"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