Today's installment of 480 Minutes will feature new music by AM & Shawn Lee (Los Angeles, CA/London, England), Blank Realm (Brisbane, Australia), The Blank Tapes (Los Angeles, CA), Brothers In Law (Pesaro, Italy), The Child of Lov (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), CHURCHES (Oakland, CA), City Light (San Francisco, CA), Danny Malone (Austin, TX), Deerhunter (Atlanta, GA), Faux Canada (San Francisco, CA), Hockey (Brooklyn, NY), Jamaican Queens (Detroit, MI), Moon King (Toronto, Canada), Musique Le Pop (Fredrikstad, Norway), Sam Vicari (Chicago, IL),  Sonen (Atlanta, GA), Twin Tigers (Athens, GA), and Underground Lovers (Melbourne, Australia).

Please help distract me from the chaos, death, and hate by hanging with me today during my 8-hour marathon radio show, which will feature new music by Akron/Family (Brooklyn, NY), Cocktails (San Francisco, CA),  Cowboy Indian Bear (Lawrence, KS), Dead Confederate (Athens, GA), Depth & Current (Norman, OK), The Growl (Freemantle, Western Australia), Junip (Gothenburg, Sweden), Oceanography (Oakland, CA), Teenage Sweater (San Francisco, CA), The Thermals (Portland, OR), We All Want To (Brisbane, Australia), and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (New York, NY).

Today's 8-hour marathon radio show will feature new music by Art Brut (London, England), Bored Nothing (Melbourne, Australia), The English Singles (Sacramento, CA), The Flaming Lips (Oklahoma City, OK), James Blake (London, England), The Knife (Stockholm, Sweden), Milk Music (Olympia, WA), Nude Pop (Spokane, WA), OMD (Liverpool, England), Paper Pilots (Los Angeles, CA), Queens of the Stone Age (Palm Desert, CA), Steve Mason (Edinburgh, Scotland; Beta Band), and Villagers (Dublin, Ireland).

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).