Whoa buddy, we're peakin' here. Peaking from the ginormous mound of hot new music in our store. We have reason to believe that this might just be the longest update that we've ever sent out -- there were just too many titles worthy of mention, and even then we managed to somehow leave a few good ones out. Its hot and/or rainy anyway, so what better thing do you have to do than read about the music you should be lovin' on? Stop by our physical or digital home and see how we are changing every week... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 7/22/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Almighty - Original S.I.N. (Babygrande) ................................................................... The Almighty, the Wu-Tang affiliated supergroup consisting of Killah Priest, Bronze Nazareth, C-Rayz Walz, Son One, M-Eighty, 5-Star and others, offer their debut collaborative effort: Original S.I.N. (Strength in Numbers). Also features such legendary artists as Canibus, Keith Murray, Planet Asia, Holocaust, Hussein Fatal (Tupac's The Outlawz) and more. Guitar Series Vols. 3 & 4 (Table of the Elements) Oren Ambarchi - A Final Kiss on Poisoned Cheeks Lee Ranaldo - Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms ................................................................... Next installment in TOTE's limited edition clear, etched vinyl series. There's a vivid breadth to the guitar deconstructions of Australian Oren Ambarchi. Sometimes his work takes a delicate lilt; it can also dive into dark and deep pools of sound when he joins cowl-core ensembles Sunn O))) and Burial Chamber Trio. This release offers a dizzying gaze straight into a chasm of extreme frequencies - paint-peelingly high and bowel-churningly low - all set atop a sub-strata of menace, angst, and contemplative beauty. Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo presents an epic earful, replete with shimmering textures and an inimitable charging clangor. With ecstatic, rocking squalor, he summons some dazzling skronk, reminiscent of early Sonic Youth, the soaring drone of John Cale, and even the looping orientalia of Dream Syndicate-era La Monte Young. Arbouretum / Pontiak - Kale LP (Thrill Jockey) ................................................................... "Kale" is a special LP-only split release by Arbouretum and their Baltimore friends Pontiak, Thrill Jockey's new signees making their label debut. Features new songs from each band, in addition to John Cale covers from both bands, and comes with a coupon for download. Julian Cope describes Pontiak as "straddling a wide sonic rift valley, with references that stretch from the southern latitudes of Spain's Viaje A800 to the northern majesty of Black Sabbath and Harvey Milk via the Doors." Avett Brothers - Second Gleam EP (Ramseur) ................................................................... Six new songs with the natural lyrical clarity and honest delivery that has become synonymous with their name. Following in the initial footsteps of the first Gleam recording, this second installment sings to the uncommon senses of the common man. The record walks calmly and powerfully among fragile and hard-learned themes of life and song, passing through loss, change, hope, death, dedication to family, late nights in the hospital, love as always and much more. Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones (Absolutely Kosher) ................................................................... While there are no women in this Canadian group, they share the same sublime, androgynously-voiced space as Antony And The Johnsons, jazz great Little Jimmy Scott, and Philly soul angels The Stylistics. Musically, there are no touchstones. They twist and flutter, too skittish for space rock, too hot for IDM, too concise and charming for glitch-core. Their debut is a thing of dazzling beauty and fragile inspiration, simple in its celebration of sound and movement. RIYL Beach House, Mum Black Kids - Partie Traumatic (Columbia) ................................................................... Debut album from the Florida group that Rolling Stone named "Artists to Watch" in 2008. Their first single, 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You' entered the UK Charts at #11. The album is produced by former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler and is choc-full of equally effervescent pop songs just waiting to be heard. Judging by their live shows the song is an indie disco anthem in the making. A dash of disco, a dash or two of heartbreak and a rousing chorus, what else do you need? Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... Their second full-length, and first release for Secretly Canadian, features instantly familiar melodies, rich harmonic color, expansively deft arrangements, and compositions that ebb, flow, and double back on themselves in cathartic synchronicity. It comes out feeling like the anthemic prog/gospel psychedelic/kraut-tribal movie score that Ennio Morricone and Phil Spector never got around to collaborating on. Buffalo Killers - Let it Ride (Alive) ................................................................... Smoking hot, seductive, slow roasted, and nurtured by the tonal fuzz of Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach, the Buffalo Killers are proving to be the black knights of rock's new doctrine. They are an outfit that bares the scars of an industry littered with instability at the hands of the decline of record sales, the emergence of the new revolving pop, and the death of rock n' roll. It is in this environment that rock's new order thrives. For the Cincinnati, OH natives, their brash gritty expulsion of road warrior glory comes at a time when the tradition is in its most dire hour. Their sophomore LP Let It Ride still holds on tight to the influences of Cream, the harmonies of Neil Young and the Beatles, as well as incorporating the slow sustained fuzz of swagger-driven solos. Brendan Canning - Something for All of Us (Arts & Crafts) ................................................................... Canning's first solo effort- and the 2nd release in the Broken Social Scene Presents series (Kevin Drew's Spirit If, being the first). The new album is a truly genre-ambiguous, progressive work. Brendan finds himself free to experiment with a variety of sounds- from hushed lo-fi acoustics, to blazing rock'n'roll, to psychedelic groove. Naturally, fellow BSS band-mates make up a large portion of the accompaniment, as well, contributions from Kevin Hearn (BNL, Lou Reed), Liz Powell (Land of Talk) and Liam O'Neil (The Stills). Captain Beefheart - It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper (Sundazed) ................................................................... Recorded in part as the follow-up to Safe as Milk, Beefheart's debut from earlier that year, the world-shattering material on this album was rerecorded, truncated, and issuedÑ without the Captain's approval, as Strictly Personal in 1968. Mastered directly from the original analog tapes and featuring a wealth of unedited takes never before on vinyl, Sundazed's stunning gatefold double-LP release of this infamously enigmatic opus comes to you wrapped in a sharp outer sleeve bearing specially commissioned artwork by Frank Zappa/Straight Records illustrator Cal Schenkel replicating the album's planned '67 design - inside are rare photos and fascinating, exhaustive liner notes by Magic Band drummer John "Drumbo" French. Cryptacize / Why? - Unusual Animals split 7" (Asthmatic Kitty) ................................................................... On this 4th volume of the Unusual Animals split vinyl releases we find a larger-than-life classic of the Disco era shrunken down to miniature size by the Bay Area's premier paranormalists, Cryptacize. Whereas the studio magic of Steely Dan can only be attributed to millions of dollars in major corporate backing, Cryptacize pulls it off with just a couple of claves, an autoharp, and a fuzz-pedal, arranged and recorded by Cryptacize with help from up-and-comer Dominique Leone. On the B side, Bay Area neighbors Why? (Anticon) reinterpret Bob Dylan into a bass driven mystery night train anthem for reflection and cruising. CSS - Donkey (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Brazil's CSS release their follow-up to 2006's "Cansei de Ser Sexy". They've toured worldwide a number of times with the likes of Gwen Stefani, Ladytron, Klaxons, and Diplo, and played festivals from Coachella, Pitchfork, and Virgin to Reading, Benicassim, Roskilde, and beyond. "Donkey" is tough, street-ready, and recreates the frenetic energy of their live shows. Equal parts dance party, urban circus, and out-and-out chaos. CD now, vinyl due August 5. Daft Punk - Electroma DVD (Vice) ................................................................... Electroma is an odyssey of two robots (played by the members of Daft Punk) who journey across a mythic American landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become human. This silent (yes, silent) feature-length film made its international debut at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The DVD is packaged in a state-of-the-art, embossed metal case with a 40-page perfect-bound color booklet. Large movie-style poster free with purchase (while supplies last). Dr Dog - Fate (Park the Van) ................................................................... Free bonus 7" with purchase! Fate is the record Dr. Dog were destined to make, a timeless yet contemporary distillation of the band's open-armed, big-hearted sound taken to new heights of craft and creativity. Inventive, magnificently realized, and absolutely irresistible, the album sees the Philadelphia-based quintet filtering the gamut of American popular music into its own idiosyncratic brand of blue-eyed, dilated-pupil soul. As ever, Dr. Dog makes magic from an enduring pop palette of intricate harmonies, shape-shifting melodies, and ramshackle audio ingenuity all presented through the band's slightly skewed and utterly individualistic outlook. LP version comes with CD. Dredd Foole - Kissing the Contemporary Bliss (Family Vineyard) ................................................................... For over 30 years troubadour wailer Dan Ireton has called upon the spirit of 78 shellac blues n' psychedelic Stooges n' Velvets to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. Foole hints at the classic forms of Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks", Buckley's "Starsailor" and the celestial fug of Sun Ra's third-eye vision to create an approach untraveled yet increasingly influential (see: Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man). Produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by Matt "MV" Valentine with ear-popping originals colored by Erika Elder's jug blowin' and Coot Moon's ecstatic, reverb dosed banjo. You'll hear nothing like this in 2008 or beyond. Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh - s/t (Drag City) ................................................................... Cellist from Espers meets vocalist/guitarist/etc. from Ghost and they create an amazing, chilled out folk record with some incredible improvisations and a Son House cover like you've not heard. You know Batoh's feeling relaxed when he rolls out instruments like ocean drum, grass chime, bird whistle and wind machine Ñ but he gets some sweet licks in on the acoustic guitar as well. Helena plays a bunch of acoustic guitar and sings a few Swedish traditional songs from her childhood memories. Faun Fables - A Table Forgotten EP (Drag City) ................................................................... An EP release from Dawn McCarthy and company, the first in an ongoing series of projects based on a theme largely unexplored in recent times: the age-old practice of tending a home and it's immediate impact upon our day to day lives. The music is largely shaped by the spirit, tools and movements of physical kitchen work and by the dimensions of housekeeping that are positive, pivotal and even revolutionary. Forward Russia! - Life Processes (Mute) ................................................................... Dance rockers Forward Russia's sophomore release is a considerable advancement from the scratchily acerbic post-hardcore histrionics of its predecessor, and has been shaped with the assistance of renowned producer Matt Bayles (Blood Brothers, Mastodon, Minus The Bear, Pearl Jam). Musically, this release sees the band expanding in scale and scope, with sweeping epics and more pulsing rhythms pushed to the fore, broadening their sound with more elaborate instrumentation and bigger choruses. Gentleman Auction House - Alphabet Graveyard (Emergency Umbrella) ................................................................... Their full-length debut retains the tender and emotive melodies and impeccably tasteful arrangements that have always been the most endearing components of the band's sound, but new explorations of everything from reggae-infused rhythms to jangly Motown guitar flourishes find a home here. Solemn folk ballads, epic mood pieces, and infectiously danceable pop find themselves on common ground. Buddy Guy - Skin Deep (Zomba) ................................................................... Buddy hass come a long way from his beginnings on the 1950s Baton Rouge blues scene and today he is Chicago's blues king, ruling his domain just as his idol and mentor Muddy Waters did before him. Skin Deep is the 2008 release by Buddy Guy. The album features The Memphis Horns, Willie Mitchell,Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Eric Clapton, Robert Randolph and Quinn Sullivan. High Places - 03/07 - 09/07 (Thrill Jockey) ................................................................... A collection of tracks previously available on 7-inch vinyl and compilations. This is the first time these songs are all available on CD. High Places songs contain a range of aural layers: bells and bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting mixing bowls over treated guitar and glockenspiel; reflective vocals over inventive and infectious beats. Jedi Mind Tricks presents: Doap Nixon - Sour Diesel (Babygrande) ................................................................... A long time mainstay in the thriving Philadelphia hip-hop scene, Doap Nixon is best known for his performance on Army of the Pharaohs underground smash, Ritual of Battle. Amidst a groundswell of anticipation, Doap unveils his debut LP which features guest appearances from the core AOTP clique, including powerhouse Vinnie Paz (of Jedi Mind Tricks), Outerspace, King Syze, King Magnetic, Reef The Lost Cauze & more as well as production from some of independent hip-hop's most renowned and respected producers including Apathy, Snowgoons, Stu Bangas, Undefined, Stress, Skammadix amongst others. Kasai Allstars (Congotronics 3) - In The 7th Moon (Crammed Discs) ................................................................... Complete title: In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic. After Konono No. 1 and the multi-artist Buzz 'N' Rumble set, the incredible debut album by the Kasai Allstars collective raises the ante and lifts Crammed's Congotronics series up to the next level. Creating a mixture of traditional acoustic instruments, electric guitars, distortion-laden thumb pianos and soulful vocals, Kasai Allstars draw their songs from festive and ritual music played in the bush before being banned by the Europeans, who considered the highly erotic dances and the pagan trance ceremonies to be satanic. Lackthereof - Your Anchor (Barsuk) ................................................................... The bedroom side project of Danny Seim (Menomena drummer). Listening to Lackthereof, Danny's fractured art-pop sensibility is a big part of the sound of his more well-known band. Of the nine hard to find albums that Seim has made mostly by himself over the past ten years, "Your Anchor" is the most cohesive and immediate. Love - Love Story DVD (Start) ................................................................... A feature-length documentary recounting the story of the quintessential Los Angeles band Love and their singer Arthur Lee. Features interviews with the band members (including Lee's final), as well as Elektra Records head Jac Holzman, producer Bruce Botnick, The Doors' John Densmore and arranger David Angel. The package also includes rarely seen television performances, unseen archive photographs, an hour of bonus features as well as liner notes from Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream). "A stunning tribute." - Record Collector Nico Muhly - Mother Tongue CD (Brassland) ................................................................... Muhly, a 20-something prodigy and Juilliard grad may be one of the few surprises left to emerge from the classical milieu. This is one of the most anticipated avant/classic/new music releases of the year, it grabs your attention with ambient chatter and soothes you with strident noise. He has already worked with Bjork, Rufus Wainwright, Antony, Bonnie Prince Billy and Philip Glass. "Wonders" collapses the distance between early music and music of the future. And "The Only Tune" is an exploded folk song that stimulates your brain while tightening its grip on your heart. Simply breathtaking. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (The Null) ................................................................... Limited edition include bonus DVD. The Slip (also known as Halo 27) is mercilessly tight and efficient where Year Zero was majestic and sprawling. Here, he's no longer a stylized, self-conscious innovator, he's a working musician enraptured by making music, and he's so invigorated by creation it's hard not to get sucked in as well. The album was produced by Trent Reznor alongside Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder. Contains 10 new tracks, a 24-page booklet, a sticker pack and a DVD with five live performances of tracks from the album. CD now, vinyl next month. One Day as a Lion - s/t EP (Anti) ................................................................... One Day As A Lion is the creation of musical comrades Zack De La Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) & Jon Theodore (Mars Volta). This is music about space - the space between friends and collaborators where ideas form; the space in a song where the tension builds waiting for the next wave of sound; the space in the corners of the recording studio where the sound gathers to fade and die. One Day As A Lion worked hard to capture that space on tape, unadulterated, unmolested, from heart to hand to skins to mics to tape to speaker to ear. The result, someone said, sounds like Led Zep meets Dr. Dre. OS - LP (self) ................................................................... The first set of recordings under the moniker OS is now available on LP from this Bloomington band. This group of recordings beautifully captures discordance, bleakness, maniacal despair, and hidden messages with the help of engineer Mike Notaro and mastering by James Plotkin. 400 copies available to the public, vinyl only on luscious hand-screened art. People Under The Stairs - The Om Years (Om) ................................................................... A 2CD collection featuring fan favorites and B-sides and rarities never before released on CD. The first ever Om retrospective of dusty breaks and funky rhyme classics from The P (as fans know them). Called "the dopest of dope" by hip-hop fans the world over and featured in every magazine, website, blog, and radio station you know, The P stand as one of the greatest hip-hop groups ever. Pepper - Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations (Law) ................................................................... Do you need to be a brohemian surfer dude to really appreciate Pepper? Maybe not, but it probably helps. Their 5th full-length was produced by Butthole Surfers guitarist Paul Leary. It is a mostly agreeable collection of quasi-soulful rock with respectful gestures toward reggae and dub. - OC Weekly The Red Krayola - Fingerpointing (Drag City) ................................................................... Yes, read it again - "pointing", not "painting". These are an alternate set of mixes, by Jim O'Rourke, for the Krayola's record Fingerpainting (1999). Fingerpointing has different inflections and a different flow while rolling down the same path as its other self. There's a droning, incense-wafting quality to it that may be more equitable in today's listening bowl. Slightly Stoopid - Slightly Not Stoned Enough to Eat Breakfast (Stoopid) ................................................................... Once a 7-song EP of which only 5,000 copies were printed, the demand for this material became so great that the band added 14 other outtakes, rarities, and brand new studio joints and called it an album. It includes the first ever studio version of "Sensimilla." Iggy & the Stooges - Escaped Maniacs DVD (Charly) ................................................................... This double DVD features a spectacular performance filmed at the 2005 Lokerse Festival. It includes blistering versions of most of the tracks from the first two Stooges albums in addition to newer songs. From the beginning, it's clear that the Stooges' power has not waned. It all kicks off with the pounding primitive thud of Scott "Rock" Asheton's drums. Ex-Minuteman Mike Watt (standing in for the dearly departed Dave Alexander) lets rip with a powerful wobble guaranteed to let loose the most uptight caboose. Scott's brother Ron grinds in on guitar to create a filthy groove over which he adds the mind-melting wail of distorted wah. On top of this sea of sound floats the one and only Iggy whose grunting gurgling let-it-all-hang-out vocal style and on-stage gyrations epitomize the art of singing as the raw expression of the soul. John Terrill - Frowny Frown (Family Vineyard) ................................................................... Between 1988 and 1998, John Terrill (co-founder of the Bloomington's late 70s new/no-wave Dancing Cigarettes, drummer for the Walking Ruins, etc) recorded this album and made a few copies for close friends and for mailing to musical heroes. In another era, it could have stood next to Richard Thompson, Scott Walker, or Lee Hazlewood. It's an out-of-time classic that mixes honey-baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. Now reissued for all, remastered with a bonus track from 1984. "I feel this album is a little gem - Beach Boys meet Mothers of Invention." - Bill Fay Thee Oh Sees - Sucks Blood (Tomlab) ................................................................... Prior to entering The Master's Bedroom earlier this year, San Francisco's Thee Oh Sees originally self-released the more subdued "Sucks Blood" in early 2007 to fund the latter's recording. Steeped in the natural hues of analog and reverb, its a subtle gem of irresistible pop and basement psychedelia. Immediate classics include the ghostly saw-tinged title track and the charming lumber of the harmonious "Ship". "This record's just so goddamn fun and loosey-goosey that by comparison, the Black Keys sound like Interpol." - Pitchfork U2 - Boy / October / War [2CD/LP reissues] (Island) ................................................................... A standard CD with a bonus CD. Bonus CDs includes b-sides, live tracks, remixes and rarities. Also includes extended booklets with previously unseen photos, full lyrics, new liner notes, and explanatory notes on the bonus material by guitarist The Edge. LP versions are just the original track listing, remastered, on 180g vinyl with booklets, notes photos, etc. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams (Yep Roc) ................................................................... Surprises have always been part of the artistic vernacular for the man who changed rock forever with The Jam, explored a host of eclectic influences with The Style Council and cemented his position as the patriarch of Brit pop with his legendary solo work. 22 Dreams is the latest chapter in a creative journey spanning 30 years for the Modfather, with material spanning the full breadth of popular music rock to classical, avant garde to funk and spoken word to experimental. Features Noel Gallagher (Oasis) and ex-Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. VA - Chamber Music (James Joyce) (Fire) ................................................................... Five years in the making [and 100 years since its original publication] comes the epic 36 artists interpretation of James Joyce's 1907 collection of poems charting love from innocence to experience. With contributions from Mercury Rev, Ed Harcourt, Peter Buck from R.E.M. under the moniker Airport Studies, Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth with Text Of Light, Califone, Jessica Bailiff, Mike Watt, Bardo Pond, Kinski and MUCH more, this represents a sweeping but unified expression of Joyce's early love-hungry verse. Housed in a beautifully packaged double slipcase CD and double gatefold vinyl with artwork by Stephanie Black. VA - Well Hung - Funk Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary (Finders Keepers) ................................................................... Finders Keepers break yet more ground with 22 stomping selections from the vaults of Eastern Europe's best kept secret, Pepita Records. This first-ever compendium piles heavy psych, jazz, glam and funk onto a heaped spoonful dripping with the cream of the 70s Hungarian rock scene - Omega, Metro, Locomotiv GT, Skorpio as well as Finders Keepers' very own jet-set fit-bit, Sarolta Zalatnay. With help from the sultry songstress Soralta herself, this series will be the first definitive collection of break-heavy, fuzz-ridden Hungarian psychedelia to appear on these shores. Compiled with the help and featuring liners courtesy of Hungarian jet-set fit-bit Sarolta Zalatnay. Features a family tree compiled by Andy Votel to chart the connections between the Hungarian scene. Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ................................................................... Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal (Metal Blade) Beck - Modern Guilt LP (Interscope) The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Just Like Kicking Jesus EP (A.) Dead Can Dance - [SACD reissues] (4AD) Chris Difford (Squeeze) - The Last Temptation Of Chris CD (Airline) Julie Doiron - Loneliest in the Morning [reissue] (Jagjaguwar) Fukced Up - Year of the Pig (Matador) Seth Kauffman - Research CD (Park The Van) The Loved - Everything, Anything, Nothing (Temporary Residence) Lustmord - [Other] CD (Hydra Head) Christopher Titus - Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding 2xCD (Comedy Central) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... 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These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (Stiff, 1977) ................................................................... Arguably the first British punk band (depending on how you define it), the debut album from the Damned is also the link between pub rock to punk. Produced by pub lynchpin Nick Lowe and released on Stiff, the songs are simply amped-up pub rock - what's different is the style and delivery. These guys were listening to the New York Dolls & the Stooges (who they cover here) and wanted little to do with the laid-back rootsy American vibe of so many pub bands. Relatively apolitical, this album spawned a couple minor UK hits and enabled them to do an extensive US tour. Their breakneck live sets in the States helped inspire the hardcore movement, particularly in L.A., where they were stranded for a time. The line-up that cut this album lasted sadly for just one more; the band then morphed into a more conceptual, proto-goth outfit. - Jason Death Vessel - Stay Close (North East Indie, 2005) ................................................................... Death Vessel is the name under which the songs of Joel Thibodeau appear. This sentence alone shouldn't cause pause until you first hear the voice. A high pitch that if not a woman, is certainly a child. Every person who hears it stands in disbelief. Rest assured, its a guy. However, its the music that makes it all the better. Confident, folk-tinged, modern yet timeless. Haunting and atmospheric yet traditional. This is not freak folk. It has flavors of bluegrass and campfires, songs rich in folktales and death. Mandolins, fiddle, banjo, uke and more fill a space wide enough to carve out its own niche. Features Micah Blue Smaldone and Meg and Laura Baird (Espers). Maybe you caught him on tour with Iron & Wine, Low, Jose Gonzalez or the Books. Or many years ago when he played downstairs at the Runcible Spoon. Look for his long-awaited second album next month on Sub Pop. - Heath The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action (Aim, 1976) ................................................................... The Flamin' Groovies are one of the longest-running and most often overlooked groups to come out of the mid 60s San Francisco scene. Originally playing a mixed bag of Lovin' Spoonful-influenced straight-ahead rock n roll, they were out of step with the acid rock of the other Frisco bands and were subsequentially ignored and unsuccessful. However, the Groovies were not disheartened and continued to release records for the next 30 years. 'Shake Some Action' finds them fresh off of an extended tour of the UK and with only one original band member left, they shed some of their rootsier influences in favor of a classic british invasion-fueled, guitar-heavy sound that is now commonly referred to as 'power pop.' Classic melodies, tons of ringing guitars and soaring vocals help cement their new direction. Indispensible for anyone fond of melodic rock and power pop, this is easily one of the best (and coolest) no-frills rock albums of the 70s. - Cyrus ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 7/25, 26, 27 - Forecastle Festival - Louisville (GZA, Dr Dog, Tortoise, Z-Trip, Film School, Extra Golden, Catfish Haven, + MUCH MORE) 8/2 - Icy Demoms @ Rhino's 8/3 - Harry & the Potters @ Rhino's 8/5 - The Howlies @ Bluebird 8/8 - James & April Combs (Arson Garden) @ Bear's 8/12 - Bon Iver @ Waldron 8/14 - David Allan Coe @ Bluebird 8/15 - Junior Brown @ Bluebird 8/17 - Oneida @ Bluebird 8/22 - John Mueller @ Waldron 9/9 - Tussle @ Waldron 9/29 - Awesome Color @ Jake's 10/21 - Magnolia Electric Co. @ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre 11/19 - Parts & Labor @ Bear's We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. Stop in and buy em beforehand! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 202 N. 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