If you read Pitchfork, you might have seen a story yesterday about indie stores banding together and launching a digital store. Well its true, now you can buy guilt-free MP3s from us! Don't get us wrong, it still doesn't compare with the physical product - a piece of art that you can hold and read and cherish (and sell back, unlike 1s and 0s). But if you just gotsta have digital, you may as well support the local at the same time. All we ask is that you pretty please use Landlocked as your referral / affiliate by following this link and registering: http://landlocked.thinkindie.com/ - we are excited to see what they add to the catalog in the future, from freebies, exclusives and out-of-print titles to the massive major label catalogs to compete with iTunes. Welcome us to the 21st Century, its nice to be here. Heard about the crazy huge, expensive Neil Young DVD box set? If you want it, you gotta special order it - let us know ASAP. Have you pre-ordered the new Sonic Youth CD/LP yet? Stop in or email and just do it. You should also do so for the new Grizzly Bear as well - the Veckatimest drops next week and we are hosting a party on Monday, 5/25 at 6pm! If you buy the CD or LP at our party you are entered to win a VERY special prize which includes "one of a kind tickets" to their show here in Btown on 6/9. You can't buy this experience folks, you gotta win it! Thanks to Spirit of 68. ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 5/19/2009 ................................................................... Alexander the Great - Faces Change (Crossroads) ................................................................... The first full-length release from Bloomington's Alexander the Great. For a rock album, Faces Change is awfully diverse. And for a rock band, Alexander the Great is magnificently enchanting. This album showcases an impressive amount of songs; some that have already become crowd favorites, and a few surprise jams. The high energy music, meaningful lyricism and catchy hooks that pop up between proggy time signatures and lush instrumentation allow for some "I can't believe they did that" moments in addition to the ones that will leave you thinking "I can't believe nobody else thought of that!" Baby Charles - s/t (Record Kicks) ................................................................... A killer full length debut from Baby Charles - one of the most soulful deep funk combos we've heard in a long time! The group have been bubbling under for a few years with a handful of 45s (also available), but this set really shows the full range of their powers and comes off like some lost indie soul set from years back! Dionne Charles is a heck of a great lead singer, belting out the tunes here with enough raw power to match any of the other current deep funk divas on the scene. The rest of the group is plenty tight with their rhythms, knowing just when to come on hard, and when to kick back a bit. Big Business - Mind the Drift (Hydra Head) ................................................................... Producer Phil Ek (insert famous bands like The Shins here) has again evolved the band's grandiose sound and taken the Biz into new sonic territories! Guitarist and newest band member Toshi Kasai adds new voice and dimension, and looks good doing it. You can actually hear the handsome. While recording Jared's vocals, Phil Ek kept a loaded sawed-off shotgun in the control room. Nick Cave - [deluxe reissues] (Mute) ................................................................... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' first 4 albums are being re-issued in a series that will see the band's entire album catalogue digitally re-mastered and remixed in 5.1 surround sound. From Her To Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead, Kicking Against The Pricks and Your Funeral, My Trial are first. Each deluxe double disc collector's edition will contain the re-mastered stereo album, the new surround mix, a specially commissioned short film made by UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, plus b-sides from the original singles and exclusive sleeve notes. Clues - s/t (Constellation) ................................................................... The wondrous debut record from Clues. Co-founders Alden Penner and Brendan Reed have been quietly nurturing this project in Montreal since the demise of their respective bands, Unicorns and Les Angles Morts. Penner's voice, guitar and unique lyrical vision now guide Clues, with humble authority, originality and intent. Wedded to Reed's own superlative compositional and arranging acumen, the band delivered sporadic and fantastic local performances. They then entered the Hotel2Tango studio to lay down 11 songs in a feverish session during a Montreal winter deep freeze. The resulting album radiates a very special warmth and urgency, full of secrets, smiles, snarls and sing-a-longs. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (Rough Trade) ................................................................... His second solo album, following 2006's "Jarvis". Recorded in Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, "Further Complications" contains the more roughed up tunes Cocker has been peddling since parting with Pulp. The Field - Yesterday & Today (Anti) ................................................................... The Field is Axel Willner, and 2007's "Here We Go Sublime" was one of the year's most acclaimed releases, receiving a 9.0 from Pitchfork as well as universal praise. It was a soundtrack to the spit-shined airport of your dreams - faceless, futuristic, and fuzzy. Now, Willner's label, Kompakt, has teamed with Anti to release this record. Willner expands his palette, continuing the oblique sampling strategy while building up the rhythmic architecture. Iron & Wine - Around the Well [rarities] (Sub Pop) ................................................................... This 2CD/3LP collects songs ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released and spans Iron And Wine's earliest sessions which yielded the band's debut (2002's "The Creek Drank The Cradle") through material recorded for 2007's "The Shepherd's Dog". The double disc is broken into two sections. The first is an assortment of hushed home recordings, unedited and raw, and the second highlights moments captured in the studio with the help of other musicians, friends, and engineers. Jeffrey Lewis - Em Are I (Rough Trade) ................................................................... Part folkie, part indie-rocker, part comic book artist. After support tours with Jarvis Cocker, The Cribs, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, The Mountain Goats, and with artistic and literary projects all over the map, and with his recent album of anarcho-punk covers "12 Crass Songs" still making waves, Jeffrey has somehow managed to find the time to record what might be his best album yet. An 11-song production that seems to reflect a love of the last 40 years of popular music, all filtered through Jeff's unmistakable idiosyncratic muse. Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) - Yours Truly, The Commuter (Anti) ................................................................... After 15 years at the helm of Grandaddy, Jason Lytle returns with a new collection of songs that are at once a continuation of and elaboration on the musical and lyrical ideas he explored in that band. Songs about the treks we all make, from one state to another, from inner lives to outer, and the tolls those travels take. Musically, the dreamy soundscapes mirror the dramatic environment of Lytle's newly-adopted Montana while the twang of central California farmland remains in the inflection and phrasings of the Modesto native's unmistakable voice. Electronic flourishes collide with acoustic guitars and soulful piano parts, recreating his signature electro-lo-fi atmospheres. His best album since Sophtware Slump! Free poster w/ purchase! Method Man & Redman - Blackout 2 (Def Jam) ................................................................... With over 16 years in the business, Redman & Method Man are certifiable Rap superstars with a devoted fan-base that spans the globe. The secret to their longevity as one of Rap's longest lasting duos is due in part to the fact that the two emcees bring fun to Hip Hop. Passion Pit - Manners (French Kiss) ................................................................... Redemption. Paranoia. Guilt. And brief glimpses of a better tomorrow, all cloaked in Pop hooks that truly help the medicine go down. What is this? Another lost LP from Brian Wilson's sandbox phase? If only things were that simple. What we're really alluding to here is Passion Pit's first proper full-length, a bird-flipping break from the blogosphere by a 21 year old with much more on his manic mind than girls, girls, girls. You know, important matters, like the end of the world and learning to love someone other than the man in the mirror. Sam Lowry - With / Without (Higher Step) ................................................................... Bloomington's own! His songwriting occupies the dark corner where the poetry of Leonard Cohen shares a drink with Tom Waits midnight observations, while his albums sonically occupy the kind of adventurous gothic American territory traveled by Smog and Sparklehorse. Over the course of 7 years and 4 albums, he has slowly been perfecting his unique brand of dark Americana, sharpening the cut of his voice and deepening the impact of his words. Recorded live in an old church it features Sarah Balliet (Murder by Death), Sophia Travis and Nathaniel Seer. If every singer-songwriter had this much power behind such an economy of words, we'd probably all have a higher consciousness by now. Savath & Savalas - La Llama (Stones Throw) ................................................................... The third album by this side project from Prefuse 73's Guilermo Scott Herren. Herren, with Eva Puyuleo Muns and Roberto Carlos Lange, were inspired by a shared love for South American Psychedelic music and the early '70s independent music scene that briefly flourished in Brazil. John Vanderslice - Romanian Names (Dead Oceans) ................................................................... You loved him at the Bus-Chum a few weeks ago with Mountain Goats... Now snag his best record to date, containing twelve songs representing a career-defining moment; a pitch-perfect collection written and recorded with the utmost care and attention. A symphony of sounds both subtle and lush. The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes (Tee Pee) ................................................................... Where the band's last long player "Heavy Deavy Skull Lover" tweaked time in an icy-cool, white noise swirl that evoked a decadent lysergic night, this effort is disorientation through a longer lens - pictures of luck, longing, losing, moods and fever dreams scrambled in the haze of near and distant memory. The Warlock's signature amalgam of "White Light/White Heat" attack, space panoramas, fuzz, melancholy, and melody is present and potent, but there's vivid focus too. Throbbing bass lines, distant rolling thunder drums, and zombie rattlesnake shake are a heartbeat of strange, ominous vitality. Guitars howl, slash, and bounce like light. The vocals sound oddly alone and unsettlingly intimate all at once. White Rabbits - Its Frightening (TBD) ................................................................... After spending the better part of two years on the road (including festival stops at Lollapallooza, Glastonbury, Sasquatch, Monolith and tours with The Walkmen, Spoon, Richard Swift, The Crips, White Denim and Tokyo Police Club) White Rabbits hunkered down in their Brooklyn practice space to set about re-envisioning the dark pop of their debut Fort Nightly, while adding new sounds and influences to achieve an original work. The result is It's Frightening, their second full-length album. VA - Llik Your Idols DVD (MVD) ................................................................... A 69-minute documentary that depicts the explosive underground NYC scene of the 80s. It celebrates with cynicism the changes in that unique city under Reagan and Bush Sr. Under the banners of Cinema of Transgression and No Wave (Sonic Youth, The Swans, Lydia Lunch, The Butthole Surfers, Foetus), a bunch of "insolent kids" briefly become the new anti-heroes of a generation. Scornful and flippant, their films and music violently attack conformity they see all around them, highlighting an erotically-charged and sardonic movement. A non-nostalgic examination of characters that have since become established artists. Includes interviews of Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Jack Sargeant, Thurston Moore, Richard Hell, Bruce Labruce, Jarboe. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) ................................................................... Leonard Cohen - [First 5 LP reissues] (Sundazed) Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek) Desolation Wilderness - No Tomorrow 7" (K) Faux Hoax - Your Friends Will Carry You Home 7" (Polyvinyl) Headlights - Remixes LP (Polyvinyl) Jookabox / Dosh - Unusual Animals 7" (Asthmatic Kitty) Mates Of State - All Day LP (Polyvinyl) Pan American - LP reissues (Kranky) Psychedelic Horsesh!t - Sh!tgaze Anthems 12" (Woodsist) Pulp - This is Hardcore LP (Plain) Young Widows / Melt Banana split 7" (Temporary Residence) Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ................................................................... Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin (Republic) Apostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness (Arts & Crafts) Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light (Our Secret) Bellini - The Precious Prize of Gravity (Temporary Residence) Busta Rhymes - Back on My BS (Motown) Eric Clapton & Steven Winwood - Live from MSG (Reprise) Dane Cook - Isolated Incident (Comedy Central) Curious Mystery - Rotting Slowly (K) Ducktails - s/t (Not Not Fun) Elfin Saddle - Ringing for the Begin Again (Constellation) Eminem - Relapse (Interscope) Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (Reprise) Florian Hecker - Acid in the Style of David Tudor (Mego) Hot Chip - A Bugged Out Mix (New State) Jonathan Kane - Jet Ear Party (Table of the Elements) Kronos Quartet - Floodplain (Nonesuch) Hisham Mayet - Palace of the Winds DVD (Sublime Frequencies) Moderat - s/t (Bpitch Control) Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy and I'm Singing [2CD reissue] (Mego) Parachute - Losing Sleep (Mercury) Red Stick Ramblers - My Suitcase is Always Packed (Sugarhill) Settle - At Home We Are Tourists (Epitaph) Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020 (Sublime Frequencies) Sun Ra Arkestra - Points on a Space Age DVD (MVD) Hermas Zopoula - Espoir (Asthmatic Kitty) John Zorn - Alhambra Love Songs (Tzadik) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Anathallo - Canopy Glow LP (5/26) 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 (special furry version!) (5/26) James Blackshaw - Glass Bead Game (5/26) Blank Dogs - Under and Under (5/26) Brian Jonestown Massacre - Smoking Acid EP (5/26) Harold Budd & Clive Wright - Candylion (5/26) Buffalo Stance - Sugar Glider (5/26) Burial / Fourtet - Moth / Wolf Cub 12" (5/26) Butthole Surfers - PCPPEP 12" (5/26) Carolina Chocolate Drops & Joe Thompson - s/t (5/26) Cave - Psychic Psummer (5/26) Cheap Time - Woodland Drive 7" (5/26) Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain (5/26) Doom - Born Like This LP (5/26) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (5/26) Hallucinogen - In Dub Live (5/26) A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Deliverance (5/26) Intelligence - Fake Surfers (5/26) Juan Maclean - One Day 12" (5/26) Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul (5/26) The Lava Children - s/t (5/26) Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II (5/26) Loop - reissues (5/26) Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin 7" (5/26) Jack Oblivian & the Tennessee Tearjerkers - Flip Side Kid (5/26) The Paper Chase - Someday This Could All Be Yours (5/26) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (5/26) School of Seven Bells - My Cabal 12" (5/26) Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done (5/26) Sh!tmat - One Foot in the Rave (5/26) Subhumans - [reissues pt. 1] (5/26) Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (5/26) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years (5/26) Tiga - Ciao! (5/26) Vieux Farka Toure - Fonda (5/26) Tyvek - s/t (5/26) Unknown Instructors - Funland (5/26) Sharon Van Etten - Because I Was in Love (5/26) Viva Voce - Rose City (5/26) Wand - Hard Knox (5/26) War Tapes - The Continental Divide (5/26) Kanye West & Malik Yusef - Good Morning Good Night (5/26) Wu-Tang South - Vol. 1 (5/26) Xasthur - All Reflections Drained (5/26) Zap Mama - Recreation (5/26) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... JUNE Beck - One Foot in the Grave LP (6/2) 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) Jay Dee - Jay Stay Paid (6/2) Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall (6/2) Taking Back Sunday - New Again (6/2) 311 - Uplifter (6/2) Ween - All Request Live (6/2) Neil Young - Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 (6/2) Aggrolites - IV (6/9) Trey Anastasio / Don Hart - Time Turns Elastic (6/9) Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (6/9) Black Meteoric Star - s/t (6/9) Busdriver - Jhelli Beam (6/9) Cake - Motorcade of Generosity [reissue] (6/9) Coalesce - Ox (6/9) Cosmos (Pollard) - Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks (6/9) Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange (6/9) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (6/9) The Features - Some Kind of Salvation (6/9) Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum (6/9) Liechtenstein - Survival Strategies In A Modern World (6/9) Mos Def - The Ecstatic (6/9) Placebo - Battle for the Sun (6/9) Slim Twig - Contempt! (6/9) Todd Snider - The Excitement Plan (6/9) Sonic Youth - The Eternal (6/9) Stardeath and White Dwarfs - The Birth (6/9) Zeros - Don't Push Me Around LP [reissue] (6/9) VA - Milky Disco 2 (6/9) Avengers - s/t [reissue] (6/16) Beach Boys - [LP reissues] (6/16) Beastie Boys - Ill Communication [reissue] (6/16) The Builders and the Butchers - Salvation is a Deep Dark Well (6/16) De La Soul - Me, Myself and I DVD (6/16) Dead Weather - Horehound (6/16) Major Lazer (Diplo + Switch) - Guns Don't Kill People - Lazers Do (6/16) Red Hot Chili Peppers - [LP reissues] (6/16) Roxy Music - [LP reissues pt.2] (6/16) Bjork - Voltaic (6/23) Breeders - LP reissues (6/23) Budos Band - EP (6/23) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone LP (6/23) Dinosaur Jr - Farm (6/23) Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin [LP reissue] (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) Lemonheads - Varshons (6/23) John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band - Live in Toronto '69 (6/23) Lil Wayne - Rebirth (6/23) Love is All - Last Choice EP (6/23) Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs 3LP (6/23) Mars Volta - Octahedron (6/23) Push Pull - Between Noise and the Indians (6/23) R.E.M. - [reissues] (6/23) Serengeti & Polyphonic - Terradactyl (6/23) Regina Spektor - Far (6/23) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (6/23) The Thing - Bag It (6/23) Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (6/23) Venetian Snares - Horsey Noises (6/23) Pete Yorn - Back and Forth (6/23) Levon Helm - Electrified Dirt (6/30) Moby - Wait For Me (6/30) Wilco - Wilco (The Album) (6/30) BEYOND Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes 12" (7/7) Bowerbirds - Upper Air (7/7) Oneida - Rated O (7/7) Those Darlins - s/t (7/7) Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine (7/21) Wilco - LP Reissues (8/25) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 5/11 - 5/17 1. Steve Earle, Townes (New West) 2. Akron/Family; Set'em Wild, Set'em Free (Dead Oceans) 3. Rodriguez, Coming From Reality (Light in the Attic) 4. St. Vincent, Actor (4AD) 5. Pink Mountaintops, Outside Love (Jagjaguwar) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from The Antlers, Boxcutter, Bricolage, Crystal Method, Steve Earle, Jeremy Enigk, Grizzly Bear, Mark Kozelek, Maximo Park, Meat Puppets, The Wooden Birds, Akron/Family, Deradoorian, Ben Harper, Jon Hopkins, The Horrors, Isis, Magik Markers, Mika Miko, Nomo, Conor Oberst, Tara Jane O'Neil, Peaches, Pink Mountaintops, Rodriguez, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, St. Vincent, Patrick Watson, Black Crowes, Samantha Crain, Crocodiles, Diamond Watch Wrists, Bob Dylan, 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, Westbound Train, Heliocentrics, Boy Least Likely To, Bill Callahan, Death Cab For Cutie, Dengue Fever, John Doe & the Sadies, Frank Black, Juan Maclean, Metric, Prefuse 73, Silversun Pickups, Venetian Snares and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 5/22 - Cotton Jones @ Bear's Place 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 LATER 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 7/20 - Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band / AA Bondy @ Jake's 7/26 - Drakkar Sauna @ Bear's Place We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. 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