Whoa - that was some strange 4th of July. While we were bummed the parade didn't go in front of our store anymore, we did get some much needed R&R. Thanks to everyone who came out to the final Shapes show - it was truly epic. Now what? Well, you can go to Sunset Rubdown tomorrow night at Jake's. Or see off Magnolia Electric Co as they start their tour on friday. Tickets for both available at Landlocked, of course. Stop in and see what else we've got... ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 7/7/2009 ................................................................... Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes 12" (Domino) ................................................................... This follows in the wake of their most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album to date, "Merriweather Post Pavilion." It highlights the warm weather standout jam "Summertime Clothes", and is accompanied by remixes from Dam-Funk (Stones Throw), Zomby (Hyperdub), and L.D. (Hyperdub). Bowerbirds - Upper Air (Dead Oceans) ................................................................... The follow-up to "Hymns For A Dark Horse". "Upper Air" moves away from the singular sound and sentiment; each song is a unique, beautiful piece. The arrangements are subtle: acoustic guitars, organ, piano, autoharp, violin, percussion, upright bass, and more are used throughout. This music has the spirit of Richard and Linda Thompson, the currency of Devendra Banhart, and the addictively sweet melodicism of Iron & Wine, but it churns with an underlying energy closer to a Beirut or something more raw, more wild. Broken Records - Until the Earth Begins to Part (4AD) ................................................................... Scottish 7-piece releases their debut. They've already been tipped for greatness by publications as diverse as NME, Q, and The Word. A series of 3 singles released in 2008 led NME to call them "an incredible proposition set to go stellar as soon as they decide on a lucky label to sign to." "They simply astound - epic, swirling, joyfully mysterious music with a warmth and heart" - The Guardian Discovery - LP (XL) ................................................................... Discovery is the recording project of Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) and Wes Miles (Ra Ra Riot). Guest vocals from Ezra Koening (Vampire Weekend) and Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors). Elements of European electronic dance music skittering in double time over steady R&B. "Cascades of synths that belong on a My Bloody Valentine record and electronic flurries that sound like a flock of robins chirping incessantly on a spring morning" - Pitchfork Drive By Truckers - Live from Austin TX CD+DVD (New West) ................................................................... This release features the entire performance on both CD and DVD. There is over an hour of music on each disc. The DBT performance on Austin City Limits was an instant classic. Recorded during their Brighter Than Creations Dark tour, the band line-up featured is Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, John Neff, Brad Morgan and Jay Gonzalez. Formed in 1996, these southern rockers are known for their 3-guitar attack. The 13 songs recorded for ACL feature a mix of new songs from Brighter Than Creations Dark alongside DBT classics Let There Be Rock and 18 Wheels Of Love and Marry Me. It also features one of the final live performances of the song "The Living Bubba". Chris Garneau - El Radio (Absolutely Kosher) ................................................................... There is still a poignant melancholy and bold sincerity that permeates all of Garneau's music, but those qualities are augmented by a playfulness in his melodies and arrangements. Garneau's extensive cast of characters unavoidably comment on the social and political forces that pull us unpredictably through time while rollicking to the rhythms of an organ grinder. RIYL: Thao Nguyen, Rufus Wainwright, Elliott Smith, Xiu Xiu. Hatcham Social - You Dig The Tunnel (TBD) ................................................................... Debut album from the well-scrubbed Londoneering indiepoptastic quartet. Recorded at Big Mushroom Studios in the north of England with The Charlatans singer Tim Burgess at the controls, this is a spiky, sparky collection of itching pop tunes which hark back to a time of musical innocence. Jayhawks - Music from the North Country Anthology (Sony) ................................................................... Formed in Minneapolis in 1985 around the songwriting duo of Mark Olson and Gary Louris - the Jayhawks brought together the best elements of country, folk, and rock. After 4 studio albums and numerous US tours, Olson parted company in 1995, leaving Louris to carry on with a revolving lineup. The duo reunited for 3 songs on Olson's 2007 solo album The Salvation Blues, and they decided to continue working together under their own names. With Olson and Louris currently on the road performing both new songs and classic Jayhawks tracks, the time is right to release the Jayhawks' first-ever compilation. Cass McCombs - Catacombs (Domino) ................................................................... Cass's fourth album and second for Domino evokes a return to his early, simpler sounding works, "A" and "PREfection". It's full of storied songs flush with emotional relevance and accessibility. Each track is cloaked in shiver inducing melodies that lay the perfect foundation for Cass' true source of transcendence his vocals and lyrics. McCombs carries on transcending fad and fashion to ensure the art of songwriting lives on. The Minus 5 - Killingsworth (Yep Roc) ................................................................... Now the 8th LP from the loose creative collective / serious drinking association helmed by wayfarer and musical enabler Scott McCaughey. Killingsworth features an incarnation of The Minus 5 including apparatus support poles McOi, Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and John Moen (Decemberists). Other gypsies in the carnival include The She Bee Gees, further Decemberists Colin Meloy, Jenny Conlee, Chris Funk, Nate Query and many more. Pedal steel belted radials drive throughout the gravelly fern-lined byways of the neighborhood of Killingsworth. Either ride along with the show or get out of the way of its careening wheel man, drunk with liquor and blood. Oneida - Rated O (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... Oneida are critical darlings, have become ambassadors for Jagjaguwar, and are paying it forward with a label of their own (Brah Records). Consider them the bastard offspring of a Can/Suicide marriage; a band unafraid to pluck, tap, bend, synth, or crash their way to the various extremes of rock, pop, folk, and the avant-garde, and who brilliantly do so without alienating the respective fans of any of these genres. This is both a triple CD and a triple LP. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns (Saddle Creek) ................................................................... Thanks to their exciting live performances and gritty, honest songs, this Canadian band has earned a loyal following. With no label or publicist, "Hometowns" caught the ears of bloggers across the country. They landed several festival and industry showcases and "Hometowns" became the highest selling eMusic Selects act in history. The band's inspiring DIY success story continues to gain momentum with glowing reviews and sold out club dates. Son Volt - American Central Dust (Rounder) ................................................................... After spearheading the alt-country movement with his band Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar pursued his vision with Son Volt, who recorded 3 landmark LPs in the 90s before he put the band on extended hiatus and cut 3 solo records. The new album exhilaratingly carries on the tradition of the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Little Feat circa Sailin' Shoes, the Rolling Stones of Exile on Main Street and early REM. An epic lament for the heartland, it is populated with readily recognizable characters, the most hopeful of them searching for love against a backdrop of rusted road signs and abandoned factories. Spoon - Got Nuffin EP (Merge) ................................................................... This is Spoon's first recorded music since Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: a new single called "Got Nuffin," as well as two b-sides. In case you are wondering, these b-sides are entitled "Tweakers" and "Stroke Their Brains." The available formats: CD and MP3 ( http://landlocked.thinkindie.com/ ), with vinyl to be made available soon. Those Darlins - s/t (Thirty Tigers) ................................................................... Those Darlins are a pop group, if they are any one thing, which doesn't mean anybody with ears can't hear the country and rock n' roll in their sound and stance. Or maybe this trio of young women (early twenties, although mo one's telling exactly), who live in a long stone's throw from Nashville, Tennessee in th college town of Murfreesboro, are punks straight out of London or Cleveland, 1977. The y'allternative to Vivian Girls? Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Tiny Vipers is Jesy Fortino, a musician living in Seattle. If you saw her live at Bears a couple Sundays ago, you know she has been transfixing audiences into a solemn hush. Transcending the mere folk tag, Fortino draws from disparate inspirational sources, from the avant-garde or country musician Townes Van Zandt. "Life On Earth" gives musical life to the themes that inhabit her lyricisms: love found and lost, places come and gone. The future annihilates the past, consuming it like a fire. A shining hope permeates the threat of doom here. Recommended. VA - Dillanthology 2: Dilla's Remixes for Various Artists (Rapster) ................................................................... The second installment in the Dillanthology series. Volume Two focuses on some of the seminal remixes from J. Dilla and contains some of the late producers' most defining tracks from Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, Spacek and Slum Village plus some rare versions of The Artifacts and Masta Ace. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) ................................................................... Cecil Barfield - South Georgia Blues LP (Mississippi) Blk Jks - Mystery (Steve Osborne 12" remix) (Secretly Canadian) Circuit des Yeux - Fruition 7" (Dull Knife) DC Snipers - s/t LP (Daggerman) Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes LP (Sonic Boom) King Tuff - Was Dead LP [restock] (Colonel) Oh Sees / Ty Segall - split 7" (Castleface) Radical Sons - Throwing Knives LP (St Ives) Ty Segall - Cents 7" (Goner) Sleep Whale - Little Brite 12" (Western Vinyl) Zs - Music of the Modern White LP (Social Registry) Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ................................................................... Against Me - The Original Cowboy (Fat Wreck Chords) Cage - Depart From Me (Definitive Jux) Billy Childish - Archive from 1959 (Damaged Goods) Chooglin' - Sweet Time (Fat Possum) Drive By Truckers - Live from Austin TX (New West) Jackie-O MFer - Ballads of the Revolution (Fire) Maxwell - Blacksummers'night (Columbia) Nebula - Heavy Psych (Tee Pee) Pine Hill Haints - To Win or to Lose (K) Sleepy Sun - Embrace (ATP) UuVvWwZ - s/t (Saddle Creek) We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls (Fat Cat) Young Fresh Fellows - I Think This Is (Yep Roc) VA - Black Rio Vol. 2: Original Samba Soul 1971-1980 (Strut) VA - Poet - A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt (Fat Possum) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Beastie Boys - Ill Communication [reissue] (7/14) Blues Control - Local Flavor (7/14) William S. Burroughs - Three Allusive Tracks 12" (7/14) Clutch - Strange Cousins from the West (7/14) Cunninlynguists - Strange Journey Vol 1 (7/14) Dead Weather - Horehound (7/14) Gentleman Losers - Dustland (7/14) J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid LP (7/14) Milanese - Lockout (7/14) Most Serene Republic - And The Ever Expanding Universe (7/14) Nadja & Black Boned Angel (7/14) The Octopus Project - Golden Beds EP (7/14) Quantic - Tradition in Transition (7/14) Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air LP [reissue] (7/14) Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers - s/t (7/14) Ty Segall - Lemons (7/14) Silver Apples - s/t LP [reissue] (7/14) Summer Cats - Songs for Tuesdays (7/14) Yob - Great Cessation (7/14) VA - Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music 3lp (7/14) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... JULY John Adams - Dr Atomic Symphony (7/21) Avengers - s/t [reissue] (7/21) Bad Veins - s/t (7/21) Beastie Boys - Too Many Rappers 12" (7/21) Blue Roses - s/t (7/21) Clark - Totems Flare (7/21) Jennie Devoe - Strange Sunshine (7/21) Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat (7/21) Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away (7/21) Flying Lotus - LA EP 3x3 (7/21) Bill Frisell - Disfarmer (7/21) Her Space Holiday - Sleepy Tigers (7/21) Bert Jansch - LA Turnaround (7/21) Betty LaVette - Change is Gonna Come Sessions (7/21) Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine (7/21) Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly (7/21) Modest Mouse - Perpetual Motion Machine 7" (7/21) The New Lost City Ramblers - Always Been a Rambler DVD (7/21) Portugal the Man - Satanic Satanist (7/21) Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Whole Fam Damnily LP (7/21) Riceboy Sleeps (Sigur Ros) - s/t (7/21) Starlight Mints - Change Remains (7/21) Superchunk - Crossed Wires 7" (7/21) Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under the Covers Vol. 2 (7/21) Talbot Tagora - Lessons In The Woods Or A City (7/21) Wheat - White Ink Black Ink (7/21) Wye Oak - The Knot (7/21) Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey (7/28) Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion LP (7/28) Blur - Midlife: Beginner's Guide (7/28) Drug Rug - Paint the Fence Invisible (7/28) Features - Some Kind of Salvation (7/28) Green Day - Warning LP (7/28) Trevor Hall - s/t (7/28) Howling Bells - Radio Wars (7/28) Morphine - Yes [LP reissue] (7/28) Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo (7/28) Dudley Perkins - Holy Smokes (7/28) Sax Ruins - Yawiquo (7/28) Starflyer 59 - Ghost of the Past (7/28) Timber Timbre - s/t (7/28) Trash Can Sinatras - In the Music (7/28) Yacht - See Mystery Lights (7/28) John Zorn - O'O (7/28) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 6/29 - 7/5 1. Wilco, Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch) 2. Dinosaur Jr., Farm (Jagjaguwar) 3. Stuart Murdoch, God Help the Girl (Matador) 4. Patterson Hood, Murdering Oscar (Ruth St) 5. Tortoise, Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Bjork, Levon Helm, Willie Isz, Moby, Jeffrey Novak, Wilco, Wu-Tang Clan, David Berman, Budos Band, Deer Tick, Dinosaur Jr, Foreign Born, Future of the Left, God Help the Girl, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Patterson Hood, Mars Volta, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Push Pull, Regina Spektor, Spinnerette, Sunset Rubdown, Tortoise, Larry Jon Wilson, Pete Yorn, Builders and the Butchers, City Center, Ha Ha Tonka, Major Lazer, Rock Plaza Central, The Thing, Aggrolites, Black Meteoric Star, British Sea Power, Busdriver, Cosmos, Deerhunter, Dirty Projectors, Liechtenstein, Rhett Miller, Mos Def, Quest for Fire, Todd Snider, Sonic Youth, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Blank Dogs, Grizzly Bear, Group Doueh, Intelligence, Modest Mouse, Phoenix, Sunn O))), Tyvek, Big Business, Jarvis Cocker, The Field, Iron & Wine, Jason Lytle, Passion Pit, John Vanderslice, Warlocks, White Rabbits and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: SOON 7/8 - Sunset Rubdown / Elfin Saddle @ Jake's 7/10 - Magnolia Electric Co / The Donkeys @ Russian Recording 7/10-12 - Forecastle Festival @ Louisville, KY 7/15 - Entrance Band + Morrow @ Russian Recording 7/17 - Women @ Statehouse LATER 7/20 - Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band / AA Bondy @ Jake's 7/26 - Drakkar Sauna @ Bear's Place 7/29 - Catfish Haven @ Bear's Place 8/1 - Junior Brown @ Bluebird 8/4 - Nomo @ Jake's 8/5 - Deerhunter / Dan Deacon / No Age @ Rhino's 8/21 - Over the Rhine @ Bluebird 9/20 - Davila 666 @ Bear's Place 9/27 - Jack Rose @ Bear's Place We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. 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