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I don't know if there is anyone out here who still checks this but THIS is where i will be blogging from now on.

Cheers!

Begley

28 Days Later...

...I finally decide to write a blog.


I will admit it. I suck at updating this blog. I'm straight up awful at it. In my defense it has been kind of crazy around here lately as we gear up for Jonesy being gone for the summer with the Sex Pistols. They play the big show, the only one in the states, at the Hard Rock in Vegas on June 7th and then leave to play festivals in faraway lands for 3 months. If you feel like traveling this summer and going on adventures to see the Pistols here are all the dates.

Some things that have been going on in the past couple weeks while I was busy not updating this blog:



-- We had Perry Farrell on at the beginning of the month. He was a really fun guest. It was a show full of those moments that can only happen on Jonesy's Jukebox and INDIE 1031...ya know, a moment like Steve Jones and Perry Farrell jamming out a fantastic cover of Twist & Shout.





-- Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing fame, came in on an early May Saturday night to pre-record a show with us to run in the summer. He performed a bunch of songs and hung out for two hours of radio magic with Jonesy. One of my roommates Paul, is the biggest Doughty fan of all time. Unfortunately, he was out of town when Mike came in. Paul was bummed about this to say the least, but being the awesome caring roommate I am I made him a copy of the show. The rest of you will hear it sometime in July!




-- May 18th marked exactly one year to the day that I moved out here to L.A. Last weekend I traveled back east to Boston for the first time in a year. I actually just got back Tuesday night. I went home for my sisters high school graduation. Congrats Carolyn! It was fun to go home and see all my friends and family. I got to hang out with some great cats I had not seen in a while. I also went to the radio station I used to work at, WFNX. Getting to see The Sandbox dudes and all my friends at FNX was a great time. As good as it was to visit home and Boston for a while, I have to say I was pretty happy to return to L.A.





-- In case you didn't know I am a GIGANTIC basketball fan, which also makes me a die hard Boston Celtics fan. The Celtics went up 3 games to 2 on the Detroit Pistons last night in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals in what has been one of the best post seasons for the NBA in a long time. If they win tomorrow night they will go on to the NBA finals for the first time since 1986. This is already very exciting. Now throw in the fact that tonight the Lakers could finish off the Spurs as they are up 3 games to 1, making it a Celtics vs. Lakers NBA finals just like the old days with Magic and Bird. It will be a clash of my two worlds, Los Angeles where I live now and Boston my hometown! I have enjoyed watching the Lakers and Kobe all season and have been routing for them in the playoffs so this Boston vs. L.A. scenario would come true; and now we are only 2 wins away from it actually happening. Obviously I will be routing for the Celtics without question. It will absolutely be a historic NBA finals. If you think I am not trying to find a way into the Staples center for one of those games you are out of your blog reading mind! GO CELTICS!!!!








--Tonight is the 3 hour season four finale of the best show on television...LOST! This has been my reason to live until May 29th. I almost can't even function today because of what is about to go down between the hours of 8pm-11pm tonight. If I survive the LOST finale tonight there will be more blogging to come tomorrow...errr or 28 days from now. I've decided I like to keep all of you readers (and by all of you readers I mean my mom and my roommates) on your toes so you never know if or when you are getting a new blog. It will be like a nice little surprise to your day when there is a new post. Thats my story and I'm stickin' to it!


Thanks for reading!

Begley

"Oh, how it's been so long, I'm so sorry I've been gone, I was busy writing blogs for.....YOU!"

" We've waited so long, but we'd wait forever
Our blood is blue and we would leave you never
And when we make it, it'll be together...
Oh oh oh

Chelsea, Chelsea
Chelsea, Chelsea
We're gonna make this a blue day
Chelsea, Chelsea
Chelsea, Chelsea
We're gonna make this a blue day"

A huge congrats to Chelsea on their big win over Liverpool yesterday.

Yesterday's show was INSANE. We watched the Chelsea/Liverpool semi-final during the show. Go HERE and listen to the podcast if you missed it. It was great. Chelsea now moves on to play the hated Manchester United in the FINAL on May 21st!



Today was a pretty laid back show. This week absolutely flew by, I can't believe today is already Thursday. I think it's because last weekend was Coachella so everyone was on a high this week from that. When I said this to Max the program director here at INDIE he responded "It's because everyone worked so hard for Coache...well some of us worked...and some of us just ate giant steaks and played in the desert" Haha...what can I say I had a fun Coachella weekend. More on this later.

Coachella was an awesome time. I got to go out there for Saturday and Sunday. I had never been before so it was fun to go this year. I'll be honest I spent more time hanging in and around the Indio/La Quinta, CA area than actually in the festival grounds. I did see Death Cab, Dwight Yoakam, heard a little bit of Cold War Kids, and of course Prince on Saturday night. I was kind of bummed that I missed MGMT, I had my brand new MGMT shoelaces and everything! So what did I do with my time if I only saw a handful of bands you ask?

1) Hung out at the amazing INDIE 1031 house: It was honestly a mini mansion with a huge backyard stocked with open bars, a fishing pond, a pool, games, waterslides, and my favorite part of the backyard bombing around on Segway Scooters!

2) Helped drink 100 cases of free beer and saw some good friends from the east coast: Before I moved out here and started working at INDIE a year ago I used to worked for an alternative station in Boston called WFNX for three years. They came out this year to broadcast from a $2 million house right outside of the Coachella festival grounds with the FNX morning show, The Sandbox. You should all check out The Sandbox, besides being great dudes and good friends of mine, they have one of the best radio shows in the country right now. I listen to the podcast on my way home from work everyday





Since I had not seen all of them in almost a year I hung with the FNX/Sandbox crew for most of the weekend. We had giant steaks at Ruth's Chris (yes they have fancy steakhouse in the desert). Because I'm friends with U2 superfans, we went to the Joshua Tree National Park and attempted to recreated a photo from U2's Joshua Tree Album while fighting off liazrds, snakes, and scorpions:



On Sunday we gambled at a local casino called the Augustine where I won $200 on Black Jack! DOUBLE DOWN, YEEEAH! All in all it was a fantastic weekend. Can't wait till next year!



Tomorrow is Friday! On Jonesy's Jukebox Jury we will hopefully be playing and talking music for once...and whatever else Jonesy decides to talk about. I honestly never know. We will have all music writers from Rolling Stone, FILTER, Mojo, and The L.A. Times. Should be fun. Tune in at 12 bells!

Thanks for reading!

Begley

Parts Unknown

"Falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You just sounded it out
You're not coming back again.

You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your night dress
Started all the naughty nights with niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Everything was pretty in the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking in tabasco
Remember when he used to be a rascal?"

In case you have not noticed Jonesy has went off on an adventure to parts unknown for all of this week. Luckily the ever popular Paul Cook came to the rescue yesterday and today! He brought along his wife Jeni. As you may know we have had their daughter Hollie Cook on the show a couple times in the past. She has one of the best voices ever and is the sweetest girl. You can see where she gets it from though, Paul and Jeni are the nicest people you will ever meet.

It got kind of hectic for a minute today because we were buying songs off itunes, burning cds, and downloading songs off websites all at the same time. Plus we had a guest in the studio AND THE CHELSEA/LIVERPOOL GAME ON! (which was extremely exciting when Chelsea scored in extra time making it a 1-1 draw, YEAH!) It was a zoo in there today, but thats all part of the fun of Jonesy's Jukebox. The guest was Conor McNicholas who is the editor of the magazine NME. He was in to hype the NME awards which are going down tomorrow night down the street from us at the El Rey Theater. It's the first time the awards are being held here in the states. I think this will definitely be the first of many to come in the future. This is very exciting because there is so much great music coming out of the U.K.

So...Thanks to our heroes Paul and Jeni for saving the day and hosting the box the past two days! Tomorrow we had Maynard James Keenan slated to come on....fear not! he is still coming and is actually pulling double duty here at Indie sitting in on Wine-O Wednesday with Joe Escalante and the Indie Morning Show. Honestly he's putting in a full day here, we should just put him on the payroll. The guest host on the box tomorrow will be the fantastic Janeane Garofalo! Should be a great show. Tune in at 12 bells!

Thanks for reading!

Begley

It's Been A Long Time...shouldn't have left you, without a dope beat to step to step to, step to, step to.

I apologize for the lack of blogs. I was crazy busy the past two weeks filling in for T.K. in the afternoons, which was a blast!

New super sized blog coming on Monday.



Here is a little Friday gift from me to you.

Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) & Miles Kane (The Rascals) are The Last Shadow Puppets.



Enjoy your weekend!

Begley

Where Ever They Go We'll Follow Our Team

"Where ever they go we`ll follow our team,
For we are the Chelsea and we are supreme,
We'll never be mastered by no northern bastards,
And we'll keep the blue flag flying high,
Flying high, up in the sky,
We'll keep the blue flag flying high
From Stamford Bridge to Wemb(er)ley
We'll keep the blue flag flying high

Chelsea! Chelsea!"

Since I have started doing Jonesy's Jukebox last May people around the station have asked many questions about how the show is going. Things like how I'm getting along with Jonesy? are you having fun doing the show? Has he told you any crazy stories yet? I have answers for all of these questions and most others that get asked, but there was one that really intrigued me one time. A couple months after I had started, Chuck P, who does Dead Air on Sunday nights here on Indie 1031 and did Jonesy's Jukebox for the couple weeks before I got here asked me, "Has he watched a futbol (or soccer for all of us here in the States) game in the studio with you yet?" My answer at the time was no, and ever since that day he asked me that I have always wondered when the day would come that I would watch a futbol game in the studio with Jonesy.

Well, today that day came.

As you all know Jonesy's team is Chelsea. If you follow any kind of sport you know what it's like to route for "your team". The ups and downs, the wins and loses, the heartbreak and glory, all of these emotions come along with having a team that you have always followed your whole life, a team you would fight for. Being from Boston, the Red Sox are that team for me. They are "my team". For Jonesy, Chelsea Futbol Club is "his team" and today they were playing Fenerbahce for a chance to advance to the Semi Finals of the Champions League.

Jonesy arrived at the station this morning around 11:30, as he usually does, in his bright blue Chelsea track jacket ready for a war against Fenerbahce. Today was the day, "his team" was playing a huge final game with everything on the line, a MUST win. This was going to be a fantastic two hours of futbol. The only problem...we had a radio show to do that starts at the exact same time as kickoff. Luckily, one of our many friends from one of the six other Entravision stations on our floor tipped us off to a website where you can watch the game live for free in real time! BRILLIANT!!!

It took me about twenty minutes to figure out how to actually get the game up and running on the computer in the studio. You know how the Internet goes...lots of random websites and applications just to get a simple video player. I finally got the game up on the screen. It was actually pretty good quality. They were only 20 minutes in to the 90 minute game so we were going to be able to watch most of it. Jonesy was pumped. Playing music, doing a radio show, and watching Chelsea in a final, the only thing that would have made him any more happy is a huge plate of Pie & Mash as he watched.

Watching this game with Jonesy in the studio was one of the greatest experiences I've had on Jonesy's Jukebox since I've been here. It helped that it was a really exciting game. Every time we would go on the air I would have the audio of the game in the background as we watched the game. We were watching the game, playing music and doing a radio show. Hilarious. At one point Chelsea was up 1-0 in the 86th minute and needed a goal to seal the deal on the game. We went on the air and Jonesy was freaking out. They were coming so close! Just as he was about to play a song because he couldn't take it anymore, Chelsea started to march down the field towards the goal. Then it happened, Frank Lampard put it in the net! YEEEEESSSSSS!!! GOOOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!! It was so awesome that this happened when we were on the air and got to hear Jonesy's honest reaction to seeing "his team" score a goal that would give them the win to advance to the Champions League Semi Finals! It was an amazing moment, I listened back to it at least ten times today. If you missed it make sure you go listen to the podcast HERE.

I can now go find Chuck P and answer his question. "Yes, I watched a futbol game in the studio with Jonesy and it was one of the greatest experiences since I started doing Jonesy's Jukebox"

After having Alexi Lalas on last week, watching the L.A. Galaxy game on Friday, and now this fantastic Chelsea game, I have to say I am becoming a much bigger futbol (uhh...I guess I have to say Soccer) fan than I ever was before.

Thanks for reading!

Make sure you listen all this week as I am filling in for TK in the afternoons from 2pm-6pm! Also, listen to TK do the morning show from 6am-10am. He's filling in for Joe Escalante who is playing a bunch of shows in Australia with his band The Vandals.

Cheers!

Begley

The Power of The INDIE 1031 Hoodie

Before I start my story of what happened to me and my INDIE 1031 hoodie last night I want to comment on the show from today real quick. It's Friday, so as we do every Friday, It was Jonesy's Jukebox Jury. The Panel today was some of the cast and the director of the new movie Sex and Death 101. It's out today on a limited release in L.A. and NYC. Here in L.A. its playing at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in Hollywood and the Laemmle Playhouse 7 in Pasadena. If you are reading this from New York you can catch the flick at City Cinemas Village East in NYC. The rest of the country, sorry you have to wait.

This was the second time Patton Oswalt has been on a Jury. The last time being with the Reno 911 guys, Tom Lennon and Ben Garant, to promote Balls of Fury. What a deadly comedic combo that was. Patton always kills when he comes on. He is truly one of the nicest guys I've met. I think he is one of the best comedians of our time. He is so quick, witty, and one of those people who can tell fantastic stories and make anything they talk about hilarious and fun to listen to. Brilliant.

We had one of the guests cancel so the last minute replacement was Pollyanna McIntosh. I'm just going to say it. There is no way around it, she is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. She was super nice and pretty funny. Best of luck to her.

Mindy Cohn was a sweetheart. Very likable and interesting to talk to. Dan Waters, the director of the film was is a very clever guy and was also very interesting on the air.

All around a it was a fantastic Jury today, even though we did not get to any music. Make sure you check out the podcast on itunes and on the INDIE 1031 site.



Okay, on to my story from last night that Party Girl Stacey and our web guy Alan have been hounding me to blog about.

"The Power of The INDIE 1031 Hoodie"

For those of you who don't know, Jonesy has been giving me a hard time since the very first day I started last May about me and the opposite sex. Therefore, whenever I have any kind of encounter with a female it becomes headline news here in the Indie 1031 hallways. Well...last night I had an encounter.

My friend Joe and I frequent a thing called "Dance Right" on Thursday nights at La Cita in downtown L.A. It was actually a night started by the ever popular, friend of Jonesy's Jukebox, Shepard Fairey. Shepard or as he is known at La Cita, DJ Diabetic, and some other DJ's spin every Thursday and have guest DJ's come down most of the time. It is actually a pretty great time. Drinks are cheap, music is awesome, and of best of all there are always a lot of attractive females in attendance.

So, last night Joe and I are hanging out on the patio out back. As we are talking I sense two girls walk up behind me. I turn around to say hello and one of the girls asks me "Where did you get this hoodie? It's awesome, I want one!" I was wearing my new kick-ass Ed Hardy Indie 1031 hoodie that they made for everyone who works at the station. I proceed to explain to that to her, ask if she is a fan of the station, and if she listens to Jonesy's Jukebox. She says she is a fan and does listen to the box. I immediately think she is all lies and is just saying it to be nice, but then she starts referencing guests and past shows. As usual I was wrong. It's important to say that had this have been a Saturday night I most likely would not be able to tell you if she was attractive or not because I would have been about nine beers deep. Last night this was not the case. It was a Thursday night and I had a Jury to do today so I only had two beers(way to be Captain Responsible, I know). I was pretty excited because she was super cute and seemed to enjoy talking to me about music, indie, and me and Joe telling her she looked like J-Lo circa the "I'm Real" video with Ja Rule because of her outfit and awesome hat.

At this point it's about 12:30am so Joe and I make the decision to go cut a rug on the dance floor inside for about 20 minutes and then bail. J-Lo had went to grab a drink so as we were walking back inside I passed her and told her our plan. Ten minutes later Me, Joe, J-Lo and her friends are all inside dancing to music that is literally shaking the walls. J-Lo and I start dancing together and we are killing it! Honestly, it was like Favreau and Heather Graham in Swingers. At one point I did the Swingers spin move and we ended up about four inches away from each other faces which led to us making out and dancing for another forty five minutes.

Seeing as it was 1:30am we decided to call it a night. J-Lo and I exchanged numbers and texts. We are planning to hang out this weekend. If all goes well maybe we can give Ja Rule a call to come hang out. I mean, he's got time right? That "I'm Real" video might actually be the last thing he's done.

Lesson learned last night: Wear my INDIE 1031 hoodie at all times.


Have a fantastic weekend.

Thanks for reading!

Begley

Alexi...Beckham...Jonesy...Get ready, its the L.A. Galaxy's Home Opener Tonight!

"Gonna be a star some day no matter what they say And when you hear the crowds all callin' and shouting out my name until then, my little friend, I'll be unsatisfied"

Alexi Lalas, Soccer legend and current General Manager of the L.A. Galaxy Soccer Club, stopped by the box today to hype the Galaxy's home opener tonight and talk Futbol...eh Soccer...whatever you want to call it.

This is the second time Alexi has been on since I have been doing the show. He is honestly the nicest dude you will ever meet. A little bit into the show Jonesy started talking about how he saw Alexi play a while back here in L.A. He mentioned how he had the "long hair and the goatee". This intrigued me so while we were on the air I did a little goolge image search on Mr. Lalas. Now, I've never been the biggest soccer fan but I try to follow all sports just because I'm a fan of sports in general. I'm starting to get into soccer/futbol a little more these days just from being around Jonesy so much. In the past the only times I would pay attention to soccer is when the World Cup is happening, because that's just awesome, and when the New England Revolution were playing, because I'm from Boston. Okay, back to the google image search I started on Alexi. I instantly find a picture of him in his "long hair and goatee" days and have to actually hold myself back from blurting out "Oh my god he's THAT GUY?!" I obviously recognized "long hair-goatee Alexi" immediately, it's just that he looks totally different now clean shaven and with the short hair. I guess you could chalk this up as another one of my "Big'Ead is an idiot and knows nothing" moments. I thought it was pretty funny.

I definitely want to go to some Galaxy games this year and try to keep up with the team. I think Alexi is going to do a great job with the team this season and the Beckham madness is very entertaining. The home opener is tonight at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA at 7:30pm. I think there are still tickets available so try to get down there and check it out. If you hate spending the afternoon on the 405 or are reading this late you can watch it at home like I will be doing on ESPN2. For anything else you want to know about the Galaxy just go to their site HERE.

Tomorrow on the Jury we have the cast from the new movie Sex and Death 101. Tune in at 12 bells!

GO GALAXY!

Thanks for reading!


Begley

4 Stellar Guests in 24 hours

"Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, PAUL POTTS!And it's a holiday in CambodiaWhere you'll do what you're toldA holiday in CambodiaWhere the slums got so much soul."

As awesome as it is to do the box everyday and listen to Jonesy create an amazing two hours of music/radio, I think everyone would agree with me (including Jonesy) that its always a blast when we have guests come on the show. Between yesterday and today we had four different amazing guests come by.

Yesterday we had Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman who are both comedic geniuses in my book. Its crazy how fast two hours goes by when you have two great funny guests who are given two whole hours to riff off each other and Jonesy. Honestly, Jonesy's Jukebox is the ONLY radio show where that can happen. *ALERT!* *ALERT!* Jonesy's Jukebox INSIDER INFO! (If this was an audio or video blog I would have some awesome cheesy sound effect here with lots of sirens and whistles). As you may or may not know the Sex Pistols are doing a huge summer festival tour in the summer, which rules. The only problem is Jonesy will be gone for 3 months. We are currently coming up with a bunch of different cool ideas to fill in for the time he is away. One of them being a popular solution we have done in the past...having guest hosts. You all seem to love this. We have had some great guest hosts in the past and this summer will be no different. Both Jonah and Jason said they are down to do it. Schwartzman was so excited...to the point where he would have done the entire 3 months if we gave him the option.

Another sidenote from yesterday. Jonesy went to have lunch with Jonah and Jason after the show. When leaving the restaurant they were bombarded with Paparazzi. This is funny because Jonesy actually said on the air that he wasn't going to say where he's going to eat lunch, then proceeded to say "not that anyone would show up anyway." Clearly he was wrong. There is no avoiding those Paparazzi crazies. They found them even without Jonesy saying it on the air. One of the paparazzi guys who showed up actually Myspace messaged Jonesy last night to apologize because he is a fan of the show! I found this hilarious. If anyone has come across any pictures or video on these here internets of Jonesy, Jonah, and Jason from yesterday please send them along.

One more note on yesterday before we move on. We played Jason Schwartzman's record on the show. The band is called Coconut Records. I say band, but it's really Jason playing everything and then him and a bunch of his friends on all the vocals. The song "West Coast" is the greatest. Go pick up the record at Amoeba, your ears will love you for it.

Alright, on to today...

We had another jam packed show. In the first hour we had The Breeders in the studio. They were fun and very animated. I was really happy they played Cannonball because of how they set it up. "We are going to play Cannonball because its a fun song and people like it and like to hear us play it." I love them so much for this. I absolutely hate when bands are "too cool" or "too pretentious" to play the hit that everyone knows. I'm looking at you Strokes (don't get me wrong I love the Strokes, but really?...you're not going to play Last Nite...really? C'mon! Play your hits). The Breeders will be playing Coachella in about a month...the desert, scorching hot temperatures, and The Breeders...get excited!

In the second hour we had the phenomenon that is as Paul Potts. No, not the communist Cambodian killer, that is Pol Pot. If you do not know the story of Mr. Paul Potts just watch THIS CLIP and let the crying ensue. Party Girl Stacey crys every single time she watches it.

Unfortunately, he did not sing on the show today. He has a show tonight at The Wiltern and had to rest his voice, which is totally understandable after hearing him wail. Jonesy and I thought it would have been epic if he could have sung Anarchy In the U.K. Opera style.

The highlight was when Jonesy played the Dead Kennedy's Holiday In Cambodia which reference Pol Pot. At first you could tell Paul didn't really get it then once he heard the final lines of the song repeating "Pol Pot" which sounded exactly like his name, he started laughing pretty hard. I suggested that he should open his show tonight by playing that last 45 second section of the song that chants his name. Oddly enough, I don't think that would connect with the crowd that will be in attendance tonight at the Wiltern.

What a great guy Mr. Potts was. I wish him all the best. He deserves it.

Tomorrow Jonesy we have Justin Long and Jonathan Togo coming on the box. This is a guaranteed 2 hours of comedy so make sure you tune in at 12 bells!

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!

Begley

And now back to your regularly scheduled program.

"And one thing's for sure, one thing's for certain. That if you get behind the velvet curtain, you'll see, there nothings as sweet as it looks on my TV"

Howdy!

I realize that in my last blog I said that we would talk Monday and it is now Thursday. I'm sure all three of you noticed and were concerned that I got abducted by serial killing cowboys on my way back from SXSW. Fear not, I made it back to L.A. safely.

SXSW was very exhausting but in a good way. I saw so many awesome bands and met a bunch of cool people. It was a great time. I hope I get to go back next year.

Alright, back to reality...We have some pretty rad guests today. The ever popular Paul Cook will be coming by in the second hour, and he won't be alone. Make sure you listen to find out who's coming with him.

Talk soon. Thanks for reading.

Cheers!

Begley

Greetings From SXSW!.....Finally.

If any of you ever find yourselves in Austin, TX at SXSW never commit to writing a daily blog.

As you know, I made this mistake this week. Between all the hipster madness that is SXSW I thought I would be able to get away for a little while each day to write a blog. Obviously I was dead wrong. Since we landed at the beautiful Bergstrom International Airport (really, it's beautiful. One of the nicest airports I've seen) on Wednesday it has been absolutely non stop go go go all the time. To Party Girl Stacey's delight, I have to confess that I did sneak away on Thursday and took a much needed nap. I will never hear the end of this from Stacey but I had only slept four hours in two days. It was less about my choosing to take a nap and more about my body saying to me "Dude, seriously I'm done. I don't care about your stupid SXSW adventure, I'm crashing for three hours."

The broadcasts have been going awesome. The usual technical problems here and there, but for the most part it's been a success. (I'm literally knocking on wood right now because we are going on the air in an hour.) If you've been keeping up on our website I'm sure you've seen the pictures. We've had Moby, Daryl Hall & T Bone, Steve Lillywhite, The Duke Spirit, The Republic Tigers and Shepard Fairey all stopped by over the past two days. Today we have some more great guests coming by so make sure you listen at 12 bells.

It is an impossibility to catch all the bands and shows that you want to see here at SXSW. So many bands so little time. Between working all day at our broadcast and there being 8,000 venues and a million bands, I honestly didn't think I was going to see any of the bands I wanted to. There are some bands I missed that I wish I had been able to check out, but I have seen some amazing shows.

Here are some highlights:

R.E.M. @ Stubbs Wednesday Night:

This was the first night we were here. There was tons of buzzthroughout the streets about the R.E.M. show. There is always thosecouple shows that everyone is talking about at SXSW...this was one ofthem. They sounded great. Personally, I would have liked to here morehits, but the new songs sound pretty good. The atmosphere was electricat Stubbs. We have spent a lot of time at Stubbs. It is a fantasticvenue, one of the best here. Picture a giant backyard party with astage and about five bars. The sound is surprisingly really good too,even though it's outdoors.

The Wombats @ Cedar Street Courtyard Friday afternoon:

This is the venue we are doing our broadcast from and also where our INDIE 1031 showcase is taking place tonight. This is the second best venue at SXSW. There is this little alley type courtyard in the middle of two buildings/bars with the stage at the end of it. Such a great spot to hang out for the day. A friend of mine had sent me some tracks from The Wombats a couple weeks ago. These dudes are the future...young, British, energetic, really fun band, tons of hype right now. I knew they were playing here at SXSW. They were even on my "bands I NEED to see" list but, I had no idea when or where they were playing. Then from our little secluded broadcast cave I hear "EELLLO south by southwest, WE ARE THE WOMBATS!" I actually yelled and ran out to the middle courtyard where the stage is, and they absolutely KILLED IT! Great band....great show...believe the hype!

Some other bands that I found a way to see and were great:

MGMT last night @ Stubbs
Electric Feel is the best song of the past 6 months.

The Ting Tings last night @ Stubbs
This girl is crazy hot and an awesome performer.

Nada Surf last night @ Cedar Door
They are always great. They went on at 1am in a giant tent. Gotta love SXSW.

My Morning Jacket Thursday night @ Austin Music Hall
They played for for 2 hours! One man can only take so much My Morning Jacket (I mean R.E.M. only played for an hour 45 minutes) but they put on a good show.

N.E.R.D. last night @ Stubbs
what can I say...I mean, it's N.E.R.D. They bring down the house where ever they play. They could have played the Iron Works BBQ joint on Red River Street and would have killed. If I could switch lives with Pharell Williams of N.E.R.D. I would.

I'm really looking forward to our showcase tonight. We have some rad bands playing. Should be a great time.

Party Girl Stacey and I got some bad-ass cowboy hats for ourselves and Jonesy this morning. We are now officially cowboys...and cowgirl.

Jonesy and I are getting on our horses tonight and riding off into the sunset back to Los Angeles.

Jonesy just got here, we are about to go on the air so I have to get going.

Thanks for Reading!

Begley

Today, approximately 18 million people live in Texas, only slightly outnumbering its 15 million cattle.

"Pleased to meet you...Hope you guess my name"

Gabriel Byrne was the guest host on Jonesy's Jukebox today. He played some great songs and told some fantastic stories. He also put me on the spot and asked me some questions on the air about Jonesy and the state of Independent radio. If you missed it you can listen to it on the Jonesy's Jukebox Podcast. Make sure you check him out on his new show, In Treatment Monday-Friday at 9:30pm on HBO.

I will be getting on a plane in less than 13 hours en route to Austin, TX for SXSW.

We will be doing the show live Thursday-Saturday from Cedar St. Courtyard on 4th St. Make sure you listen! In addition to the usual radio magic that is Jonesy's Jukebox, we have some awesome special guests lined up.

I will be blogging from the road the whole time we are at SXSW, so keep checking back here to find out what's going down on the streets of Austin.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers!

Begley

Next Stop...Austin, TX

I guess this is my first official blog. The last one I posted was kind of a greeting just to let you all know what the hell was going on. I decided I am going to start each blog entry with a quote from a song that we played on the show that day. I know what you all are thinking. The answer is no, you do not get a prize for knowing the answer. Reason being that it is much to easy these days to just copy and paste the quote to a google search. But, If you want to have some good old fashion trivia fun then leave a comment in the comments section with what you think the answer is and I will give a shout to anyone who got it right in the next blog. Here is today's:

"Now my reputation has been one of the fastest men alive So I'm gonna see how good you are when I count to five"


Jonesy hit the road right after the show today to make the two day trek to Austin, TX. For anyone who has been living under rock recently, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday we are doing Jonesy's Jukebox live from SXSW. We already have some awesome special guests lined up for all the days so make sure you tune in! If you are going to SXSW make sure you come by and say hello. We'll be at the Cedar Street Courtyard on 4th st. This is also where our INDIE 1031 showcase will be. For all the info on that go HERE.

I'm pretty pumped for SXSW. I would have loved to drive out there like Jonesy but instead I will be getting up at the ungodly hour of 4am on Wednesday to catch an early morning flight with Party Girl Stacey. I'm convinced the human body is not meant to be awake between the hours of 4am and 8am. I have never been to SXSW or even to Texas at all for that matter. The First thing I am doing when I get there is purchasing a bad-ass cowboy hat. Yes I am going to be "That Guy" who wears a cowboy hat the whole time he's in Texas. You know what, I may even wear it when I get back to L.A.. Jonesy thinks I should dress like this guy:

I think that would be a bit much.

Since Jonesy will probably be waist deep in Arizona by 12 bells tomorrow, we will be having guest host Gabriel Byrne taking over. You know him from one of the greatest movies of all time, The Usual Suspects. I am Keysey Soze. He also has a new show on HBO called "In Treatmeant". Check it out.

We'll talk tomorrow. Thanks for reading.

Cheers!

Begley

God Save The Blog

Hey! How are you?

In case you haven't figured it out yet, I am Kevin "Big Head" Begley, the producer/pseudo sidekick/the other random voice you hear on Jonesy's Jukebox. Maybe you know me as "that kid on Jonesy's Jukebox who knows nothing and can't get laid" (you laugh, but I've actually heard someone refer to me as that...words hurt).

Anyway, I will be blogging from here to let you know about everything that goes on before and after the show, on the air, off the air, in our office, on the road...you get the idea.

Hopefully this doesn't turn into a disaster of biblical proportions.

Thanks for reading.

Welcome to Begley's Blog!

Cheers!