HUGE thanks to each and every person that helped make Record Store Day 2009 a giant success for us! Its amazing what can happen when you work hard on something for a good long while and it all comes together perfectly! The weather was gorgeous, the coverage was great and everyone had a wonderful time. I hope you could tell that the day wasn't just about The Store, it was also about the customers, the culture, the spirit. We hope we helped provide enough spiritual comfort food to last until our next party! Thanks in no particular order: - The people behind Record Store Day - Our fellow AIMS stores for inspiration and support - All the labels that released something special on RSD - Our employees who worked overtime and dealt with our mania - The Herald-Times for coverage before, during and after RSD. - The Indiana Daily Student - The Ryder Magazine - WFHB Community Radio - WFIU Public Radio - WIUX College Radio - Boxcar Books - Death Vessel, Sub Pop Records (fantastic musician who played @ 2pm) - DM Stith, Asthmatic Kitty Records (fantastic musician who played @ 6pm) - Jonathan Richardson (Early Day Miners) (Open - 1pm DJ) - WFIU's Joe Bourne (1-2pm DJ) - Paul "Z" Mahern, Zero Boys (3-4pm DJ) - Mayor Mark Kruzan (4-5pm DJ) - Upland Brewery (delicious Helios Pale Ale libations) - Bloomingfoods West (wonderful wraps and food trays) - Greek's Pizza - Russian Recording, Mike & Dave (live sound, PA and recording) - City of Bloomington (Official Proclamation of RSD!) - Jarod and Luke from In Case of Emergency and Hexed Press for designing awesome shirts and printing outside for hours on end, braving sunburn! - Each and every customer - we couldn't do it without YOU! ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 4/21/2009 ................................................................... Art Brut - vs Satan (Downtown) ................................................................... Third album from the London-based band, produced by The Pixies' Black Francis. "We recorded the album in two weeks in Salem, Oregon," explains lead singer Eddie Argos. "We spent a day getting the sound of the instruments perfect, then with all of us in the same room at the same time, with the amazing Black Francis conducting us, we pressed record, jumped around and played our songs. This is how I always thought albums were made and it's definitely how we're doing it from now on!" Features the single 'Alcoholics Unanimous'. Maria Bamford - Unwanted Thoughts (Comedy Central) ................................................................... Almost an hour of hilarious stories told with characters in her inimitable, idiosyncratic style. The DVD features 90 minutes of fantastic video shorts, which originally appeared as "The Maria Bamford Show" web series on Super Deluxe. Maria is well-known from her two "Comedy Central Presents" specials, two critically acclaimed and strong-selling albums, her role in "The Comedians Of Comedy", and in Fox's series "Sit Down, Shut Up", from the talk show circuit, and from extensive touring. Booker T - Potato Hole (Anti) ................................................................... Booker is known as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and arranger, and is best known for fronting Booker T and the MGs. This is his first solo album in decades. He teamed with southern rockers Drive-By Truckers to produce an album that is raw and edgy, fun and innovative. And just to seal the deal, long-time Booker associate Neil Young dropped by to play blistering lead guitar on nine of the ten tracks. Produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck, Rickie Lee Jones, Foo Fighters) and Booker T. The Breeders - Fate to Fatal EP (Mississippi) ................................................................... The sisters Deal are breaking a long-standing habit. Instead of waiting 5 or 6 years to give us new material, they are set to release a new EP one scant year after they gave us the Mountain Battles LP. The four track EP contains a Mark Lanegan collaboration and (strangely) a Bob Marley cover. Cage the Elephant - s/t (Jive) ................................................................... Cage the Elephant is a Bowling Green, KY based 5 piece band. Matt, Brad and Daniel grew up on an alternative religious commune started by their ex-hippie parents. Pop music was strictly forbidden so their discovery of key punk and rock influences was covert and somewhat recent. The essence of Jimi Hendrix, Green Day, White Stripes and Kings of Leon, among others fuels Cage's libertine, over-the-top rock explosions. Cage the Elephant are exultant, intemperate, and ready to conquer. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (4AD) ................................................................... As the title suggests, their new album shares with the listener an affectionate wit and a melancholy tendency towards life's daily routines and relationships. Yet it also boasts and expands on the affected pop elements explored on their breakout album, "Let's Get Out Of This Country". It's no wonder Camera Obscura are often mentioned in the same sentences as fellow Scots Belle & Sebastian, indie rock faves The Lucksmiths, and music legends The Smiths. "Pure and unabashed pop bliss" - Filter Chairlift - Does You Inspire You (Columbia) ................................................................... Brooklyn trio who frequently share live stage with groups like Yeasayer and MGMT, their sound is wholly unique to the local scene; fronted by Caroline Polachek, whose soulful vocals bring to mind both Kate Bush and Chan Marshall, the band artfully fuses whimsical electro-pop with folk and tasteful psychedelic imagery. Chairlift's ascent owes itself to an Apple commercial: "Bruises," an 80s-reminiscent pop stunner that might have helped hawk more Nanos than Feist's "1234," wraps itself around the brain with the kind of might that could turn any body part black and blue. Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe (Capitol) ................................................................... Nearly 4 years since their last studio album, the chart-topping legendary electronic music group returns. Infused with the band's enduring lyrical obsessions - lust, spirituality, romantic yearning, sinful temptation, and sado-masochism - plus more overt dark humor than their previous albums, the music blends modern electronic textures with sounds of analog synthesizers and vintage gear. Hole Class - s/t LP (Meds) ................................................................... Mostly recorded on a farm in Ohio in 2006 by Beth Murphy (Times New Viking) & Rob Enbom (Eat Skull). Great pop songs from this duo with a 'gothic country' vibe that vaguely calls to mind an interpretation of Nancy & Lee by Neil & Jennifer. There is a stripped down feel and intimacy to everything here. From roadtrip singalongs to true heartbreakers, a perfect album. Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin - Music Is My Medicine (Ubiquity) ................................................................... Take a pinch of Hopkins deep musical madness and add a sunshine-blessed dubbed-out twist, and that is "Music Is My Medicine". RIYL: The Lions, YNQ, Mulatu, Lee Scratch Perry, Jackie Mittoo. King Khan & The Shrines - What Is?! [reissue] (Vice) ................................................................... Finally available domestically by Vice Records. Already legendary for their insane live show, What Is?! shows the band harnessing their live power into 14 blasts of pure punk-soul. Originally released in Germany in 2007, What Is?! shows The Shrines at their best. Their unique Sun Ra cum Stooges take on psychedelic big band soul is full on here, a literal aural middle finger to the calculated garage rock taking over the malls of America. Time to re-do those best of lists from a few years ago. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing (Columbia) ................................................................... In the two years since the release of their debut, Manchester Orchestra have played over 300 shows and made fans across the globe. They have toured in support of Kings of Leon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brand New, Say Anything and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. While the debut was an attention-getting shot across the bow, Mean Everything To Nothing, produced by Joe Chicarelli (My Morning Jacket, The Raconteurs, The Shins), presents a substantial leap forward in sonic textures and song craft. The Rats - Intermittent Signals LP (Mississippi) ................................................................... The Rats second album, released in 81. The obvious difference between this & the first album is that Rod Rat, who was an ultra-primitive, was replaced by Sam Henry on the drums, after he left the Wipers. The recording is also a bit more "pro," though that's probably the wrong word for such a raw record - there are some random keys, even some noisy horns in the background of the album closer, but the album is still, of course, in mono. Basically there's not a huge gap between this & Dead Moon, whereas the first album is sort of a different trip. We'd rate this one pretty high in the Fred Cole canon, & it's definitely essential for Dead Moon freaks, & probably for anyone who gets off on pure, raw, honest underground rock & roll. Bishop Perry Tillis - In Times Like This LP (Mississippi) ................................................................... Perry Tillis was born July 29, 1919, in Elba, Alabama, and began playing his brand of rambling blues at a very early age. He continued playing the blues and singing gospel, despite going blind, up until his death on November 3, 2004. In the '40s Tillis played the Chicago blues circuit alongside all-time greats likes Muddy Waters and Furry Lewis. However, when a revelation convinced him it was the devil's music, he moved back home and began preaching the gospel. Culled from 62 hours of cassettes - not for the faint of heart! Tip-on sleeve, liners included. Tinted Windows - s/t (Caroline) ................................................................... Tinted Windows are: Taylor Hanson, James Iha, Adam Schlesinger and Bun E. Carlos. Taylor Hanson is best known as the lead singer of Hanson, the trio of brothers who have been recording and touring since 1992. James Iha was one of the original members of Smashing Pumpkins, Adam Schlesinger is best known for Fountans of Wayne and Ivy. Bun E. Carlos is the drummer of the legendary Cheap Trick. Fusing the sounds of power-pop, rock and New Wave of the late 70s and early 80s, with the more modern rock and pop sounds of their own groups, the result is a fun, stripped-down, high-energy record that doesn't really sound like anything else any of the four has done elsewhere. Vollmar - Tell the Dirt LP (St Ives) ................................................................... Bton's Justin Vollmar has been making leftfield folk-rock for longer than most. He's toured with like minded artists such as Half-Handed Cloud and Elephant Micah and released a small library of home recordings. Vollmar has also lent his talents to Mt. Gigantic, Bronze Float and Matty Pop Chart. Tell the Dirt finds the band in a formal studio environment. The brain-twisting songwriting and moments of experimental flourish that have historically set Vollmar's music apart from the indie-folk crowd are here in spades. The cover art photos, taken by Will Claytor begin at day and end at night. That is, they took a picture every 15 seconds for 3 or 4 hours. Westbound Train - Come and Get It (Hellcat) ................................................................... Alongside label mates like The Aggrolites and The Slackers, Boston's Westbound Train is one of a new breed of bands closing the circle between classic soul, jazz, and reggae. On this release, producer Dave Hillyard of The Slackers brought out the loose vibe of classic soul and jazz the band had always loved. RIYL: Hepcat, The Slackers, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, or any artist released by Studio One, Treasure Island, or Trojan Records in the 60s. VA - Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace (Numero Group) ................................................................... Smart's Palace was anything but royal. Beyond the bloodlines of the Smart Brothers and their jester brother Leroy, the only kings and queens to be discovered there were JB and Aretha playing on the Wurlitzer. However, between 1963-1975 the club held court for the entire Wichita, Kansas soul scene. At its heart was Dick Smart, bassist, club owner, DJ, record store owner, promoter, and sole proprietor of the Solo label. Collected here for the first time is the story and songs that came out of this thriving, if not totally unknown scene, all fully annotated with a ransom of pictures, posters, and ephemera fit for a king. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) ................................................................... Bat for Lashes - Two Suns LP Joey Casio - Share the Cup 7" (K) Dan Deacon - Bromst LP (Carpark) Isis - Wavering Radiant LP (Ipecac) Jacuzzi Boys / Woven Bones split 7" (Needless) Radiohead - 12" EP reissues (Capitol) Young Widows / Bonnie Prince Billy split 7" (Temporary Residence) VA - Local Customs: Downriver Revival LP (Numero Group) Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ................................................................... BrakesBrakesBrakes - Touchdown (Fat Cat) Cryptacize - Mythomania (Asthmatic Kitty) Dntel - Early Works for Me If It Works For You II (Plug Research) El Michels Affair - Enter the 37th Chamber (Fat Beats) Floating Action - s/t (Park the Van) Wayne Hancock - Viper of Melody (Bloodshot) The High Strung - Ode to the Inverse of the Dude (Park the Van) Mission of Burma - CD Reissues (Matador) Okkervil River - Pop Lie EP (Jagjaguwar) Pepper - Kona Gold (Volcom) Pet Shop Boys - Yes (Astralwerks) Pterodactyl - Worldwild (Jagjaguwar) Dan Zimmerman - Cosmic Patriot (Sounds Familyre) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Black Crowes - Warpaint Live (4/28) Samantha Crain - Songs in the Night (4/28) Rivers Cuomo - Live at Fingerprints CD/DVD (4/28) Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best (4/28) Diamond Watch Wrists - Ice Capped at Both Ends (4/28) Bob Dylan - Together Through Life (4/28) Ben Lee - The Rebirth of Venus (4/28) The Monks - Early Years LP (4/28) Pulp - This is Hardcore LP [reissue] (4/28) Los Straitjackets - The Further Adventures of (4/28) Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, TX LP (4/28) Young Love - One of Us (4/28) VA - Scott Walker: 30th Century Man OST (4/28) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... MAY Akron/Family - Set em Wild, Set em Free (5/5) Nick Cave - [deluxe reissues] (5/5) Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (5/5) Deradorian - Mind Raft (5/5) Fleet Foxes - Mykonos 7" (5/5) El Grupo Nuevo - Cryptomnesia (5/5) Jon Hopkins - Insides (5/5) The Horrors - Primary Colours (5/5) Magik Markers - Balf Quarry (5/5) Mika Miko - We Be XUXA (5/5) The Monks - Black Monk Time LP (5/5) The Monks - Transatlantic Feedback DVD (5/5) Jon Mueller - Physical Changes (5/5) Nomo - Invisible Cities (5/5) Conor Oberst - Outer South (5/5) Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away (5/5) Our Brother the Native - Sacred Psalms (5/5) Peaches - I Feel Dream (5/5) Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love (5/5) Rodriguez - Coming From Reality [reissue] (5/5) St Vincent - Actor (5/5) Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines (5/5) Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms (5/5) VA - Causes 2 (5/5) Beastie Boys - Check Your Head [deluxe LP box] (5/12) Big Business - Mind the Drift (5/12) Bricolage - s/t (5/12) The Church - Untitled #23 (5/12) Datsuns - Head Stunts (5/12) Steve Earle - Townes (5/12) Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear (5/12) Serge Gainsbourg - Melody Nelson LP (5/12) Al Green - [reissues pt.2] (5/12) Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (5/12) Mark Kozelek - Lost Verses Live (5/12) Maximo Park - Quicken the Heart (5/12) Meat Puppets - Sewn Together (5/12) Mt Eerie - Live in Copenhagen 3LP (5/12) The Poison Arrows - First Class and Forever (5/12) Savath & Savalas - La Llama (5/12) Trainwreck Riders - The Perch (5/12) Mike Watt - Funland (5/12) The Wooden Birds - Magnolia (5/12) VA - Brand Neu! (5/12) Alexander the Great - Faces Change (5/12) Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin (5/19) Apostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness LP (5/19) Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light (5/19) Busta Rhymes - Back on My BS (5/19) Eric Clapton & Steven Winwood - Live from MSG (5/19) Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (5/19) Leonard Cohen - LP reissues (5/19) Eminem - Relapse (5/19) The Field - Yesterday & Today (5/19) A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Delivrance (5/19) Iron & Wine - Around the Well [rarities] (5/19) Jonathan Kane - Jet Ear Party (5/19) Kronos Quartet - Floodplain (5/19) Jeffrey Lewis - Em Are I (5/19) Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) - Yours Truly, The Commuter (5/19) Method Man - Blackout 2 (5/19) Passion Pit - Manners (5/19) Sun Ra Arkestra - Points on a Space Age DVD (5/19) John Vanderslice - Romanian Names (5/19) The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes (5/19) Wilco - LP Reissues (5/19) Bachelorette - My Electric Family (5/26) Sir Richard Bishop - Freaks of Araby (5/26) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us (5/26) James Blackshaw - Glass Bead Game (5/26) Blank Dogs - Under and Under (5/26) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (5/26) Intelligence - Fake Surfers (5/26) Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul (5/26) Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II (5/26) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (5/26) Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done (5/26) Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (5/26) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years (5/26) Tyvek - s/t (5/26) Viva Voce - Rose City (5/26) BEYOND Jeff Buckley - Live Around the World (6/2) Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (6/2) Eels - Hombre Loco (6/2) Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King (6/2) Regina Spektor - Far (6/2) Ween - All Request Live (6/2) Neil Young - Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 (6/2) Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange (6/9) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (6/9) Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum (6/9) Mos Def - The Ecstatic (6/9) Sonic Youth - The Eternal (6/9) Major Lazer (Diplo + Switch) - Guns Don't Kill People - Lazers Do (6/9) Dinosaur Jr - Farm (6/23) Foreign Born - Person to Person (6/23) The Gossip - Music for Men (6/23) God Help the Girl (Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian) - s/t (6/23) Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (6/23) John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band - Live in Toronto '69 (6/23) Mars Volta - Octahedron (6/23) Push Pull - Between Noise and the Indians (6/23) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (6/23) Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (6/23) Pete Yorn - Back and Forth (6/23) Moby - Wait For Me (6/30) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 4/13 - 4/19 1. VA - This LP Crashes Hard Drives (VA) 2. My Morning Jacket - Celebracion de la Ciudad Natal (ATO) 3. Sonic Youth / Beck - split 7" (Matador) 4. The Decemberists - Rake Song 7" (Capitol) 5. Sonic Youth / Jay Reatard - split 7" (Matador) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Heliocentrics, Boy Least Likely To, Bill Callahan, Death Cab For Cutie, Dengue Fever, John Doe & the Sadies, Mike Farris, Fire on Fire, Frank Black, Juan Maclean, Metric, Papercuts, Prefuse 73, Qemists, Silversun Pickups, Venetian Snares, Wooden Shjips, Arcade Fire, Bat for Lashes, Black Dice, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Chain and the Gang, Crystal Antlers, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Eulogies, Felice Bros, I Was a King, It Hugs Back, Joker's Daughter, Junior Boys, Micachu & The Shapes, Bob Mould, Superchunk, Richard Swift, Thermals, Veils, Whitest Boy Alive, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Gomez, Great Lake Swimmers, PJ Harvey & John Parish, Shawn Lee, Malajube, Other Lives, Peter, Bjorn and John, Thunderheist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Dan Deacon, Decemberists, MF Doom, Fever Ray, Serge Gainsbourg, Indigo Girls, Lotus Plaza, Mastodon, Mono, MSTRKRFT, 1990s, Obits, Royksopp, Swan Lake, Kurt Vile, and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: SOON 4/25 - Flight of the Conchords @ IU Auditorium 4/25 - MC Chris @ Rhino's 5/3 - Jeremy Jay @ Bear's Place 5/5 - Mock Orange / Alexander the Great @ Bluebird 5/5 - Bowerbirds @ Bear's Place 5/9 - Caroline Peyton @ Buskirk-Chumley LATER 5/13 - Bottomless Pit @ Bear's Place 5/16 - Clutch / Wino @ Jake's 5/18 - Adrian Orange @ Cinemat 5/22 - Lightning Dust / Cotton Jones @ Bear's Place 6/7 - Gregory Isaacs @ Bluebird 6/9 - Grizzly Bear / Here We Go Magic @ Buskirk-Chumley 6/11 - Pink Mountaintops @ Russian Recording 6/15 - Reverend Horton Heat @ Bluebird 6/21 - Balmorhea / Tiny Vipers @ Bear's Place 7/10-12 - Forecastle Festival @ Louisville, KY We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. 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