It might be summer, but there sure is plenty to do around town still. Last week had a flood of great music and this week seems much the same. Stop in and check out our bulletin board for great things coming up near and far. The closest to us is tonight's showcase of awesomeness, which you can read about further down. Take a load off in our air-conditioned glory and check out some of the new tunes! Select New Arrivals for the Week of 06/12/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing (Tompkins Square) ................................................................... Much of the new music from James Blackshaw sounds like old music from John Fahey, as the 25-year-old British guitarist channels the adventurous acoustic dynamic that the late Fahey dubbed "American primitive." The opening title cut lasts almost 11 minutes; the closing lasts even longer, as an introspective instrumental reverie culminates in a mind-blowing coda that threatens to extend forever. In between these most expansively Faheyesque progressions, is a hint of "Tubular Bells" and a Chinese tea house, with exotic tunings and atmospherics. Dick Dale - [reissues] (Subdazed) ................................................................... The father of surf music, heavy-metal and 60s hot-rod rock gets his due as Sundazed Music rolls out its reissue program of guitarist-singer Dick Dale's complete catalog. Born in Boston in 1937, Dale moved with his family to Southern California in 1954. By 1961, he and his Del-Tones had pioneered the reverb-heavy Fender guitar sound that would forever define surf music. Dale's Newport and Balboa concerts were legend with area high-school and college students and would go on to influence the Beach Boys and Jimi Hendrix, among many artists. Datarock - Datarock Datarock (Nettwerk) ................................................................... Hailing from Bergen, Datarock combine post-punk with disco-tinged techno to create a non-stop dance party. The duo originally bonded over their shared affection for Talking Heads, Devo and the Happy Mondays, who recently asked Datarock to remix one of their songs. The album, which was previously released in Norway, the UK and a few other countries on their own label, Young Aspiring Professional, will include new tracks along with 3 music videos as a bonus. John Doe - A Year in the Wilderness (Yep Roc) ................................................................... It comes as little surprise that John Doe employs 3 different female vocalists (Kathleen Edwards, Jill Sobule, and Aimee Mann) to assist on his new CD. After all, it was Exene Cervenka's restless harmonies that bolstered Doe's own dusky lead vocals, providing X with a distinctive sound that has seldom been imitated and never bested, even by the group's own alumni. Doe nonetheless continues to refine the formula, delivering sharp, literate lyrics to rugged, often pensive odes. He mines a kinder, gentler, but no less incisive territory of the somewhat precarious space between the sexes. These songs resonate with a mature, biting broodiness that updates, but never dilutes, his legendary early work. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Before Day Breaks / After Night Falls (Darla) ................................................................... It's been more than 20 years since pianist Harold Budd's first full collaboration with guitarist Robin Guthrie's former group, the Cocteau Twins, on The Moon and the Melodies. Guthrie lays down his signature deep-echo guitar arpeggios and shimmering electric glissandos while Budd drops piano notes, each placed with the elegance and thought of a Zen garden. Both have more than enough moments of sublime melancholy and deep ruminations to provide a soundtrack for that long lonesome film in your mind. My Morning Jacket - Tennessee Fire & At Dawn Demos (Darla) ................................................................... When Darla released My Morning Jacket's epic second record At Dawn the first 2500 CD and 1000 LP came with a bonus demos disc, which was like another little At Dawn. It has long been out of print now and we frequently receive requests for it. This beloved demos disc is available once again with the addition of previously unreleased demo versions of key tracks from My Morning Jacket's debut record The Tennessee Fire recording sessions, plus a few other gems recorded during the term that haven't yet seen the light of day. Mark Olson - Salvation Blues (Hacktone) ................................................................... Mark Olson first came to prominence as the primary singer-songwriter for the Jayhawks, before leaving that seminal alt-country band to make music with his wife, Victoria Williams, in the more acoustic, organic Creekdrippers. With his reedy voice and elemental imagery, Olson details the painful dissolution of that marriage on this solo album, clinging to music as a lifeline when everything else is lost. He compares his love to "an animal bleeding in the snow," and later asks "How could I lose this in a day?" Musically, the album ranks with the best of his Jayhawks work, finding redemption in the midst of despair. Gary Louris joins his former Jayhawks bandmate for harmonies on 3 cuts. NVH+Chasny - Plays the Book of Revelations LP (Yik Yak) ................................................................... Ben Chasny and Noel von Harmonson (Comets on Fire) unite to futz around with guitar and electronics in a magnified, overpowering display of manhood. Noel's suitcase noise tour only hinted at the punches being thrown all over this record, a blackened battle between forces too baked to sit up straight, yet aware enough of their instrumental powers to cause a little damage here and there. Hearkens back to the good old days of power electronics in intent and execution. Edition of 666 copies in black-on-black silkscreened upside-down crucifix foldout sleeves. O'Death - Head Home (Ernest Jennings) ................................................................... Five guys, maybe three shirts between them, take to the stage. There's a banjo, a fiddle, a drum set littered with gas cans, chains, and broken cymbals. Then they all start howling, stomping; it's an anachronistic jug band party in a junkyard with sing-along hooks and weathered vocals from another time. With the re-release of Head Home on Ernest Jenning, this critically acclaimed NY act has created a perfect companion to their spellbinding live show. Part southern gothic spiritual, part moonshine fueled hoedown, these recordings, now presented with new mixes done by the band and Billy Pavone, are a timeless addition to the canon of weird old America. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (Interscope) ................................................................... Latin for "common era," Era Vulgaris holds a pair of common threads with the 4 Queens of the Stone Age records that preceded it. It crosses colossal guitar chords with the most volatile of hard rock melodies. And it's as LOUD as loud gets, thanks to Josh Homme, the impatient instigator behind the ever-evolving cast of personalities that make up the band. Perpetual Queener Mark Lanegan's velvety pipes earmark two of Era's most booming selections. Hypnotically and explosively common- this will hold its own with any in the QoTSA discography. Mark Ronson - Version (Red Ink) ................................................................... With all the production credits for other artists under his belt, he's now turned his attention to his own project. Version is a beautiful collection of cover songs, re-imagined by Mark. His philosophy on Version was to work with songs he's long loved- while not trying to make them better, he just wanted to make them bounce. From the feel good "Valerie" cover (Zutons) featuring Amy Winehouse, to the quirky and fun "Oh My God" (Kaiser Chiefs) featurung Lily Allen, to the piece de resistance: "Stop Me" (Smiths), featuring the soul stirring vocals of newcomer Daniel Merriweather, Version is poised to be a must-have album this summer. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation [deluxe reissue] (Geffen) ................................................................... The essential NY rock band of the post-punk era, Sonic Youth care as much about the quasi-symphonic, microtonal art-guitar music of composers like Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca as they do about the rock-song form, and with Daydream Nation, they struck their greatest balance between the two. The songs hover gorgeously for extended lengths, letting guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo intertwine fragile tonalities as carefully as it's possible to do at wall-shaking volume, while Moore and bassist Kim Gordon's untutored voices disaffectedly intone words that flirt with pop stupidity, high-art eloquence, and urban cool. When they bear down and rock, they do it with a blurry intensity that finds gorgeousness at the heart of discord. Includes a 2nd disc of live tracks, bsides, etc. Takeovers - Bad Football (Off) ................................................................... Welcome to the second dose of The Takeovers, courtesy of two members of Guided By Voices: The legendary Robert Pollard and the less so Chris Slusarenko. The newest release, Bad Football, finds the boys collaborating again and coming up with a slightly more song-oriented album every bit as perverse as 2006's Turn to Red. Calling on likeminded bedfellows like Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Tad Doyle (Tad), John Moen (The Decemberists) and Dan Peters (Mudhoney) to help follow their tuneful and psychedlic hearts, the Takeovers waste no time pushing aside the sophmore curse. In fact, if you like John, Paul, the bass player from Wire and/or Guided By Voices, you're in good hands with Bad Football. Traveling Wilburys - [2CD+DVD reissue] (Rhino) ................................................................... Traveling Wilburys were one of the few supergroups that lived up to their promise, because they didn't try to. Things started inauspiciously when George Harrison, needing a B-side for a 1988 single, called in friends Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison for assistance. What could have been a train wreck of ego clashes instead resulted in a frothy meeting of the minds. These guys are having a blast, trading lead vocals and harmonies on energetic folk-rock, quirky rockabilly, and Beatlesque pop that shimmers with the respect and esteem the members clearly hold for each other. Both albums were million-sellers, but oddly went out of print for about a decade until Rhino resurrected them, adding two rare tracks per disc as well as a DVD of music videos and a band documentary. Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet (Ecstatic Peace) ................................................................... Road weary James Toth, aka Wooden Wand, was spending a lot of time with old Kris Kristofferson & Waylon Jennings records and wanted to transcend the psychedelic labels that have been placed on him since his days fronting Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice. James was very specific in wanting to make, "an un-weird record." The resulting album, which will be Toth's last under the Wooden Wand moniker, is James & The Quiet and was produced by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo.  VA - Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label (Numero Group) ................................................................... When Numero's first album, Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label, was issued in 2004, it was lauded as Columbus, Ohio's answer to Motown. To the outside world, the capital city's soul heratige was an anomoly in a landscape dominted by Detroit, Memphis, and Chicago, but to those living inside I-270, Capsoul was just one of dozen's of tiny imprints being ignored. Across town, the tiny custom studio Harmonic Sounds was cutting and releasing equally as brilliant and left-of-center material on their Prix imprint, but it's what they didn't release that makes this record so special. In addition to 11 previously issued cuts, they've thrown on 8 more tracks that turned up at an estate sale. Demos, finished masters, and what can only be described as "studio tomfollery" all here waiting to be discovered. Just like the Prix label was in 1973. VA - Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur (WEA) ................................................................... If alive, John Lennon could well be at the forefront of bringing peace to Darfur, where more than half a million have died from violence and disease during 4 years of rebel discord. So to create awareness of the ongoing conflict, Amnesty International has mined Lennon's solo work and rounded up 2 discs of current artists to reinterpret the music. Will resurrecting 30-to-40-year-old messages of peace and love be enough to help end the brutalities in Darfur? That remains to be seen. But selecting John Lennon as the author of those messages will make people listen and, with this collection, may keep them listening. Includes covers by REM, U2, Flaming Lips, Regina Spektor, Postal Service, Matisyahu, Snow Patrol, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Avril Lavigne, Jackson Browne, Jakob Dylan, Christina Aguilera, Ben Harper and much more! Also Released On This Day (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Her Space Holiday - Let's Get Quiet Vol 2 EP Immaculate Machine - Fables (Mint) Joan as Police Woman - Real Life (Cheap Lullabye) Municipal Waste - Art of Partying (Earache) Oxbow - The Narcotic Story (Hydrahead) Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb (Relapse) Psychic TV - Hell Is Invisible Heaven Is Here (Sweet Nothing) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! (or we might not order it...) - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated (6/19) Artanker Convoy - Cozy Endings (6/19) Arthur & Yu - In Camera (6/19) Begushkin - Nightly Things (6/19) Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (6/19) Bumps - s/t (6/19) Burning Brides - Hang Love (6/19) Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night (6/19) Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (6/19) Nick Drake - Family Tree (6/19) Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque (6/19) Fridge - The Sun (6/19) Jaylib - Champion Sound [2CD/DVD reissue] (6/19) Lightning Dust - s/t (6/19) Maserati - Inventions for the New Season (6/19) Minus Story - My Ion Truss (6/19) Misha - Teardrop Sweetheart (6/19) Mooney Suzuki - Have Mercy (6/19) Panda Bear - Person Pitch LP (6/19) Polyphonic Spree - Fragile Army (6/19) Xavier Rudd - White Moth (6/19) Savath & Savalas - Golden Pollen (6/19) Telepathe - Sinister Militie (6/19) Tigersmilk - Android Love Cry (6/19) Tomahawk - Anonymous (6/19) Two Gallants - The Scenery of Farewell (6/19) The Unseen - Internal Salvation (6/19) David Vandervelde - Nothin' No EP (6/19) Videohippos - Unbeast the Leash (6/19) Von Spar - s/t (6/19) Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (6/19) White Stripes - Icky Thump (6/19) The Yarrows - Plum (6/19) VA - Box of Dub: Dubstep and Future Dub (6/19) VA - The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration (6/19) VA - Vanguard Visionaries Series (6/19) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (6/26) Bad Brains - Build a Nation (6/26) Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up (6/26) Nick Lowe - At My Age (6/26) Pearl Jam - Live at the Gorge (6/26) Pharoahe Monch - Desire (6/26) Rasputina - Oh Perilous World (6/26) Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell (7/10) Crowded House - Time On Earth (7/10) J Dilla - Jay Love Japan (7/10) Gogol Bordello - Super (7/10) Interpol - Our Love to Admire (7/10) Justice - + (7/10) Patton Oswalt - Werewolves and Lollipops (7/10) Rosebuds - Night of the Furies LP (7/10) Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye (7/10) Sebadoh - The Freed Man [reissue] (7/10) Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist (7/10) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (7/10) St Vincent - Marry Me (7/10) Editors - An End Has a Start (7/17) The Knife - Silent Shout [deluxe] (7/17) Monotract - Trueno Oscuro (7/17) Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me (7/17) Bishop Allen - The Broken String (7/24) David Garland - Noise In You (7/24) Feist - The Reminder LP (7/24) Talib Kweli - Ear Drum (7/24) Marmoset - Florist Fired (7/24) UNKLE - War Stories (7/24) John Vanderslice - Emerald City (7/24) Josh Rouse - Country Mouse City House LP (7/31) Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This (8/7) Jesu / Eluvium split LP (8/7) Magnolia Electric Co. - Sojourner 4CD/DVD (8/7) Mirah - Share This Place: Stories and Observations (8/7) Okkervil River - The Stage Names (8/7) O-Type - The New Edge 5CD/DVD (8/7) Spokane - Little Hours (8/7) Tarentel - Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun (8/7) Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth [2CD reissue] (8/7) Angels of Light - We Are Him (8/14) Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me (8/14) Caribou - Andorra (8/21) Mendoza Line - 30 Year Low (8/21) M.I.A. - Kala (8/21) Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice (8/21) New Pornographers - Challengers (8/21) Rilo Kiley - Blacklight (8/21) Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (8/28) Liars - Liars (8/28) Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes (8/28) Sword Heaven - Entrance (8/28) VHS or Beta - Bring on the Comets (8/28) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (9/4) Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs (9/11) Qui - Love's Mirachel (9/11) Michael Yonkers - Grimwood (9/11) Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature (9/25) Bettye Lavette - Scene of the Crime (9/25) Mum - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (9/25) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 6/5 - 6/12: 1. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound CD/LP (Touch & Go) 2. Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home CD (Merge) 3. Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men CD/LP (Sub Pop) 4. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full CD (Hear) 5. Uno Moss - The Slow Rise & Hard Fall CD (self) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Afghan Whigs, Black Strobe, Bonde do Role, Cinematic Orchestra, Dalek & Haze XXL, Matthew Dear, A Hawk and a Handsaw, Daniel AIU Higgs, Ladybug Transistor, Long Blondes, Neurosis, Panic Strikes A Chord, Pelican, Pissed Jeans, Shellac, Bruce Springsteen, True West, Uno Moss, Porter Wagoner, Acid Mothers Temple, Boris w/ Michio Kurihara, Je Suis France, Piano Magic, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Richard Thompson, Witch, Meg Baird, Battles, Ben + Vesper, Cex, Handsome Furs, Hot Chip, Ladyhawk, Madagascar, The National, Parts & Labor, Andrew Pekler, Ulrich Schnauss, Shapes & Sizes, Stars, Voxtrot, Loudon Wainwright, Wheat, Young Galaxy, Arcade FIre, Au Revoir Simone, Balkan Beat Box, Betty Davis, Dungen, Fennesz / Sakamoto, Guided By Voices, Lichens, Mont De Sundua, Pink Martini, TV on the Radio, Rufus Wainwright, Wilco, YACHT and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming shows that Landlocked is helping put together: Tuesday June 12th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WRACK QUINTET - http://kylebruckmann.com/ (D)ynamic (B)lack (H)ips With Kyle Bruckmann (oboe, english horn), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Jen Clare Paulson (viola), Anton Hatwich (bass), and Tim Daisy (percussion). Wrack is both a chamber ensemble with a highly unusual instrumentation and a book of compositions tailor-made for the musical personalities of its members. While the compositions' melodic and contrapuntal content is reminiscent of European classical modernism, the open structures, improvisational procedures and energetic performances are heavily indebted to the innovations of the African-American Creative Music tradition. In other words, equal parts free-jazz, gypsy/klezmer, Raymond Scott cartoon music, modern composition and ambient texture. DBH = Feedback colossus with horns. Level 4 primitivists discuss green anarchy and deep ecology over the course of a "fast food" meal. A loose-knit network of sex workers and custodians "clean it up". Seven young people and a dog gripping saxophones, trumpets, guitars and drumsticks. MP3s: http://kylebruckmann.com/kbcom_MP3s/Wrack_system.mp3 http://kylebruckmann.com/kbcom_MP3s/Wrack_slippery.mp3 http://kylebruckmann.com/kbcom_MP3s/Wrack_ado.mp3 More information about 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 have tickets to see Mirah and Laura Viers at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre on Wednesday, July 18th! $8 for students, $15 general admission. 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. 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