Record Store Day approacheth! Saturday April 17th. Yes, we will have lots of copies of our IT HAPPENED HERE compilation LP+7" - live and exclusive studio recordings made at instores at Landlocked and performances at Russian Recording studio in 2009. But we will be stocking TONS of other stuff as well - check out this link and begin making your RSD2010 shopping list - http://www.recordstoreday.com/Page/836 We hosted a shindig for our favorite modern soul troop - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - to celebrate the release of their fantastic new album, I Learned the Hard Way, this past saturday. We still have plenty of copies of the new CD or LP so come and git em. If you buy between now and Record Store Day you can enter to win a pair of tickets to their Indy gig on May 23rd and an autographed copy of the new LP! Landlocked Music is pleased to announce an exclusive TUNE-YARDS instore performance - her only show in Bloomington - on Monday April 19th at 6:30pm at Landlocked Music. tUnE-yArDs is the singular musical project of New England native Merrill Garbus. Possessing an expansive sound that marries a coarse folk ingenuity with the bold pop sensibility of an R&B siren, BiRd-BrAiNs was assembled with a staunch DIY aesthetic. .................................................. NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 3/30/2009 .................................................. Solomon Burke - Nothing's Impossible (E1) .................................................. A bittersweet triumph. On one hand, it marks the 70th birthday of Solomon Burke, who ranks with the very greatest R&B immortals; on the other, it's the final full album produced by another soul legend, producer Willie Mitchell, the Memphis architect of the Hi Records sound and the man behind everlasting hits by Al Green, Ann Peebles, and so many others. A dozen tracks of timeless soul magic in the purest Memphis style with the deepest Southern roots. David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love (Nonesuch) .................................................. Improbably poignant, decidedly surreal, surprisingly thought provoking - about the rise and fall of the Philippines' notorious Imelda Marcos. It was conceived by David Byrne; composed by Byrne and UK DJ Fatboy Slim; and performed by a dream cast including Cyndi Lauper, Steve Earle, Sharon Jones and Natalie Merchant. Along with vocals turns from such stars as Tori Amos and the B-52's Kate Pierson, Byrne works with St. Vincent and My Brightest Diamond; NY chanteuses Nellie McKay and Martha Wainwright; and dance-music divas Roisin Murphy and Santigold. Codeine Velvet Club - s/t (Dangerbird) .................................................. Codeine Velvet Club is Jon Fratelli of The Fratellis and singer/songwriter Lou Hickey. Their new musical project celebrates their shared love of '60s girl-boy duets, dramatic orchestral pop, and dark post-war Hollywood and Las Vegas romanticism. Dead Meadow - Three Kings (Xemu) .................................................. Feature-length live movie with short vignettes (ala Led Zeppelin's Song Remains the Same) combined with the soundtrack of the movie in a dual pack. The performance captures the band at the height of the non-stop touring machine and gives fans the first official live album, almost a greatest hits worth of catalog. Also included is an EPs worth of new never-before heard material that gives a glimpse of a music career to come. Dr. Dog - Shame Shame (Anti) .................................................. Dr. Dog having evolved from a band whose primary creative outlet was the album-making process into one that favored the energy of their live performances, they knew they wanted to document the new dynamic they had developed on the road. Producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith) was brought in to help peel back the intricate arrangements of last album Fate to reveal the raw immediacy of a tight five-man unit honing their craft. Growing - Pumps (Vice) .................................................. The 8th album from Brooklyn's Growing is another top-shelf freakout. Drum machines create dense tribal rhythms and form the bedrock for the loneliest dance floor in the universe. Vocal samples swoop in and out like starlings over effects laden synths and guitar. Growing has given birth to a magical creation - the audio equivalent of coming out of an anesthetic haze with a squirming pile of joy wrapped safely in your eardrums. Hacienda - Big Red and Barbacoa (Alive) .................................................. These guys unapologetically wear their influences on their floral print sleeves. You can hear Big Star, Beach Boys, Beatles, and a million garage bands that never achieved the notoriety of the "big time." Hacienda consists of 3 brothers and their cousin. They sing and play together like they've been at it for 20 years. Dan Auerbach produced the band's debut album, "Loud Is the Night," which offers persuasive evidence that Hacienda is a worthy heir of such Tex-Mex rock bands as the Sir Douglas Quintet, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, and the Texas Tornados. Harlem - Hippies (Matador) .................................................. Hippies is the 2nd long player from Austin's hardest working troublemakers. As demonstrated by numerous self-booked tours including stints at SXSW and CMJ, Harlem have a reputation of making club gigs seem like living room shows (and living room shows feel like club shows). Hippies harnesses this energy in its 16 blasts of pure pop energy with anew dimension of songwriting that is as tightly masterful as it is true to a joyfully frantic primitivism. Javelin - No Mas (Luaka Bop) .................................................. Javelin throw a party that sees nothing wrong with dropping crooked disco, schoolyard funk, abstract R&B and pitch-perfect pop in the same set. At least that's the way things unfold on Javelin's debut album, No Mas, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to a self-released collection of demos and a pair of limited Thrill Jockey 12"s. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone) .................................................. Produced by Bosco Mann and recorded on an Ampex 8-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone's House of Soul studios, the record drips with a warmth and spontaneity rarely found since the golden days of Muscle Shoals and Stax. Sharon's raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set her firmly alongside Tina Turner, James Brown, Mavis Staples, and Aretha as a fixture in the canon of soul music. Purchase it at Landlocked and get free posters, stickers and a chance to win an autographed LP & a pair of tickets to their Indy gig next month! Jonsi - Go (XL) .................................................. Jonsi has spent more than a decade writing epic compositions with Sigur Ros, creating some of the finest, most acclaimed albums of the last 10 years. The choice to make an album of solo recordings came together as a solution to a backlog of songs Jonsi had written that didn't seem to fit within the Sigur Ros context. Ecstatic, dramatic and alive, it features Jonsi's signature vocals throughout, with the majority of the songs sung in English. Red Sparowes - Fear Is Excruciating (Sargent House) .................................................. Sparowes new album maintains their layered arrangements and swirling amplified crescendos, Americana noir soundscapes and gloriously triumphant melodies, but where earlier records focused on the larger scope of the album, the new album is song-centered. And where previous endeavors found the band propelled by enormous walls of sound, they now temper their monolithic progressions with distinct passages of separated and soft-spoken instrumentation. VA - Trouble in Mind 7"s (Trouble In Mind) .................................................. A new pile of vinyl from Chicago's Trouble in Mind Recs: Hollows - Bobby Blueheart New single from the Chicago girl-group/garage punks. A swirling mix of harmonies and melodrama, post-punk throb, psychedelic snarl, and energy. Liminanas - Je Ne Suis Pas Tres Drogue Debut from French-pop group serving up a modern-day update on classic French Ye-Ye sounds. A hypnotic dance number with spoken word passages that conjure up a sweat-soaked go-go dance floor circa 1967. Mean Jeans - Tears In My Beers Catchy punk/pop that is certain to have you crying into the sleeve of your leather jacket. Breathes new life into the tried and true punk formula invented by the Ramones. VA - 4-Way Covers Split Ty Segall tackles the Bob Seger's fiery political number "2+2=?," Chicago's Cococoma rip thru the Wipers' "Messenger," Ottawa punks the White Wires do "That's The Way A Woman Is" (Ohio Express), and Cali garage surfers Charlie & The Moonhearts close it out with a banging version of Love's classic "Seven & Seven Is." The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Agent Orange - Living in Darkness LP (Drastic Plastic) Bonobo - Black Sands LP (Ninja Tune) Catherine Howe - What a Beautiful Place LP (Numero) Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door 12" EP (Barsuk) Future Islands - In the Fall 12" (Thrill Jockey) Liars - Sisterworld LP (Mute) Jason Urick - Fussing & Fighting 12" (Thrill Jockey) Also Released This Week .................................................. Awesome Color - Massa Hypnos (Ecstatic Peace) John Butler Trio - April Uprising (ATO) Circus Devils - Mother Skinny (Happy Jack) Civil Twilight - s/t (Wind-Up) Jakob Dylan - Women and Country (Columbia) John Grant (+Midlake) - Queen of Denmark (Bella Union) Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Propellor Time (Sartorial) Kayo Dot - Coyote (Hydra Head) Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (Astralwerks) Mi Ami - Steal Your Face (Thrill Jockey) Monster Movie - Everyone is a Ghost (Graveface) Murder by Death - Good Morning, Magpie (Vagrant) Nice Nice - Extra Wow (Warp) John Parish - She A Chinese OST (Dreamboat) Patrick Park - Come What Will (Badman) Sally Seltmann - Heart That's Pounding (Arts & Crafts) Martin Sexton - Sugarcoating (Kitchen Table) Elliott Smith - [reissues] (Kill Rock Stars) Tunng - And Then We Saw Land (Thrill Jockey) .................................................. NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com .................................................. Tony Allen - Secret Agent (4/13) Amber Pacific - Virtues (4/13) Jeff Beck - Emotion & Commotion (4/13) The Bitters - East General (4/13) Braid - LP Reissues (4/13) Child Abuse - Cut and Run (4/13) Nels Cline - Initiate (4/13) Dosh - Tommy (4/13) Fourtet - Sing 12" (4/13) Freelance Whales - Weathervanes (4/13) The Fresh & Onlys - August On My Mind EP (4/13) Golden Triangle / Fresh & Onlys - split 7" (4/13) Clutchy Hopkins - The Story Teller (4/13) Japandroids - Arts Czars 7" (4/13) Rolf Julius - Music for the Ear (4/13) Kaki King - Junior (4/13) Lair of the Minotaur - Evil Power (4/13) Mantler - Monody (4/13) Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep (4/13) MGMT - Congratulations (4/13) Murs & 9th Wonder - Fornever (4/13) Zeena Parkins - Between the Whiles (4/13) Matt Pond PA - The Dark Leaves (4/13) Rafter - Animal Feelings (4/13) Sightings - City of Straw (4/13) A Silent Film - The City That Sleeps (4/13) Straight No Chaser - With a Twist (4/13) Mark Sultan - $ (4/13) Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (4/13) Prins Thomas - s/t (4/13) Trampled by Turtles - Palomino (4/13) John Wiese - Circle Snare (4/13) VA - No One Knows About Persian Cats OST (4/13) .................................................. COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time (4/20) Baby Dee - A Book of Songs for Anne Marie (4/20) Blunt Mechanic - World Record (4/20) Caribou - Swim (4/20) CFCF - Continent (4/20) Coffinworm - When All Became None (4/20) Cornershop - Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast (4/20) Cypress Hill - Rise Up (4/20) Destroyer - [reissues] (4/20) Duran Duran - [deluxe reissues] (4/20) Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil (4/20) Everest - On Approach (4/20) Gotan Project - Tango 3.0 (4/20) Horse Feathers - Thistled Spring (4/20) Inlets - Inter Arbiter (4/20) Javelin - No Mas (4/20) Kayo Dot - Coyote (4/20) Kings Go Forth - The Outsiders Are Back (4/20) The Kissaway Trail - Sleep Mountain (4/20) Legendary Shack Shakers - Agridustrial (4/20) Little Brother - Left Back (4/20) Shelby Lynne - Tears, Lies & Alibis (4/20) Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs LP Box (4/20) Medications - Completely Removed (4/20) Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You (4/20) Willie Nelson - Country Music (4/20) Ozomatli - Fire Away (4/20) Painted Hills - s/t (4/20) Plants and Animals - La La Land (4/20) The Poppees - Pop Goes the Anthology (4/20) Prizzy Prizzy Please - Chroma Cannon (4/20) Xavier Rudd - Koonyum Sun (4/20) The Slackers - The Great Rocksteady Swindle (4/20) Sweet Apple - Love & Desperation (4/20) Trans Am - Thing (4/20) Rufus Wainwright - All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (4/20) VA - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie Black Flag Tribute (4/20) Alpha Rev - New Morning (4/27) Avi Buffalo - s/t (4/27) Balkan Beat Box - Blue Eyed Black Boy (4/27) Black Swans - Words Are Stupid LP (4/27) Bone Thugs N Harmony - Uni5: The World's Enemy (4/27) Devastations - s/t (4/27) Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph (4/27) Gogol Bordello - Trans Continental Hustle (4/27) Hole - Nobody's Daughter (4/27) Juan Maclean - DJ Kicks (4/27) Jesse Malin & St Marks Social - Love it to Life (4/27) Mono - Holy Ground: NYC Live (4/27) Mouth of the Architect - The Violence Beneath (4/27) The Mynabirds - What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (4/27) People of the North - Deep Tissue LP (4/27) Brian Posehn - Fart and Weiner Jokes (4/27) Small Black - s/t EP (4/27) Total Abuse - Mutt LP (4/27) Unnatural Helpers - Cracked Love & Other Drugs (4/27) Warbeast - Krush the Enemy (4/27) Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record (5/4) Deftones - Diamond Eyes (5/4) The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (5/4) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (5/4) Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing (5/4) Future Islands - In Evening Air (5/4) The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever (5/4) The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning (5/4) Lazer Crystal - MCMLXXX (5/4) Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My (5/4) Lodger - Flashbacks (5/4) Minus the Bear - OMNI (5/4) Lisa Papineau - Red Trees (5/4) Mike Patton - Mondo Cane (5/4) New Pornographers - Together (5/4) Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away (5/4) Stereo Total - Baby Ouh! (5/4) The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt - I Love You (5/4) Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (5/4) Wounded Lion - s/t (5/4) VA - Rock N Roll High School DVD (5/4) -------------------------------------------------- Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 3/22 - 3/28 1. Dum Dum Girls, I Will Be (Sub Pop) 2. Bonny Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang, The Wonder Show of the World (Drag City) 3. She & Him, Volume Two (Merge) 4. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Pt. 2 (Motown) 5. Morning Benders, Big Echo (Rough Trade) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Mulatu Astatke, Black Breath, Black Tambourine, Bonobo, Dum Dum Girls, Holly Golightly, Living Sisters, Meth, Ghost and Rae, Wooden Shjips, Mose Allison, Autechre, Bird & the Bee, Joe Bonamassa, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bill Callahan, Drink Up Buttercup, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Goldfrapp, High Places, Let's Wrestle, Love is All, Radar Brothers, Serena Maneesh, She & Him, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Strange Boys, The Unthanks, Lou Bond, Drive-By Truckers, Dropkick Murphys, Happy Birthday, Michael Hurley, Personal and The Pizzas, Emma Pollock, Unwinding Hours, The Whigs, White Stripes, Alberta Cross, Besnard Lakes, Broken Bells, Dark Dark Dark, Daughters, Frightened Rabbit, Gonjasufi, Gorillaz, Jimi Hendrix, jj, The Knife, Ted Leo, Liars, Morning Benders, Josh Rouse, Titus Andronicus, Clogs, Peter Gabriel, Golden Triangle, John Hiatt, Jaguar Love, Little Boots, Rogue Wave, Ruby Suns and much much more! -------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Bloomington shows that we're excited about: 4/6 - The XX / jj / Nosaj Thing @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater - SOLD OUT 4/7 - Dark Dark Dark @ The Bishop 4/8 - Kevin Devine / Mimicking Birds @ The Bishop 4/10 - Joe Jack Talcum (Dead Milkmen) @ Rhino's 4/12 - Nurses @ The Bishop 4/13 - Dr. Lonnie Smith @ The Bishop 4/13 - Casiontone for the Painfully Alone @ Russian Recording 4/17 - Record Store Day! 4/18 - Rogue Wave @ The Bluebird 4/19 - Tune-Yards @ Landlocked Music 4/24 - Prizzy Prizzy Please @ The Bishop 4/24 - Indigo Girls @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 4/28 - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 4/29 - Electric Six @ The Bishop 5/11 - Horse Feathers @ The Bishop 5/15 - Herculaneum @ The Bishop 5/18 - Nobunny @ The Bishop 5/20 - Samantha Crain @ The Bishop 5/21 - Screaming Females @ Greek's Pizzeria 5/25 - Besnard Lakes / Early Day Miners @ The Bishop 5/26 - Tallest Man on Earth @ The Dome House 6/3 - Future Islands @ The Bishop 6/13 - Damien Jurado/ Denison Witmer @ The Bishop 6/14 - Mumford & Sons @ The Bluebird 6/25 - Frog Eyes @ The Bishop 6/26 - Tortoise @ The Bishop 7/20 - Lightning Bolt @ Rhino's We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. Stop in and buy em beforehand! -------------------------------------------------- Each month we highlight five titles for a month in our "Full Tilt Boogie" listening station. Each album has a review and enables you to listen to the entire album before you buy it. Give 'er a spin! Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do (ATO) .................................................. ATO Records is pleased to announce the release of The Drive-By Truckers' label debut, The Big To-Do. The album, which will be the band's 10th in their 13-year career, is scheduled to be released March 16, 2010. The Big To-Do features 13 new tracks from the Drive-By Truckers and was produced by their long time producer, David Barbe (Sugar, Bettye LaVette). "It's very much a rock album," says Patterson Hood of the Trucker's upcoming release. "Very melodic and more rocking than anything we've done since disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera." The Whigs - In The Dark (ATO) .................................................. With their stunning third album, In The Dark, the Whigs have gone widescreen. Bursting with energy, emotion, and unpredictable experimentation, the Athens, GA-based trio tear open the artistic envelope, bringing both nuance and eclectics strength to songs like "Hundred/Million" and the raucous first single, "Kill Me Carolyne." In The Dark is both atmospheric and ambitious, without losing the pedal-to-the-metal power that earned them universal praise as one of America's finest young rock-n' roll bands. She and Him - Volume Two (Merge) .................................................. She & Him are here to stay. Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward are a comfortable and complementary musical pair; hearing them again on Volume Two feels like getting together with two old friends. This time, the harmonies have grown more angelically layered, the string arrangements more dramatic, the songwriting even sharper and more confident. All songs (except  4 and 7) were written by Zooey Deschanel and produced by M. Ward. Autechre - Oversteps (Warp) .................................................. Oversteps shows an oft-overlooked playfulness and a rarely mentioned musicality that comes to the fore-front, in what could be described as their most accessible work to date. Between the layers of cold digital pings and fuzzed out tones, there are true chord changes and warm soundscapes being built from the ground up. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone) .................................................. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are already well known as one of the most exciting acts in the nation for both their explosive live shows and their prolific output of gritty studio recordings. Their breakout release, 100 Days, 100 Nights, sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. This spring the band will release I Learned the Hard Way, their fourth full-length on Brooklyn's independent Daptone Records. The record marks a bold step forward for a band who almost single handedly stewarded today's return of soul music to its more traditional sound. -------------------------------------------------- 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 or http://twitter.com/landlockedmusic 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. 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