One last reminder that tomorrow (Saturday, February 7th, 2009) is the BAGeL Radio Half Dozenth Birthday Party at Bottom of the Hill featuring Birdmonster, Railcars, and Ricky Lee Robinson. The show is 18+. Get in touch when you hear any of those 3 bands during today's program and you might just win yourself a pair of free tickets.Purchase low-fee advance tickets here. It would mean much to me to see many of you there.

Today's show will feature new music from Eleni Mandell (Los Angeles, CA), Vitamin Party (Berkeley, CA), Phantom Band (Glasgow, Scotland), Iran (Brooklyn, NY), The Vox Jaguars (Santa Cruz, CA), Faunts (Edmonton, Canada), Eagle Winged Palace (Los Angeles, CA), The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (New York, NY), Fol Chen (Highland Park, CA), This Town Needs Guns (Oxford, England), The Bird And The Bee (Los Angeles, CA), Sholi (San Francisco, CA), Trouble Andrew (New York), and Franz Ferdinand (Glasgow, Scotland).

Please tune in this and every Friday to "480 Minutes," which runs live from 12 noon to 8 p.m. Eastern Time, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific. You can reach me with requests, comments, corrections, criticisms, praise, etc. via:

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Today's show will also include the return of the BAGeL Radio studio cam, complete with accompanying chat room: