"480 Minutes" - Win Gig Tickets! Oh, and new Afghan Whigs

Hello and welcome to an addition of 480 Minutes that will blow out of the water every other edition of 480 Minutes...like...ever.  Why, you ask?  Because we will be employing a new audio input interface, and I have been assured that this new device will make my on-air voice sexier than ever.  Like Barry White sexy.  Make sure there's a pillow nearby on which to land when you faint.  You have been warned.

In other news, we have tickets to give away for this Thursday's BAGeL Radio Presents... gig featuring live performances by King Tuff/ Jaill/ The Coathangers at Bottom of the Hill (buy tickets).  Please come out and support these 3 excellent touring bands (from LA, Milwaukee, and Atlanta, respectively).    It's an all-ages show, so have your big sibling or cool parent escort you!  Stay tuned and when you hear a song by any of the featured artists, get in touch and you might just win yourself a pair of tickets to the show.  I'll be there playing the songs between bands, so please stop by the sound/DJ booth and say hi.

Today on 480 Minutes we will debut new songs by The Afghan Whigs (Cincinnati, OH), AM (London, England), Birdmonster (San Francisco, CA), Chapel Club (London, England), DIIV (New York, NY), Eternal Summers (Roanoke, VA), A Great Big Pile Of Leaves (Brookyln, NY), Lawrence Arabia (Auckland, New Zealand), Micachu and The Shapes (Surrey, England), New God (Maryland), Opossom (Auckland, New Zealand), Royal Headache (Sydney, Australia), Samara Lubelski (Portland, OR), Shadowbox (Brooklyn, NY), The Very Best (London and Malawi),  Westkust (Gothenburg, Sweden), and Wet Hair (Cardiff, Wales, England).

In honor of the four (!) bands from the lands down under who will be making their BAGeL Radio debuts today, a helpful chart for understanding their accents:

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Bay Area Gig eList (upcoming Bay Area shows of interest, click the link to see the full list)

Grass Widow @ Rickshaw Stop 7/20

*Ava Luna @ Bottom of the Hill 7/24 buy tickets

BAGeL Radio Presents...

**# King Tuff/ Jaill/ The Coathangers @ Bottom of the Hill 7/26 buy tickets

The Ettes/ Warm Soda @ Thee Parkside 7/26

Dirty Projectors/ Wye Oak @ Fox Theater (Oakland) 7/27

Social Studies/ Battlehooch @ Rickshaw Stop 7/27

The Bruises/ Dirty Ghosts/ Sporting Life @ Bottom of the Hill 7/27 buy tickets

Loquat @ Slim's 7/28

California Extreme 7/28 & 7/29

Sinead O'Connor @ Fox Theater (Oakland) 7/31

*Mynabrids/ Deep Time @ Cafe du Nord 8/1

Tears For Fears @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditiorium 8/2

Lucy Michelle And The Velvet Lapelles/ Audiofauna/ Morgan Manifacier @ Bottom of the Hill 8/1 buy tickets

Squarepusher @ Regency Grand 8/2

Soul Asylum @ The Independent 8/3

* Miwa Gemini/ Jean-Marie/ Dusty DiMercurio/ Poor Sweet Creatures @ Hotel Utah 8/5 buy tickets

*  = We're there
** = We're DJing (stop by, say hi!)
#  = win tickets during "480 Minutes"

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