"480 Minues" - New We Are Augustines (Contender For Album Of The Year)

Do you like movies?  Do you like popcorn and soda?  Do you like Jay Reatard?  Well, we have tickets to give away to the West Coast Bay Area premiere of the Jay Reatard documentary, Better Than Something, at The Roxie Theater next Wednesday, August 17th.  When you hear a Jay song during today's show, get in touch via e-mail or IM (contact info below) and you might just win yourself a pair of tickets to the premiere!

Speaking of today's show, as usual the 480 Minutes live hosted radio program (Friday, 9a.m. - 5p.m. Pacific Time) is all-new, hosted live, in-person, in real-time.  Please tune in (it's free!) 24/7/365 by clicking that shiny giant silver Play button on the right.  Or click here.  

During the live show hours (Fridays, 9a.m. - 5p.m. Pacific Time) you can (and should! in fact, you must!) get in touch in real-time:

e-mail: bagelradio[at]gmail[dot]com

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Today's BAGeL Radio debuts include new music by Cut Off Your Hands (Auckland, New Zealand), Dom (Worcester, MA), Fool's Gold (Los Angeles, CA), Givers (Lafayette, LA), Gold Leaves (Seattle, WA), The Great Book Of John (Birmingham, AL), Grey Reverend (Brooklyn, NY), Her Space Holiday (Austin, TX), The Jim Jones Revue (London, England), We Are Augustines (Brooklyn, NY), and Hooray For Earth (New York, NY)...a truly outstanding crop of new songs.

If you want to see the album art and song titles while listening on your phone or tablet, try the TuneIn Radio app.

BAGeL Radio Gig Photos (http://flickr.com/photos/bagelradio)

Bay Area Gig eList (upcoming shows of interest - http://bagelradio.com/shows):

Pine Hill Haints/ Pops @ Cafe du Nord 8/12

Ferocious Few @ Thee Parkside 8/12

The Sadies/ Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter @ Great American 8/12

*Vetiver @ Rickshaw Stop 8/12

*Arctic Monkeys/ Vaccines @ The Independent 8/12

* Sid Lucious And The Pants/ CH-3 @ Thee Parkside 8/13 (5p.m.)

Outside Lands Festival @ Golden Gate Park 8/12-8/14

The Go-Go's @ The Fillmore 8/16

#*Jay Reatard: Better Than Something (film) @ The Roxie 8/17

Aimee Mann @ Mountain Winery (Saratoga) 8/18

Simian Mobile Disco @ Public Works 8/19

Public Enemy @ The Regency Grand 8/19

*The Coup @ The Independent 8/19

Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones/ LOs Straightjackets @ Great American Music Hall 8/20

The Be Good Tanyas @ The Independent 8/20

*Obits/ Disappears/ Beaters @ Bottom of the Hill 8/22

*The Ettes/ Hans Condor @ Rickshaw Stop 8/23

The Prids/ The Downer Party/ Continues @ Bottom of the Hill 8/23

Tim Cohen's Magic Trick/ Magic Bullets (last show ever!)/ PreTeen/ Tambo Rays @ Rickshaw Stop 8/24

Brian Wilson @ Mountain Winery (Saratoga) 8/24

Brian Wilson @ Uptown Theatre (Napa) 8/25

*Wave Array/ She Beards/ Lucky Jesus @ Bottom of the Hill 8/25

*Birdmonster/ Boy In The Bubble/ Evan Bailey/ Build Us Airplanes @ Stork Club (Oakland) 8/26

#Loquat/ Light FM @ Bottom of the Hill 8/26

(more upcoming shows at http://bagelradio.com/shows)

* = We're there

** = We're DJing

# = win tickets during 480 Minutes

Lyric Of The Week: "Call the police/go ahead call your shrink/call whoever you want, call in the National Guard/call the police, go ahead call your priest/call whoever you want." - Headlong Into The Abyss, We Are Augustines

Happy birthday, George Hamilton