upcoming releases

take note:

Feb 7:
Belle & Sebastian // The Life Pursuit
Prefuse 73 // Security Screenings

Feb 14:
OutKast // Idlewild

Feb 28:
Ghostface // Fishscale

Apr 4:
The Flaming Lips // At War With The Mystics

Apr 11:
Built To Spill // You In Reverse
The Streets // The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

Other albums to drop in O'Six:
AFI
Arcade Fire
Bloc Party
Broken Social Scene
DJ Shadow
Feist
Fountains of Wayne
Futureheads
The Hives
Hot Hot Heat
The Killers
Massive Attack
The Offspring
The Pixies
Polyphonic Spree
Portishead
Scissor Sisters
The Shins
Sonic Youth
Starlight Mints
Stereolab

Ulrich Schnauss

If you're a fan of IDM then rejoice, Ulrich Schnauss' debut album, Far away trains passing by, is now available stateside. For those of you aren't into IDM you should give this album a chance. I included one track on my discs last year called 'between us and them.' Dig it out and give it a listen.

arctic monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are blowing up accross the pond so you should listen to them now because we'll all be sick of them by summertime.

He's BACK on that DAMN ESCALATOR!!

so this million little pieces bull shit still won't end. Anderson Cooper is yaking on and on about it as we speak. Oh, and I just realized that the website (the smoking gun) that discovered and published the fallacies in the memior is also owned by, you guessed it folks, time warner.... fuckin a.

Mathematical Proof That Girls Are Evil

new kweli

anyone heard the new kweli disc?? how is it?

Postal Service vs. Apple

The new Apple ad bares a striking resemblance to a Postal Service video. Postal Service has formally complained but not yet taken any legal action. The wierd thing is that both films were made by the same director.

PLUG

Take some time to vote for this years PLUG: Independent Music Awards.

ligion

For those of you who went to Hudson, check out what Matt Knabe and Seth Warum are doing.

built to spill // going against your mind

Built To Spill has announced an album release date of april 11th (it's been 5 years since thier last album). They also are streaming one new song on myspace.

Pantheon Award (part II)

If anyone is interested you can download all ten albums nominated for the Pantheon Award. The .zip file is 450MB, so be patient.... Enjoy!

I guess that's why they call this the news

Recently CNN has been dedicating an awful lot of time to a book called "A Million Little Pieces." Apparently it's marketed as a non-fiction memoir, but after it's release and success (due to Oprah), it has been found that much of the book was embellished and in fact is not true. Okay, seems like a small news piece. But Larry King devoted a show to the author and I just watched Anderson Cooper go on and on about the book for 15 minuets. Why??? Maybe it's just a slow news day... Ha.

Here's my Dylanesque theory:
The book is published by Anchor Books, which is a subdivision of Random House. Random House's parent company is Bertelsmann Group. Bertelsmann Group is the 5th largest media conglomerate in the world. They're mainly a European media company and they are the majority shareholder of AOL Europe. Funny, isn't CNN owned by AOL Time Warner??? Gee, I wonder if there's a connection????

The media makes me sick.

Oh, and yeah, it was today and yesterday's number one seller on amazon.com

New Pantheon Award

The New Pantheon Award is given to an album that was released between July 1, 2004 and October 30, 2005 and has yet to sell 500,000 copies at the time of nomination. The nominators include ?uestlove, Beck, Ben Gibbard, Elton John, Ric Ocasek and Margret Cho among others. Each nominator selects 7 albums and from there the list is dwindled down to 10 finalists. The award will be announced at a concert on Feb 6. Here are the 10 finalists:

Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat)
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (Sony)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Vice)
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (Atlantic)
The Decemberists - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA)
M.I.A. - Arular (XL/Beggars)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)

My guess is Sufjan Stevens or Arcade Fire but it'll be close. If you haven't heard these albums definetly check them out. Some have been included in our monthly mailings (Decemberists, Arcade Fire). The only one I haven't heard is Fiona Apple, but I can guarantee the rest are solid. Shout out if you want me to post any of these. Brad, I think you'd especially like M.I.A.

how futuristic is this?

wearable video