This sunday is Fathers Day here in the good ole USA. While we try to refrain from such simpleton jests such as "whose your daddy", sometimes it is too difficult in these wee early morning hours where we piece together our thoughts from the clouded past week and look forward towards the next. So yeah, call your pops up and wish him the best. I am sure he would love the Replacements greatest hits or the new Sonic Youth, they've both been around longer than many of y'all, we'd wager. And while you're at it, get him a hot new release too- daddio would totally dig that fresh new Devendra platter, White Reggae Troll! Like, totally. If not that, he might be into the fact that June is National Accordion Awareness Month. NAAM was established in 1989 to promote the accordion, help spread the word about the resurgence in popularity in the accordion and to educate people about the accordion. Check out our forthcoming newly curated LP wall by resident accordion expert Sophia Travis for more love. Much more info here: http://www.hoosiersqueeze.com/events.html Select New Releases for 06/13/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds CD (Tomlab) ................................................................... On his second album, "He Poos Clouds," Owen Pallet presents a clearly enhanced concept of his solo project Final Fantasy. The core sound of his 2005 debut, "Final Fantasy Has A Good Home," was mainly based on Pallet's violin and his virtuoso handling of the loop pedal. He now proves his skills as an arranger, working with a large chamber music ensemble, featuring a string quartet, piano, harpsichord and percussion. Still, Owen shows an impressive ingenuity for melodic lines and surprising turnarounds. When work began on this material he decided to start with a list which should outline his approach: 1) A set of songs that attempt to modernize each of the eight D&D schools of magic. 2) Every song will be written for string quartet and voice. 3) Nobody who listens to it will ever again entertain thoughts of suicide. (TOM) the Futureheads - News & Tributes CD (Vagrant) ................................................................... Best known for a spastic, heavily accented post-punk cover of Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" that went Top 10 in the UK, this British quartet attempts to kick away from its '80s-inspired comrades--such as Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs--on their second album. Not that there's any shortage of spiky riffs, jerky rhythms, and off-kilter harmonies on News and Tributes. But get past the more pedestrian fare like "Yes/No" and "Return of the Berserker," and the full scope of the Futureheads' ambition reveals itself, particularly in the poppiest track, "Skip To The End." Meanwhile, "Thursday" is laced with a distinct doo-wop feel, "Favours for Favours" shows the band's softer side, and the jagged "Burnt" proves that the group can approach greatness on a song of its very own. (AMA) Hot Chip - the Warning CD (Astralwerks) ................................................................... The second album from Hot Chip, The Warning sees these inspired pop alchemists pull off some truly devious musical juxtapositions. Scholars of music from Timbaland to Stevie Wonder to Aphex Twin, this South London quartet make quirky, ideas-packed vocal electronica perpetually veering between moments of bliss, humour, and sheer sonic mentalism - take the opening "Careful", vocalists Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard sweetly harmonising "Every year, exactly this time of year/They float a balloon up into the air", as the tune leapfrogs along on the sort of demented breakbeat rave seldom seen outside a Squarepusher record. Luckily, Hot Chip know enough not to sabotage all their elegant pop moments. "Boy From School" cribs deliciously from Stardust's robo-Balearic anthem "Music Sounds Better With You", while "Over And Over" is bouncy testament to the joy of dumb, fun dance music. A dream synthesis of warmth and intelligence. (AMA) Mr. Lif - Mo' Mega CD (Definitive Jux) ................................................................... Mo'Mega is the long-awaited 2nd album from one of Def Jux's most critically acclaimed artists. From New Orleans to the Sudan and back there's a riot going on and Mr. Lif has created its definitive soundtrack. Album produced by EL-P and featuring Aesop Rock, Akrobatik, Murs & Blueprint. Hot off of last year's smash success with the Perceptionists, Lif is back with an arsenal of new rhymes that showcase his massive talents as an MC, poet, and true life reporter. (DFJX) the Replacements - Don't You Know Who I Think I Was: The Best of CD (Rhino) ................................................................... The ragged and glorious alt-rock of The Replacements made them one of the greatest and most iconic American bands of the 1980s, and inspired countless groups to come. Fronted by lead singer, pianist/guitarist, and principal songwriter Paul Westerberg, these heroes of post-punk/pre-grunge rock 'n' roll fused garage band greatness with powerful pop beauty. Fueled by both thrashing energy and a lyrical and emotive sonic flow, The Replacements' kamikaze live shows and richly textured albums made them music legends. This 20 track CD features two new and unexpectedly gritty old stock recordings "Message to the Boys" and "Pool & Dive." (AMA) Six Organs of Admittance - the Sun Awakens CD/LP (Drag City) ................................................................... Like a mountain king from his long winter's nap, Ben "Six Organs of Admittance" Chasny has come to, shaking the dreams from his bloodshot eyes and committing a new opus to tape, to vinyl and to metallic disc. There's been no hibernating for ungentle Ben — he's been running round this world, contributing to the cacophony of Comets on Fire and to the menagerie of Current 93 in addition to playing Six Organs of Admittance shows wherever he is needed — but this is his first recording for over a year. As anyone who has heard the result, it's clear that the roiling cauldron of his soul exploded in a rheumy blast, leaving behind intricate, glistening patterns of sound and the shadows of creatures in its path. (DC) Smog - Rock Bottom Riser CD EP (Drag City) ................................................................... Last year's A River Ain't Too Much to Love featured two singles with videos that got airplay over the course of the year. And now comes the single that walks almost like a greatest hits record (but smaller) — Rock Bottom Riser. This CD single features the videos for Rock Bottom Riser and I Feel Like the Mother of the World, and two exciting new songs that slot in perfectly with the A River Ain't Too Much to Love set. As a matter of fact, they were written with the other songs that made it on to the record, but just weren't recorded in time. And so now, one year later, in a CD single laden with riches for the Smog fan and Smog just-friend alike, these late arrivals appear. (DC) Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped CD/LP (Geffen) ................................................................... 12 songs of forward motion and harmonic/melodic surprise. Vocals shared by the frontline of Thurston, Kim and Lee with Steve groove gluing the rhythms into rock n roll infection. They bust out o' the sonic barn with Incinerate and Reena then contemplate holy war mind games with Do You Believe in Rapture? and keep cruising strong with track after track of risk-laden rock jammers until floating out with the curious Or. This is a straight-up Sonic Youth field on fire, with a compact potency of rock n roll enlightenment. Rather ripped, indeed. (INS) Other Releases on this Day: ................................................................... Acid Mothers Temple - Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky (Ace Fu) Barry Adamson - Stranger on the Sofa (Central Control) Devendra Banhart - White Reggae Troll 12" (XL) Brightblack Morning Light - s/t LP (Matador) Joan Jett - Sinner (Blackheart) Keb' Mo' - Suitcase (Epic) Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend 2CD Remaster (Volcano) Widespread Panic - Earth to America (Sanctuary) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Awesome Color - s/t (6/20) Frank Black - Fastman/Raiderman (6/20) Black Helicoptors - Invisible Jet (6/20) Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart / Up In Flames reissues (6/20) Front Line Assembly - Artificial Soldier (6/20) Nelly Furtado - Loose (6/20) Guster - Ganging Up on the Sun (6/20) Keane - Under the Iron Sea (6/20) Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogies Shoes (Robert Pollard project) (6/20) Madonna - I'm Going to Tell You a Secret OST (6/20) Willie Nelson - The Complete Atlantic Sessions (6/20) Gram Parsons - The Complete Reprise Sessions (6/20) Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers - Sleepless Nights (6/20) Diana Ross - Blue (6/20) Smoosh - Free To Stay (6/20) Tam - s/t (6/20) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates subject to change): ................................................................... An Albatross - Blassphemy (6/27) Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer (6/27) Dr. Octagon - The Return of Dr. Octagon (6/27) Dolemite: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (reissue) (6/27) Kool Keith - Collabs Tape (6/27) Grant Lee Phillips - Nineteeneighties (6/27) the Smiths - Under Review DVD (6/27) Billy Talent - II (6/27) Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (7/4) Cex - Actual Fucking (7/4) Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army (7/4) Cut Chemist - The Audiences' Listening (7/11) J Dilla - The Shining (7/11) Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (7/11) Oneida - Happy New Year (7/11) Peaches - Impeach My Bush (7/11) Shapes and Sizes - s/t (7/11) Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche (7/11) Thom Yorke - the Eraser (Radiohead frontman) (7/11) French Kicks - Two Thousand (7/18) Lisa Germano - In The Maybe World (7/18) Golden Smog - Another Fine Day (7/18) Method Man - 4:21 The Day After (7/18) Excepter - Alternation (7/25) James Figurine - Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (7/25) Flogging Molly - Whiskey on a Sunday (7/25) Adam Green - Jacket Full Of Danger (7/25) Jurassic 5 - Feedback (7/25) the Knife - Silent Shout (7/25) Late Cord - Lights From The Wheelhouse (7/25) Long Winters - Putting The Days To Bed (7/25) New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (7/25) Tom Petty - Highway Companion (7/25) Sebadoh - III (2CD reissue) (7/25) Spoon - Telephone And Soft Effects EP (7/25) Pharrell Williams - In My Mind (7/25) DJ Shadow - The Outsider (8/1) TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (8/1) Kelis - Kelis Was Here (8/8) Tamar Davis - Milk & Honey (8/29) Old Crow Medicine Show - Big Iron World (8/29) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 6/5 - 6/11: 1. Camera Obscura, Let's Get Out Of This Country (Merge) 2. Boards of Canada, Trans Canada Highway (Warp) 3. Danielson, Ships (Secretly Canadian) 4. Stuart Staples, Leaving Songs (Beggars Banquet) 5. Brightblack Morning Light, s/t (Matador) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs and LPs from Camera Obscura, Loren Connors, Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint, Ice Cube, Ladyhawk, Metallic Falcons, Mojave 3, Oakley Hall, Stuart Staples, Numero Group, Amps for Christ, Be Your Own Pet, Bouncing Souls, Peter Brotzmann, Rhys Chatham, Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid, Micah P. Hinson, Jarboe, Juana Molina, Psapp, Scanners, Asobi Seksu, Boards Of Canada, Les Claypool, Jamie Lidell, Peeping Tom, Blood Brothers, Mission of Burma, Murder by Death, Phoenix, Vetiver, Scott Walker, the Walkmen, Boris, Espers, Faun Fables, Qwertyt, the Raconteurs, Radio 4, Twilight Singers, Don Caballero, Thievery Corporation, Neil Young, Danielson, and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Didja know that we have real live music in our store as well? Check out some of the upcoming performances: Saturday, June 24th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $3 ................................................................... Rogue Wave (San Fran, Sub Pop) - http://www.roguewavemusic.com/ The SF Weekly says they "look like Muppets." We say that Rogue Wave "sweetens sharp, lush arrangements with the sentimentality inherent in carefree '60s pop." Out of the Shadow, the stunning debut originally released in a limited quantity on the band's Responsive Recordings label, is a gentle charmer full of natural sophistication and fierce, penetrating hooks. Rogue Wave's preternatural ability to effortlessly highlight detail--spectral layers of delicately placed pedal steel, understated moog and upright bass makes the moving arrangements developed by multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Zach Rogue all the more enchanting. Once a solo project, Rogue Wave now features a collaborative lineup that realizes the writers' vision with exacting precision and infectious enthusiasm. Rogue Wave is a Bay Area band with Bloomington ties out the wazoo. Their sometimes drummer Pat Spurgeon has played with bands Antenna, Stranded at the Drive In, Brando, Steve Kowalski, and has also released solo work as The Phantom Drummer. Bassist Evan Farrell has played with the Japonize Elephants, Mega Mousse, Hunted Haunted Bazergahn Klezmorchestra, Grande Rouge, Kentucky Nightmare, and recently as lap steel guitarist for wunderkids Kate & Alex. The Wave will be crashing through for one day in between much bigger shows so show them some love at their home away from home. Monday, July 3rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ................................................................... Richard Swift (LA, Secretly Canadian) - http://www.richardswift.us/ Kate Long & Alex Mann + 1 more tba Kinda like that scene in High Fidelity, everytime we put this disc on the instore stereo, we sell a copy. Beginning with an arc of distant, echo-laden strings and a chorus of voices that sound as if they escaped from the buried and decaying reels of an aborted Disney film, Richard Swift's Secretly Canadian debut paints a world out of time from the very first note. The West Coast singer/songwriter has no qualms about resurrecting Franks Wild Years-era Tom Waits and filtering it through the "new weird America" sound of fellow crooners Andrew Bird and Devendra Banhart, but he manages to find the perfect balance between melody and texture. It's a lot like opening the doors to a packed speakeasy in the '30s, complete with choreographed dancing and well-coiffed but shady characters shaking hands in the corners. Swift's lo-fi, Tin Pan Alley dreamscapes are as lush as they are distant, relying on everything from barroom piano to programmed drums without ever seeming contemporary. Comprised of two records, 2001's Walking Without Effort and 2004's The Novelist, Swift has taken all of the best sepia-tone instrumental moments from Michael Penn and tenderized them into a hobo dinner with Ray Davies slinging the slop. Listeners will find themselves enchanted, disturbed, and speaking in metaphors for days. (AMG) Thursday, July 27th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ................................................................... Odawas (Bloomington, Jagjaguwar) - http://www.odawas.com/ Pumice (New Zealand, Last Visible Dog) - http://www.pumice.dogcountries.com/ Zelienople (Chicago) - http://www.zelienoplemusic.com/ Odawas are nicking all over the place: from Randy Newman's plain-spoken grandeur or Beach Boy story-telling or Angelo Badalamanti's cheesy romanticism or Charles Ives' avant-garde ear or Art Garfunkel's "presence-of-a-blue-whale" harmonies. Pumice recalls the absolute glorious best of Alistair Galbraith's psych-dirge lo-fi pop, but tempered with the kind of occasional instrumental dexterity that you might find on a Sun City Girls record. Zelienople are vaguely similar to the Brian Eno classic Music for Airports in the fact that there doesn't appear to be all that much going on, but you don't want to admit that out loud for fear of looking unrefined. One major difference is that Music for Airports was intended to be background music. If you put their CD Ink on in the background and go about doing your daily cleaning, you run the risk of missing a murder scene. Tuesday, August 1st @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ................................................................... Vetiver (San Fran, Dicristina Stair Builders) - http://www.vetiverse.com/ Lichens (Chicago, Kranky Records) - http://www.kranky.net/ Vetiver is a San Francisco band consisting of Andy Cabic, Devendra Banhart, Alissa Anderson, and Jim Gaylord. A well connected Bay Area musician, Cabic (also of Raymond Brake, Tussle) has assembled an all star lineup to play on his first record: Joanna Newsom plays harp on "Amerilie", Hope Sandoval sings on "Angels' Share", and My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm O'Ciosoig plays on "Luna Sea" and "On a Nerve." Of course Devendra Banhart makes his presence known on one of their best songs "Amour Fou", one of two songs Banhart co-wrote with Cabic. Reminiscent of Marc Bolan's hippy mystic period and old-world rootsiness - equal parts Stephen Foster, folk-blues, underground Southern music a la Norman Blake, and just the right modicum of indie emotionalism. It makes for a beautifully odd concoction. They just released their second record, To Find Me Gone, in mid-May. Recorded as a one-time improvisation without overdubbing, the three tracks on Lichens' debut, The Psychic Nature of Being, reveal and extend mesmeric live performances. Lowe mutates and extends his singing as he adds acoustic and electric guitars and percussion in layers that accent the vocal drones. "Lowe's finger picked acoustic guitar sounded like he's spent time pondering Fahey's legacy, but his looped, wordless vocals were reminiscent of Meredith Monk." - Chicago Reader More information about these shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://myspace.com/landlockedbton and 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 whatcha need. We keep growing every week! More turntables very soon. We still have our fancy delicious t-shirts back for sale... Tell us what you think, what you desire. 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