"480 Minutes" - The Suddenly Unemployed Edition

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:

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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)

2/4 Nightmares On Wax @ The Independent
2/5 Eagles Of Death Metal @ The Fillmore

2/5 The Bay Bridged Third Birthday featuring
The Heavenly States/ Birds & Batteries/ Geographer @ The Rickshaw Stop
2/6 Social Distortion/ The Devil Makes Three @ Fox Theater
2/6 Scott Amendola's 40th with Charlie Hunter, Ben Goldberg & others @ Cafe du Nord
2/6 & 2/7 Dirty Dozen Brass Band/ Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue @ The Independent
2/7 Richie Havens/ Harry Manx @ Great American
2/7 Michael Franti & Spearhead/ ALO @ Fox Theater

2/7 BAGeL Radio Presents...

The BAGeL Radio Half Dozenth Birthday Party @ Bottom of the Hill featuring:
Birdmonster/ Railcars/ Ricky Lee Robinson buy tickets (no fee!)

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

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