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Death Cab For Cutie On The O.C. (The Bait Shop)

The O.C. was an American teen drama television. The series, created by Josh Schwartz, portrays the fictional lives of a group of teenagers and their families residing in Orange County, California. Phantom Planet performed the theme song to the show named California. The O.C. made indie rock main focus of the series & also its marketing plan, releasing six soundtracks throughout the series. In the second season as a fictional new night club and concert venue, called The Bait Shop, was introduced.

Atomic County is a spin off, animated television series based on the comic book of the same name, which featured in The O.C. The mobisodes, which have also been referred to as webisodes, we´re based on cartoon versions of characters out of the The O.C. The Characteres was Created by Eric Wight, John Sephens. The Theme Song is Invincible by OK Go.

Characters From The OC:
Adam Brody – Seth Cohen
Rachel Bilson – Summer Roberts
Mischa Barton – Marissa Cooper
Benjamin McKenzie – Ryan Atwood
Peter Gallagher – Sandy Cohen
Kelly Rowan – Kirsten Cohen
Melinda Clarke – Julie Cooper
Tate Donovan – Jimmy Cooper
Alan Dale – Caleb Nichol
Chris Carmack – Luke Ward
Autumn Reeser – Taylor Townsend
Willa Holland – Kaitlin Cooper
Samaire Armstrong – Anna Stern
Michael Cassidy – Zach Stevens
Logan Marshall Green – Trey Atwood
Amanda Righetti – Hailey Nichol
Navi Rawat – Theresa Diaz
Olivia Wilde – Alex Kelly
Ryan Donowho – Johnny Harper
Shannon Lucio – Lindsay Gardner
Michael Nouri – Dr. Neil Roberts
Taylor Handley – Oliver Trask
Eric Balfour – Eddie
Nicholas Gonzalez – D.J.
Cam Gigandet – Kevin Volchok
Nikki Reed – Sadie Campbell
Kayla Ewell – Casey
Bill Campbell – Carter Buckley
Kim Delaney – Rebecca Bloom
Johnny Lewis – Dennis Childress
Rachel Hoffman – Bonnie Somerville
Jeff Hephner – Matt Ramsey
Kevin Sorbo – Frank Atwood
Daphne Ashbrook – Dawn Atwood
Jeri Ryan – Charlotte Morgan

Characters From Atomic County:
Seth Cohen – The Ironist
Summer Roberts – Lil´ Miss Vixon
Ryan Atwood – Kid Chino
Marissa Cooper – Cosmolass or Cosmogirl
Anna Stern – Punky Spit Fire
Luke Ward – All American Boy
Sandy Cohen – The Litigator
Zach Stevens – Demonic Water Polo Player
Julie Cooper – Mistress Widow
Trey Atwood – Evil Kid Chino
Alex Kelly – Battle Axe
Oliver Trask – The Mentalist
Kevin Volchok – Blinding Ab´s
Taylor Townsend – Type A
Caleb Nichol – The Industrialist
Johnny Harper – Johnny Tears

Death Cab For Cutie, Title and Registration, A Movie Script Ending, The Sound of Settling, You Can Play These Songs with Chords, Something About Airplanes, We Have the Facts and We´re Voting Yes, The Photo Album, Transatlanticism, Plans, Narrow Stairs, Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla, Nick Harmer, Jason Mc Gerr, Warner Music, Atlantic Records, Barsuk Records, Fierce Panda Records, Sub Pop Records, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Bellingham, Washington, United States of America, USA.

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The Shangri-Las were an American pop girl group of the 1960s.
Between 1964 and 1966 they charted with often heartbreaking teen melodramas, and remain known for “Leader of the Pack” and “Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand)”.
In April 1964, when the girls were still minors, their parents signed with Red Bird Records; Mary was 15, Betty was 17, and the Ganser twins 16. Having been hired by record producer George “Shadow” Morton, they had their first success with the summer hit, “Remember (Walking in the Sand)” (U.S. #5, UK #14). Billy Joel, a then-unknown working as a session musician, played on the demo of “Remember (Walkin’ In The Sand)”.[4] The demo was nearly seven minutes long, too long for Top 40 radio. Morton had hired the group to perform on the demo, but Red Bird released a re-recorded version. Morton faded the new version out around 2:16.
The recordings for Morton featured lavish production with heavy orchestration and sound effects, and their next and biggest hit, “Leader of the Pack” (U.S. #1, UK #11), climaxes with roaring motorcycles and breaking glass. UK re-issues peaked at 3 in 1972 and 7 in 1976. The song epitomized the “death disc”; other examples include Ray Peterson’s “Tell Laura I Love Her”, Jan and Dean’s “Dead Man’s Curve”, J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers’s “Last Kiss,” and Twinkle’s “Terry”.
By the end of 1964 the group was an established act. They performed with the Beatles, toured with R&B artists such as The Drifters and James Brown (who, according to Mary Weiss, was surprised to discover the girls were white), and Cashbox magazine listed them as best new R&B group. They also promoted Revlon cosmetics. In March 1965 they toured the UK with Dusty Springfield and The Zombies.[Because Betty did not tour until 1966, and because she often did not appear in photos, many fans believed the Shangri-Las were a trio.
The group alternated between touring with their own band and local bands. Among the latter were the Sonics, as well as the Iguanas, featuring a young Iggy Pop.

The Shop Assistants were an indie pop band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 1984, initially as Buba & The Shop Assistants. The original line-up was Aggi (Annabel Wright, later of The Pastels), on vocals, David Keegan (guitar), Sarah Kneale (bass), Laura MacPhail (drums) and Ann Donald (drums). This line-up released one single, the now highly-collectible ‘Something to Do’ which was produced by Stephen Pastel. Stephen Pastel also contributed backing vocals.

Aggi left to be replaced by Alex Taylor. Soon after, the name shortened to simply ‘Shop Assistants’ and the first release under their new name was the Shopping Parade EP in 1985 on The Subway Organization, whose track All Day Long was described by Morrissey as his favourite single of that year. Ann Donald left round about November 1985 and was briefly replaced by Joan Bride (possibly a pseudonym!). Shopping Parade was followed in early 1986 with Safety Net, the first release on Keegan’s 53rd & 3rd Records, which topped the UK Indie Chart, and the band recorded a national radio session with Janice Long and a second John Peel session, both of BBC’s Radio One. The exposure they gained from the sessions enabled the group to have two songs to be voted into John Peel’s Festive Fifty in both 1985 and 1986.

In 1986, they were featured on the NME’s compilation C86 with one of their slower songs, It’s Up To You, taken from Shopping Parade EP. Also in that year, they signed to Chrysalis Records’s sublabel Blue Guitar for another single, I Don’t Wanna Be Friends With You as well as their first and only LP album, The Shop Assistants. This spent one week at number 100 in the UK album charts, which gives the band the distinction of being the (joint) least successful act ever to hit the national charts. The LP album was re-released on CD in 2001, although it is now very hard to find.

The band split early in 1987, when Taylor left the group to join The Motorcycle Boy. After a two-year hiatus, the band reformed without Taylor in 1989 with Kneale on vocals and MacPhail on bass and the addition of Margarita Vasquez-Ponte of Jesse Garon And The Desperadoes on drums. With the new lineup they released Here It Comes and Big ‘E’ Power in 1990 before splitting again, Keegan joining The Pastels.

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