Ahhh finals week here in College Town, USA. Soon the kids will runaway and the brave locals will once again run rampant through the streets. We can't hardly wait! Let's celebrate with some music, shall we? Stop in Landlocked and pre-order Sonic Youth's The Eternal (out on June 9) on CD or 2xLP, and you'll also receive access to an advanced stream of the album (available NOW!), a limited-edition live LP (River To River Festival July 4th Concert in Battery Park), exclusive MP3s and a poster. Pre-ordering is the only way to receive the live vinyl on release day! Buy Early Get Now exclusive presale tickets available April 30 - nice! Better pre-order it today! Speaking of pre-orders, you should do so for the new Grizzly Bear CD/LP as well - the Veckatimest drops on 5/26 and we here at Landlocked are hosting a party on 5/25! If you buy the album at our party you are entered to win a VERY special prize which will include "special tickets" to their show here in Btown on 6/9. You can't buy this experience folks, you gotta win it! More info soon. ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 5/5/2009 ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 5/5/2009 Akron/Family - Set em Wild, Set em Free (Dead Oceans) ................................................................... Opening with a groove unlike anything Akron/Family have ever laid to tape, the first track kicks off a new chapter for the band. The percussive thunder and anthemic electric guitars make a bold statement, touching on everything from Fela Kuti to Sly and the Family Stone in under six psychedelic minutes. Their musical vocabulary runs deep - it's not just Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, and The Grateful Dead that inform this record; the band feels at home, confident, and self-assured. With limited outside assistance, the trio has made a focused, powerful, and unified work. This is the new psychedelic rock. Deradoorian - Mind Raft EP (Lovepump) ................................................................... Astonishingly mature, dark, beautiful, and unexpected, if only because it seems to have tapped into something far older and wiser than Angel Deradoorian's (Dirty Projectors) twenty-two years would suggest. Whether it's the guitar, bass flute, or her stunning voice, Angel's musical proficiency is boundless. This is as promising as a debut can get. Ben Harper - White Lies for Dark Times (Virgin) ................................................................... The ninth studio album from acclaimed singer/songwriter and Grammy Award-winner Ben Harper. Harper has now reunited with band mates met when recording Both Sides of the Gun (2006) Relentless7. White Lies For Dark Times is a timeless Rock record, with a cohesive collection of music that is as raw, unrelenting and thunderous, as it is arrestingly haunting and emotional. Jon Hopkins - Insides (Domino) ................................................................... This composer, pianist, and self-taught studio wizard makes big, bold electronic music using walls of synths, twinkling melodies, and amorphous bass rumbles. His previous two albums had him labeled by ambient patriarch Brian Eno as an electronic innovator, while an impressive sweep of artists such as Herbie Hancock, David Holmes, Coldplay, and lo-fi folkster King Creosote have called upon his handiwork as producer and composer. On this, his Domino debut, Hopkins showcases an intriguing musical aesthetic. "Insides" is about juxtaposition: natural, arcane textures welded to pulsing, hypnotic rhythms; beautiful acoustic melodies set against jarring bass. Reminiscent of the beautiful melodies and harsh dirty beats of Four Tet, Squarepusher, Burial, and Aphex Twin. The Horrors - Primary Colours (XL) ................................................................... Their debut "Strange House" was as controversial as it was celebrated, landing them on the cover of NME in their native England. This is their first album for XL. Produced by Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and noted video director Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin, Bjork). Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac) ................................................................... The music of Isis is a suitable metaphor for their 12-year career: patient, meticulous, fraught with tension and gradually building towards an apex of seismic proportions. From the hypnotically bludgeoning down-tuned riffs to the gracefully sprawling passages and continuing through the intricate rhythmic textures, ISIS have successfully navigated the process of growing and evolving without disavowing their initial vision. Grandiose without being over-indulgent, epic without compromising focus, Isis have resurrected the art of prioritizing the album over the individual songs. Magik Markers - Balf Quarry (Drag City) ................................................................... Sure, Balf Quarry has moody space in its soul, melodies whether stretched over Rock, ululating rhythm, chimes 'n piano and/or wah-wah. Regardless of the configuration, Elisa Ambrogio and Pete Nolan are locked together, beating it out, listening to feeling the sound of their earth quake. And slicing through all the atmosphere, Elisa's voice is a spear of light, splashes of mud, an acid purple flashback. Mika Miko - We Be XUXA (PPM) ................................................................... Never polished, always urgent and catchy, they somehow conduct a current take on the old emotions of great punk rock bands that came before them, such as the blistered energy of Redd Cross and early Legal Weapon, the charming shrillness of Lilliput and Rubella Ballet, and the ferocity of The Adolescents. On their second full-length, they expand on their remarkable songwriting skills, mixing great riffs with simple ideas and melody with speed while sending you into a mind melting frenzy. The Monks - Transatlantic Feedback DVD (Play Loud) ................................................................... The Monks were 5 American GI's in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent krautrock, heavy metal, punk, industrial and techno music. 'You can hear their influence across decades', states Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. Ten years in the making, winner of the German TV Oscar in 2008. Nomo - Invisible Cities (Ubiquity) ................................................................... With a theme stolen from Italian novelist Italo Calvino, each tune on "Invisible Cities" is a little world of its own, dense with rhythm and timbre. Hot horns blaze through intersecting lines, heavy percussion drives the band down winding streets, the bass rumbles in some subterranean corridor. This record is the follow-up to "Ghost Rock" and is informed by the band's ceaseless traveling and visits to places both real and unreal. Nomo busts up genres and musical borders with astonishing results. RIYL: Konono No. 1, Can, Fela Kuti, MIA, Moondog, Mulatu, Talking Heads, Antibalas. Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South (Merge) ................................................................... While touring in support of last year's debut "Conor Oberst", Conor and The Mystic Valley Band began writing new songs. The result is the first album credited to this group. Oberst's songwriting and delivery remain an engaging presence, but the addition of songs by Taylor Hollingsworth, Nik Freitas, and Jason Boesel make for a multi-textured and colorful collaboration. The Mystic Valley band also includes Macey Taylor and Nathaniel Walcott. Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away (K) ................................................................... Her fifth album and first for K contains an elegant attention to detail in the mix that will please all those in need of great headphone jams, electronic minimalist drone magic, and heroic adventure. But "A Ways Away" is driven by the singer and the songs. Her voice is out front and the vocals are gorgeously sung. Contributors include Jana Hunter and Mirah. Peaches - I Feel Cream (XL) ................................................................... With her pioneering electro-punk sound that has taken hold amongst a new breed of female stars, Peaches now seems as relevant to the musical landscape as ever before. On "I Feel Cream" she does it again, this time producing, along with the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, Soulwax, Digitalism, and Drums Of Death, her most pop-sounding album to date. The beats remain as harsh and uncompromising as ever, but with a new found melodic groove that has only been previously hinted at. Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... The third album by Pink Mountaintops, aka Stephen McBean, was influenced by weddings in Montreal, winter, Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut", Christmas albums, the Bermuda Triangle, a song by Exile, a song by Echo And The Bunnymen, being depressed in the sunshine, The Everly Brothers, clowns in the ceilings, and bedrooms where skinheads used to live. A veteran of the Vancouver/Victoria punk rock scene, McBean is best known for his contributions to acclaimed rock band Black Mountain as principal songwriter, guitarist, and co-vocalist. Contributors on this release include members of Destroyer, Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter, Jackie-O MFer, The Organ, Black Mountain, and more. Rodriguez - Coming From Reality [reissue] (Light in the Attic) ................................................................... Digitally remastered and expanded reissue of his 1971 album. Coming From Reality is another treat for fans new and old, designed as Rodriguez's vision of a perfect Pop album. Coming From Reality found Rodriguez decamping from Detroit to London's Lansdowne Studios, where the album was recorded with some of the UK's top talent including Chris Spedding and producer Steve Rowland), who recalls Coming From Reality as his all time favorite recording project. The reissue also includes three previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded in Detroit in 1972 with Cold Fact collaborators Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey, representing the last thing the trio ever did together. Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Cryptomnesia (Sargent) ................................................................... Cryptomnesia is the first release by El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez. This new outfit is differentiated from the guitarist's other namesake projects by his selection of players, specifically Zach Hill (Hella) on drums, Jonathan Hischke (Hella) on synth bass, and Juan Alderete de la Pena (The Mars Volta) on bass guitar. Additionally, Cryptomnesia features the vocals of guest frontman Cedric Bixler Zavala (The Mars Volta). St. Vincent - Actor (4AD) ................................................................... The follow-up to St. Vincent's first album "Marry Me" features 11 new songs, all written and arranged by Clark. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired. Clark has toured with The National, Death Cab For Cutie, and Arcade Fire, and was named Female Artist Of The Year at the 2008 PLUG Independent Music Awards. Before recording as St. Vincent, she was a member of The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' touring band, and she performed with Glenn Branca's guitar orchestra. 39 Clocks - Zoned (De Stijl) ................................................................... German art rock band 39 Clocks were known for pranksterism and the destruction of the clubs in which they'd perform. Theirs was a sound attuned to classic American punk/Nuggets. This collection was put together with the non-completist in mind (originals of some of these records are extremely rare), intending to display the general 39 Clocks vibe, but also some of their more curious wrinkles. Very odd & recommended. Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines (Sub Pop) ................................................................... The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and indie rock enthusiasts across the globe, including superfan Kurt Cobain, while remaining underappreciated by the mainstream. "Enter The Vaselines" is the definitive 3LP/2CD collection. Includes new mixes and re-mastered versions of material previously available on "The Way Of The Vaselines", plus never-before-heard demos, and live recordings from 1986 in Bristol and 1988 in London. Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms (Secret City) ................................................................... Wooden Arms is Patrick Watson's highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed Close to Paradise, which vaulted the man and his band to international stardom in 2007. The Montreal band toured non-stop for two years following the initial release of Close to Paradise in 2006, and in many ways Wooden Arms is the story and sound of a band waking up in strange places all around the world. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) ................................................................... Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows 7" (Hear) Cotton Candy - Fantastic & Spectacular 7" (Teenbeat) Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move 12" (Domino) Julie Doiron / Calm Down Its Monday split 7" (K) Fleet Foxes - Mykonos 7" (Sub Pop) Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson LP (LITA) Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care LP (Domino) Killing Joke - LP reissues (Candlelight) Mastodon - Crack the Skye LP (Reprise) The Monks - Black Monk Time LP (Light in the Attic) Bob Mould - Life and Times LP (Anti) Pit Er Pat - High Time Remix 12" (Thrill Jockey) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years 2LP (Rough Trade) Neil Young - Fork in the Road LP (Reprise) Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ................................................................... Arctic Monkeys - At the Apollo DVD/CD (Reprise) A-Trak - Fabriclive (Fabric) Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus [reissue] (Definitive Jux) Cracker - Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey (429) Double Dagger - More (Thrill Jockey) El-B - The Roots of El-B (Tempa) Jose Feliciano Band - Paris Concert DVD (MVD) Fischerspooner - Entertainment (FS) John Foxx / Robin Guthrie - Mirrorball (Metamatic) Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - Lonely Street (Rounder) Peter Liecht / Roman Signer - Signer's Suitcase DVD (Drag City) Metal Retardation - Are you Metally Retarded? DVD (MVD) Jon Mueller - Physical Changes (Table of the Elements) New York Dolls - Cause I Sez So (Atco) Our Brother the Native - Sacred Psalms (Fat Cat) Radio City - Class of 77 (Radio Heartbeat) Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (Drag City) DJ Shadow - Diminishing Returns [reissue] (Reconstruction) Sinkane - s/t (Emergency Umbrella) Christopher Tignor - Core Memory Unwound (Western Vinyl) The Wire magazine - Kode 9 cover (Wire) VA - Causes 2 (Waxploitation) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Alexander the Great - Faces Change (5/12) Beastie Boys - Check Your Head [deluxe LP box] (5/12) Big Business - Mind the Drift (5/12) Boxcutter - Arecibo Message (5/12) Bricolage - s/t (5/12) Cause Co-Motion - Because EP (5/12) The Church - Untitled #23 (5/12) Crystal Method - Divided by Night (5/12) Datsuns - Head Stunts (5/12) Steve Earle - Townes (5/12) Eat Skull - Wild and Inside LP (5/12) Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear (5/12) James Ferraro - Clear (5/12) Jim Ford - Big Mouth USA / Unissued (5/12) Serge Gainsbourg - Melody Nelson LP (5/12) Al Green - [reissues pt.2] (5/12) Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (5/12) Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks 12" (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 (American Analog Set) - Magnolia (5/12) VA - Brand Neu! (5/12) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... MAY 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) Nick Cave - [deluxe reissues] (5/19) Eric Clapton & Steven Winwood - Live from MSG (5/19) Clues - s/t (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) Hot Chip - A Bugged Out Mix (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 & Redman - Blackout 2 (5/19) Parachute - Losing Sleep (5/19) Passion Pit - Manners (5/19) Red Stick Ramblers - My Suitcase is Always Packed (5/19) Settle - At Home We Are Tourists (5/19) Stardeath and White Dwarfs - The Birth (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) White Rabbits - Its Frightening (5/19) John Zorn - Alhambra Love Songs (5/19) Bachelorette - My Electric Family (5/26) Bike for Three - More Heart than Brains (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) Brian Jonestown Massacre - Smoking Acid EP (5/26) Cheap Time - Woodland Drive 7" (5/26) Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain (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) Loop - reissues (5/26) The Paper Chase - Someday This Could All Be Yours (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) War Tapes - The Continental Divide (5/26) Xasthur - All Reflections Drained (5/26) BEYOND Boy Least Likely To - Best B-Sides Ever (6/2) Jeff Buckley - Grace Around the World (6/2) Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (6/2) Eels - Hombre Loco (6/2) Lee Fields & the Expressions - My World (6/2) Franz Ferdinand - Blood (6/2) Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King (6/2) Iggy Pop - Preliminaires (6/2) Regina Spektor - Far (6/2) 311 - Uplifter (6/2) Ween - All Request Live (6/2) Wilco - LP Reissues (6/2) Neil Young - Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 (6/2) Aggrolites - IV (6/9) Black Meteoric Star - s/t (6/9) Cosmos (Pollard) - Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks (6/9) Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange (6/9) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (6/9) Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum (6/9) Liechtenstein - Survival Strategies In A Modern World (6/9) Major Lazer (Diplo + Switch) - Guns Don't Kill People - Lazers Do (6/9) Mos Def - The Ecstatic (6/9) Sonic Youth - The Eternal (6/9) Venetian Snares - Horsey Noises (6/9) Avengers - s/t [reissue] (6/16) Breeders - LP reissues (6/23) Budos Band - EP (6/23) Dinosaur Jr - Farm (6/23) Foreign Born - Person to Person (6/23) Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another (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 4/27 - 5/3 1. Bob Dylan, Together Through Life (Columbia) 2. Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career (4AD) 3. Wilco, Ashes of American Flags DVD (Nonesuch) 4. Thee Oh Sees, Help (In the Red) 5. Booker T, Potato Hole (Anti) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Ape School, Black Crowes, Samantha Crain, Crocodiles, Diamond Watch Wrists, Bob Dylan, Ben Lee, Los Straitjackets, Men Without Pants, Merzbannon, Thee Oh Sees, Themselves, Young Love, Art Brut, Maria Bamford, Booker T, Breeders, Cage the Elephant, Camera Obscura, Chairlift, Depeche Mode, Clutchy Hopkins, King Khan, Manchester Orchestra, The Rats, Bishop Perry Tillis, Tinted Windows, Vollmar, Westbound Train, 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, Chain & the Gang, Crystal Antlers, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Eulogies, Felice Bros, It Hugs Back, Joker's Daughter, Junior Boys, Bob Mould, Superchunk, Richard Swift, Thermals, Veils, Neil Young and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: SOON 5/5 - Mock Orange / Alexander the Great @ Bluebird 5/5 - Bowerbirds @ Bear's Place 5/9 - Caroline Peyton @ Buskirk-Chumley 5/13 - Bottomless Pit @ Bear's Place 5/16 - Clutch / Wino @ Jake's 5/18 - Adrian Orange @ Cinemat 5/22 - Cotton Jones @ Bear's Place LATER 6/2 - Julie Doiron @ 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 6/17 - Maps & Atlases @ Russian Recording 6/19 - Doug Paisley @ Bear's Place 6/21 - Balmorhea / Tiny Vipers @ Bear's Place 6/25 - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone @ Russian Recording 6/26 - Steve Earle @ Buskirk-Chumley 7/8 - Sunset Rubdown @ Jake's 7/10-12 - Forecastle Festival @ Louisville, KY 7/26 - Drakkar Sauna @ Bear's Place We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. 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