Becky Ebenkamp

Becky - Bubblegum & Other Delights - On hiatus until January 2009
Pop cultural anthropologist, media critic, consumer advocate and professional smart-ass are just some of the terms that describe Bubblegum & Other Delights host Becky Ebenkamp, who has recently extended her journalistic skills and obsessive pop fandom to DJing a Friday night show on LuxuriaMusic.com (in the Brady Bunch’s original time slot).

Having lived in San Francisco and New York, Ebenkamp is back in her native of Hollywood, Calif., serving as the West Coast Bureau Chief / entertainment editor for business magazine Brandweek. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, VH1, the BBC and ESPN as a media/trend analyst and written essays for the books Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth and Lost in the Grooves.

- Philosophy of my radio show: Bubblegum isn’t a dirty word! BG&OD specializes in sugary sweet, 1960s and ’70s pop, from chart-toppers to none-hit wonders. Each week, 30 minutes are devoted to an unrelated theme, such as Phobias or Bo Diddley beats.
- Five artists LuxuriaMusic listeners will hear on my show: The Archies, the Cattanooga Cats (Hanna-Barbera cartoon band), the Sweet, TJ Brass, anyone doing a so-wrong-it’s-right ’60s pop-song cover.
- To derive maximum pleasure from my radio show: Put on your footy pyjamas, pour yourself a big bowl of sugary cereal and lock up the local music snob.
- When I’m not DJing I can be found: Reporting on entertainment news, raiding the thrift store, fighting The Man, heckling other DJs in the LuxuriaMusic chatroom.
- Secret superpowers I possess: Lockpicking, hair-hopping, Brady Bunch-episode synopsizing.