6 posts from 2009

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated. BAGeL Radio is still on the air and streaming, now via a different service. Apologies to those of you who had the BAGeL Radio stream bookmarked in your player and/or browser windows. The stream URL has changed. For now please use:

http://www.live365.com/stations/leibowt?play

At some point soon we hope to have a better solution. In the meantime, please do the one-time free sign-up with Live365, it's quick and easy.

By the way, next week (Wednesday 3/4) is The Rumble. I'll be DJing with favorite partner-in-crime Aaron Axelsen of Live105, plus there will be intimate live mini-sets by Lilofee and Hot Challenge. RSVP here (http://sonicliving.com/theowlmag/therumble) for free admission, and forward that RSVP info to your friends so that they can get on the list, too.

Today's show will feature new music from Worker Bee (San Francisco, CA), We Know Mason (Barry, Wales, England), Tune-Yards (Vermont), Sin Fang Bous (Reykjavik, Iceland), Railcars (San Francisco, CA), Handsome Furs (Montreal, Canada), I Was A King (Egersund, Norway), Pilot Cloud (Philadelphia, PA), Superdrag (Nashville, TN), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Brooklyn, NY), Kinetic Stereokids (Flint, MI), The Whip (Manchester, England), Sunset (Austin, TX), Mynx (Los Angeles, CA), Say Hi (Seattle, WA), Real Estate (Ridgewood, New Jersey), Lady Sovereign (London, England), and The Black Lips (Atlanta, GA).

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
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
AOL/iChat: bagelradiolive
GoogleTalk: bagelradio@gmail.com

Today's show will also include the return of the BAGeL Radio studio cam, complete with accompanying chat room: http://tinyurl/bagelcam

Recent Gig Photos: http://bagelradio.com/photos (updated!)

Worker Bee/Shiloe @ Thee Parkside 2/21/09

Worker Bee

Shiloe

Deerhunter @ The Rickshaw Stop 2/25/09

Deerhunter

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

More Upcoming Shows at http://bagelradio.com/shows

Did you see what the California legislative Republicans almost did?  They almost brought the 8th largest economy in the world to it's knees.  They almost caused great harm to the many already suffering Californians.  The Governator tried to add a 9% tax to veterinary services. Sorry, Fido, no shots for you this year...we can't afford to take you to the vet!

Anyway, today's show will feature new music from Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Brooklyn, NY), U2 (Dublin, Ireland), Mirah (Portland, OR), These Are Powers (Chicago, IL), The Soundtrack of Our Lives (Göteborg, Sweden), Mumiy Troll (Vladivostok, Russia), Telepathe (Brooklyn, NY), Everything Absent Or Distorted (Denver, CO), The Takeover UK (Pittsburgh, PA), The Laureates (Chicago, IL), Marissa Nadler (Boston, MA), Youth Group (Sydney, Australia), and Lucky Jesus (San Francisco, CA).

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
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
AOL/iChat: bagelradiolive
GoogleTalk: bagelradio@gmail.com

Today's show will also include the return of the BAGeL Radio studio cam, complete with accompanying chat room: http://tinyurl/bagelcam

Recent Gig Photos: http://bagelradio.com/photos

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

More Upcoming Shows at http://bagelradio.com/shows

Thanks to everyone who came to the BAGeL Radio Half Dozenth Birthday Party at Bottom of the Hill, and thanks to the bands (Birdmonster, Railcard, Ricky Lee Robinson) for making it the best one yet.  In case anyone couldn't tell...I was thrilled.

Today's show will feature new music from Lily Allen (London, England), The Knux (Los Angeles, CA), The Old Ceremony (Chapel Hill, NC), The Kinetiks (Dublin, Ireland), Handsome Furs (Montreal, Canada), Here We Go Magic (Brooklyn, NY), M.Ward (Portland, OR), Abe Vigoda (Los Angeles, CA), Clem Snide (Nashville, TN), Hidden People (Brooklyn, NY), The Appleseed Cast (Lawrence, KS), Sam Roberts (Montreal, Canada), The Von Bondies (Detroit, MI), Western Civ (Chapel Hill, NC), and selections from the Dark Was The Night compilation benefitting the Red Hot Organization, an international charity dedicated to raising AIDs awareness.

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
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
AOL/iChat: bagelradiolive
GoogleTalk: bagelradio@gmail.com

Today's show will also include the BAGeL Radio studio cam, complete with accompanying chat room:

Give it a try, you might like it.

Recent Gig Photos: http://bagelradio.com/photos

The BAGeL Radio Half Dozenth Birthday Party
@ Bottom of the Hill 2/7/09

Birdmonster

Railcars

Ricky Lee Robinson

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

More Upcoming Shows at http://bagelradio.com/shows

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

480 Minutes podcasts: 1/30 & 1/23 & 2/7

If you are looking for a cool class to take this semester, check out, "Blogs, Podcasts, and Internet Radio," the class I teach starts up again on 2/7 at San Francisco State University. Sign up now!

And now, a quick 1-question poll:

Today's show will feature new music from Simon Says No (Oslo, Norway), Spiral Beach (Toronto, Canada), Blue Horns (Portland, OR), Golden Bear (Austin, TX), Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys (Akron, OH), The Prodigy (Braintree, England), The Matinees (San Francisco, CA), The Priddle Concern (Ontario, Canada), The Tallest Man On Earth (Dalarna, Sweden), Titus Andronicus (Glen Rock, NJ), The Boxer Rebellion (London, England), Golden Boots (Tucson, AZ), and Cut Off Your Hands (Auckland, New Zealand).

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
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
AOL/iChat: bagelradiolive
GoogleTalk: bagelradio@gmail.com

Recent Gig Photos: http://bagelradio.com/photos

Meat Puppets/ Trainwreck Riders/ Shaky Hands
@ Bottom of the Hill 11/16/09

Meat Puppets


Trainwreck Riders


Shaky Hands

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

1/23 The Raveonettes/ The Soft Pack @ Bimbo's
*1/23 The Knitters/ Dead Rock West @ Slim’s
1/23 Tapes 'n Tapes/ Wild Light/ Wavves @ Great American
1/25 Department Of Eagles/ Cave Singers @ Cafe du Nord (2 shows)
*1/25 Jay Reatard/ Nobunny @ The Independent
*1/25 Peachcake/ Th' Moonlight Sexy/ Get Back Loretta @ Bottom of the Hill
1/28 The Album Leaf/ Black Mamba @ Bottom of the Hill
1/29 Missing Persons @ Red Devil Lounge
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 (seriously updated!) at http://bagelradio.com/shows

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

For you Bay Area listeners there are a couple of good shows this weekend: tonight at the Hotel Utah it's Raised By Robots and Supervinos VTO (tickets here), then tomorrow night at Bottom of the Hill it's The Meat Puppets, Trainwreck Riders, and The Shaky Hands (a troika of BAGeL Radio bands!), and I'll be there DJing, so buy your tickets now (no fee!) while they are still available.

As alluded to in the title of this post, your humble narrator is looking for work. Fast. If you have any leads on SF Bay Area job openings that you think I would rock, please do let me know. Internet radio, music librarian, event coordinator, software quality assurance, helping to ease willing septuagenarians into the computer age...you name it, I'll consider it. Thanks.

Also, if you know anyone who would benefit from learning how to start a blog, podcast, and internet radio station, and learn how to maximize the synergies between them, please let them know that my class, "Blogs, Podcasts, and Internet Radio" starts up again on 2/7 at San Francisco State University. Sign up!

As for today's show, I must admit I am very psyched about several of the things we will be debuting. "480 Minutes" will feature new music today from Morrissey (Los Angeles, CA), Animal Collective (Baltimore, MD), Lily Allen (London, England), The Wrens (Secaucus, New Jersey), Now Now Every Children (Minneapolis, MN), A.C. Newman (Vancouver, Canada), Andrew Bird (Chicago, IL), Gemma Hayes (Dublin, Ireland), Vulture Whale (Birmingham, AL), Kyle Andrews (Nashville, TN), Freshkills (New York, NY), Sparks (Los Angeles, CA), and several cover versions of pop hits by cool bands including My Brightest Diamond, Robbers On High Street, and Frightened Rabbit.

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
Yahoo IM: bagelradio
AOL/iChat: bagelradiolive
GoogleTalk: bagelradio@gmail.com

Recent Gig Photos: http://bagelradio.com/photos

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

1/16 French Disco @ The Hemlock Tavern
**1/17 Meat Puppets @ Bottom of the Hill
1/18 & 1/19 Fountains Of Wayne (acoustic) @ Cafe du Nord
1/20 Wovenhand/ Silver Summit @ Bottom of the Hill
1/21 The Walkmen/ Beachouse @ The Fillmore
1/21 Blue Giant (members of Viva Voce) @ Cafe du Nord
1/22 The Ettes/ The May Fire/ Leopold And His Fiction @ The Rickshaw Stop
1/22 Curumin with guests Tommy Guerrero, Blackalicious, Lateef & Money Mark @ Slim’s
1/22 Metronomy/ the Mae Shi @ Popscene
1/23 The Raveonettes/ The Soft Pack @ Bimbo's
*1/23 The Knitters/ Dead Rock West @ Slim’s
1/23 Tapes 'n Tapes/ Wild Light/ Wavves @ Great American
1/25 Department Of Eagles/ Cave Singers @ Cafe du Nord (2 shows)
*1/25 Jay Reatard/ Nobunny @ The Independent
*1/25 Peachcake/ Th' Moonlight Sexy/ Get Back Loretta @ Bottom of the Hill
1/28 The Album Leaf/ Black Mamba @ Bottom of the Hill
1/29 Missing Persons @ Red Devil Lounge
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 (seriously updated!) at http://bagelradio.com/shows

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

Good morning and welcome to the 2009 inaugural edition of "480 Minutes." 2009 has been anything but boring in these first couple of weeks, and I'm excited to get back on the air to play you new stuff and perhaps chat a bit about why Sanjay "Dr. No" Gupta should not be our next Surgeon General.

While I still have your attention, it is my pleasure to announce the BAGeL Radio Half Dozenth Birthday Party. Yes, it's true, the "Little Station That Could" turns 6 years old on 2/1, and to celebrate we're having a party our favorite venue, The Bottom of the Hill, on Saturday 2/7 featuring:

Birdmonster
Railcars
Ricky Lee Robinson

As for today's show, it will feature new music today from Chris T-T (Brighton/London, England), Lonely, Dear (Jönköping, Sweden), Foreign Orange (Portland, OR), Golden Error (Brooklyn, NY), Willoughby (Los Angeles, CA), DJ Signify (Brooklyn, NY), Fires Of Rome (Brooklyn, NY), Padre Pio (Brooklyn, NY), Black Peter Group (New York), and Common (Chicago, IL). 

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

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

Recent Gig Photos: http://bagelradio.com/photos

X @ Slim's 12/26/08

Exene Cervenka and John Doe of X

French Miami @ Bottom of the Hill 12/20/08

Roland of French Miami

Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Benefit
@ El Rio 12/15/08

Foxtail Somersault

We Are Invisible

Oona Garthwaite

megamoog

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

*Magic Bullets (EP release show) @ Bottom of the Hill 1/9
Black Mercies/ Goodbye Nautalis/ Control-R @ The Stork Club (Oak) 1/14
French Disco @ The Hemlock Tavern 1/16
Fountains of Wayne @ Cafe du Nord 1/18 & 19
The Walkmen/ Beach House @ The Fillmore 1/20
*Ettes/ The May Fire/ Nobunny @ The Rickshaw Stop 1/22
Tapes 'n Tapes @ Great American Music Hall 1/23
The Raveonettes/ The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims) @ Bimbo's 1/23
*Peachcake/ Th' Moonlight Sexy/ Get Back Loretta @ Bottom of the Hill 1/25
DeVotchKa @ The Fillmore 1/30 & 31
Matt & Kim/ Hawnay Troof @ Cafe du Nord 2/2

** The Rumble @ Harlot 2/4/09 RSVP here for free admission

Rademacher/ Aimless Never Miss/ Bad Hand @ The Hemlock Tavern 2/6

**sf_indie Social feat Society Of Rockets/ Mount Vicious/ Control-R @ The Elbo Room 2/11

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

More Upcoming Shows at http://bagelradio.com/shows

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

Next Tuesday (1/13/09) Absolutely Kosher Cory returns to his regular timeslot, Tuesdays at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern.