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.

Today we will be debuting TONS of new playlist additions including music from Air Waves (Brooklyn, NY), Art vs Science (Syndey, Australia), The Asteroid No. 4 (Philadelphia, PA), Bangs (Wisconsin/Rhode Island), Brown Rescue (Sweden), Buffalo Tom (Boston, MA), The Caribbean (Washington, DC), The District Attorneys (Atlanta, GA), J. Mascis (Amherst, MA), Kurt Vile (Philadelphia, PA), Lumerians (San Francisco, CA), Lykke Li (Stockholm, Sweden), Parts and Labor (Brooklyn, NY), R.E.M. (Athens, GA), Rainbow Arabia (Los Angeles, CA), Raw Milk (Columbus, OH), The Rural Alberta Advantage (Toronto, Canada), Sacred Animals (Dublin, Ireland), Sin Fang (Reykjavik, Iceland), Starfucker (Portland, OR), Tahiti 80 (Rouen, France), Those Dancing Days (Stockholm, Sweden), Undersea Poem (New York, NY), and Western Hymn (Olympia, WA).