've been attending. Promise.
The Otherside/ Gliss -at- Edinburgh Castle 5/16
The Kills/ Child Ballads -at- Slim's 5/17
Etta James -at- Marin Veterans' Memorial Auditorim 5/17
Dresden Dolls/ Smoosh -at- The Fillmore 5/18
El Perro Del Mar/ Lykke Li/ Anna Termheim -at- Bimbo's 5/18
French Kicks/ The Weather Underground -at- The Independent 5/18
Arcadio/ Mist & Mast/ Definite Articles -at- Rickshaw Stop 5/21
Dizzee Rascal/ El-P/ Busdriver -at- 1015 Folsom 5/21
M.I.A. -at- Concourse Exhibition Center 5/21
The Black Hollies/ The Jizz!/ The Invasion! -at- The Hemlock 5/21
M83 -at- Great American Music Hall 5/21
The Cave Singers/ The Botticellis/ Triumph of Lethargy/ Skinned Alive To Death -at- The Independent 5/22
Mates of State -at- Slim's 5/22
Vitamin Party -at- House Of Shields 5/23
The New Centuries/ The Dont's/ Man-Miracle -at- The Hemlock Tavern 5/24
Dead Meadow -at- Slim's 5/24
Beirut -at- The Grand Regency Center 5/27
Ladytron/ Datarock/ The Delta Fiasco -at- The Fillmore 5/27
The Cure/ 65DaysofStatic -at- HP Pavillion 5/28
Asteroid #4/ Quarter After/ The Otherside -at- The Rickshaw Stop 5/28
Jamie LIdell -at- Bimbo's 5/28
Swervedriver/ Film School/ Mezzanine Owls -at- The Fillmore 5/29
Sybris/ Ex-Boyfriends/ Unwed Sailor -at- The Rickshaw Stop 5/29
The Fiery Furnaces -at- The Great American Music Hall 5/29
Ladyhawk/ Neva Dinova/ The Parish -at- Bottom of the Hill 5/30
BAGeL Radio Presents... buy tickets here!
# The Heavenly States/ Sistas In the Pit/ The Dimes -at- Bottom of the Hill 5/31
20 Minute Loop/ Tartufi/ Yes Oh Yes -at- The Hemlock Tavern 5/31
R.E.M./ Modest Mouse/ The National -at- The Greek Theatre 5/31 & 6/1
Peter Murphy -at- The Grand Regency 6/2
The Long Blondes -at- The Great American Music Hall 6/2
The (June) Rumble -at- Harlot 6/4
Joan Of Arc/ 31 Knots/ Maus Haus -at- The Rickshaw Stop 6/5
Vauxhaul Broadcast/ Lemon Sun -at- The Hemlock Tavern 6/5
The Warlocks/ The Black Angels -at- 12 Galaxies 6/6
Los Campesinos/ Parenthetical Girls -at- Bimbo's 6/6
New music featured today during "480 Minutes" will include No Age (Los Angeles, CA), The Audiophiles (San Francisco, CA), Pomegranates, The Rosewood Thieves, Bum Kon (previously unreleased 80s hardcore from Denver, CO), Eli 'Paperboy' Reed (Allston, MA), Jacksonknife (New York, NY), and Portishead (Portishead, UK).
Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show runs live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, then 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 me during the show via:
e-mail: feedback@bagelradio.com
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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."
Jack On Tours
The Raconteurs @ Bimbo's, 4/23/08, photo by MistyLWhite
The Web 2.0 SXSW Reunion
Bay Area Gig eList:
*The Coup @ Shattuck Down Low (Berkeley) 4/25
Simian Mobile Disco/ Cut Copy @ Mezzanine 4/26
Islands @ Bimbo's 4/30
Peter (Bjorn and John) Moren @ Swedish American Hall 5/1
Indie Rock Dance Night "The Rumble" featuring guest DJ Richie Panic of Blow Up! @ Harlot 5/7/08 RSVP here for free admission
BAGeL Radio Presents... buy tickets here! 18+ show
Magic Bullets/ Lemon Sun/ The Rosewood Thieves @ Bottom of the Hill 5/8
BAGeL Radio Presents... buy tickets here! 18+ show
#** The Heavenly States/ Sistas In The Pit/ The Dimes @ Bottom of the Hill 5/31
Death To Anders @ The Make-Out Room 6/8
** = I'm DJing
# = win tickets during "480 Minutes"
P.S.
- Today's show is unsponsored. If you or your business or your rich
uncle or aunt would like to sponsor next week's edition of "480
Minutes" (I mean, seriously, what were you going to spend your tax
refund on anyway? Cheese?) please get in touch via feedback@bagelradio.com with the subject line "POTENTIAL SPONSOR" -- that will get my attention.
including videos by Adam and the Ants, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The March Violets, Gary Numan, Joy Division, The Fall, Orange Juice, and many others. Enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who has donated to the "send BAGeL Radio to South By Southwest"
fund drive. I am overwhelmed by your generosity and the sentiments that
have accompanied the donations. It gives me the warm fuzzies to hear
that BAGeL Radio means so much to so many of you. Before the tears well
up, let's move on along, shall we?
Many thanks to LoveLikeFire for their awesome intimate mini-set during The Rumble at Harlot last night. They were great. Speaking of great, guest DJ AmpLive, took the reigns after the live rock and showed this DJ how it's done. He was phenomenal. I'd also like to give a shout out to the other sponsors of the event including The Owl Mag, Tankfarm Futuresounds, and SonicLiving, who have all played a big part in making The Rumble one of the coolest recurring events I have ever had the pleasure of being involved in.
Today's "480 Minutes" show will feature new songs from Bauhaus (Northampton, England), The Heavy (?, England), The Heavy Hearts (Seattle, WA), Stella Royale (San Francisco, CA), Evangelicals (Norman, OK), Mostly Bears (Tucson, AZ), Pills & Jackets (San Francisco, CA), She & Him (US), Don Cavalli (Ile-de-France, France), Big Dipper (Boston, MA, retrospective), Joseph Arthur (Brooklyn, NY), The Matinees (San Franisco, CA, not new, but new to me!),
The Presidents Of The United States Of America (Seattle, WA), Destroyer (Vancouver, BC), The Black Hollies (Jersey City, NJ), Tokyo Decadence (Oakland, CA), Crystal Castles (St. Helena, CA), and Prince Fatty (UK).
Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show is live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
Reach out and e-touch me during the show via:
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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:
My Noise Pop Gig Photos (collection)
Working For A Nuclear Free City (first U.S. show)
Upcoming Bay Area Gigs of Interest:
Travis Morrison/ Facing New York/ Social Studies @ Rickshaw Stop 3/20
* Evangelicals/ Headlights @ The Hemlock Tavern 3/21
Loquat/ The Prids/ Black Kites @ Cafe du Nord 3/21
Explosions In The Sky @ Great American Music Hall 3/21 & 22
Bob Mould @ Great American Music Hall 3/26
Bell X1 @ Cafe du Nord 3/26
Ministry @ The Fillmore 4/1 & 4/2
Cribs @ Popscene 4/3
* Les Sans Culottes/ The Cuban Cowboys/ The Gun & Doll Show @ Cafe du Nord 4/8
Enon @ Bottom of the Hill 4/13
BAGeL Radio Presents... buy tickets here!
#** Handsome Furs/ Aria C. Jalali @ Bottom of the Hil 4/15
** = I'm DJing
# = win tickets during "480 Minutes"
Reminder: there's a new start date for my Blogs, Podcasts, and Internet Radio, at San Francisco State University's College of Extended Learning: April 5th. The class meets Saturdays at the downtown SFSU campus , and you can sign up right now for the Spring semester, first meeting on 4/5/08.
Happy Leap Day!
Next Wednesday, March 5th, make certain you attend The Rumble at Harlot. It's the indie rock dance night that I DJ, and this time there will be a live intimate mini-set by LoveLikeFire plus guest DJ AmpLive, whose name has been splashed all over the music press this year for his Radiohead-approved remixes of eight songs from In Rainbows. There will be free lemon drops (of the vodka variety) from 8 p.m. to 9:30, so get there early to get your slosh on. RSVP at SonicLiving for free admission.
Today's "480 Minutes" show will feature new songs from State Bird (Dover, OH), Los Campesinos (Cardiff, UK), The Dirtbombs (Detroit, MI), Fink (Brighton, England), Voyager One (Seattle, WA), Kid Dakota (Minneapolis, MN), The Ruby Suns (Auckland, NZ), The Gutter Twins (Mark Lanegan & Greg Dulli), Photon Band (Philadelphia, PA), A Weather (Portland, OR), The Dodos (San Francisco, CA), Reykjavik! (Reykjavik, Iceland), Radars To The Sky (Los Angeles, CA), WHY? (Oakland, CA), Guillermo Sexo (Allston, MA), De Novo Dahl (Nashville, TN), and These New Puritans (Southend, UK).
Please tune in to "480 Minutes" today and every Friday. The show is live from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
Reach out and e-touch me during the show via:
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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:
Quasi/ The Little Ones
@ The Rickshaw Stop 2/27/08
Sam of Quasi
Edward and Brian of The Little Ones
Upcoming Bay Area Gigs of Interest:
Magnetic Fields @ The Herbst Theatre 2/29
Cursive @ Great American Music Hall 2/29
Rykarda Parasol and the Tower Ravens @ Red Devil Lounge 2/29
The Mountain Goats/ Jeffrey Lewis & The Jitters @ Bimbo's 2/29
*Holy Fuck/ A Place To Bury Strangers/ White Denim /Veil Veil Vanish @ Bottom of the Hill 2/29
Mountain Goats/ David Dondero @ The Independent 3/1
*Mountain Goats @ Bottom of the Hill 3/2
*Tilly & The Wall/ Capgun Coup @ The Rickshaw Stop 3/2
#** Indie Rock Dance Night "The Rumble" @ Harlot 3/5 /08 featuring guest DJ AmpLive of Zion-I and a live performance by LoveLikeFire
* Minmae/ Cult Of Sue Todd/ Warren Teagarden @ Hotel Utah 3/6
Travis Morrison/ Facing New York/ Social Studies @ Rickshaw Stop 3/20
* Evangelicals/ Headlights @ The Hemlock Tavern 3/21
Loquat/ The Prids/ Black Kites @ Cafe du Nord 3/21
Explosions In The Sky @ Great American Music Hall 3/21 & 22
Bob Mould @ Great American Music Hall 3/26
Bell X1 @ Cafe du Nord 3/26
Ministry @ The Fillmore 4/1 & 4/2
Cribs @ Popscene 4/3
* Les Sans Culottes/ The Cuban Cowboys/ The Gun & Doll Show @ Cafe du Nord 4/8
Enon @ Bottom of the Hill 4/13
BAGeL Radio Presents... buy tickets here!
#** Handsome Furs/ Aria C. Jalali @ Bottom of the Hil 4/15
** = I'm DJing
# = win tickets during "480 Minutes"
There's a new start date for my Blogs, Podcasts, and Internet Radio, at San Francisco State University's College of Extended Learning: April 5th. The class meets Saturdays at the downtown SFSU campus , and you can sign up right now for the Spring semester, first meeting on 4/5/08.
According
to a study released last Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups,
Dubyah and his top aides "publicly made 935 false statements about the
security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11,
2001."
The overview of the study says:
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino's defense? "They [the study] only looked at members of the administration." Huh? What? Is the official party line that if other people lied, it's OK that Dubyah, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice lied to the world?In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003.
By the way, Dana, those other people in Congress and around the world were somewhat less culpable because they did not initiate and methodically propagate the lies, they were just repeating the lies of the administration. Their lies were based on the false and misleading evidence cherry picked and trumpeted by the administration.
You see, back then folks trusted the executive branch of the US government. Based on past presidents, they probably thought to themselves, "Well, this sounds like bullshit, this looks like bullshit, this smells like bullshit (and is Colin Powell really pointing to finger-paintings as incontrovertible evidence?!?)...but this is the leader of the free world we're talking about here. He wouldn't just make this shit up, right? He'd make certain his information was proven beyond the shadow of a doubt before launching a trillion dollar war against a terrorist-free nation that had nothing to do with 9/11."
You'd think this might make neocon apologists at FOX and MSGOP question the administration's more recent assertions about the security risk posed by Iran, but they are not likely to call attention to the study in part because it also calls them out: "Much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq."
The Top Five Liars:
Dubyah: 260
Powell: 244
Rumsfeld: 109
Fleischer: 109
Wolfowitz: 85
Read about it at CNN.com, or better yet read Mark Morford's take on it here.
In a speech at MIDEM’s first International Manager Summit, U2's manager Paul McGuinness asserted that your Internet Service Provider should pay his band and their label part of their profits because the service ISPs provide allows people to illegally share music.
While this strategy to crack down on file sharing may be marginally better than the one employed by the RIAA (suing housewives, kids, grandmothers, and dead people), it still grossly misplaces fault and reassigns responsibility for the mess that is the recored music industry today.
Based on this speech, it would be hypocritical for Mr. McGuinness to not also champion the (equally absurd) idea that labels/artists should pay a surcharge to ISPs for the bandwidth used for each legal music download from iTunes, Amazon, whathaveyou.
I'm surprised to hear something this shortsighted blaring out of the U2 camp. Who do they think they are, Metallica?
Read McGuinness's (lengthy) MIDEM speech.
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grantalias said:
[this is good]does this mean the U2 will stop making good albums and just suck now? read more
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Ted said:
[this is good]You're right. Hopefully the decline in CD sales will kill off the majors before they make too many lives more... read more
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Bouche said:
That's sad. That wouldn't curb piracy, it would encourage it. They'd get partially subsidized, but since people would adapt the... read more
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Krissy said:
[this is good]Go BAGeL!! I just posted about the article and show on SFist. read more
on BAGeL Radio in the New York Timesinte
Which one do you think was their last good one? read more
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