Hey y'all - we are getting deep into summer now, the temperature is rising, which is why we keep it niiiiice and air-conditioned in Landlocked Music HQ. As a representation of this hot/cool dichotomy we present to you Sub Pop supahstahs ROGUE WAVE, performing live and in person this coming saturday at the shoppe. No really, its true. 8PM and a mere $3! Read more about that below... Looking for another way to embrace the heat? Hows about with some tropicalia? While they aren't exactly new releases, we just got in a big ole box of delicious CDs of amazing music from Brasil in the late 60s and early 70s - stuff from Os Mutantes, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and beyond. Get it while its hot! Perfect summertime porch music for your cookouts. If that's not your thing, then peruse the hundreds of used LPs and CDs that we have been putting out continuously day after day! And of course, these here newbies: Select New Releases for 06/20/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Frank Black - Fastman/Raiderman 2CD (Back Porch) ................................................................... Recorded in the same casual manner as 2005's Honeycomb, in various hit-and-run sessions with superstar session musicians during gaps in the Pixies' unending reunion tour, Fast Man Raider Man abides by the this-will-do aesthetic that has been a hallmark of Frank Black's solo career. With songs seemingly made up on the spot, the singer delivers a thoroughly mellow 27-track double album that is largely free of the inscrutability and insanity of his most famous work. Instead, it is homey pedal steel guitars, sleepy saxophone solos, rootsy barroom rockers like "Down To You," a heart-on-sleeve R&B ballad or two such as "Sad Old World," and a wobbly cover of Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town." His strangest offering yet? (AMA) Front Line Assembly - Artificial Soldier CD (Metropolis) ................................................................... The best FLA release the electronic industrial community has seen in over a decade. Heavy pounding beats, atmospheric strings, percolating melodies, dynamic synths, and Bill Leeb's trademark vocals couldn't be fused together any tighter if you tried to do it at an atomic level. As if all those factors weren't enough, two guest vocalists appear: Eskil Simonsson from Covenant and Jean-Luc De Meyer from Front 242. (AMA) Keane - Under the Iron Sea CD (Interscope) ................................................................... If U2 hadn't already released a pair of career retrospective discs, this British trio's second album would neatly do the trick in one. Not much of a surprise since Keane spent a good deal of time supporting Bono and company following the release their breakthrough debut, Hopes and Fears. From the melancholic "Crystal Ball" to the sinisterly beautiful "Is It Any Wonder?", Keane have perfected their forebear's dark stadium-rock formula on their second album, all the more miraculous considering it was once again done without guitars. If Under the Iron Sea sounds considerably edgier than its predecessor, that's because it was recorded while the band was on the verge of splitting. But the friction has also given Keane a renewed sense of purpose, breaking the mid-tempo monotony with vibrant material such as "Nothing in My Way" and "Try Again": soaring songs that make the band sound unsinkable. (AMA) Gram Parsons - The Complete Reprise Sessions 3CD (Rhino) Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers - Sleepless Nights CD Fontana) ................................................................... Singer-songwriter Gram Parsons, the architect of country-rock and patron saint of American roots music"alt" and otherwisedied in 1973 at age 26, but the enormity of his influence remains constant. Florida-born and Georgia-bred, Parsons began playing at age 14 and launched his first group, the International Submarine Band, in NYC in the late '60s. Transplanted to L.A., he joined the Byrds, shaping their landmark album Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, and made further musical history with the Flying Burrito Brothers. After discovering Emmylou Harris playing in a D.C. bar, he went on to record two now-legendary solo LPs, GP and Grievous Angel, that spotlight the peerless harmony of their divergent voices, hers angelic and pure, his ragged and scorched by his demons. Rhino's historic set presents those two soulful albums remastered and expanded, plus a third disc of precious alternate takes from those recordings. Sleepless Nights is the 1976 posthumous release featuring The Flying Burrito Brothers & Emmylou Harris. (AMA) Smoosh - Free To Stay CD (Barsuk) ................................................................... Even in an alternate universe where it wasn't necessary to have dozens of "girls can rock... too!" cover stories throughout the 90s, the young women of Smoosh (who can rock, too!) would still be exceptional. See, these Seattle-based sisters have been making intriguing music together since 2002, when they were eight and ten years old. This drums and keyboard duo was instantly a minor phenomena, opening up for the likes of Death Cab and Cat Power in venues they had to be escorted to by their parents. And while there is an element of novelty to their songs, they're also smart, funny, and fun as hell. Their second album and first for powerhouse indie Barsuk, Free to Stay, is loaded with complex harmonies and awesome distorted keyboard sounds. (AMA) Other New Releases on this Day: Kyle Andrews - Amos In Ohio CD (Badman) Awesome Color - s/t CD (Ecstatic Peace) Black Helicoptors - Invisible Jet (Ecstatic Peace) Fatboy Slim - Why Try Harder - Best of CD (Astralwerks) Nelly Furtado - Loose CD (Geffen) Guster - Ganging Up on the Sun CD (Reprise) Madonna - I'm Going to Tell You a Secret OST CD/DVD (WEA) Diana Ross - Blue CD (Motown) Tam - s/t CD (Ecstatic Peace) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... An Albatross - Blassphemy (6/27) Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One is One (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) Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogies Shoes (Robert Pollard project) (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) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates subject to change): ................................................................... Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (7/4) Cex - Actual Fucking (7/4) Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army (7/4) Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (7/4) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bricolages (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) Joan of Arc - Eventually, All at Once (7/25) Joan of Arc - The Intelligent Design of Joan of Arc (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) Wolf Eyes - the Driller 12" (7/25) Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere (8/1) DJ Shadow - The Outsider (8/1) TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (8/1) Comets On Fire - Avatar (8/8) Kelis - Kelis Was Here (8/8) the Sadies - In Concert (8/8) Broadcast - Future Crayon (8/22) Cursive - Happy Hollow (8/22) Early Day Miners - Offshore (8/22) Lambchop - Damaged (8/22) Jason Molina - Let me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go (8/22) Mountain Goats - Get Lonely (8/22) Chad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection (8/22) Windsor for the Derby - Calm Hades Float & Minnie Greutzfeldt reissues (8/22) Tamar Davis - Milk & Honey (8/29) Old Crow Medicine Show - Big Iron World (8/29) Catfish Haven - Tell Me (9/12) Magnolia Electric Co - Fading Trails (9/12) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 6/12 - 6/18: 1. Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped (Geffen) 2. Hot Chip, The Warning (Astralwerks/DFA) 3. Six Organs of Admittance, The Sun Awakens (Drag City) 4. Phoenix, It's Never Been Like That (Astralwerks) 5. Juana Molina, Son (Domino) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs and LPs from Final Fantasy, the Futureheads, Hot Chip, Mr. Lif, the Replacements, Six Organs of Admittance, Smog, Sonic Youth, Acid Mothers Temple, Barry Adamson, Devendra Banhart, Brightblack Morning Light, Joan Jett, Keb' Mo', Matthew Sweet, Widespread Panic, 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, Boris 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/ Gentleman Caller - http://myspace.com/thegentlemancaller the Hollows (aka Kate Long & Alex Mann) 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) Kenny Childers and his evolving cast of musicians builds stunning story-line tension of whodunit and whodid with arrangements echoing the chamber qualities of Galaxie 500, Big Star's complex build, and the aching truth of contemporaries Okkervil River or Rilo Kiley. Until We are Missing is Gentleman Caller's second album, the one begging for further exploration and scrutiny. Each song is layered in unforeseen meanings and characters fighting, dying and already dead - Leonard Cohen would surely approve. During the past two decades Childers has been a member of Mysteries of Life, Velo-Deluxe and currently Brando, three of Indiana's most significant lyrical and soma-like gushing groups. You'll see some familiar faces because Gentleman Caller now features multi-instrumentalists Derek Richey (Brando), Chris Kupersmith (Uvula, Fabric), Freda Love (Blake Babies, Some Girls, Mysteries of Life) and Jim Robertson (Brown Betty). Friday, July 14th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ................................................................... Mr Fister & the Shitmonks (parts unknown) - http://myspace.com/shitmonks the Blackthorns (Minneapolis) - http://theblackthorns.net/ Woodcat (Minneapolis) - http://myspace.com/woodcat Thats right... You thought you had heard the last of them... You hoped you had heard the last of them... Yet, you dreamed this day would come again! Derrick Pfister, Sgt. Harry Loder, Kenny Bloggins, and Pants McWearinem are back! The band you wish you could be in... The Devil, Stooges, Slayer, and Captain Beefheart in a lewd and crude stew of unholy proportions. Its the return of Mr Fister & the Shitmonks, now with an added familiar guitarist! The Blackthorns met in Minneapolis through their involvement in various punk, thrash, and no-wave projects, but were brought together by their common interest in the darker sounds of traditional American folk and country music. The band collectively writes songs with a core lineup of viola, cello, banjo, bass, drums, and vocals, sometimes swapping instruments and incorporating autoharp, accordion, saw, guitar, harmonica, and industrial-style found-object percussion. With these traditional tools, the Blackthorns play the sort of folk songs you'd expect to hear rising from the screen porch after a bomb has been dropped on a decaying Midwestern town. Woodcat are on tour w/ the Blackthorns and maintain the dark, cinematic folky feel of their tourmates. Guitar, bass, drums, cello, accordion, electronics. A great duo of darkness. RIYL midnight sing-alongs at the gypsy campfire, Sixteen Horsepower, Faun Fables, etc. 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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