If you've been in the shop lately, there is a good chance you've seen the record lathe cabinet we have set up near the back of the store. There has been lots of questions about it, so we are setting up a demonstration with its builder! Yes, it will be a record cutting demo but specifically it will be "Creating Records With Experimental Materials" with Jack Kilby. He'll talk a little bit about the proper way to cut a record on a dub plate. Then look at various record grooves with a USB microscope. Make some cuts on to a plastic plate, x-ray and a piece of acrylic, and listen and look at those grooves. Then a talk about surface noise and the techniques to eliminate it. It makes for a good visual, you can actually see the surface noise with the microscope. We might also try to do a live recording to test how that works. Thursday May 5th at 6:30pm. Open to everyone curious about this beast! Matador Records is set to launch their biggest Buy Early Get Now program yet - for Fucked Up's "David Comes to Life"! Purchase early and get a ton of bonus goodies including: FOUR 7"s featuring 8 non-album tracks, the CD or 2LP of the album, a poster, MP3s of the out-of-print Record Store Day LP "David's Town", the full album download, and additional non-album MP3s as well. I think that's 2,872 total songs? It's a LOT of music! CD package is $29.50, 2xLP package is $36.50. You start getting music TODAY, get more music in May, get the album in June and the additional 7"s soon after that. The BEGN program is the ONLY way to get all these goodies! The gift that keeps on giving! More info here: http://www.buyearlygetnow.com/ then stop in and we will hook you up! The Monroe County History Center exhibit, Local Records: Past and Present; will be on display until August 2nd. Be sure to check it out! On display will be local records from the 50s til today, as well as a documentary about our own local scene. Pretty cool! NEW ARRIVALS for April 26th .................................................. An Horse - Walls (Mom & Pop) .................................................. Anyone who's ever punched a clock has a work buddy. If you're lucky, they might be a true friend; someone you spend more time talking with than you do with your family, maybe even your partner. Imagine if the two of you had the chance to leave your jobs behind and go on an incredibly fun, sometimes stressful but ultimately mind-blowing 2+ year musical adventure across continents and time zones, racking up accolades from the likes of Rolling Stone, Spin, People and Pitchfork. Walls is an album of distances traveled and of distances between loved ones, shaken up in a bottle and exploding upon its release. Bootsy Collins - Tha Funk Capitol Of The World (Mascot) .................................................. Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer and legendary bassist Bootsy Collins, known worldwide for pioneering funk music with James Brown and Parliament Funkadelic. Bootsy collaborated with fellow P-Funkers George Clinton and Bernie Worrell on the record, along with an all-star lineup of musicians and cultural luminaries including rappers Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, and Ice Cube; actor Samuel Jackson; banjo phenom Bela Fleck; jazz greats Ron Carter and George Duke; the Rev. Al Sharpton; scholar Dr. Cornell West; and guitarists Buckethead and Catfish Collins - Bootsy's late brother. The album also features a tribute to Garry Shider, the late guitarist and musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars. Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion (Slumberland) .................................................. With In Love With Oblivion, they stretch things further than before, honing their songcraft and indulging their more strung-out sides, full of elliptical verses and perfectly chiming guitars, cranky pop organs and the punkest of rhythms. It's a perfect blend of pop smarts and beguiling experiment. And as with all good pop bands, they not only look cool and sound great: they also listen hard. But if Crystal Stilts are scholarly about pop, they don't wear their knowledge heavily. The best songs are effortless. The Donkeys - Born With Stripes (Dead Oceans) .................................................. San Diego's Donkeys strike a balance of smiling, surfer mysticism and winking, slacker mystique. They reanimate the charming hallmarks of sunshine-rock past without being sepia-toned retro or bubblegum-cloying. There is an innate playfulness and honesty to the music they make. It's a dynamic that has made public champions of keen-eared musicians like John Darnielle (Mountain Goats) and Craig Finn (Hold Steady). Darnielle claimed that they were benevolent keepers of "The Antidote" to an unnamed sickness plaguing indie rock. Steve Earle - I'll Never Get out of This World Alive (New West) .................................................. The follow up to the Grammy winning LP "Townes." Produced by T Bone Burnett, it is Earle's first collection of original material since his 2007 Grammy winning album, Washington Square Serenade. The album includes the celebrated song This City, written for the HBO series, Treme, which Earle also appears in as an actor. This City features horn arrangements by Allen Toussaint and has garnered a Grammy Nomination in the Best Song Written for Motion Picture or TV category. Other highlights include the ballad Every Part of Me and the ode to those who make their living on the The Gulf Of Mexico. Deluxe version also available. Coming this July to the Buskirk! Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence) .................................................. On their fifth album, Explosions In The Sky take some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, unplaceable sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, Japanese singing bowls and more. Their most texturally diverse and emotionally dynamic album yet, and certainly their most masterfully crafted. It is perhaps the most emotionally arresting album by a band responsible for some of the most emotionally arresting music of the past decade. The Fresh & Onlys - Secret Walls EP (Sacred Bones) .................................................. On the heels of their critically acclaimed album Play It Strange, the Fresh & Onlys take a bold creative leap forward on the EP Secret Walls. The cavernous opening sounds reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's catalog and have now fully matured. It is the next logical step for the F&O's and their moody and jangly guitar pop. David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights - Left by Soft (Merge) .................................................. David Kilgour is a guitar god for guitar atheists. He's worthy of worship, but his style neither demands nor expects it, all of which only serves to increase his otherworldly cool. Left by Soft, his first album in 4 years with the Heavy Eights, comes on the heels of the Clean's excellent 2009 outing, Mister Pop. "It's probably the first real "band" LP I've made since Frozen Orange or the David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights' LP from the mid 90s," says Kilgour. Cass McCombs - Wit's End (Domino) .................................................. Light in its darkness, claustrophobic in its panorama, distant in its intimacy, present in its timelessness; Wit's End should be given one's full and undivided attention. With sounds that conjure the colours purple and black, this is his darkest record to date. It seems Cass is going deeper into the mania of a man buried alive inside his self-made Catacombs, banging the stone walls, crying to be let out, and enjoying the quiet away from the outside world. However, he is not a man afraid of his own shadow, for in this environment of complete darkness, no shadows can be cast. Prefuse 73 - The Only She Chapters (Warp) .................................................. Every song has a different female guest musician on it. The structure of the songs can have "folk" undertones but "abstract electronics" going on at the same time. The women he's referring to are a 'who's who' of indie music artists, including Zola Jesus, Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors), My Brightest Diamond, Trish Keenan (Broadcast) and more. Thao & Mirah - s/t (Kill Rock Stars) .................................................. Thao and Mirah both go by their first names only. That is mostly why they wanted to make a record together. Other reasons include: they are friends, they were finally in San Francisco at the same time, and both joyfully welcomed a short departure from their respective successful solo careers to collaborate on a project. The two enlisted dear friend and colleague Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards) as co-producer and guest musician and the aptly titled album was recorded over 2 freewheeling weeks this past summer. Times New Viking - Dancer Equired (Merge) .................................................. Contrary to popular belief, the members of TNV are not art school dropouts; they're art school graduates. And rather than follow the part of stuffy galleries and regular unemployment, they chose to start a band. The band's first album for Merge, is a return to the hive, even if the record's creation was out of their usual boundaries. It should be known that for the first time, the trio escaped to a studio, namely Columbus Discount Recording and the famed Musicol. Coming to Bloomington again this summer! TV Ghost - Mass Dream (In the Red) .................................................. TV Ghost's 2nd LP was recorded by Greg Ashley (Gris Gris), and Mass Dream is by far their clearest and most coherent release to date. While sacrificing none of the band's scuzz-punk dementia, this album is far less dense and impenetrable than its predecessor; Ghost frontman Tim Gick's lyrics are clearer and his complex song structure a bit easier to get a handle on. That said, this is still blood-boiling, spastic and downright evil music by anyone's standards. Live, there are few who can match them. Their sets are explosive, destructive and out of control. Gick howls as if his bowels are being extracted through his gluteus, while his eyes roll back in his head and the rest of the band pummels away in noisy ecstasy. Every show they play is psychotic and chaotic perfection. LP version soon. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Black Mountain - Rollercoaster 7" (Jagjaguwar) Generifus - In My Cave 7" (K) Shinji Masuko - Woven Music LP (Jagjaguwar) T Rex - [Tanx/Zinc LP reissues] (Fat Possum) Frank Turner - Rock & Roll 10" (Epitaph) Also Released This Week .................................................. About Group - Start and Complete (Domino) Airborne Toxic Event - All at Once (Island) Dennis Coffey - s/t (Strut) Matthew Cooper - Some Days Are Better Than Others (Temporary Residence) Daedelus - Bespoke (Ninja Tune) Dirty Vegas - Electric Love (OM) The Echocentrics - Sunshadows (Ubiquity) Eprhyme - dopestylevsky (K) Bill Frisell - Sign of Life (Savoy) Golden Dogs - Coat of Arms (Fontana) Holly Golightly & Brokeoffs - No Help Coming (Transdreamer) Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain (Nonesuch) Holy Ghost - s/t (DFA) Jookabox - The Eyes of the Fly (Asthmatic Kitty) Pat Jordache - Future Songs (Constellation) Kode9 & The Spaceape - Black Sun (Hyperdub) Nine 11 Thesaurus - Ground Zero Generals (Temporary Residence) Of Montreal - thecontrollersphere EP (Polyvinyl) Rachel Platten - Be Here (Rock Ridge) Joshua Redman - James Farm (Nonesuch) Religious Knives - Smokescreen (Sacred Bones) Thousands - The Sound of Everything (Bella Union) Tindersticks - Claire Denis Film Scores (Constellation) Wombats - This Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna) NEXT WEEK - Reserve one and guarantee you'll have it when its released! .................................................. Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends (5/3) Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (5/3) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (5/3) Galactic - The Other Side of Midnight: Live (5/3) Mick Harvey - Sketches from the Book of the (5/3) James Pants - s/t (5/3) Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo (5/3) Doug Stanhope - Oslo (5/3) Title Fight - Shed (5/3) Wild Beasts - Smother (5/3) COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles (5/10) The Antlers - Burst Apart (5/10) Karl Blau - Max 12" (5/10) Greg Brown - Freak Flag (5/10) The Cars - Move Like This (5/10) Peter Case - The Case Files (5/10) City Center - Redeemer (5/10) Damon & Naomi - False Beats and True Hearts (5/10) Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (5/10) Gardens - s/t (5/10) Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Heirloom Music (5/10) The Globes - Future Self (5/10) Helado Negro - Canta Lechuza (5/10) Here We Go Magic - The January EP (5/10) Jesu - Ascension (5/10) Joan of Arc - Life Like (5/10) Booker T Jones - The Road From Memphis (5/10) Liturgy - Aesthethica (5/10) Love Inks - ESP (5/10) Man Man - Life Fantastic (5/10) Mountains - Air Museum (5/10) Okkervil River - I Am Very Far (5/10) Other Lives - Tamer Animals (5/10) Porcelain Raft - Gone Blind 12" (5/10) Prince - [LP reissues] (5/10) Psychedelic Horsesh!t - Laced (5/10) Pure X - You're In It Now 12" (5/10) Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One (5/10) Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin (5/10) The Sea & Cake - Moonlight Butterfly (5/10) Sloan - The Double Cross (5/10) This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket (5/10) Tyler the Creator - Goblin (5/10) Urge Overkill - Rock&Roll Submarine (5/10) Virgin Islands - Ernie Chambers v. God (5/10) Amor de Dias - Street of the Love of Days (5/17) Austra - Feel it Break (5/17) Nick Cave - [deluxe CD reissues] (5/17) LCD Soundsystem - London Sessions 2LP (5/17) Let's Wrestle - Nursing Home (5/17) Moby - Destroyed (5/17) Queens of the Stone Age - s/t (5/17) The Reatards - Teenage Hate [reissue] (5/17) Rome [Danger Mouse] - s/t (5/17) Paul Simon - [CD reissues] (5/17) Son Lux - We Are Rising (5/17) 13 & God - Own Your Ghost (5/17) Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island (5/17) Hank Williams III - Hillbilly Joker (5/17) Top 5 sellers at Landlocked for the week of 4/18 to 4/24 .................................................. 1. Damien Jurado - Live at Landlocked LP (Secretly Canadian) 2. Dow Jones & the Industrials - Can't Stand the Midwest 7" (Family Vineyard) 3. VA - We Just Call it Roulette Vol 4 LP (St Ives) 4. Thee Oh Sees - Singles Vol 1 & 2 LP (Castleface) 5. Tune-Yards - Whokill (4AD) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Dengue Fever, Gorillaz, The Head and the Heart, Limousines, Bob Schneider, Ralph Stanley, Tune-Yards, Unthanks, Vacation Club, Atmosphere, Brett Dennen, Figurines, Foo Fighters, Hauschka, Jason Isbell, Joan as Police Woman, Jonny, Alison Krauss, Lake, Low, Meat Puppets, One AM Radio, Panda Bear, Rebirth Brass Band, Paul Simon, Thursday, TV On the Radio, Vivian Girls, Bill Callahan, Cold Cave, Alela Diane, Easy Star All-Stars, Ha Ha Tonka, The Kills, Maritime, Raveonettes, Robbie Robertson, Timber Timbre, We Are Enfant Terrible, Apache Dropout, Bibio, Brother John, Chunklet, Dow Jones & the Industrials, Fat Shadow, Hunx & his Punx, Los Lonely Boys, Moon Duo, Mountain Goats, The Obits, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Peter, Bjorn and John, Radiohead, Royal Bangs, True Widow, Wiz Khalifa, Belong, Maggie Bjorkland, James Blake, Joe Bonamassa, Eulogies, Lonely Forest, The Strokes, We Are Hex, Davila 666, Dodos, Joy Formidable, Black Joe Lewis, Little Wings, Steve Martin, J Mascis, Lupe Fiasco, R.E.M., Kurt Vile and much much more! .................................................. Upcoming Bloomington shows that we're excited about: 4/27 - El Ten Eleven @ The Bishop 4/28 - Joe Pug @ The Bishop 4/29 - Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Twin Shadow @ Rhino's 4/30 - Hawthorne Heights @ Rhino's 5/3 - Generationals @ The Bishop 5/5 - John Vanderslice / Damien Jurado @ The Bishop 5/6 - Lake / AgesandAges @ The Bishop 5/8 - David Vandervelde / Paleo @ The Bishop 5/10 - Samantha Crain @ The Bishop 5/12 - Ferraby Lionheart @ The Bishop 5/12 - Drakkar Sauna @ Magnetic South 5/13 - Company @ The Bishop 5/14 - Vivian Girls / No Joy @ Max's Place 5/15 - Pretty & Nice @ The Bishop 5/19 - The Donkeys @ The Bishop 6/18 - Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band @ Taste of Bloomington 6/20 - R. Stevie Moore @ The Bishop 6/30 - Times New Viking @ The Bishop 7/17 - Steve Earle @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 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! Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On (Arts & Crafts) .................................................. Creep On Creepin' On was recorded inside a converted church studio with Grammy nominee Mark Lawson, and the result is Timber Timbre's most brilliant and robust record to date. It's a collection of 10 tracks that expands to incorporate rich and varied melodies, affecting lyricism and evocative vintage instrumentation. The result is heartrending compositions that engage, transport and challenge. Eulogies - Tear the Fences Down (Dangerbird) .................................................. Following up 2009's much-loved, Here Anonymous, that most notably contained the tune, "Two Can Play," featuring Nikki Monninger of the Silversun Pickups, Eulogies third full-length album is penned by band guitarist/vocalist Peter Walker and dedicated to Pablo Castelaz, the son of Dangerbird label head, Jeff Castelaz who passed away in 2009 from a rare form of cancer. J Mascis - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop) .................................................. In the quarter century since he founded Dinosaur Jr., J Mascis has created some of the era's signature songs, albums and styles. Several Shades of Why, is J's first solo studio record. Nearly all acoustic, Several Shades of Why was created with the help of a few friends including Kurt Vile, Kevin Drew, Ben Bridwell, and Pall Jenkins. But every track, every note even, bears that distinct Mascis watermark, both in the shape of the tunes and the glorious rasp of the vocals. Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding (Dangerbird) .................................................. Beady Eye is Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Andy Bell. Debut album features 13 brand new songs written by the band and recorded in London w/ producer Steve Lillywhite. Features the single, "The Roller". Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers - Rare Bird Alert (Rounder) .................................................. Steve Martin will release his second full length bluegrass album Rare Bird Alert on Rounder Records on March 15, 2011. He will be joined by the Steep Canyon Rangers, who toured extensively with Martin over the last year. Rare Bird Alert features 13 new Martin-penned tracks, including a live version of "King Tut," and was produced by Tony Trishka. Sir Paul McCartney and The Dixie Chicks make special guest vocal appearances on the album. -------------------------------------------------- More information about shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ 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. Tell us what you think, what you desire. -------------------------------------------------- BFF, Jason & Heath and the whole LL crew info@landlockedmusic.com Landlocked Music 202 N. 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