Thanks to everyone who came out to our Lou Barlow instore performance on friday - it was a fantastic set of music from all over Lou's career. Please send us your photos, videos, audio so that everyone can relive the magic. Record Store Day is nearly here (this saturday!)! Check out the RSD portion of our website to keep up with the exclusive releases for the day. At Landlocked we will be hosting instore performances from Death Vessel, DM Stith, DJ sets from Zero Boys frontman Paul-Z, Early Day Miners bassist Jonathan Richardson and the Mayor of Bloomington Mark Kruzan (among others), as well as limited edition on-site screen-printing and even more to be announced in the special edition RSD update later this week. Check it. Stop in Landlocked and pre-order Sonic Youth's The Eternal (out on June 9) on CD or 2xLP, and you'll also receive access to an advanced stream of the album (beginning April 28), a limited-edition live LP, exclusive MP3s and a poster. Pre-ordering is the only way to receive the live vinyl on release day! ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 4/14/2009 ................................................................... Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information (Strut) ................................................................... Known primarily through the Ethiopiques series and the soundtrack to Broken Flowers, Mulatu Astatke is one of Ethiopia's foremost musical ambassadors. His selfstyled Ethio-jazz sound flourished during the late 60s as he successfully fused Western jazz and funk with traditional Ethiopian folk melodies. The Heliocentrics have become known as one of the foremost free-thinking collectives of musicians, inspired by a wide palette covering Sun Ra, James Brown, David Axelrod and all manner of psych, Afro and Eastern sounds. The collective have featured on records by Madlib and DJ Shadow and forged their own genre-breaking directions in the astral analogue groove on their debut album. Big Business - Mind the Drift (Hydra Head) ................................................................... A rhythm section that says "Guitarists? We don't need no steenkin' guitarists!," Big Business are a two-piece band that do the sludgy, low-end stoner metal thing as well as any more fully populated act. Comprised of two veterans from the Seattle scene: bassist and singer Jared Warren, formerly of Karp, and drummer Coady Willis, formerly of the Murder City Devils. In 2006, at the invitation of fellow Pacific Northwest transplant Dale Crover, Willis and Warren became the rhythm section of Crover's long-running sludge metal act, the Melvins. Boy Least Likely To - Law of the Playground (+1) ................................................................... The Law of the Playground serves as the follow-up to the Boy Least Likely To's widely adored 2006 debut The Best Party Ever. With only indie publicity and a college radio campaign as support the band still managed to tour U.S. three times and sell nearly 6500 records with out a U.S. label. Darlings of the blog world, national media and college radio alike, anticipation for the return of The Boy Least Likely To is high. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City) ................................................................... Formerly known as Smog. Unfolding like a first view of paradise, then a slightly less ecstatic second view of paradise and then finally a glance back over your shoulder at that stupid paradise bulls***, Eagle surveys a landscape that grows organically, like the time two people spend together - or the time one person spends alone (with another). One way or another, it's awfully pretty - something's clearly making Bill feel like a natural man. Arranger Brian Beattie brought some old friends back into the picture: violins and French horns. Singing as personal as ever while still spinning wild yarns and melodic guitar fictions, Bill Callahan's on an idyll we hope won't ever end. Death Cab For Cutie - The Open Door EP (Atlantic) ................................................................... New EP from the Indie favorites containing four new tracks and one unreleased demo. The band's platinum selling album Plans was a huge success, which came after their DVD collection Directions. Following up those was no easy task, but Narrow Stairs has already been praised by MTV as the band's most daring and adventurous effort to date. Now, although the four new tracks are a little different from those on the last album, The Open Door can be considered a companion piece to Narrow Stairs. Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong CD+DVD (M80) ................................................................... Chronicling the journey taken by the LA based Khmer rock band to lead singer Chhom Nimol's native Cambodia during the 2005 Water Festival. The band's performances there marked the first time a Western band had performed classic 1960s and 70s Cambodian rock in the country where it was created and nearly erased from existence by the brutal Pol Pot regime. More than a rockumentary, the film serves up a portrait of modern Cambodia as the band tours through Phnom Penh and beyond, crossing a great cultural chasm with the same spirit of Cambodia's rock pioneers. The accompanying soundtrack includes classic tracks from Cambodian artists, as well as original material created by Cambodian master musicians with Dengue Fever, and previously unreleased instrumental tracks. John Doe & the Sadies - Country Club (Yep Roc) ................................................................... In true honky tonk style, this is the bastard child of a drunken promise. A post show hang-out produced the idea to join forces to a make an album. Timeless sounds abound, driven by Doe's gorgeously rough-hewn vocals, the dueling thousand pound chops of the guitar-wielding Good brothers and The Sadies world class rhythm section. Here, the Countrypolitan sound of late 60s Nashville is filtered through the telecaster-based honky tonk of Bakersfield, CA and the results are simply stunning. Classic tunes by Merle and Waylon stand alongside corkers by Tammy Wynette and Roger Miller, all of them getting unique treatments. The album also features 4 originals - three from The Sadies and one courtesy of the timeless pairing of John Doe and Exene Cervenka. Mike Farris - Shout! Live (Columbia) ................................................................... Like Stax Records? The Staples Singers? Al Green? Do yourself a favor and proceed directly to the checkout with this CD. Seriously. Jason and Heath witness this gospel live in Nashville, TN a couple months ago and were saved. "Ranging from straight-on gospel to blues and Stax-style soul, the record is grounded in Farris' faith and his sublime musicianship. There's a real New Orleans feel to the bulk of these tunes, as Dixielandesque horns pop in and out of songs, adding to the delightful Southern stew." - Popmatters Fire on Fire - Orchard (Young God) ................................................................... Full-length album from the Maine band formerly known as Cerberus Shoal. All-acoustic instrumentation with harmonized vocals reminiscent of a backwoods, Psychedelic Mamas And The Papas. The trappings now are rough-hewn and varnished implements: guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, upright bass, accordion; plucked, strummed, pressed and purposefully bowed. Grand Duchy (Frank Black) - Petits Fours (Blackseal) ................................................................... Petits Fours is the debut album from Grand Duchy, aka Black Francis and Violet Clark (his wife).Ê Petits Fours is a joint venture between Clark and Francis, rather than a solo Francis project, and contains driving bass lines, a healthy dose of synths and some excellent vocals from Clark, alongside FrancisÕs trademark guitar squalls. Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come (DFA) ................................................................... Since the turn of the 21st century, DFA club music maestro Juan Maclean has been laying groundwork. First, there were killer singles, from 'By The Time I Get to Venus' in 2002, to 'Give Me Every Little Thing', to last year's international club hit and critical year-end favorite 'Happy House'. There was a debut full-length (Less Than Human, 2005); remixes for colleagues like Air, Chicken Lips, Daft Punk, Dave Gahan, and Matthew Dear; tours with LCD Soundsystem, Cut Copy, and Shocking Pinks; and DJ gigs from Telluride to Tel Aviv. Metric - Fantasies (Metric) ................................................................... Metric is a four piece band formed in NYC that has been based at various times in Toronto, Montreal, LA, and London. Fantasies was written by the band in a farmhouse outside Seattle, and by Emily Haines in exile in Argentina. The album was recorded at guitarist Jimmy Shaw's own Giant Studio in Toronto and mixed at Electric Lady in NYC by Grammy winner John O'Mahony (Coldplay, The Strokes). A densely textured modern mix of psychedelia, electro and rock, this album's dream like quality stays true to the band's aesthetic while venturing into more accessible musical territory. Monks - Black Monk Time [reissue] (Light in the Attic) ................................................................... Digitally remastered and expanded reissue of this 1966 Garage Rock classic including six bonus tracks. The Monks were 5 beat playing American GIs stationed in Germany who, after their discharge, decided to stay and continue their musical mission. Meeting up with a team of local managers, they transformed themselves and their sound into a holy racket like the world had never known. This five-person order literally birthed garage, psych and punk through a fuzz-drenched evolution of sound, bursting with social commentary and future primitive rhythms. Black Monk Time is their mind-boggling debut album. Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong) ................................................................... Highly anticipated third album from Jason Quever's cosmic dream-pop project fully delivers. Quever is a guest member of numerous bands (including Vetiver, Beach House, and Skygreen Leopards), and the living room/recording studio wizard behind numerous others (Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Cass McCombs, Donkeys, and more) Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp) ................................................................... Its hard to think of a name that carries as much weight in both hip-hop and avant-rock circles as Prefuse 73, who in the past year alone has been asked to remix TV On The Radio, Pelican, BLK JKS and Cornelius, not to mention his early collaborations with School of Seven Bells and Battles. These interactions have clearly helped to shape the evolving Prefuse 73 sonic aesthetic, which has expanded to include Herren's twisted visions of prog-rock, "machine funk" and global psychedelia. For Ampexian, Herren rejected the idea of straight digital recording and instead went the much more intensive route of recording to analog tape, giving the album the sound of a lost tape of exploratory studio musicians from the not-too-distant past. Qemists - Join the Q (Ninja Tune) ................................................................... The Qemists might be 2009's underground dance music superstars. One of the most eagerly awaited debut albums of the year, Join The Q meshes the high energy of drum n bass and rock with a wide-ranging set of sounds that betray origins of the mysterious trio as a band before they took to the decks. Dancehall, metal, electro, grime, and hip hop all make their presence known thanks to a host of respected guest vocalists. Silversun Pickups - Swoon (Dangerbird) ................................................................... It's no secret that Silversun Pickups score the soundtrack for the cacophony and quiet of the urban environment. Their songs curl like a sleeping dragon around the foothills, soar between the skyscrapers, and slouch in the shadows of forbidden off ramps and skid row. The Silversun Pickups sound is a city itself and on the new album, Swoon, we tag along on a schizophrenic taxi ride to the dark side. After all, the City of Silversun is a landscape populated with contradictions: the clamor of traffic and the solace of the garden; fashionistas lined up at taco trucks after hours; moonlight bike rides and holdups at knifepoint. Venetian Snares - Filth (Planet Mu) ................................................................... This is the best acid record ever made! Venetian Snares actually made sweet love to his 303s while watching Top Gun on repeat. The end result is something that Goose would have been proud to die listening to. Heavy, ripping, unconventional, off-timed beats blast away any winter cobwebs and are 100% guaranteed to remind the listener why some things are best left to the professionals. Wooden Shjips - Dos (Holy Mountain) ................................................................... Dos sounds off as the inauguration speech of a group accepting the minimalist Psych Bop crown that once adorned the likes of Neu and Loop. If possible, their brand of whipping fuzz hooks have gotten groovier. Imagine yourself in the back of a cigarette boat with Alan Vega and Takashi Mizutani circling Easter Island. Smile as you melt under the glare of their mirrored sunglasses staring your own face back at you. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) ................................................................... Miles Davis - Bitches Brew [LP reissue] (Sony Legacy) Miles Davis - Nefertiti [LP reissue] (Sony Legacy) Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain [LP reissue] (Sony Legacy) Miles Davis - In a Silent Way [LP reissue] (Sony Legacy) Destroyer - City of Daughters LP [reissue] (Nominal) Destroyer - Thief LP [reissue] (Nominal) Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife 2LP (Drag City) Good Luck - Into Lake Griffy LP (No Idea) Marissa Nadler - Little Hells LP (Kemado) Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing LP (Almost Gold) Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ................................................................... Beck - One Foot in the Grave [expanded/remastered] (Interscope) Blossom Toes - Love Bomb: Live 1967-1969 (Sunbeam) Circus Devils - Gringo (Happy Jack) Dukes of the Stratosfear (XTC) - [reissues] (Ape) Eat Skull - Wild and Inside (Siltbreeze) Fastball - Little White Lies (MRI) Josh Freese - Since 1972 (Outerscope) Al Green - [reissues pt.1] (Fat Possum) Handsome Family - Honey Moon (Carrot Top) Harvestman - In A Dark Tongue (Neurot) John Paul Keith & One Four Fives - Spills and Thrills (Big Legal Mess) The Life and Times - Tragic Boogie (Arena Rock) Ida Maria - Fortress 'Round My Heart (Fontana) Medeski, Martin & Wood - Radiolarians II (Indirecto) Pastor Troy - Feel Me or Kill Me (Fontana) Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles (Alive) Simon & Garfunkel - Live 1969 (Sony Legacy) Mia Doi Todd - Morning Music (City Zen) Two Fingers - s/t (Paper Bag) Woods - Songs of Shame (Shrimper/Woodsist) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... RECORD STORE DAY - SATURDAY APRIL 18TH Go to our Record Store Day Page to see the full list of releases! http://landlockedmusic.com/rsdindex.php Art Brut - vs Satan (4/21) Maria Bamford - Unwanted Thoughts (4/21) Booker T - Potato Hole (4/21) BrakesBrakesBrakes - Touchdown (4/21) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (4/21) Chairlift - Does You Inspire You (4/21) Leonard Cohen - LP reissues (4/21) Cryptacize - Mythomania (4/21) Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe (4/21) Dntel - Early Works for Me If It Works For You II (4/21) Wayne Hancock - Viper of Melody (4/21) Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin - Music Is My Medicine (4/21) King Khan & The Shrines - What Is?! [reissue] (4/21) Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing (4/21) Okkervil River - Pop Lie EP (4/21) Pet Shop Boys - Yes (4/21) Pterodactyl - Worldwild (4/21) Pulp - This is Hardcore LP [reissue] (4/21) Tinted Windows - s/t (4/21) Vollmar - Tell the Dirt LP (4/21) Westbound Train - Come and Get It (4/21) Young Widows / Bonnie Prince Billy split 7" (4/21) VA - Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace (4/21) VA - Local Customs: Downriver Revival LP (4/21) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... APRIL Black Crowes - Warpaint Live (4/28) Samantha Crain - Songs in the Night (4/28) Rivers Cuomo - Live at Fingerprints CD/DVD (4/28) Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best (4/28) Diamond Watch Wrists - Ice Capped at Both Ends (4/28) Bob Dylan - Together Through Life (4/28) Ben Lee - The Rebirth of Venus (4/28) The Monks - Early Years LP (4/28) Los Straitjackets - The Further Adventures of (4/28) Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, TX LP (4/28) Young Love - One of Us (4/28) VA - Scott Walker: 30th Century Man OST (4/28) BEYOND Akron/Family - Set em Wild, Set em Free (5/5) Nick Cave - [deluxe reissues] (5/5) Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (5/5) Fleet Foxes - Mykonos 7" (5/5) El Grupo Nuevo - Cryptomnesia (5/5) Jon Hopkins - Insides (5/5) The Horrors - Primary Colours (5/5) Magik Markers - Balf Quarry (5/5) The Monks - Black Monk Time LP (5/5) Nomo - Invisible Cities (5/5) Conor Oberst - Outer South (5/5) Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away (5/5) Peaches - I Feel Dream (5/5) Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love (5/5) Rodriguez - Coming From Reality [reissue] (5/5) St Vincent - Actor (5/5) Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines (5/5) Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms (5/5) VA - Causes 2 (5/5) Beastie Boys - Check Your Head [deluxe LP box] (5/12) Bricolage - s/t (5/12) The Church - Untitled #23 (5/12) Datsuns - Head Stunts (5/12) Steve Earle - Townes (5/12) Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear (5/12) Serge Gainsbourg - Melody Nelson LP (5/12) Al Green - [reissues pt.2] (5/12) Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (5/12) Mark Kozelek - Lost Verses Live (5/12) Maximo Park - Quicken the Heart (5/12) Meat Puppets - Sewn Together (5/12) Mt Eerie - Live in Copenhagen 3LP (5/12) The Poison Arrows - First Class and Forever (5/12) Savath & Savalas - La Llama (5/12) Trainwreck Riders - The Perch (5/12) Mike Watt - Funland (5/12) The Wooden Birds - Magnolia (5/12) VA - Brand Neu! (5/12) Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin (5/19) Apostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness LP (5/19) Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light (5/19) Busta Rhymes - Back on My BS (5/19) Eric Clapton & Steven Winwood - Live from MSG (5/19) Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (5/19) Eminem - Relapse (5/19) The Field - Yesterday & Today (5/19) A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Delivrance (5/19) Iron & Wine - Around the Well [rarities] (5/19) Jonathan Kane - Jet Ear Party (5/19) Kronos Quartet - Floodplain (5/19) Jeffrey Lewis - Em Are I (5/19) Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) - Yours Truly, The Commuter (5/19) Method Man - Blackout 2 (5/19) Passion Pit - Manners (5/19) Sun Ra Arkestra - Points on a Space Age DVD (5/19) John Vanderslice - Romanian Names (5/19) The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes (5/19) Wilco - LP Reissues (5/19) Bachelorette - My Electric Family (5/26) Sir Richard Bishop - Freaks of Araby (5/26) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us (5/26) James Blackshaw - Glass Bead Game (5/26) Blank Dogs - Under and Under (5/26) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (5/26) Intelligence - Fake Surfers (5/26) Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul (5/26) Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II (5/26) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (5/26) Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done (5/26) Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (5/26) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years (5/26) Tyvek - s/t (5/26) Viva Voce - Rose City (5/26) Jeff Buckley - Live Around the World (6/2) Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (6/2) Eels - Hombre Loco (6/2) Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King (6/2) Regina Spektor - Far (6/2) Ween - All Request Live (6/2) Neil Young - Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 (6/2) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (6/9) Mos Def - The Ecstatic (6/9) Sonic Youth - The Eternal (6/9) Major Lazer (Diplo + Switch) - Guns Don't Kill People - Lazers Do (6/9) Dinosaur Jr - Farm (6/23) The Gossip - Music for Men (6/23) God Help the Girl (Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian) - s/t (6/23) Mars Volta - Octahedron (6/23) Push Pull - Between Noise and the Indians (6/23) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (6/23) Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (6/23) Pete Yorn - Back and Forth (6/23) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 4/6 - 4/12 1. The Hold Steady, A Positive Rage (Vagrant) 2. Mastodon, Crack In the Skye (Reprise) 3. Swan Lake, Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar) 4. Decemberists, Hazards Of Love (Capitol) 5. Ramblin' Jack Elliott, A Stranger Here (Anti) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Arcade Fire, Bat for Lashes, Black Dice, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Chain and the Gang, Crystal Antlers, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Eulogies, Felice Bros, I Was a King, It Hugs Back, Joker's Daughter, Junior Boys, Micachu & The Shapes, Bob Mould, Superchunk, Richard Swift, Thermals, Veils, Whitest Boy Alive, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Gomez, Great Lake Swimmers, PJ Harvey & John Parish, Shawn Lee, Malajube, Other Lives, Peter, Bjorn and John, Seeland, Staff Benda Bilili, Thunderheist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Dan Deacon, Decemberists, MF Doom, Fever Ray, Serge Gainsbourg, Indigo Girls, Lotus Plaza, Mastodon, Mono, MSTRKRFT, 1990s, Obits, Royksopp, Swan Lake, Valet, Kurt Vile, Black Joe Lewis, Bonnie Prince Billy, Les Claypool, Mark Galup, Kid Congo, The Long Lost, Nick Lowe, Madeline, Willem Maker, Mt Eerie, Murder By Death, Willie Nelson, Onra, Strange Boys, Wavves and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 4/15 - Chain and the Gang / The Hive Dwellers @ Russian Recording 4/16 - Wilco @ IU Auditorium 4/17 - Stardeath and White Dwarfs @ Bear's Place 4/18 - Record Store Day 2009! @ Landlocked Music 4/18 - WIUX Culture Shock @ Dunn Meadow 4/18 - Dr Dooom vs. Dr Octagon @ Jake's 4/18 - Boxcar Books / Pages to Prisoners Annual Prom @ Bluebird 4/25 - Flight of the Conchords @ IU Auditorium 4/25 - MC Chris @ Rhino's LATER 5/3 - Jeremy Jay @ Bear's Place 5/5 - Bowerbirds @ Bear's Place 5/9 - Caroline Peyton @ Buskirk-Chumley 5/13 - Bottomless Pit @ Bear's Place 5/16 - Clutch / Wino @ Jake's 5/18 - Adrian Orange @ Cinemat 5/22 - Lightning Dust / Cotton Jones @ Bear's Place 6/7 - Gregory Isaacs @ Bluebird 6/9 - Grizzly Bear / Here We Go Magic @ Buskirk-Chumley 6/11 - Pink Mountaintops @ Russian Recording 6/15 - Reverend Horton Heat @ Bluebird 6/21 - Balmorhea / Tiny Vipers @ Bear's Place 7/10-12 - Forecastle Festival @ Louisville, KY We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. Stop in and buy em beforehand! ------------------------------------------------------------------ More information about shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ or http://myspace.com/landlockedbton or http://indiana.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385198570 or http://twitter.com/landlockedmusic We are looking to buy/trade all your old unwanted CDs & LPs! Bring 'em in and we'll make an offer. We are also ready, willing and able to special order anything for you. Email us or drop in and we will hook you up with whatcha need. Feel free to forward this to all your lovely friends that need to know whats going on, we'd love to have them join our little party here on the newsletter. Tell us what you think, what you desire. ------------------------------------------------------------------ BFF, Jason & Heath info@landlockedmusic.com Landlocked Music 202 N. 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