Happy New Year! Releases haven't started rolling quite yet, so head on in and burn some of the loot you got or that minty fresh Landlocked gift certificate before you accidentally put it through the laundry. Let's face it - you still don't have everything from 2010 you need just yet, now do ya? Wanna see our Top Sellers of each format for 2010? Better head on over to this link: http://www.landlockedmusic.com/beacon/2010.txt Social Distortion has a new album, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, hitting on January 18th. We have a CD single you can pick up for $2 that entitles you to $2 off the full length when we get it. Check it out. Alright, after much delay, computer failure, harassing emails and teeth gnashing here are the last of the Landlocked year-end lists - from owners Jason & Heath. They aren't perfect, but its a new year - lets get started on the new stuff! Best Long Players of 2010 (Jason) ------------------------- 1. Ty Segall, Melted (Goner) - Cali youngun' drops another burner, every jam a winner. 2. Personal & the Pizzas, Raw Pie (1234 Go!)- Dumb done smart, like the Ramones. 3. Sun City Girls, Funeral Mariachi (Abduction) - In a final perverse act, their most accessible album. 4. Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Rush to Relax (Goner) - Perfectly named, tense but loose and sorta zoned out. 5. The Liminanas, S/T (Trouble in Mind) - Shocking Blue en francais? 6. Moonhearts, S/T (Tic Tac Totally) - Just solid rock n roll. Hooks. No duds. 7. Endless Boogie, Full House Head (No Quarter) - Grow up on classic rock? Check this out. 8. Bare Wires, Seeking Love (Castle Face) - Whimpy power pop that kicks ass, also best in-store of the year. 9. Strange Boys, Be Brave (In the Red) - White boy blues doesn't have to suck. 10. Happy Birthday, S/T (Sub Pop) - Ok, it's not as good as King Tuff. Still... Honorable Mention: Cheap Time, Fantastic Explanations; Male Bonding, Nothing Hurts; Purling Hiss, Hissteria; Thee Oh Sees, Warm Slime; Puffy Areolas, In the Army 1981; Timmy's Organism, Rise Of The Green Gorilla; Nobunny, First Blood; Heater, God & Hair; MMOSS, I; Midwest Beat, At the Gates; Tyvek, Nothing Fits. Best 7"s & EPs (Jason) -------------- Straight Arrows, It's Happening Davila 666, S/T EP My Teenage Stride, Creep Academy War On Drugs, Future Weather EP Home Blitz, Perpetual Night Puffy Areolas, Rock N Roll Express Sing-Sing powerpop reissue label, all of them esp. Strike's Radio Songs Trouble in Mind singles, esp. Sticks & Stones, Is it You? Reissues/Comps (Jason) -------------- Sonny Burns, Satan's Waintin' Guinea Worms, Sorcererers Of Madness A-frames, 333 The Pack, S/T Les Railles Denudes catalog Ron House, Blind Boy in the Backseat Endtables, S/T Love Cry Want, S/T White Boy & the Average Rat Band Parasites of the Western World Human Skab, Thunder Hips & Saddle Bags Units, History of... Method Actors, This is stll It Kris Kristofferson, Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends .................................................. Best Long Players of 2010, alphabetical (Heath) ------------------------- Beach Fossils - s/t peer into the seashell, music for flashback dream sequences of beach parties, the stoned lovechild of the Byrds and Duane Eddy? Besnard Lakes - Are the Roaring Night another gorgeous monster from them- crank it up and falsetto along. Cough - Ritual Abuse sloooow sludge with shredded vox. 12 minute songs. electric wizard anyone? Mmoss - i cassette only in 2010, LP in 2011, the reincarnation of classic Elephant 6? same universe as Tame Impala, Dungen, Wolf People. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime pogo music for acidheads. SanFran has a great thing going right now. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here dark confessional from a master writer, gorgeous modern production that mixes in electronics and strings in a dark bath of an album that makes you feel wiser. the brilliant old man on the ghetto stoop that knows of whiskey, women and dope. Soft Moon - s/t a dark atmospheric drive through an ghost city filled with mist and slow strobe. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky M Gira has not lost a bit of the anger of Swans or the beauty of Angels of Light. more people should pay attention. Wild Nothing - Gemini perfect mix of Smiths-y poppy jangle and dreamy atmospherics. how is this band from Virginia and not Manchester? not a throwback. Captured Tracks - label of the year? Best Live of 2010 by month (Heath) ------------------------- JAN: Jesse Jackson @ BCT - better flow and stage presence than these kids FEB: Kurt Vile / Fucked Up @ Bluebird - a great Valentine's present MAR: John Wilkes Booze reunion @ Vid - keeping rock dangerous and exciting APR: The XX @ BCT - visually arresting and amazing sounding MAY: Besnard Lakes @ Bishop - masters of harmony and gazin' JUN: Damien Jurado @ Landlocked - mesmerising intimate solo acoustic set JUL: Budos Band @ Bluebird - if Sabbath were a 9 piece instrumental funk band AUG: The Hollows @ Bishop - one of Bton's best, hurts so good country love SEP: Rangda @ Russian - 3 masters climbing eachother into the stratosphere OCT: Arvo Part Jubilee @ IU - the modern master of sacred minimalism NOV: Sharon Jones & Dap-Kings @ Vogue - high energy, whiskey fueled balcony dance party with the drunk bus DEC: Dean & Britta @ IMA - I didnt even go but it still wins from 2nd-hand accounts, Dean Wareham's perfect pop w/ Warhol films as backdrop. Honorable Mentions: Dr Dog @ Video Saloon, Zero Boys @ Bishop, Woods @ Bishop, Robin Pecknold @ BCT, Henry Rollins @ BCT, Tune-Yards @ Landlocked, Lonnie Smith @ Bishop, Nobunny @ Bishop, Megafaun @ Bishop, Beach Fossils @ Bishop, Liars @ Rhinos, Balmorhea @ Russian, Wild Nothing @ Bluebird, Moon Duo @ Bishop, Can O Worms Fest, Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band @ Landlocked. Great Soul/Funk (Heath) ------------------------- Bei Bei & Shawn Lee - Into the Wild like a funky lost bruce lee soundtrack Aloe Blacc - Good Things I Need a Dollar is a song of the year contender The Budos Band - III one of the hardest live bands rolling Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way mature, subtle and fantastic Kings Go Forth - The Outsiders Are Back amazing harmonies for nonstop boogie Madlib - Medicine Show Series a wicked pace of 1 album a month of unparalleled energy Qualitons - Panoramic Tymes Hungarian deep funk!? wow. killer. Sade - Soldier of Love Sade can do no wrong. tasteful and still beloved Unheard Electronic & Hip-Hop (Heath) ------------------------- Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? Gangrene - Gutter Water Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer Madlib - Medicine Show Series Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal Shabazz Palaces - s/t EP Strong Arm Steady - In Search of Stoney Jackson Max Tannone - Dub Kweli / Mos Dub NEXT WEEK - Reserve one and guarantee you'll have it when its released! .................................................. Bardo Pond - s/t (1/11) British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall (1/11) Tim Buckley - s/t [deluxe] (1/11) Cage the Elephant - (1/11) Cake - Showroom of Compassion (1/11) The Cure - Entreat Plus LP (1/11) Ducktails - Arcade Dynamics (1/11) Minks - By the Hedge (1/11) Punk: Attitude DVD (1/11) Queens of the Stone Age - s/t reissue (1/11) Tapes N Tapes - Outside (1/11) T-Model Ford - Taledragger (1/11) White Fence - Is Growing Faith (1/11) Wire - Red Barked Tree (1/11) VA - Wretches & Jabberers OST (1/11) .................................................. Upcoming Bloomington shows that we're excited about: 1/5 - Murder by Death @ Russian Recording 1/8 - Black Swans @ The Bishop 1/13 - Brothers Gross @ 902s 1/14 - Lia Ices @ The Bishop 1/30 - 3 Inches of Blood / Medusa @ The Bluebird 2/7 - Orgone @ The Bishop 2/10 - The Wailers @ The Bluebird 2/21 - Paul Collins / Half Rats @ The Bishop 2/23 - Akron/Family @ The Bishop 2/26 - Say Hi @ Video Saloon 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 listening station. Each album has a review and enables you to listen to the entire album before you buy it. Give 'er a spin! The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon) .................................................. Phosphene Dream marks a giant leap forward for The Black Angels. Produced and mixed by Dave Sardy (Oasis, Wolfmother, Black Mountain) over a period of six months in Los Angeles, the album shows off both sonically and musically a bold new direction for the band, a fresh take on the neo-Psychedelic movement they've been at the forefront of for years. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer (Elektra) .................................................. Elektra recording artist Cee Lo Green's first solo work in more than six years sees the endlessly inventive singer/writer/rapper/producer continuing to push hip-hop and soul's creative envelope, this time working with a highly acclaimed and star-studded cast. Released recently via Green's official YouTube channel, the blockbuster first single "F**k You" caused an instant viral commotion, drawing more than 2 million plays in its first five days online. Along with its phenomenal popular success, the single has also received ecstatic critical acclamation from coast to coast. "One of the greatest songs in the history of humankind," declared The Dallas Observer's "DC9 At Night" music blog. The Greenhornes - 4 Stars (Warner Bros) .................................................. Third Man Records is excited to release The Greenhornes' first full length LP of new material since 2002's Dual Mono. This new album produced by The Greenhornes and John Curley may be their strongest collection of songs yet. It's diverse yet very concise, from the dark pop of lead single "Saying Goodbye," the bubble glam of "Song 13," to "Cave Drawings" moody psych; it's an eclectic and mature work and very much The Greenhornes own. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (Columbia) .................................................. "Darkness was my 'samurai' record," Springsteen writes, "stripped to the frame and ready to rumble. But the music that got left behind was substantial." For the first time, fans will have access to The Promise - two discs containing a total of 21 previously-unreleased songs from the Darkness recording sessions - songs that, as Springsteen writes, "perhaps could have/should have been released after Born To Run and before the collection of songs that Darkness on the Edge of Town became." Daft Punk - TRON: Legacy Soundtrack (Walt Disney) .................................................. Grammy award-winning Daft Punk, who takes music as seriously as TRON fans take computer references, scored TRON: Legacy. It's no accident that the group's two visionary musicians are TRON fans, too. Having grown up with an admiration for the ground-breaking TRON film, the critically acclaimed French duo composed and produced the album. They assembled a symphony of 100 world class musicians in London and recorded the orchestra at Britain's premier scoring facility, AIR Lyndhurst Studios. -------------------------------------------------- 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://www.facebook.com/pages/Landlocked-Music/24299970219 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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