You can tell its summer, not because of the heat on the streets - but because of the heat of the beats! The steady firehose of hot releases continues from now til deep into autumn - but don't forget the greatness of bands playing live in town as well. The amazing Lightning Bolt is bringing armageddon to Rhino's tonight, and just as exciting is Liars at Rhino's tomorrow! Maybe even more exciting cuz Liars has never played in Bloomie before tomorrow. If you aren't into the unrelenting rock action, there is always Old 97s, fronted by Rhett Miller, at the Bluebird Tuesday. And next Tuesday (7/27) brings Landlocked's semi-monthly New Music Happy Hour at The Bishop w/ New Jersey's Home Blitz (this review nails it: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5471 ) as well as local troublemakers Pillow Screamers and Moscow Moscow Moscow. Live it up! .................................................. NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 7/20/2010 .................................................. Asleep at the Wheel & Leon Rausch - It's A Good Day (Bismeaux) .................................................. It's a match made in Western Swing heaven as Ray Benson & Asleep at the Wheel team up with famed Texas Playboy Leon Rausch for their first-ever recording together. Rausch first joined Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys in 1958, was featured in the historic 1973 recording session with Wills called 'For the Last Time' and has gone on to lead bands such as 'Bob Wills' Original Texas Playboys' and 'The Playboys II.' At age 83, Rausch is one of the few Texas Playboys still performing. The Books - The Way Out (Temporary Residence) .................................................. Over the course of three albums in nearly a decade's time, the Books have grown to become one of modern music's most genuine innovators. The Way Out continues the Books' tradition of meticulous, existential songcraft, infusing the playfully surreal elements of previous albums with a humorous, childlike excitement. Produced and recorded as always in the Books' home studios, The Way Out expands on the charm and intimacy of past endeavors with a deeper emotional resonance and an ever-impressive marriage of seemingly disparate sound worlds. Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006 (American Dust) .................................................. Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear) and Fred Nicolaus, known collectively as Department of Eagles, have released relatively little music together, and their catalog may seem a bit schizophrenic. How did they develop from college roommates goofing off with sampling software into the harbingers of an atmospheric and grandiose symphonic pop sound? Archive 2003-2006, comprised of lost recordings, provides the missing piece in this process. Endless Boogie - Full House Head (No Quarter) .................................................. Deep, heady grooves anchor the second album by New York's Endless Boogie. Once a hobby, now becoming the powerhouse they were meant to be. Is the world ready? Led by Top Dollar, the egoless frontman and master of his instrument, the Boogie cut seven glorious tracks at Rare Book Room studios in Brooklyn, tacked on a goddamn epic rehearsal jam and called it Full House Head. We're not one to speak hyperboles, but it could be the first masterpiece of the new decade. Recommended! Frazey Ford - Obadiah (Nettwerk) .................................................. The Be Good Tanyas' Frazey Ford is set to release her debut solo album. It combines Frazey's gorgeous sultry vocals that helped define the Tanyas' sound, with her ever growing love for soul music, adding a rich fullness and bottom end to the 13 tracks the comprise the debut. Recorded during a blissful Vancouver summer, "Obadiah" is a collection of songs hand-carved by the hardships and exaltations of life, and stained with the rich colors of soul and folk music that fueled artists like Joni Mitchell, Ann Peebles, Neil Young, and Donny Hathaway. Mahjongg - The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger (K) .................................................. Mahjongg is basically a bar band who got lucky. With The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger they will rule 2010. Their previous album, Kontpab, announced a big noise in 2008. Since then, they've partied around the world and come back to invent a new style of music they call Chicagotronics: a wall of sound command center with drums and humans. They sing together and dance all crazy, and there's this laser going. It's great. Mongrel Zine - #8 (Mongrel) .................................................. A hot lil digest-sized flipzine featuring MARK SULTAN, JACUZZI BOYS, SUBHUMANS (Canada), TANDOORI KNIGHTS (King Khan & Bloodshot Bill), THE MIDWEST BEAT, WENDY NORTON (Plexi 3, The Flips), STUDENT TEACHER, THOSE DARLINS, Ottawa's WHITE WIRES, the KKBBQ Show's Invisible Girl artist JOHNNY SAMPSON, and TONS more, plus a 24 song CD compilation with lots of fun stuff on board! Max Richter - Infra (Fat Cat) .................................................. First new album in two years from one of modern composition's most celebrated talents. Originally conceived as a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration between composer Max Richter, choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, Richter's gorgeous score to Infra is deservedly given life of its own in this album length release. Expanded and extended from the original piece, Infra comprises music written for piano, electronics and string quintet, including the full performance score as well as material that has subsequently developed from the construction of the album. Secret Cities - Pink Graffiti (Western Vinyl) .................................................. Drawing on fractured psych, girl groups and minimalist composers, Secret Cities have conjured a kaleidoscopic, strangely moving whole out of disparate pieces. Distorted loops, drones, and thundering toms underpin distant voices. Pianos are pounded. Grainy acoustic guitars come through like AM transmissions received deep underground. But even as strange sounds and frequencies get pushed out front, the melodies get top billing. From the galloping heartbreak of opener Pink City to the final, cathartic release of The End, Graffiti Tapes is pop music turned in on itself. Trouble in Mind 7"s - Summer Set of 45s .................................................. Hex Dispensers - One Less Ghost 7" This ghoulish garage gang of musical maniacs switch it up this time around on this "ghost themed" single & offer up, of all things - a BALLAD?!?! Night Beats - H-Bomb 7" EP This 4 song EP will melt your brain with it's mixture of druggy backbeats and blazing guitar work peppered with vocals that channel a screeching, howling Marc Bolan. Sticks N Stones - Is It You? 7" Sticks N Stones keeps it lean & mean, slicing off riffs from 70's & 80's Power Pop (and a nick or two from classic 60's bubblegum) with rapid-fire intensity calling to mind such great Midwestern bands as Cheap Trick, Shoes, & the Kind. Tropical Sleep - Girl With a Diamond Tooth 7" Tropical Sleep starts where the Pets left off - the same great vocal delivery and guitar work, but coaxes out a little more finesse & lotsa extra pop! VA - Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands (Numero) .................................................. The second in Numero's series of regional studio overviews looks at Beaumont, Texas' Lowland operation. Numero has painstakingly gone through every tape in the studio's archives, selecting the best of the best for this peerless compilation. The 22 songs (28 on the LP) run the gamut of southern boogie rock, CSNY clones, British blues thunder, hungover garage-psych, Morricone-esque supper club instrumentals, yacht rock, and what can only be described as Bobby McFerrin fronting the Velvet Underground. VA - Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Tracks 1968-74 LP (Sublime Frequencies) .................................................. The long-awaited foray into the Vietnamese Rock, Pop and Soul sound of the late 60s and early 70s is finally here. It delivers the goods international retro collectors have been searching for in vain for many years - and it delivers beyond belief. Every song is a mini-masterpiece be it heavy acid rock psychedelia, horn and guitar drenched funk grooves, or gripping soul ballads reflective of life during wartime. Among the heaviest and most eclectic musical scenes of South East Asia at the time. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot LP (Def Jam) The Coathangers - 143 7" (Suicide Squeeze) Eric Copeland - Strange Days LP (PPM) Darker My Love / Moccasin - split 12" (I Hate Rock) Gogol Bordello - Trans Continental Hustle LP (American) Indian Jewelry - Totaled LP (We Are Free) Japandroids - Younger Us 7" (Polyvinyl) Jeff the Brotherhood - Mellow Out 7" (Suicide Squeeze) Majeure - Timespan Remixes LP (Temporary Residence) The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers LP (Brassland) Sleigh Bells - Treats LP (Sleigh Bells) Toro y Moi - Leave Everywhere 7" (Carpark) Richard Youngs - Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Hits LP (Jagjaguwar) Also Released This Week .................................................. Big Head Todd & the Monsters - Rocksteady (BHT) Bill Callahan - Letters to Emma Bowlcut [book] (Drag City) Walter Gibbons - Jungle Music: Essential & Unreleased Remixes 1976-86 (Strut) Jimmy Gnecco - The Heart (Bright Antenna) Instruments of Science & Technology - Music for Paradise Armor (Asthmatic Kitty) Shawn Lee - Sing a Song (Ubiquity) Lillian Axe - Deep Red Shadows (Love & War) Charlie Louvin - Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull (Tompkins Square) Lower Dens - Twin Hand Movement (Gnomonsong) Dan Sartain - Lives (One Little Indian) Shannon Stephens - s/t (Asthmatic Kitty) Kenseth Thibideau - Repetition (Temporary Residence) Triffids - Wide Open Road (Domino) 12 Stones - The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday EP (Wind-Up) Wire - Send (Ultimate) (Pink Flag) VA - The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia In 1970s Nigeria (Soundway) .................................................. NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com .................................................. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare (7/27) BeauSoleil - Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler (7/27) Best Coast - Crazy for You (7/27) Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues (7/27) John Coltrane [LP reissues] (7/27) David Cross - Bigger and Blacker LP (7/27) Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful (7/27) Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress (7/27) Michael Hurley - First Songs LP (7/27) Jaill - That's How We Burn (7/27) Tom Jones - Praise & Blame (7/27) Lone Wolf - The Devil and I (7/27) Major Lazer - Lazers Never Die EP (7/27) Menomena - Mines (7/27) Menomena - 2x7" (7/27) Miniature Tigers - Fortress (7/27) The National - LP reissues (7/27) Mark Olson - Many Colored Kite (7/27) Personal and the Pizzas - Raw Pie LP (7/27) Street Sweeper Social Club - Ghetto Blaster EP (7/27) Young Galaxy - Invisible Republic (7/27) .................................................. COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (8/3) Autolux - Transit Transit (8/3) Black Crowes - Croweology (8/3) Bun B - Trill OG (8/3) Candy Claws - Hidden Lands (8/3) David Dondero - # Zero With A Bullet (8/3) El-P - Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 (8/3) Fourtet - Angel Echoes Remixes 12" (8/3) Gaelic Storm - Cabbage (8/3) Gov't Mule - Mulennium (8/3) jj - no2 (8/3) LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening LP (8/3) Loden - Buggy (8/3) Los Lobos - Tin Can Trust (8/3) Mt St Helens Vietnam Band - Where the Messengers Meet (8/3) Night Horse - Perdition Hymns (8/3) Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes DVD (8/3) Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight to the World (8/3) Shapes & Sizes - Candle to Your Eyes (8/3) Tammar - I Live Here Now (8/3) David Vandervelde - Summer Time Hits EP (8/3) Versus - On the Ones and Threes (8/3) Wavves - King of the Beach (8/3) We Are Hex - Hail the Goer (8/3) Animal Collective - Oddsac DVD (8/10) The Budos Band - III (8/10) Colour Revolt - The Cradle (8/10) Godflesh - Streetcleaner [deluxe] (8/10) Grass Widow - Past Time (8/10) Hawkwind - Blood of the Earth (8/10) Lost in the Trees - All Alone in an Empty House (8/10) Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice (8/10) Alan Moore - Unearthing (8/10) PVT - Church With No Magic (8/10) Eli Paperboy Reed - Come and Get It (8/10) Anni Rossi - Heavy Meadow (8/10) Sonic Youth - LP reissues (8/10) Starflyer 59 - The Changing of the Guard (8/10) Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill (8/10) Street Sweeper Social Club - Ghetto Blaster EP (8/10) The Thermals - I Don't Believe You 7" (8/10) Woven Bones - I've Gotta Get 7" (8/10) VA - Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World OST (8/10) Darker My Love - Alive As You Are (8/17) Matthew Dear - Black City (8/17) Filter - The Trouble With Angels (8/17) Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs - God Willin' (8/17) Lissie - Catching a Tiger (8/17) John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (8/17) Nite Jewel - Am I Real EP (8/17) Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway (8/17) Superchunk - [reissues] (8/17) Tom Waits - LP reissues (8/17) -------------------------------------------------- Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 7/12 - 7/18 1. M.I.A. - / \ / \ / \ Y / \ (Interscope) 2. Carissa's Wierd - They'll Only Miss You When You Leave (Hardly Art) 3. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises (Caldo Verde) 4. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul (Capitol) 5. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot (Def Jam) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Admiral Radley, Autechre, Bare Wires, Bitters, Blue Giant, Carissa's Wierd, Crowded House, Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, Jacuzzi Boys, Love Language, M.I.A., Mystery Jets, No Joy, R.E.M, Sun Kil Moon, Big Boi, How To Destroy Angels, Junip, Peter Case, Delphic, Alejandro Escovedo, Adam Franklin, Maps & Atlases, Rush, Scissor Sisters, Steel Train, To Rococo Rot, Jimmy Webb, Wolf Parade, Lewis Black, Devo, Foals, Gaslight Anthem, The Like, Oval, Tom Petty, Racebannon, Robyn, Gabor Szabo, We Are Scientists, Ariel Pink, Blitzen Trapper, The Cure, Deer Tick, Delta Spirit, Here We Go Magic, Hot Hot Heat, Konono No.1, Nada Surf, Grace Potter, Ratatat, Suckers, Tokyo Police Club, Villagers, Wailing Wall, Apache, Best Coast, Born Ruffians, Futureheads, Good Old War, Melvins, Tift Merritt, Peggy Sue, Sleigh Bells, Paul Weller and much much more! -------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Bloomington shows that we're excited about: 7/20 - Lightning Bolt @ Rhino's 7/21 - Old 97s @ The Bluebird 7/21 - Liars / John Wiese / Burnt Ones @ Rhino's 7/27 - Home Blitz @ The Bishop 8/7 - Daniel Martin Moore @ The Bishop 8/19 - Screaming Females @ The Bishop 8/20 - Cave @ Russian Recording 8/20 - Junior Brown @ The Bluebird 8/23 - Wooden Birds (American Analog Set + Matt Pond PA) @ The Bishop 8/26 - Unnatural Helpers @ The Bishop 9/3 - Todd Snider @ Upland Brewery 9/5 - Balmorhea @ Russian Recording 9/5 - Jon Mueller @ The Bishop 9/6 - Vampire Weekend / Beach House / Dum Dum Girls @ IU Auditorium 9/14 - The Ataris @ The Bishop 9/15 - No Age @ Rhino's 9/23 - David Dondero @ The Bishop 9/30 - Yeasayer @ The Bluebird 9/30 - The Hold Steady @ The Vogue, Indy 10/5 - Deerhoof / Xiu Xiu @ Rhino's 10/6 - Stars @ The Bluebird 10/7 - Victor Wooten @ The Bluebird 10/14 - Keller Williams @ The Bluebird 11/7 - Rev. Horton Heat @ The Bluebird 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! Hot Hot Heat - Future Breeds (Dangerbird) .................................................. On Future Breeds, Hot Hot Heat returns to its roots both metaphorically and literally with a hot-wired and proud party album throbbing with spontaneity and creativity. When the band began writing Future Breeds, front man Steve Bays, along with band mates Paul Hawley and Luke Paquin, sought to recapture the energy and sheer love for the art form that drove the late-nineties Vancouver punk scene from which the band emerged. We Are Scientists - Barbara (MRI) .................................................. We Are Scientists return with more bubbly chorus', jittery rhythms and popping bass than you can shake a stick at. The band has a new drummer and nothing has stopped the band's Keith Murray from delivering his usual blend of 80's affectations and pop clatter. Sarah McLachlan - Laws of Illusion (Arista) .................................................. Long awaited 2010 album from the multi-platinum and Grammy-Award winning singer/songwriter, her first studio album of new material in seven years. Laws Of Illusions was recorded in Montreal and Vancouver with Sarah's longtime collaborator/producer Pierre Marchand. Sarah has sold over 40 million recordings worldwide since her recording career began in 1988 with her debut album. Each and every one of her albums has been certified Gold or Platinum. Features the first single 'Loving You Is Easy'. Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs of Love (Fantasy) .................................................. From his days in the now legendary punk/alt-country outfits The Nuns, Rank and File and his own True Believers, to his glowingly received solo gems including 2008's Real Animal, Escovedo has built a rapturous underground following among fans, songwriting peers and critics alike. His highly anticipated Fantasy Records debut, Street Songs of Love, is a 13-track celebration of survival, liberation and ultimate salvation. Delphic - Acolyte (Dangerbird) .................................................. In a world of indie bands dipping a cautious toe into dance music's occasionally baffling computer world, Delphic are post-dance futurist nostalgics from Manchester who have managed to take repetitive beats and crisp electronics out of the underground to emerge as one of the UK's most exciting new bands. -------------------------------------------------- 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. 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