Tuesday, June 27, 2006   r-o-c-k in da u-s-s-a Everybody loves a good song. If you don't -- well then, you must be a commie! In order to help prove this, we here at Landlocked Music are hosting an absolute stunner of a patriot's feast for the musical ears this coming Monday, July 3rd. None of us have to work on the 4th, not even you, so there are no excuses! Check it: Richard Swift is one helluva songsmith. Not unlike the stylings of McCartney or Newman or Bacharach or Wainwright or Waits or Nilsson or Dylan or ... who cares, cuz damn its gooo-ooo-oood! That much we can promise. If thats not enough, local powerhouse Gentleman Caller, with their all-star cast will surely go punch for punch and make the night even grander. Need still more? Everybody's favorite longshore(wo)men, the Hollows, aka Kate & Alex aka KateMannDuo will surely draw you a soothing warm bubblebath of tunes and massage their exotic auditory oils all over you. Happy endings guaranteed. Okay, okay... enough already. More info on this show is written below, but for now here are some new releases. Enjoy your upcoming holiday weekend! Select New Releases for 06/20/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------ An Albatross - Blessphemy CD/LP (Ace Fu/GSL) ................................................................... An Albatross at long last unveil their first full-length album, Blessphemy (Of The Peace Beast Feastgiver And The Bear Warp Kumite). The CD version is released through Ace Fu Records, while GSL bestows upon the world the deluxe gatefold, colored-vinyl edition. An Albatross have been touring endlessly for the past 4 years and first appeared on GSL with 2004's split 7" with XBXRX. Since then, they've visited Europe twice, playing to massive festival crowds and inspiring praise and growing legion of devotees. Recently down-sizing to a 5-piece lineup, An Albatross are poised to dominate the landscape of spastic, post-ironic hardcore associated with the likes of The Locust, Melt Banana, Aids Wolf, XBXRX, etc. (AMA) Dr. Octagon - The Return of Dr. Octagon CD (OCD) Kool Keith - Collabs Tape CD (Corner Shop) ................................................................... Finally, back again to shock & thrill us after years out in the wilderness, he goes straight for the jugular with the release of his highly anticipated new album. Spliced & diced together by the man himself. Recorded in a twelfth century turret in the old quarter of Prague, as well as Byron Bay & Melbourne in Australia. A morphing twisted untelligent organism, an animal yet to be named. Also featuring DJ Dexter (the Avalanches) for the Egyptian scratch flavor & Princess Superstar. (AMA) VA - Dolemite OST CD/LP (Relapse) ................................................................... "Dolemite is my name... and fucking up muthafucka's is my game!" One of the best known and most enduring of all blaxploitation films and scores, Dolemite's legendary story and music helped define a film genre, the music of an entire decade, and give birth to a new sound that would change the face of music forever in its' wake. An undisputed classic, Dolemite's original motion-picture score is a wicked blend of guitar-funk bombs, film score, smooth soul, and Dolemite's crucial statement of intent. The pedigree that the oft-duplicated Dolemite spawned is undeniable and the music here is hot enough to melt your stereo. Dolemite: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is vital listening for any fan of funk, hip-hop, and music from the 70's. Available now domestically, with bonus tracks, for the first time ever on CD! (REL) Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogies Shoes CD (Recordhead) ................................................................... A collaboration between Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard and legendary pop song-smith Tommy Keene, Blues And Boogie Shoes has been in the works for years. The Who-obsessed duo's debut is perfect-equal parts inventive melody and powerfully-written pop. Production on the album is slick, dare we say, hi-fi? Blues And Boogie Shoes could be the perfect soundtrack for a top-down, summertime freedom cruise - especially if played at the recommended volume: loud as hell. (INS) Grant Lee Phillips - Nineteeneighties CD (Rounder) ................................................................... Grant-Lee Phillips is one of the most gifted songwriters of his generation, having written and recorded critically lauded albums as both a solo artist during this decade and with his band Grant Lee Buffalo throughout the 1990s. On his new album, 'nineteeneighties,' Grant-Lee pays tribute to the songwriters and artists who had a significant influence on his own work. Of those formative years, Grant-Lee says, "For every hokey hair band, there was once an alternative, parallel universe, existing just below the conservative, pastel surface. It was the same unstoppable energy that would come to erupt in the form of Nirvana in the early 90s. 'nineteeneighties' is a nod to some of the songs and some of the people that made a lasting impact on my own songwriting and musicianship." Includes tracks made famous by the Pixies, the Church, REM, Smiths, Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division, New Order, Psychedelic Furs, Nick Cave, and Robyn Hitchcock. Other New Releases on this Day: ................................................................... Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer (Vagrant) Fourtet - DJ Kicks (K7) Minutemen - We Jam Econo: The Story of The Minutemen DVD (Plexifilm) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Banco de Gaia - Farewell Ferengistan (7/4) Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (7/4) Cex - Actual Fucking (7/4) Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (7/4) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bricolages (7/4) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates subject to change): ................................................................... Adored - A New Language (7/11) Cut Chemist - The Audiences' Listening (7/11) I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - According To Plan (7/11) J Dilla - The Shining (7/11) Kaada - Music For Moviebikers (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) Sleepy Jackson - Personality (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) Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther (7/25) New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (7/25) Panda & Angel - S/T (7/25) Tom Petty - Highway Companion (7/25) Quantic - An Announcement to Answer (7/25) Sebadoh - III (2CD reissue) (7/25) Spoon - Telephone And Soft Effects EP (7/25) Paul Weller - Catch-Flame (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) Neil Hamburger - The World's Funnyman DVD (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) Pajo - 1968 (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) Jucifer - If Thine Enemy Hunger (9/5) Catfish Haven - Tell Me (9/12) Magnolia Electric Co - Fading Trails (9/12) Bonnie Prince Billie - the Letting Go (9/19) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 6/12 - 6/18: 1. Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped (Geffen) 2. Frank Black, Fast Man Raider Man (EMI) 3. Juana Molina, Son (Domino) 4. Six Organs of Admittance, The Sun Awakens (Drag City) 5. Danielson, Ships (Secretly Canadian) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs and LPs from Frank Black, Front Line Assembly, Keane, Gram Parsons, Smoosh, Awesome Color, Black Helicoptors, Nelly Furtado, Guster, Tam, 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, and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Didja know that we have real live music in our store as well? Check out some of the upcoming performances: 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 ................................................................... Whippoorwill (Bton's favorite sons & daughters) the Blackthorns (Minneapolis) - http://theblackthorns.net/ Woodcat (Minneapolis) - http://myspace.com/woodcat Once upon a time there was a band called the Decanters... they created a great mix of country-tinged rock that is sorely missed. Members scattered and what was left behind was the soothing vocals and songs of Ms Nicole Evans-Groth. Fast forward and add in now hubby Jason Lee Groth-Evans, Chris Welz, Alex Mann, Jonathan Cargill, and Mikey Kapinus. The sound has lost a smidgen of its dark-lonesomeness, but is still every bit as delicious. 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&..39;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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