You've seen the giant Gang Gang Dance lightbox looming over you while you shop this past month at Landlocked - the crazy photo of the insect covered in water droplets. And they're coming to town, too. Thursday, July 14th at The Bishop. AND we've got some free guestlist spots to give away too! The first person to come into Landlocked and buy ANY Gang Gang Dance CD or LP gets free entry to the show. We will also be giving away a free spot on Facebook or Twitter later in the week, so be sure to follow us on all your online social outlets. Come and claim it! "MAKE" is a journey into the lives of 4 self-taught artists living in the margins of American society. Sufjan Stevens found inspiration in these artists' stories, basing his album The Age of Adz specifically on the life and work of the schizophrenic artist Prophet Royal Robertson. Stevens has called the film "a beautiful and insightful look at the sublime task of making art when nothing will else do." Friday July 15th, 9:30pm, at The Bishop! FREE! NEW ARRIVALS for July 12th .................................................. Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer (Merge) .................................................. Eleanor is known for her work in Fiery Furnaces. In the music, you will hear the casual confrontations of the most emotionally direct Fiery Furnaces songs, plus a lot of snap, crackle and pop. In fact, in these songs made of memories, you will hear the future. Sparks, Donovan, Procol Harum, Kath Bloom, Lo Borges and Todd Rundgren, too. Friedberger's phrasing is as good as anyone's. Mellowhype - Blackededwhite (Fat Possum) .................................................. Mellowhype is alternative hip-hop featuring Hodgy Beats and Left Brain from the collective Odd Future. "Yet another fascinating, bizarre, expectation-defying piece of work from a group of young artists who don't make anything else." - Pitchfork The Real Tuesday Weld - The Last Werewolf (Six Degrees) .................................................. As ever with an album by The Real Tuesday Weld, individual tracks cover a spectrum of styles from thirties ballads and torch songs through gypsy jazz and electro-swing to minimalist electronica. A range of influences including Gainsbourg, Chopin, Django Reinhard, Cole Porter, Springsteen, Barry Adamson and Tom Waits hover ghostlike over the story as it develops. Guest vocalists include long term collaborators The Puppini Sisters, Joe Guillotine, Pinkie Maclure and Piney Gir. The collaboration between author and musician reprises their 2004 joint work I Lucifer - a critical applauded work which spawned the international award winning and much imitated "Bathtime in Clerkenwell". R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant [deluxe] (Capitol) .................................................. REM's 4th studio album was recorded at John Mellencamp's Belmont Mall Studios near Bloomington, Indiana. Produced by Don Gehman, renowned for producing a string of punchy, soulful heartland-rock albums by Mellencamp, Pageant includes the singles Fall On Me and Superman. The album was their first to achieve Gold status, and it reached #21 on Billboard Album chart, the band's then-highest chart position. The 2CD reissue contains the original album digitally remastered plus "The Athens Demos," 19 previously unreleased tracks recorded by the band before the final studio sessions. Plus a poster and postcards. Sons and Daughters - Mirror Mirror (Domino) .................................................. Some records sink in and refuse to let go. Hunkered down in their rehearsal space, S&D had the task of following up on 2008's Bernard Butler-produced This Gift. Mirror, Mirror is a very different beast to its predecessor. A slow burning sensation, a wiry, raw, sensual injection of primal monochrome rock, it is thrillingly contemporary and totally unique by today's standards. Washed Out - Within and Without (Sub Pop) .................................................. After a string of acclaimed EPs and appearances at the Pitchfork Festival and on the TV series Portlandia, Ernest Greene releases his first full-length under his Washed Out moniker, Within and Without. Recorded with Ben Allen, who worked on Merriweather Post Pavilion and Halcyon Digest, the album has the pedigree to be a synth pop critical darling. Free bonus 7" with purchase while supplies last! William Elliott Whitmore - Field Songs (Anti) .................................................. This Iowa troubadour documents a vanishing American landscape with all the heartfelt soul and quiet fury one could hope for. "Heartland firebrand blows fuse, fights for truth" heralded Spin Magazine when describing Whitmore, who utilizes a powerful singing voice beyond his years and a stark dramatic sound rooted in bluegrass, blues and folk protest music. These songs vividly evoke a life of struggle, humble resilience and family bond inspired by life on his family farm along the Mississippi River. Zomby - Dedication (4AD) .................................................. Zomby is both a purist and a perfectionist. One of the most talented producers of a generation and someone capable of negotiating skilfully between genres, be it jungle, dubstep, rave, garage or whatever tag you want to put on it. Couple this with the numerous and incredible 12"s, EPs and remixes and it's clear just why he's built quite a heady reputation for himself. Dedication continues to put Zomby at a distance from his peers. By the time they've caught up, he'll no doubt be somewhere else entirely. Also Released This Week .................................................. Alkaline Trio - Damnesia (Epitaph) Incubus - If Not Now When (Epic) Middle East - I Want That You Are Always Happy (Missing Piece) Sublime With Rome - Yours Truly (Fueled by Ramen) George Thorogood - 2120 South Michigan Ave (Capitol) Yes - Fly From Here (Frontiers) The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Interpol - Try it On [remix 12"] (Matador) Tones on Tail - Weird Pop 2LP (Beggars Banquet) NEXT WEEK - Reserve one and guarantee you'll have it when its released! .................................................. Big Talk - s/t (7/19) John Butler Trio - Live at Red Rocks (7/19) Crystal Antlers - Two Way Mirror (7/19) EDM - Night People (7/19) Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw - Night Gallery (7/19) Fink - Perfect Darkness (7/19) Future Islands - Before The Bridge 7" (7/19) Grandaddy - LP reissues (7/19) Lost Sounds - Blac Static [reissue] (7/19) Milk Maid - Yucca (7/19) Imelda May - Mayhem (7/19) Tom Morello the Nightwatchman - Union Town (7/19) Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Peyton on Patton (7/19) Pictureplane - Thee Physical (7/19) Portugal the Man - In the Mountain in the Cloud (7/19) Prurient - Bermuda Drain (7/19) Racebannon - Six Sik Sisters (7/19) Ramones - LP reissues (7/19) Tim Robbins & the Rogues Gallery Band - s/t (7/19) Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live in France (7/19) Sole And The Skyrider Band - Hello Cruel World (7/19) Telescopes - Taste (7/19) They Might Be Giants - Join Us (7/19) 3Ds - Early Recordings (7/19) 311 - Universal Pulse (7/19) Toubab Krewe - TK2 (7/19) T. Rex - Bolan's Zip Gun [reissues] (7/19) Wilco - I Might 7" (7/19) Wiley - 100% Publishing (7/19) Woods - Find Them Empty 7" (7/19) Richard Youngs - Amplifying Host (7/19) COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. Mike Adams / Candy Claws - split 10" (7/26) Belle & Sebastian - Come on Sister 12" (7/26) Phil Cohran - [LP reissues] (7/26) Dead Can Dance - Aion LP (7/26) The Features - Wilderness (7/26) The Horrors - Skying (7/26) Nikki Jean - Pennies in a Jar (7/26) Locksley - s/t (7/26) Roscoe Mitchell - Solo Concert LP (7/26) Release the Sunbird - Come Back To Us (7/26) Dex Romweber Duo - Is That You in the Blue? (7/26) Wu-Tang - Legendary Weapons (7/26) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs [deluxe] (8/2) Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle [reissue] (8/2) Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming [Instrumentals LP] (8/2) Richard Buckner - Our Blood (8/2) Buffalo Killers - 3 (8/2) Collections of Colonies of Bees - Giving (8/2) Drive-By Truckers - Greatest Hits (8/2) The Ettes - Wicked Will (8/2) Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes (8/2) Fruit Bats - Tripper (8/2) John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns (8/2) Mariachi el Bronx - s/t (8/2) Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped (8/2) Tig Notaro - Good One (8/2) Radiohead - Remixes V.2 12" (8/2) Viva Brother - Famous First Words (8/2) Top 5 sellers at Landlocked for the week of 7/4 to 7/10 .................................................. 1. Gillian Welch, The Harrow & the Harvest (Acony) 2. Tune-Yards, W H O K I L L (4AD) 3. Flaming Lips & Prefuse 73, Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee EP (WB) 4. Bon Iver; Bon Iver, Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar) 5. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Deer Tracks, Brian Eno, Flaming Lips / Prefuse 73, Gardens & Villa, Landlord, Memory Tapes, Radiohead, WU LYF, Apache Dropout, Circuit des Yeux, Handsome Furs, Jolie Holland, Night Beats, SBTRKT, Shabazz Palaces, Gillian Welch, Red Hot + Rio, Bobby, Bon Iver, Gomez, Jeff the Brotherhood, Paleo, Ty Segall, Skysaw, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Viva Voce, Black Country Communion, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Foo Fighters, Hollows, Junior Boys, Paul McCartney, Sebadoh, Vetiver, Woods, Neil Young, Arctic Monkeys, Battles, Black Lips, Cults, Dawes, Ford & Lopatin, Fucked Up, Givers, Hooray for Earth, Johann Johannsson, Ladybug Transistor, Peter Murphy, Nick 13, Rosebuds, Frank Turner, Wooden Birds, Black Swans, Kate Bush, Cola Freaks, Death Cab for Cutie, Flogging Molly, My Morning Jacket, Alex Turner, Eddie Vedder, Woods, David Bazan, Boris, Foster the People, Friendly Fires, Thurston Moore, Thee Oh Sees and much much more! .................................................. Upcoming Bloomington shows that we're excited about: 7/12 - Toots and the Maytals @ Bluebird 7/14 - Gang Gang Dance @ The Bishop 7/15 - Kurt Vile / Woods @ Russian Recording 7/15 - Make film screening @ The Bishop 7/16 - Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ The Bishop 7/17 - Steve Earle @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 7/17 - Nobunny @ The Bishop 7/28 - The Paperhead @ Magnetic South 7/31 - Moonface @ Russian Recording 8/3 - Frontier Ruckus @ The Bishop 8/4 - Dom / Gardens & Villa @ The Bishop 8/5 - Six Organs of Admittance @ The Bishop 8/19 - Junior Brown @ Bluebird 9/1 - Gillian Welch @ Dave Rawlings @ Bluebird 9/6 - Balmorhea @ The Bishop 9/19 - Dark Dark Dark / A Hawk & A Hacksaw @ The Bishop 9/20 - Toro y Moi / Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ The Bishop 10/7 - Braids @ The Bishop 10/12 - Peter Wolf Crier @ The Bishop 11/2 - Cold War Kids @ Bluebird We have tickets and/or 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! Battles - Gloss Drop (Warp) .................................................. Gloss Drop is an entrancing album that defies both categorization and easy analysis. Just as Mirrored was a massive leap on from the early EPs that first got them noticed, this is truly another seismic shift, propelling them into uncharted territory. It is a sheer sense of fun, unpredictability and inventiveness that sets Battles apart from every other contemporary group. Stanier sums this up succinctly: "I don't think challenging, new music has to be super serious all the time. That's really boring to me and pushing boundaries should not be boring." Bon Iver - Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar) .................................................. Bon Iver is Justin Vernon returning to former haunts with a new spirit. The reprises are there - solitude, quietude, hope and desperation compressed - but always a rhythm arises, a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes. The winter, the legend, has faded to just that, and this is the new momentary present. The icicles have dropped, rising up again as grass. Paul McCartney - McCartney & McCartney II (Hear) .................................................. The Paul McCartney Archive Collection presents the next two titles in the series - McCartney and McCartney II. Released in multiple configurations - 2CD Special Edition, Deluxe Book Edition, & 2LP Vinyl Edition - these projects have been personally supervised by Paul and newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios. Heralded as one of the most beloved solo debuts of all time, McCartney yielded the timeless tracks "Every Night" and "Junk" along with the immortal classic "Maybe I'm Amazed." McCartney II was his return to solo work after nine years of massive touring and recording with Wings and features enduring classics such as "Coming Up," "Waterfalls," & "Temporary Secretary." VA - Rave On Buddy Holly (Fantasy) .................................................. In his short-lived but extraordinary life, Buddy Holly left behind a body of work so enthralling, his enduring influence is nearly impossible to overstate. The melodic joy and fierce independent streak at the core of his artistry is profoundly felt on this collection. Features My Morning Jacket, Black Keys, Modest Mouse, Florence + the Machine, CeeLo Green, Paul McCartney, Lou Reed, Graham Nash, Detroit Cobras, Patti Smith, Nick Lowe, She & Him, Justin Townes Earle, Julian Casablancas, Karen Elson, Fiona Apple w/ Jon Brion, John Doe and more! Gomez - Whatever's On Your Mind (ATO) .................................................. Gomez returns with their most adventurous, stunning, and ambitious work to date. Deep in the woods of Virginia, Gomez have conspired to make the most compelling, direct album of their 15-year career. The members reside across two continents (in Los Angeles, Brooklyn and Brighton, England) and after several months of sharing ideas through every facet of technology available to them, they came together with their longtime friend, Sam Farrar (Phantom Planet), to create their first self-produced offering since 2001's In Our Gun. -------------------------------------------------- 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. 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