Hello! Please take a moment to vote for me in the SF Bay Guardian Favorite Bay Area DJs contest. I haven't won since 2007, so I'm due! You can vote for me in the Favorite Bay Area DJ: Bar/Lounge category (Ted Leibowitz, The Rumble @ Harlot) and the Favorite Bay Are DJ: Satellite/Internet Radio (Ted Leibowitz, BAGeL Radio, 480 Minutes, bagelradio.com) categories. Thanks!

Today 480 Minutes will debut no songs. Seriously. None. It's that time of year where the submissions pile up and we just don't care -- we're too busy going back through the thousands of great songs released this year. Said thousands have been whittled down to a few hundred (the list is at 157 at the moment), with the ultimate goal being to devine the Top 50 Songs of 2009. Those 50 will be featured, in reverse order, during the Friday 12/11 edition of 480 Minutes beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. The Best Music Of The Year edition is always popular, so please be sure to get in early to ensure you don't get shut out by the listener limits. Or buy a Live365 Preferred Membership. It will cost you $6 a month if you sign up for a year, $8 a month if you sign up for a quarter, and you won't have to worry about getting shut out of BAGeL Radio.

So, getting back to the original point of that paragraph no new stuff, but lots of recent stuff and classics as well. I can ramble, can't I?

Please tune in today and every Friday to 480 Minutes between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific Time.


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

The final Rumble of 2009, the final Rumble of the 2000s. the final Rumble at Harlot...next Wednesday, 12/9. Be there for DJ overload featuring guest DJ Aaron Axelsen, Keenhouse, Lexicondon, Baron Von Luxxury, Good Luck at The Gunfight, and resident Rumble DJ BAGeL Ted. I'll be on early this month, from 8-9:30, so go out for dinner right after work and then come straight to Harlot. We promise not to make fun of your work clothes, and besides...it's dark in there. Click here to RSVP for free admission.