As for today's 480 Minutes program, it is live-hosted from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Pacific Time (although please excuse me if I beg out an hour or two early so I can shower and go through 12 outfits and do my makeup for the big to do at Bottom of the Hill tonight) and new music will include songs by Guards (New York, NY), Hang Time (Salt Lake City, UT), John Jerome & The Congregation (Moncton, NB, Canada), Public Service Broadcasting (London, England), PVT (Sydney, Australia), Sin Fang (Reykjavík, Iceland), Snowden (Austin, TX.), Thao and the Get Down Stay Down (San Francisco, CA), and a belated addition for San Francisco's own Philistines.

back in.  Sadly, little that arrived this week was particularly interesting, so no song debuts today.  The good news is this gives us lots of latitude in what to play, so bring on those clever "challenge set" ideas and straight up requests

New tunes today by Beach Fossils (Brooklyn, NY), The Hideout (Seattle, WA), and KGB Lawyer (they will not reveal the location of the hideout!).

Instead we will again revel in the year that was in indie rock, as well as debut a handful of new songs today by Asobi Seksu (Brooklyn, NY), Boris (Tokyo, Japan), Crystal Castles (Toronto, Canada), Team Ghost (Paris, France), Wonky Doll and the Echo (Athens, Greece), and Your Youth (NewYork, NY).

We will be debuting a handful of new songs today by Gliss (Copenhägen, Denmark/Los Angeles, CA), The Joy Formidable (London, England), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (London, England), & Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Los Angeles, CA).