The Eighteenth Day Of May, Portastatic, Shapes and Sizes…
The Eighteenth Day Of May --"Hide + Seek"
From The Eighteenth Day of May on Hannibal Records
The debut album from London-based band The Eighteenth of May is a unique, refreshing and thoroughly modern take on traditional folk music. Recently released in the UK to much critical acclaim, the band now find themselves at the forefront of the emerging UK "neo-folk" scene.
Portastatic --"Lively Chase"
From the Original Film Score for Who Loves the Sun on Merge Records Mac McCaughan is an immensely talented songwriter. He first gained fame in the late 80’s and early 90’s as front man and principal songwriter for the rock band Superchunk. In the mid-90’s Mac also formed Portastatic as an outlet for all the material he was writing that did not fit the Superchunk mold.
Black Heart Procession -- "Not Just Words"
From The Spell on Touch and Go Records
The Spell is the most fitting name yet for a Black Heart Procession record. Spells are cast over a person, a love affair, a nation, a world; they enchant and entrap, disorient and delude. They are the heart of this record, both the webs they spin and the snap that occurs when they’re broken. And there is no better word to describe the spooky intoxication of The Black Heart Procession’s sound.
Shapes and Sizes-- "Wilderness"
From Shapes and Sizes on Asthmatic Kitty
From Canada’s misty Pacific Southwest emerges Shapes and Sizes, fully formed and self-defined, yet redolent with future promise. Shapes and Sizes’ melodic pop inhabits a world of beauty, noise, whispers, and elusive, contradictory moods, where the dynamic of a steam piston gives way to elegiac understatement, often within one song.
Field Mob Light Poles and Pine Trees full album listening party (explicit) [windows | real]
Light Poles and Pine Trees full album listening party (clean) [windows | real]
“Remember when Hip-Hop fans actually wrote down the words to their favorite songs and memorized them. Today, it’s hard to find MCs who make you think, and critics are quick to condemn Southern rappers as the worst offenders of all. Enter Field Mob and their third album, Light Poles and Pine Trees. The pioneers of the country boy movement waste no time delivering lyrics destined to switch up the game. Respect ‘em because you can’t check ‘em. Painting vivid pictures powered by their colorful, down-home perspective, Field Mob’s rhymes stand out.”—Geffen Records
The Return Of Doctor Octagon, Chapter 7: Catchdubs “Al Green” (Chapter 2, Verse 908 Remix)
OCD International HQ
Rob Sonic sat around the OCD HQ with a cup of coffee in front of him, As he slowly poured a healthy serving of whiskey into it, he looked around him. Mike Relmn, Gray Kid, along with the OCD staff sat to his left while on monitors to his right were the people of the Money Fight, Cassettes Won’t Listen and Kid Loco (whose transmission looked smoky at best.) All Rob could think was, “how the fuck did I get into this?”
It had all been pretty much pieced together. The Gorilla who had come after Sonic and Loco was the evil mastermind behind all this. It was somehow connected to the clones that had helped destroyed TMF’s home planet, but they were still unsure what that connection was. And that damn package was still flashing 06272006 and no one had been able to stop it. Ok, maybe there were a few things to figure out.
Sonic knew he was at least safe and he had a plan. Well, he had a dream. A dream with a man dressed in a hooded robe. The man had appeared in a yellow robe in the center of Sonic’s room with a hood covering most of his head with number 908 emblazed across the front. On the back of the robe in big black letters, were the letters AG.
“Greetings. I am a disciple from the house of AG. We are an ancient society whose sole purpose is to help in times of need before great battles. You are going to war Rob Sonic. The Gorilla that chased you has been responsible for destroying countless worlds all over this galaxy. They were the ones that invented the cloning technology that was used to create the Dr Octagon clones. What Cassettes Won’t Listen thought were Aliens, were actually The Gorillas, who lose the ability to retain their body hair in space.
OCD had done everything right. But someone made a fatal mistake. You. You think you lost The Gorilla? You lead him right to the source. He knows exactly where you are, and he is planning to destroy OCD HQ and steal the good Doctor’s package before the world can hear his message. This cannot happen. You must fight. You must save the planet. It is up to you.”
With that, Rob had awoken from his dream to find a dark room and a bad headache. As he fumbled for the lights, he found a space raygun and a training tape with the word Disciple 908 imprinted on it.
As Sonic relayed this to the stunned table around him, he picked up the space gun and pressed play on the training tape. As the beats from the House of AG dropped in, he looked around the table and told them:
Previous Chapters:
“A Gorilla Driving A Pick-Up Truck” - Kid Loco (Banana Loco Remix) [MP3]
Cassettes Won’t Listen “Aliens” - Hearing Aid Remix [MP3]
A Gorilla Driving a Pick-Up Truck - Rob Sonic Road Rage Remix [MP3]
The Gray Kid Al Greezy remix [MP3]
Al Green: The Gray Kid Al Greezy remix [MP3]
Mike Relm 20-minute Return of Dr Octagon megamix [MP3]
The Lake House Releasing: 16 June 2006 (wide)
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Plummer
Director: Alejandro Agresti
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Releasing: 16 June 2006 (wide)
Cast: Lucas Black, Shad ‘Bow Wow’ Gregory Moss, Nathalie Kelley, Sung Kang, Brian Tee
Director: Justin Lin
Nacho Libre Releasing: 16 June 2006 (wide)
Cast: Jack Black, Hector Jimenez, Troy Gentile, Moises Arias, Lauro Chartrand
Director: Jared Hess
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties Releasing: 16 June 2006 (wide)
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Breckin Meyer, Lucy Davis, Billy Connolly, Ian Abercrombie
Director: Tim Hill (III)
Loverboy Releasing: 16 June 2006 (limited)
Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt, Marisa Tomei, Campbell Scott
Director: Kevin Bacon
Wordplay Releasing: 16 June 2006 (limited)
Cast: Will Shortz, Merl Reagle, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, Indigo Girls (II)
Director: Patrick Creadon
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green Releasing: 16 June 2006 (New York/Los Angeles)
Cast: Daniel Letterle, Dave Monahan, Diego Serrano, Dean Shelton, Shanola Hampton
Director: George Bamber
Only Human Releasing: 16 June 2006 (New York)
Cast: Norma Aleandro, Guillermo Toledo, Maria Botto, Mariana Aguilera, Fernando Ramallo
Director: Teresa de Pelegri, Dominic Harari
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