Did you survive Little 5 week unscathed? We sure do hope so, cuz this is a huge week for music here in Bloomington- lots of great shows, Live from Bloomington, Culture Shock, Boxcar's Prom, and of course the first annual National Record Store Day! Look for another email from us at the end of the week about that, or read more at their HQ: http://www.recordstoreday.com/ - Onto the new stuff... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 4/15/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Air - Moon Safari [2CD+DVD] (Astralwerks) ................................................................... A 3-disc Deluxe Edition of Air's 1998 debut album "Moon Safari", packaged in a case bound book DVD size. Second audio disc features rarities, remixes (Beck, Moog Cookbook) and key songs from radio sessions recorded during 1998. DVD component is the hour-long Mike Mills documentary "Eating, Sleeping Waiting and Playing" filmed in New York, London and Paris during Air's first tour. The Autumns - Fake Noise from a Box of Toys (Bella Union) ................................................................... After touring with label-mates The Dears, the Autumns were eager to return to the writing process and intent on departing from the languorous quality of its earlier material in favour of a sharper and more immediate sound. Therefore, it is not surprising that this is a radical departure from their earlier work. Songs slice and dice with a frenzied precision, their pummelling pace interrupted only sparingly by the more serene fare of Autumns previous sound. The Black Angels - Directions to See A Ghost *PREORDER* (Light in the Attic) ................................................................... A chance to pre-order the new Black Angels CD and download the entire album one month prior to release. Along with the instant download, you will receive a FREE limited edition Bonus EP featuring unreleased tracks when you pickup your physical copy at Landlocked after May 13th. Second full-length album from Austin's dark droners. With tidal rhythms and rasping epics, it is a driving, psychedelic masterpiece that churns through the album's 72 minutes Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground (A) ................................................................... 13th full‐length album! From the opening track, "Bring Me The Head Of Paul McCartney On Heather Mill's Wooden Peg" and throughout, the listener is taken on a trip that contains stirring visions of sunny Californian communes all the way to NYC bars on the Lower East Side. Two‐dozen members later and numerous "ups & downs" (check out "Dig!" documentary), one thing that has always remained consistent for this psychedelic, cult‐like collective- front man Anton Newcombe. Jason Isbell - Live at Twist & Shout (New West) ................................................................... A live mini album from the former member of Drive-By Truckers and his band 400 Unit. Recorded live during an in-store at Twist And Shout Records in 2007. Six tracks including a Van Morrison cover. The Kooks - Konk (Astralwerks) ................................................................... Konk is the second album by English indie rock band The Kooks. The Kooks may well be arrogant, humourless and easily dislikeable on any number of levels, as some say; but when was that ever a hindrance to success in rock'n'roll? The most important thing is that, when called upon to walk the walk as well as they talk the talk, they deliver the goods. Which is what they've done with Konk, named after Ray Davies's studio, where it was recorded. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute) ................................................................... For M83's chief star-gazer Anthony Gonzalez, his youth is something he looks back upon with affection, something that has become the defining theme of his enchanting new album. Saturdays = Youth delivers the rich sonic textures for which M83 is well known - this time with a more focused approach to song structure and form. Mojo Magazine - May 2008 (Neil Young Cover) ................................................................... MOJO meets Neil Young, the politically-charged legend, in Berlin to discuss the anti-Bush polemic behind his new Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young movie. Plus The Specials, Steve Earle, Black Keys, unseen Bob Dylan photos, Portishead, Jethro Tull and a FREE CD of early ska/punk tunes. Elmer Snowden Quartet - Harlem Banjo LP (Riverside) ................................................................... Banjoist Elmer Snowden was the original leader of the Washingtonians, a group that would become the Duke Ellington Orchestra; but a dispute over money in the mid-'20s soon found him "at liberty." Joined by pianist Cliff Jackson, bassist Tommy Bryant, and drummer Jimmy Crawford, Elmer is the lead voice throughout the dozen standards, all of which date from the 1920s or 30s. Aside from the terrific playing, the music is full of joy and mischief. Snowden's banjo style is a lost art, and this is his definitive recording. Read more here: http://www.redhotjazz.com/elmer.html Tremendous Fucking - More Blood in the Monitors (Higher Step) ................................................................... Faced with an entire generation of young people being raised on nothing but over-produced radio rock and emasculated thrift-store hipster whining, TremFu lives to grab an audience by the throat, smash their emo glasses, and go home with their girlfriends. Their sound - the Jesus Lizard molesting the Pixies while McLusky takes pictures - and explosive stage presence leave a trail of damaged eardrums, broken psyches, and rocked asses in their wake. Their 3rd album was recorded at Russian Recording by Mike Bridavsky & mastered by Bob "Shellac" Weston at Chicago Mastering Services. VA - It Happened But Nobody Noticed [2CD reissue] ................................................................... Connecticut lies between NYC and Boston. In the punk 70s and 80s, it was on the front line with the enormous changes taking place in music emanating from both those metropolises. In 1982 Gustav Records issued this compilation LP containing 13 bands chronicling this fertile concentration of creativity. Now in 2008, another chapter is written with its re-release, featuring 13 more great bands from the golden age of Southern Connecticut punk / new-wave. VA - Live From Bloomington 2008 (LFB) ................................................................... As tradition goes, Live From Bloomington is releasing its annual compilation of the very best independent music in Bloomington. Funds will go to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Featuring Prizzy Prizzy Please, The Impossible Shapes, Trio in Stereo, Husband & Wife, Alarmists (Calm Down), Gravitas, Tammar, Good Luck, Totally Michael, Metal in the Microwave, The Bradleys, Country Death, Green Room Rockers, Eric Radoux, Giggles, Method and the Medium, Aviary Ghost, Vehicle Field, Stella and Jane, Slithering Beast, and the Nowlin-Muholland Quartet. Check out the live shows this week and pick up the CD before they are all gone - last year's sold out quick! Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Gossip - Live in Liverpool CD/DVD (Red Ink) Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is DVD (Red Floor) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... --- Special Record Store Day Releases! --- The Black Keys - Strange Times 7" (4/19) The Breeders - We're Gonna Rise 7" (4/19) Built To Spill - Don't Try 7" (4/19) Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart 7" (4/19) Jason Isbell - Live at Twist & Shout (4/19) Magnetic Morning (Swervedriver + Interpol) - EP (4/19) Stephen Malkmus - Cold Son 10" (4/19) Jason Mraz - I'm Yours 7" (4/19) Panic at the Disco - Nine in the Afternoon 7" (4/19) R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious 7" (4/19) Josh Ritter - Live at the 9:30 club (4/19) The Teenagers - Love No 3x7" (Tricolore Collection) (4/19) Vampire Weekend - A-Punk 7" (4/19) VA - Four Songs by Arthur Russell 12" (4/19) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice (4/22) Black Francis - Svn Fngrs EP (4/22) Cinematic Orchestra - Live at Royal Albert Hall (4/22) Dr Dog - Easy Beat 12" (4/22) Earles & Jensen Present: Just Farr A Laugh Vol 1 & 2 (4/22) El Perro Del Mar - From the Valley to the Stars (4/22) Flight of the Conchords - ST (4/22) Lyrics Born - Everywhere At Once (4/22) Metallica - [LP reissues] (4/22) Monotonix - Body Language (4/22) The Replacements - [CD reissues] (4/22) Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild (4/22) Josh Ritter - S/T (4/22) Sonic Youth - SYR7 (4/22) Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (4/22) Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines (4/29) Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost (4/29) Blue Sky Black Death - Late Night Cinema (4/29) Boris - Smile (4/29) Chin Chin - s/t (4/29) Constantines - Kensington Heights (4/29) Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English (4/29) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (4/29) Heloise & the Savoir Faire - Trash, Rats, and Microphones (4/29) Jamie Lidell - Jim (4/29) Portishead - Third (4/29) Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves - Roll With You (4/29) Animal Collective - Water Curses EP (5/6) The Long Blondes - Couples (5/6) Matmos - Supreme Balloon (5/6) No Age - Nouns (5/6) Nobody Presents Blank Blue - Western Water Music Vol. II (5/6) Peter Walker - Echo of my Soul (5/6) Health - Disco (5/13) Castanets - Tendrills DVD (5/20) The Explorer's Club - Freedom Wind (5/20) Indian Jewelry - Free Gold! (5/20) Islands - Arm's Way (5/20) Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go (5/20) The National - A Skin, A Night DVD+CD (5/20) Windsor for the Derby - How We Lost (5/20) The Futureheads - This Is Not the World (5/27) Hercules & Love Affair - Blind [single] (5/27) Fleet Foxes - ST (6/3) Ladytron - Velocifero (6/3) Racebannon - Acid or Blood (6/3) Shearwater - Rook (6/3) Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse (6/17) The Impossible Shapes - ST (6/17) The M's - Real Close Ones (6/17) My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth (6/17) Nomo - Ghost Rock (6/17) Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (6/17) Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (6/17) The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (6/17) Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive (6/17) Hercules & Love Affair - s/t (6/24) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 4/8 - 4/15 1. Man Man, Rabbit Habits (Anti) 2. Nick Cave, Dig Lazarus Dig (Anti) 3. Breeders, Mountain Battles (4AD) 4. REM, Accelerate (WB) 5. Sun Kil Moon, April (Caldo Verde) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Boredoms, The Breeders, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Clinic, Cut Copy, Dead Child, Foals, The Heavy, Man Man, Colin Meloy, Microphones, Peter Moren, Nadja, Nine Inch Nails, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Spoon, Tapes 'n Tapes, Wye Oak, Richard Swift, Yelle, Neva Dinova, The Drift, Annuals, Apples in Stereo, Black Keys, Los Campesinos!, Moby, Van Morrison, R.E.M., Sun Kil Moon, The Sword, Unwed Sailor, Robyn Hitchcock, Justin Townes Earle, Elf Power, John Fahey, Ghostface Killah, Gnarls Barkley, Head of Femur, Lemonheads, David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski, Morrissey, Plants & Animals, The Raconteurs, Thee Silver Mt Zion, Guilty Simpson, Singer, B-52s, Counting Crows, Lair of the Minotaur, Spring Heel Jack and much much more! STAFF PICKS! These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Radar Bros - And the Surrounding Mountains (Merge, 2002) ................................................................... The Radar Bros. are yet another second (or third) tier Merge band that gets lost in the shuffle. The play a brand of slowly unfolding, epic rock that I'd called slowcore if that didn't evoke countless boring, anonymous acts. There is little of Putnam's former bands (Medicine, Maids of Gravity) shoegaze tendencies. Instead, what distinguishes them is a sound that, despite its easy recline, is bright, airy, and wide open--not at all suffocating like most bands that choose to go this route. It evokes a hazy, stoned California environment just as well as all those Laurel Canyon hippies of yore. Imagine if David Gilmour moved to the Hollywood Hills in '68, hooked up with Arthur Lee, and cut a whole album that sounds like "Fat Old Sun" or "Green is the Colour" meets Van Dyke Parks. This was their first LP for Merge, and still stands as their best. - Jason Mayo Thompson - Corky's Debt to his Father (1969, Texas Rev; 1994, Drag City) ................................................................... Less noisy and definitely more accessible than most of his work with the Red K(C)rayola, Mayo Thompson's lone solo album is an oddball pop gem that never fails to amaze me. It has an outsider, Syd/Skip sort of feel to it, but 'Corky's' is wierd in a more playful and coherent way. The song structures are intentionally strange and continually side-step the chord changes and notes that you would expect to hear, preferring to go where other songwriters refuse to, or are scared to. The lyrics almost up the ante on the music as far as the weirdness factor is concerned, but somehow they fit so perfectly to the music that they enhace it to an even higher degree of brilliance. This album is a true one of a kind piece of work, chock full of really beautiful music and lyrical imagery that has a strange folk-pop identity you won't find elsewhere. Recently reissued on Drag City vinyl with a bonus 7"! - Cyrus VA - Bippp - French Synth Wave 1979-85 (Everloving, 2008) ................................................................... Everybody loves the French New-Wave, right? No, not the films of Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Chabrol and Melville and Malle... I mean the music of Vox Dei, Comix, Marie Moor, Deux, TGV, Vitor Hublot, etc! You didn't think that French music started with Air, Daft Punk and Justice - did you??? This collection has something for everyone. Some call it new-wave, cold-wave, dark-wave, synth-wave... call it whatever you like, it extends far beyond the constraints of any genre. A great package with great information about fourteen groups you've never heard of and probably never will again. Is it a rebellion? No, sire - it is a revolution. Viva la Revolucion! - Heath ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: -TONIGHT!- 4/15 - Minus the Bear @ Bluebird -TONIGHT!- 4/16 - Woven Hand @ Art Hospital 4/17 - Live From Bloomington Club Night 4/18 - Live From Bloomington All-Ages Club Night 4/19 - WIUX Culture Shock @ Dunn Meadow 4/23 - Drakkar Sauna / Oakley Hall @ Bears 4/24 - Margot & the Nuclear So & Sos @ Buskirk-Chumley 4/24 - Toots & the Maytals @ Bluebird 4/25 - Eli "Paperboy" Reed @ Bears 4/26 - Nomo @ Bluebird 4/26 - Half-Handed Cloud @ Art Hospital 4/29 - Dead Meadow @ Bluebird 5/1 - Dead to Fall @ Rhino's 5/2 - Caribou @ Waldron 5/6 - Lymbyc Systym @ Art Hospital 5/7 - Megafaun @ Bear's 5/13 - Rev Horton Heat / Nashville Pussy @ Bluebird 5/16 - Yea Big + Kid Static @ Bear 5/18 - Dickey Betts @ Bluebird 5/19 - Joe Lally @ Art Hospital 5/28 - Castanets Film @ Cinemat 6/7 - Cryptacize @ Art Hospital We have tickets and further information for many of these wonderful performances. Sorry, but we can only accept cash for ticket purchases. ------------------------------------------------------------------ More information about shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ or http://myspace.com/landlockedbton or http://indiana.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385198570 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. 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. Tell us what you think, what you desire. ------------------------------------------------------------------ BFF, Jason & Heath info@landlockedmusic.com Landlocked Music 314 S. Washington St. (next door to Boxcar Books) Bloomington, IN, 47401 http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ http://myspace.com/landlockedbton http://indiana.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385198570 (812) 339 - 2574 Hours of Operation: Monday - Saturday : 11:30am - 7:30pm Sunday : Noon - 5pm