Today's 8-hour marathon radio show will feature new music by three bands with the word "black" in their name....that's notable, is it not? Bands include The Aerotrope Guild (Sydney, Australia), Audacity (Fullerton, CA), Automatic Children (New York, NY), The Black Angels (Austin, TX), Black Rebel Motorcyle Club (San Francisco, CA), blackoutbeach (Vancouver, Canada), Campfires (Portland, OR), Cold Cave (NYC/LA sounding like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club covering Sisters of Mercy), Depeche Mode (Basildon, England), Keaton Henson (London, England), Restless Leg (Sydney, Australia), Sam Vicari (Chicago, IL), Says She's Ms. Blat (New York, NY), Shout Out Louds (Stockholm, Sweden), The Strokes (New York, NY), Suede (London, England), Tango In The Attic (Glenrothes, Scotland), Vampire Blow (Copenhagen, Denmark, and they have adorable videos, one of which is below), The Veils (London, England), Waaves (San Diego, CA), and Z*L (Boston, MA).

Today's show will feature new music by Born Ruffians (Midland, Ontario, Canada), Cab 20 (El Segundo, CA), Colleen Green (Los Angeles, CA),  Generationals (New Orleans, LA), The Grenadines (Birmingham, AL), Native America (New Orleans, LA). Palma Violets (South London, England), Purling Hiss (Philadelphia, PA), Sound City - Reel To Reel (Dave Grohl), Suede (London, England), Suuns (Montréal, Canada), Telekinesis (Seattle, WA), Tropical Popsicle (San Diego, CA), and Wax Idols (Oakland, CA).

Today's show will feature new music by The Coathangers (Atlanta, GA), Cold Warps(Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), David Bowie (Mars), Devendra Banhart (Los Angeles, CA), Hookworms (Leeds, England), Marc Carroll (Dublin, Ireland), Phosphorescent(Brooklyn, NY), Portugal. The Man (Portland OR via Wasilla, AK), & The Woolen Men (Portland, OR).

Today's show will feature new music by Atoms For Peace (Los Angeles, CA), Bettie Serveert (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Cy Dune (Akron/Family), Dazzletine (Pittsburgh, PA), Golden Grrrls (Glasgow, Scotland), Lenz (San Francisco/Oakland, CA), Lisa LeBlanc (Rosaireville, New Brunswick, Canada), The Lovely Bad Things (Los Angeles, CA), Parenthetical Girls (Portland, OR), Popstrangers (Auckland, New Zealand), The Radio Fields (Toronto, Canada), United Ghosts (Silverlake, CA), Wavves (San Diego, CA), and Young Dreams (Bergen, Norway).

New music today from Beach Fossils (Brooklyn, NY), Cheatahs (London, England), clintongore (Brooklyn, NY), Everything Everything (Manchester, England), Gold Fields (Ballarat, Australia), Gold Panda (Chelmsford, England), The Little Ones (Los Angeles, CA), Local Natives (Los Angeles, CA), Mikal Cronin (San Francisco, CA), My Bloody Valentine (Dublin, Irelands), Pillowfight (San Francisco, CA), Psychic Ills (New York, NY), Sam Page (California), Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Portland, OR), and Veronica Falls (London, England).