Party people, It looks like we made it. The kiddies are gone, Bloomington is ours again. An SUV from Jersey nearly ran me and my bike over sunday afternoon, but even that can't stop us from delivering these tasty new morsels of goodness unto thine ears! Time for some serious porch culture with some hot new music. Check it: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Neil Young - Living With War CD (Reprise) ................................................................... Even if you don't agree with Neil Young's politics, you can't help but be daunted by the intersection of his genius and ire on his second album in less than seven months. It is the very rare artist who is able to channel indignation and moral disgust in such a coherent and forceful way--without sacrificing any of the vivid imagery, passion, or the high level of musicality that we have come to expect from him over the past four decades. But that's not what elevates this album: it's his pure, naked, visceral reaction to the Bush administration's foreign policy, building on a canon of outrage that he began with 1970's "Ohio," penned in the wake of the Kent State student deaths. But here he goes one better, filling in the lines that he began to draw on 2003's Greendale about a family caught in changing times. But Young's done with musing about lost ideals. On Living with War, he demands much more from his audience, and himself. This is nothing less than a call for fearless action in extraordinarily fearful times. (AMA) Features the hit single 'Let's Impeach the President'! Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat (V2) ................................................................... Spacey atmospherics, equal parts guitar and synth, and perfect pop songs seamlessly congeal into a potent distillation of the Grandaddy sound. Wonderfully ambitious, endlessly melodic, and surprisingly all encompassing, it's like a "Greatest Hits" made up entirely of brand new songs. "The best Grandaddy record thus far... the record pounces upon teary piano bridges, epic electronic washes, 'Sumday' style narratives, dissonant guitar-driven rockers, and six-plus minute prog-pop opuses" - Filter (AMA) Danielson - Ships (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... The sixth and most accessible album to date, featuring a star-studded cast of players including Deerhoof, Sufjan Stevens, Sereena-Maneesh, and more. What began as a senior thesis project a decade ago has evolved into a musical world so rich with musicality and merrymaking that the first six albums and ten years of touring pomp alone could nourish the most scrutinizing of thrill-seekers. There's no hard distinction between the visuals (costumes and graphics) and the music from this suburban New Jersey group. "One enters your heart through your eyes, one through your ears," says Daniel. (AMA) Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (Downtown) ................................................................... In 2006, Danger Mouse is King Midas of the music world. He has an uncanny knack for creating jagged, dense, frenzied beats and odd, eerie, vivid soundscapes that never compromise the music's natural flow. Meanwhile, rapper and singer Cee-Lo, a veteran of Atlanta's Dirty South scene with Goodie Mob, has never been one to be constrained by hip-hop conventions, and is a willing partner in adventure. The result is an intrepid psychedelic blend of pop, hip-hop, soul, and rock that consistently challenges and delights. It's no wonder that "Crazy," with its modest riff, irresistible hook, and disarming opening line ("I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind") became a worldwide Internet sensation a full six months before the official release of St. Elsewhere. But that relatively simple soul-pop gem is the tamest track on this wide-ranging, often dark and introspective collaboration. (AMA) Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast (Matador) ................................................................... The latest from hyper-innovative SF-based duo Matmos consists of ten aural and visual portraits of famous people such as Valerie Solanas (shot Andy Warhol), Larry Levan ('80s NYC dance DJ), Darby Crash (singer of punk group The Germs), King Ludwig II (mad, last ruler of Bavaria), James Bidgood ('60s gay porn director), William S. Burroughs (beat author), and many more. Accompanying each musical portrait is a visual one, commissioned by the band, by artists ranging from Dan Clowes to Adam Ansell to Jason Mecier. The ten portraits are printed on cardstock and arranged in a die-cut digipak with a front window. On the back of each card is detailed recording information. Various accompanists include Antony of Antony & The Johnsons, The Kronos Quartet, Bjork, Jay Lesser, and more. (AMA) Black Heart Procession - the Spell (Touch & Go) ................................................................... "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're the heart of this release, and there's no better word to describe the spooky intoxication of the band's sound. Theirs is the sound of driving at night across the West. Like the wide-open landscape, this is music that knows how to be both desolate and lush. Here, a song's 6/8 beat will pull you into a moody seductive waltz and next, the violin and piano evoke the house band of a lonesome cabaret with the lights turned low. Then the strings stop their mournful crying and shift into a propulsive thrum, and now we've got the pedal to the metal and we're heading straight down the open road into a cinematic twilight. (AMA) Paul Simon - Surprise CD (WB) ................................................................... Among the most popular artists and greatest songwriters of our time, Paul Simon returns with his first album in six years—and the album titled Surprise is exactly that. First, three songs were co-written with electronic music guru Brian Eno; second, the other songs are straightforward, wonderfully American pop. Surprise is a pleasant surprise for Simon fans. (AMA) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (WB) ................................................................... Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers calls the band's first new album in four years, Stadium Arcadium, the most-anticipated album of the spring, "the best thing that we've ever done... There's this weird kind of sublime, subliminal undercurrent that is suggestive, in a spirited way, of our earliest records." The 2-CD Stadium Arcadium exudes all the passion, energy and funked-up rock that have made the Red Hot Chili Peppers one of the most popular bands in history. (AMA) Other new releases today... Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You (Anti) Red Red Meat - Debut S/T [Reissue] (Thrill Jockey) Snow Patrol - Eyes Open (Fiction) the Stills - Without Feathers (Vice) Test Icicles - Dig Your Own Grave EP (Domino) Wooden Wand - Harem Of The Sundrum And The Witness Figg (5RC) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Boris - Pink (5/16) Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind & Where You Been [Reissues] (5/16) Espers - Espers II (5/16) Mason Jennings - Boneclouds (5/16) the Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (5/16) Radio 4 - Enemies Like This (5/16) Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (5/16) Twilight Singers - Powder Burns (5/16) Whirlwind Heat - Types of Wood (5/16) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates subject to change): ................................................................... Blood Brothers - Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck EP (5/23) Mission of Burma - The Obliterati (5/23) Juana Molina - Son (5/23) Murder by Death - In Bocca Al Lupo (5/23) Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That (5/23) Sebadoh - III (reissue) (5/23) Vetiver - To Find Me Gone (5/23) Scott Walker - Drift (5/23) the Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off (5/23) Asobi Seksu - Citrus (5/30) Les Claypool - Of Whales & Woe (5/30) Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Mike Patton) (5/30) Be Your Own Pet - S/T (6/6/6) Boards Of Canada - Trans Canada Highway EP (6/6/6) Bouncing Souls - the Gold Record (6/6/6) Brazil - LP2 (6/6/6) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country (6/6/6) Loren Connors - Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004 (6/6/6) Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (6/6/6) Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid - Vol. 2 (6/6/6) Micah P. Hinson - The Baby And The Satellite EP (6/6/6) Ice Cube - Laugh Now, Cry Later (6/6/6) Josef K - Entymology (6/6/6) Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You (6/6/6) Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings (6/6/6) Hot Chip - the Warning (6/13) Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (6/13) Lisa Germano - In The Maybe World (7/11) ------------------------------------------------------------------ We also have still fresh CDs and LPs from Alejandro Escovedo, Tool, Black Keys, Wolfmother, Court and Spark, Gomez, Pearl Jam, Spank Rock, Notwist, Thursday, the Streets, Tom Verlaine, Bruce Springsteen, Mr Nogatco (Dr Octagon), Aphex Twin, Elf Power, Eleventh Dream Day, Starlight Mints, Secret Machines, Dudley Perkins, Fiery Furnaces, Drive-By Truckers, Be Your Own Pet, the Church, the Black Angels, Dresden Dolls, Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs, Built to Spill, Tanakh, Calexico, Mono, Lambchop, Wilderness, Parts & Labor, Avail (reissue series), Flaming Lips, Morrissey, Eagles of Death Metal, Eno/Byrne reissue, Liars, Howe Gelb, Band of Horses and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We also have real live music in our store as well. check out some of the upcoming performances: TOMORROW! Wednesday, May 10th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music ................................................................... The Robot Ate Me (5RC) - http://www.therobotateme.com/ Puppy vs Dyslexia - http://www.fmsmprc.com/puppy.html The Robot Ate Me is a self-eating happy sad sing along experimental-pop band based out of the sunny and mostly superficial San Diego, California. They keep you on your toes, warm under blankets and shivering all at once. The songs hang on gently orchestrated hands that break, pull, smile and play with instruments that create themselves and themes that are extracted from political insanity, the politicization of mass murder, the politics of religion, death, loss, love, and being eaten to pieces by everything and everyone. PvsD just released their new EP, "from: puppy vs. dyslexia to: white teen subject: Re:Fwd: teenage dance message". And boy is it a doozy! An older review: This is acid-drenched punkrock wackiness at its most frenzied, fucked-up, spastic, noisy, and bizarre... it's a crazed crossbred cacophony of the Butthole Surfers, Dead Milkmen, Circle Jerks, Germs, and The Paper Tulips all anally plundering each other and then voraciously splooging into the open wax-encrusted ears of society's most undesirable malcontents. Friday, May 19th @ 9pm @ Landlocked Music - FREE! ................................................................... Murder by Death Listening Party / CD Launch - http://www.murderbydeath.com/ Local lovelies MBD are about to hit the road for an eternity to support their 3rd album, In Bocca Al Lupo. Come see them off, buy the CD, listen to their new songs, wish them well, learn some Italian, and see the new music video featuring some local faces you might recognize... Tuesday, May 23rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 OBO ................................................................... Jon Mueller & Jim Schoenecker - http://jonmueller.net/ http://croutonmusic.com/ That Bitch Reptile Singing bowls, vibrating drums and a synth so cold it could re-freeze the polar caps. A minimalism that patiently builds from a whisper to muted holler. Jim Schoenecker (b.1975) is a fan of modular synthesis and a connoisseur of sine waves. He creates abstract digital minimalism, video game artifacts and processed hi-contrast synthesis. Jon Mueller was born in 1970 and started playing drums at the age of 15. For one year, he played only snare drum, which proved challenging to start a death metal band with. In 1990 he moved to Chicago, and studied drums with the late jazz legend Hal Russell. He eventually received a degree in English, and in 1999 finally completed the ridiculous novella Pianobread. Musically, he has been involved the groups Telecognac, Pele, and Collections of Colonies of Bees, playing drums, percussion, piano, and narrative. Always interested in the mysterious result of collaborations, he has recorded or performed with a broad range of artists, including Jarboe, saxophonist Bhob Rainey, sound artist Asmus Tietchens, and performed as part of cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra. Saturday, May 27th @ 2pm @ Landlocked Music - FREE! ................................................................... Gentleman Caller - http://www.myspace.com/thegentlemancaller Chris Kupersmith (formerly of Fabric, Uvula) Kenny Childers has made his mark through his involvement with such bands as The Mysteries Of Life, Brando and Velo Deluxe. He has now hooked up with some of Bloomington's finest musicians to create a musical landscape that is deep, dark, and real. Gentleman Caller combine the soaring arrangements of The Zombies with the unerring sensibilities of New Order, then temper that sweetness with a dose of John Lennon's grittiness and Lou Reed's acerbic wit. Friday, June 9th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music ................................................................... Everything Now Miranda Sound Tamar More information about these shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://myspace.com/landlockedbton ------------------------------------------------------------------ Find all the basic information you crave at http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ 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 whatchu need. Don't fear the rain, come smell the flowers, play in the park, and check out some tunes. We keep growing every week! We sold all our turntables but hope to have more soon. We also now have our fancy delicious t-shirts back in stock and for sale and fingers crossed on our buttons soon... ------------------------------------------------------------------ BFF, Jason & Heath info@landlockedmusic.com Landlocked Music 314 S Washington St (next door to Boxcar Books) Bloomington, IN, 47401 (812) 339 - 2574 Hours of Operation: Tuesday - Saturday : 11:30am - 7:30pm Sunday : Noon - 5pm Closed Mondays