• Jon Bernhardt’s Breakfast of Champions Program
  Friday, February 22, 2008
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• Time || Artist || Song || Format[: Album] || Misc Info [NEW: New Release, BotW: Band of the Week, Bed: Music Played While Talking, Req: Request, (_): Label]
• 8:00 || Township || House in the Sky || CD-5
• 8:06 || Township || Round the Dust || CD || NEW (Township)
• 8:14 || Fishboy || Half Time at the Proper Name Spelling Bee || CD || NEW (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
• 8:17 || Five Star Gas || Sledgehammer || mp3
• 8:20 || Desmond Reed || Who I’d Like to Meet || CD-5 || NEW (Anorak)
• 8:23 || Richard Buckner || Rafters || CD || BotW
• 8:26 || Richard Buckner || Tour || CD || BotW
• Guest Host from 8:32 to 9:35am,
  $150 Donors Jack & Isabel Meyers:
• 8:33 || The Sprites || George Romero || CD
• 8:37 || Duvall || Standing at the Door || CD
• 8:40 || R.E.M. || I Walked With a Zombie || CD
• 8:44 || Shonen Knife || Cycling is Fun || CD
• 8:46 || Edith Frost || Cars and Parties || CD
• 8:50 || Guided by Voices || Everywhere with Helicopter || CD
• 8:52 || Teenage Fanclub || Dumb Dumb Dumb || CD
• 8:55 || The New Pornographers || The Laws Have Changed || CD
• 8:59 || Ben Lee || Pop Queen || CD
• 9:02 || Darren Hanlon || Hiccups || CD
• 9:07 || Neutral Milk Hotel || The King of Carrot Flowers Part 1 || CD
• 9:09 || The Apples in Stereo || She’s Just Like Me / Taking Time || CD
• 9:14 || Girly Sound || Ant in Alaska || Cassette
• 9:21 || Replacements || Favorite Thing || CD
• 9:23 || The Dents || Miserable Day || CD
• 9:26 || Triple Thick || Group Home || CD
• 9:28 || The Pipettes || Because It’s Not Love (but It’s Still a Feeling) || CD
• 9:31 || Strindbergs || När Den Sista Stormen Drar Förbi || LP
• Back to Jon….
• 9:36 || Half Japanese || I Walk Through Walls || MLP
• 9:42 || Minisnap || Innocent || CD || NEW (Pocket Music)
• 9:45 || Robert Scott || Look Out For Us || CD || NEW (Powertool)
• 9:50 || Robert Pollard || Gratification to Concrete || mp3 || NEW (Guided By Voices)
• 9:53 || Dirtmusic || Face of Evil || mp3 || NEW (Glitterhouse)
• 9:57 || Those Bastard Souls || Dirty Looks || Var CD: Carry on Ooij

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• Jon Bernhardt’s Breakfast of Champions Program
  Friday, February 15, 2008
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• Time || Artist || Song || Format[: Album] || Misc Info [NEW: New Release, BotW: Band of the Week, Bed: Music Played While Talking, Req: Request, (_): Label]
• 8:01 || Kendra Smith || Valley of the Morning Sun || CD
• 8:06 || Sharron Kraus || Brigid || CD || NEW (Durtro Jnana)
• 8:13 || The Mae Shi || Lamb and Lion || CD || NEW (Mophonics)
• 8:15 || King Blank || Mouth Off || 12″
• 8:17 || Motörhead/Girlschool || Please Don’t Touch || 10″
• 8:20 || Mission Of Burma || Max Ernst || mp3 || NEW (Matador)
• 8:26 || Dirty on Purpose || Audience || CD-5 || NEW (North Street)
• 8:32 || Ween || The Golden Eel || CD || BotW
• 8:36 || Paper Airplane Pilots || Olivia || CD
• 8:39 || Martin Newell (Featuring the New Improved) Andy Partridge || The Jangling Man || CD
• 8:44 || Paper Airplane || Four Trucks Sitting in the Snow || CD || NEW (All Hail)
• 8:49 || LO MOdA || Les Jardins (De L’Bouli) || CD || NEW (Creative Capitalism)
• 8:54 || Dipsomaniacs || Telly Anyway / Not Cute || CD
• 9:01 || Brian Wilson || Smart Girls || mp3
• 9:05 || Ruckus Roboticus || When I Grow Up || CD || NEW (Grease)
• 9:11 || Delia Derbyshire || The Delian Mode || Var CD: Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2 || BED
• 9:18 || Dirtmusic || Face of Evil || mp3 || NEW (Glitterhouse)
• 9:22 || Snares & Kites || Lewis Versus Clark || CD
• 9:24 || Elf Power || Spiral Stairs || mp3 || NEW (Rykodisc)
• 9:30 || Richard Buckner || Dora Williams / Reuben Pantier || CD
• 9:34 || Snapper || Gentle Hour || 7″
• 9:38 || Ray Rumours || Mr. Bear || Var 7″: Split w/ Frànçois || NEW (Too Pure)
• 9:42 || Mountain Goats || Autoclave || CD || NEW (4AD)
• 9:47 || Mission Of Burma || Weatherbox (live) || mp3 || NEW (Matador)
• 9:50 || X || Degenerate Boy (live) || 2xCD || NEW (Aztec)
• 9:55 || Masters of the Obvious || It’s So Big It’s Fluorescent || 7″

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• Jon Bernhardt’s Breakfast of Champions Program
  Friday, February 1, 2008
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• Clicking on an Artist or Song will open a new window displaying all other times that Artist or Song has been played.
• Time || Artist || Song || Format[: Album] || Misc Info [NEW: New Release, REQ: Request, BotW: Band of the Week, BED: Music Played While Talking, (_): Label]
• 8:00 || 27 || Warm Hands, Cold Heart || CD
• 8:03 || LO MoDA || It’s a Wonder || CD || NEW (Creative Capitalism)
• 8:10 || It Hugs Back || Saving || 7″ || NEW (Too Pure)
• 8:14 || Dirty on Purpose || Audience || CD-5 || NEW (North Street)
• 8:18 || Nick Nicely || Hilly Fields (1892) || CD
• 8:22 || Fishboy || Half Time at the Proper Name Spelling Bee || CD || NEW (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
• 8:26 || Bardo Pond || Trip Fuck || 7″ || BotW
• Guest Host from 8:33 to 9:37am,
  $150 Donor Ashley Randall:
• 8:33 || Lali Puna || Call 1-800-fear || CD
• 8:36 || American Analog Set || Born on the Cusp || CD
• 8:40 || Notwist || Pick Up the Phone || CD
• 8:44 || Stars || Calendar Girl || CD
• 8:49 || Boy in Static || Where It Ends || CD
• 8:53 || The Radio Dept. || The Worst Taste in Music (Extended) || CD
• 8:57 || Amusement Parks On Fire || Venus In Cancer || CD
• 9:00 || A Place to Bury Strangers || Missing You || CD
• 9:05 || Helium || XXX || CD-5
• 9:10 || Polvo || Channel Changer || LP
• 9:15 || Sebadoh || Brand New Love || CD
• 9:20 || Yeasayer || 2080 || CD || NEW (We Are Free)
• 9:25 || White Rabbits || Kid on My Shoulders || CD
• 9:29 || Thurston Moore || The Shape Is In a Trance || CD
• 9:34 || Yo La Tengo || My Little Corner of the World || CD
• Back to Jon….
• 9:38 || Moldy Peaches || Anyone Else But You || CD: Juno Soundtrack || NEW (Rhino)
• 9:41 || Robyn Hitchcock || Because You’re Over || CD || NEW (Sartorial)
• 9:44 || Alastair Galbraith || Something Happened || CD || NEW (Nextbestway)
• 9:49 || Barbara Manning || Wires Cages Fences and Gates || 3xCD || NEW (Rainfall)
• 9:52 || The High Water Marks || Early Fall || CD || NEW (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
• 9:56 || Thalia Zedek || Evil Hand || CD

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• Jon Bernhardt’s Breakfast of Champions Program
  Friday, January 25, 2008
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• Time || Artist || Song || Format[: Album] || Misc Info [NEW: New Release, REQ: Request, BotW: Band of the Week, BED: Music Played While Talking, (_): Label]
• 7:59 || American Music Club || Somewhere || CD
• 8:02 || American Music Club || Decibels and Little Pills || CD || NEW (Merge)
• 8:10 || Mors Ontologica || Voice of Degeneration || CD || NEW (VSS)
• 8:14 || Candy Machine || The Over Under Rule in Progress || CD
• 8:18 || LO MOdA || Seduction || CD || NEW (Creative Capitalism)
• 8:25 || Ruckus Roboticus || When I Grow Up || CD || NEW (Grease)
• 8:31 || Spacemen 3 || Roller Coaster (single version) || CD || BotW
• 8:48 || Gordons || Coalminers Song || CD
• 8:54 || The Better Beatles || Paperback Writer || LP || NEW (Hook or Crook)
• 8:57 || Air Miami || Adidas My Ass || CD || NEW (Teen Beat)
• 9:02 || Iron Curtain || First Punk Wars || CD
• 9:08 || Yip-Yip || Audacity Beach || CD || NEW (S.A.F.)
• 9:12 || Spacemen 3 || An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music || CD || BED
• 9:19 || Antietam || Turn It On Me || 2xCD || NEW (Carrot Top)
• 9:24 || Bobby Bare Jr’s Young Criminals Starvation League || Borrow Your Cape || CD
• 9:31 || Bardo Pond || Side Street || LP
• 9:38 || It Hugs Back || Carefully || 7″ || NEW (Safe & Sound)
• 9:42 || Times New Viking || Relevant: Now || CD || NEW (Matador)
• 9:45 || The Setting Son || I’m Down || CD || NEW (Bad Afro)
• 9:48 || The Brian Wilson Shock Treatment || Jack Kerouac, I Didn’t Know You || CD || NEW (Poe)
• 9:50 || Tyvek || Air Conditioner || 2x7″ || (What’s Your Rupture?)
• 9:53 || Prisonshake || The Cut-Out Bin || 7″ || NEW (Scat)
• 9:57 || Turbines || Independence Day || CD-5

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• Jon Bernhardt’s Breakfast of Champions Program
  Friday, January 18, 2008
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• Time || Artist || Song || Format[: Album] || Misc Info [NEW: New Release, REQ: Request, BotW: Band of the Week, BED: Music Played While Talking, (_): Label]
• 8:00 || Roosevelt Franklin || Roosevelt Franklin Counts || mp3
• 8:04 || Atlas Sound || A Ghost Story || CD || NEW (Kranky)
• 8:07 || Atlas Sound || Recent Bedroom || CD || NEW (Kranky)
• 8:12 || Eleventh Dream Day || I Like the Name Alice || Var 10x7″: Plum || (Thrill Jockey)
• 8:18 || Sacred Miracle Cave || Heavy Black Noise || 7″
• 8:23 || Black Mountain || Wucan || CD || NEW (Jagjaguwar)
• 8:31 || Les Thugs || Night Dance || 7″ || BotW
• 8:34 || Les Thugs || Bulgarian Blues || CD || BotW
• 8:39 || Les Thugs || Henry’s Back || CD || BotW
• 8:43 || Les Thugs || Power Race || LP || BotW
• 8:48 || Les Thugs || Little Vera’s Song || CD || BotW
• 8:53 || Les Thugs || Something’s Gone Wrong Again || Var 7″: Vinyl Solution Decoy Fart 3 || BotW
• 8:58 || Eux Autres || Molly || CD || NEW (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
• 9:01 || Chrysanthemums || God and the Dave Clark Five || mp3
• 9:06 || Ruckus Roboticus || A Child’s Introduction to Drums || CD || NEW (Grease)
• 9:11 || Jean Jacques Perry & Luke Vibert || Schwing / Analog Generique || CD || BED/NEW (Lo Recordings)
• 9:20 || Magnetic Fields || Please Stop Dancing || CD || NEW (Nonesuch)
• 9:23 || The Zodiac Motel || Headfull of Speed || LP
• 8:26 || The In Out || Caravan || CD
• 9:32 || Spacemen 3 || Take Me to the Other Side || CD
• 9:37 || Lo Moda || Les Jardins (De L’Bouli) || CD || NEW (Creative Capitalism)
• 9:41 || Thalia Zedek || Flat Hand || Var 10x7″: Plum || NEW (Thrill Jockey)
• 9:47 || The High Water Marks || Polar || CD || NEW (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
• 9:52 || The Better Beatles || Eleanor Rigby || LP || NEW (Hook or Crook)
• 9:55 || The Fut || Have You Heard the Word || mp3
• No Tim (again!) so here’s some more Ruckus Roboticus
• 10:00 || Ruckus Roboticus || Overture || CD || NEW (Grease)
• 10:01 || Ruckus Roboticus || The Birth of Ruckus || CD || NEW (Grease)
• 10:08 || Ruckus Roboticus || Baby’s First Scratch || CD || CD/NEW (Grease)
• Station Signoff (still no sign of Tim)

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I’m starting a new feature on this blog: the weekly playlist for my Breakfast of Champions program on WMBR. The playlists have long been available online, but including them here will allow folks to subscribe to them as a feed, or (as indicated in the previous post) even receive them as a weekly email via the form in the right sidebar!

To start off, here’s what I played this past Friday:

• Jon Bernhardt’s Breakfast of Champions Program
  Friday, January 11, 2008
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• Time || Artist || Song || Format[: Album] || Misc Info [NEW: New Release, REQ: Request, BotW: Band of the Week, BED: Music Played While Talking, (_): Label]
• 8:00 || The Legendary Stardust Cowboy || I Walk a Hot Wind || LP
• 8:04 || The Screamin’ Mee-Mees || Fried Chicken Special || CD || NEW (Gulcher)
• 8:10 || Bunnygrunt || Alone in My Principles || Var 7″: Split w/ Phil Wilson || NEW (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
• 8:13 || Nova Mob || Cavalry || 7″ || REQ
• 8:16 || 21-645 || Red Red || Var LP: Nobody Gets on the Guest-List!! || REQ
• 8:20 || Holland || Turn Off the Century || CD || NEW (Teen Beat)
• 8:25 || Six Organs of Admittance || Alone with the Alone || CD || NEW (Drag City)
• 8:31 || Blake Babies || Better ‘n You || LP || BotW
• 8:35 || Blake Babies || Loose || LP || BotW
• 8:38 || Blake Babies || A Million Years || LP || BotW
• 8:41 || Blake Babies || Downtime || CD || BotW
• 8:44 || Blake Babies || Disappear || CD || BotW
• 8:49 || Poq || Disko || CD-5 || NEW (Housefly)
• 8:52 || Headless Chickens || Monkey Jar || mp3
• 8:55 || Cornelius || Gum (Prefuse 73 Flavor Burst Rock Gum Mix) || CD || NEW (Everloving)
• 9:00 || The Monks || Monk Time (live) || CD
• 9:03 || The Monks || Oh How to Do Now (live) || CD
• 9:08 || Tara Jane ONeil || Bitterness Lake || CD || BED/NEW (Yeti)
• 9:16 || Alastair Galbraith || Head Down || CD || REQ/NEW (Nextbestway)
• 9:20 || Interstellar Villains || 12 Light Years Hence || MLP
• 9:23 || The Turbines || Wah Hey! || CD-R
• 9:25 || Fallfandave and the Laptop Dancers || I Get Excited || mp3 || NEW (Archive.org)
• 9:30 || Les Thugs || The Hedge Hogs || CD
• 9:35 || The Setting Son || In a Certain Way || CD || NEW (Bad Afro)
• 9:38 || Sunnyboys || Happy Man || 2xCD || NEW (Feel)
• 9:41 || Happy Hate Me Nots || When the Chips are Down || 2xCD || NEW (Feel)
• 9:45 || It Hugs Back || Saving || 7″ || NEW (Too Pure)
• 9:49 || Po! || Ruthless || mp3
• 9:51 || Jason Ringenberg || Shop It Around || 2xCD || NEW (Yep Roc)
• 9:54 || Michael Cera & Ellen Page || Anyone Else But You || CD: Juno Soundtrack || NEW (Rhino)
• 9:57 || Monarch || Please Concrete || CD
• Tim overslept, so here’s some live X (the Australian band)
• 10:01 || X || The Feel (live) || 2xCD || NEW (Aztec)
• 10:04 || X || Degerate Boy (live) || 2xCD || NEW (Aztec)
• 10:09 || X || Simulated Lovers (live) || 2xCD || NEW (Aztec)
• 10:12 || X || Delinquint Cars (live) || 2xCD || NEW (Aztec)
• Station Signoff (Tim still wasn’t here, but showed up two minutes later)

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The rest of The Decemberists tour has been cancelled.

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WMBR 88.1 FM in Cambridge, MA began its week-long fundraiser this morning. You can learn more about WMBR and the fundraiser here. podcasts of my recent shows are here.

As a special treat, I will be raffling off a pair of FRONT ROW CENTER (DD) tickets to each night of the Decemberists‘ shows at the Orpheum in Boston. The shows are this Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 3 and 4. There is one pair of tickets available for each night. Saturday’s show will feature the band’s longer epic tunes, while Sunday’s will focus on their shorter pop songs. There will be two winners drawn from the hat. The first winner will get his/her choice of the Saturday show or the Sunday show. The second winner will get a pair of tickets for the other night. Both winners will also receive a Decemberists poster. Here’s how to enter:

• Go to our pledge form and pledge at least $25. You must use a credit card. Feel free to order a t-shirt, mug, or whatever else your pledge level makes you eligible for. The ticket raffle is a bonus.
• In the “Pledge for which show” list, select “Breakfast of Champions-Fri”.
• In the comments area, indicate whether you’d prefer Saturday (long songs), or Sunday (short songs) tickets. Also indicate if you absolutely cannot go to one of the nights. In the phone number area, put a number where you can be reached late Friday morning. This is very important!
• My program airs on Friday morning from 8-10am EDT. At about 9:55am, while on the air, I will put all the eligible names into a hat and draw two winners. The first name drawn gets his/her choice of nights (this is why indicating your preference is important). The second winner gets a pair of tickets to the remaining night.
• I will call the winners between 10 and 11 am to make arrangements to “do the deal.” You must be available sometime from Friday through Saturday afternoon to meet with me in the Cambridge/Somerville/Boston area to pick up your winnings.

Note: This raffle has not been endorsed by The Decemberists. I purchased these tickets as soon as they went on sale and got lucky. I’m donating them to WMBR on my own initiative to help with our fundraising effort.

Thanks for supporting WMBR!

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I’ll be doing some DJing at hipster-craftster store Magpie‘s grand re-opening party, this Saturday, March 3, 2007, between Noon and 7pm. The celebration will also feature a 20% off sale and a “L’Homage to Fromage” exhibit featuring paintings from the world renowned Dedham-based MOBA (Museum of Bad Art).

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