Soooooo many new releases this week! Without a doubt, something for everyone - unless you hate music, and if thats true, why are you reading our newsletter? Are you excited for the new GIRLS album? This Friday evening, we will be participating in the Girls Across America nationwide streaming instore event. So this Friday 9/16 at 6PM make sure to tune in to Landlocked's website to watch the performance Live From Grimey's in Nashville. http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ As another nod to indie record stores, Girls will create a limited edition vinyl release exclusive to stores participating in this live streaming event, to be made available later this year. This thursday, friday and saturday, IU Cinema is showing Rejoice and Shout, a great documentary on black gospel music. Showtimes here: http://www.cinema.indiana.edu/?post_type=film&p=235 - More info here: http://www.magpictures.com/rejoiceandshout/ NEW ARRIVALS for September 13th .................................................. Big Harp - White Hat (Saddle Creek) .................................................. The by-product of a 3-year whirlwind for this husband-and-wife duo. The songs range from gun-in-her-garter saloon narratives and paranoid soul struts to intimate ballads of quiet resignation and open-hearted love songs. The recordings are raw and un-fussed over, with the spirited energy and honest emotion of live performance. Drawing from the classic country & folk of his childhood and anchored by her rock-solid rhythms and indie-punk roots. Blind Pilot - We Are the Tide (ATO) .................................................. Blind Pilot's hooky, low-key pop isn't the stuff of groundbreaking, boundary-pressing experimentation, but the craftsmanship and consistency at its core should never be minimized, either. After emerging out of nowhere with 2008's self-released 3 Rounds and a Sound — that year's most solidly appealing record, if not its best outright — the Portland, Ore., band has toured with The Decemberists, been showcased on Morning Edition, and recorded this lovely, gently appealing follow-up. The band's sound has tightened over time, as it's expanded from the duo to a large and fleshed-out sextet, and the new record focuses more on lush, pretty concoctions. Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing (Sub Pop) .................................................. On American Goldwing, Blitzen Trapper's 6th album and 3rd on Sub Pop, the band let their loves and influences shine: hard guitar rock, country picking and pawn-shop Casio aplomb hang out for all to see. Singer Eric Earley says American Goldwing will make you want to shotgun a beer in the shower while listening to the Stones or Joe Walsh (or Blitzen Trapper) and we are not inclined to argue. AA Bondy - Believers (Fat Possum) .................................................. Believers is ten new songs by A.A. Bondy. They were conjured during and between dreams, in bare rooms, and on the late night streets of America. It was recorded in the spring of 2011 by Rob Schnapf at Mant/Kingsize Studios in Glassell Park, California. Musicians include Ben Lester (drums, piano, pedal steel) and Macey Taylor (bass). Believers is the follow up to the 2009 album When The Devil's Loose, and is Bondy's third for Fat Possum Records. Cant - Dreams Come True (Terrible) .................................................. Dreams Come True features Chris Taylor, who serves as bassist, vocalist and producer of Grizzly Bear, collaborating with George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow. The pair wrote and recorded most of the material on Dreams Come True in a week and a half in a bedroom connected to what used to be Allaire Studios, where Grizzly Bear also recorded their lauded 2009 release Veckatimest. Das Racist - Relax (Greedhead) .................................................. Pop-rap experimentalists Das Racist are back, riding the wave of success garnered from the two free mixtapes they released in 2010, with their sprawling, visionary cyberdelic, epic tone poem of a debut album, Relax. Featuring production from El-P, Vampire Weekend's Rostam, Yeasayer's Anand Wilder, Drake songwriter Francis Farewell Starlite, Diplo and cameos from beloved Detroit rap eccentric Danny Brown, underground hip-hop legend El-P and the ever-reclusive tiny genius rapper Despot. The Drums - Portamento (Frenchkiss) .................................................. The Drums debut was an escapist collection of beach pop fantasies; tracks suffused with a wistful, longing nostalgia that never pandered to cheap sentimentality. For the difficult sophomore LP, the band sidestepped the pitfalls of a slump by recording it quickly, again self-producing, often laying down tracks spontaneously in singer Jonny Pierce's kitchen. Portamento reveals a band tugging lightly at the boundaries of their sound while still retaining their sonic signatures- sweet rushes of melody, winsome lyrics, and brittle synthesizer sheens colliding with wiry Spector-esque guitar and bass lines. Melissa Ferrick - Still Right Here (Mpress) .................................................. Folk-rock powerhouse Melissa Ferrick's first studio album in 5 years, combining the lyrical sophistication of Aimee Mann with the driving acoustic guitar of Dave Matthews. Featuring performances by Ani DiFranco & Kaki King, the album perfectly showcases Ferrick's finely-honed chops as a singer & guitarist, while highlighting her prowess on piano & drums. It's a rich, emotionally intense album that will appeal to fans of Tegan & Sara, Ben Harper, She & Him, Jakob Dylan & David Gray. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther) .................................................. Girls return with their long awaited second full-length album. More spontaneous and stripped-down than either their self-made debut or their lush EP, Father, Son, Holy Ghost is a gorgeous, largely minor-key record, enlivened by flashes of innocent pop and given depth by its wealth of influences and willingness to face sadness. Grouplove - Never Trust a Happy Song (Atlantic) .................................................. Never Trust A Happy Song was produced by the band's own Ryan Rabin and comes on the heels of their acclaimed, self-titled EP released early 2011. Heralded by NME as one of the "Best New Bands of 2010," Grouplove closed 2010 touring the US with The Joy Formidable and being handpicked to open a number of West Coast dates for Florence + The Machine. SPIN declared Grouplove "a band to watch in 2011" and called their track "Colours" "one of the most infectious songs you're bound to hear," while NPR described their music as "wild, thrilling and above all joyful noise." Jimi Hendrix Experience - Winterland (Legacy) .................................................. Winterland is drawn from 6 stellar shows recorded over 3 days (October 10, 11 and 12, 1968) at San Francisco's historic Winterland Ballroom. These special performances celebrated the 2 year anniversary of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and came just as the groundbreaking album Electric Ladyland was released. The new standard & deluxe editions are markedly different from a single CD compilation, that was briefly issued by Rykodisc in 1987 and 1988. Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer (Nettwerk) .................................................. Ladytron's 5th studio album is the follow up to 2008's Velocifero. The new studio album is another chapter after a decade's worth of evocative, instinctive yet deliberate electronic pop music. Gravity the Seducer is more of a jump than the last album - more ethereal & melodic, a touch more abstract in places - baroque 'n' roll. Ladytron recorded the album in Kent's countryside, with co-producer Barny Barnicott (Artic Monkeys, Kasabian, Editors) at the helm. FREE bonus EP while supplies last! Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine (Bloodshot) .................................................. Lydia's Bloodshot debut combines heady doses of punk rock energy and candor with the country classicism she was raised on and just can't shake. From foggy mountain throwdowns where she sounds like a tuff Neko Case, to muscular power pop driven by choppy, tense guitar tonalities recalling Television's Richard Lloyd to the take no s**t spirit of Loretta Lynn and displaying country soul well beyond her years, Loveless true-to-life testimonials hit and hit hard. Be it whiskey, men, god or alienation, Lydia takes them all on. Nick Lowe - The Old Magic (Yep Roc) .................................................. "Few musicians get better with age, Nick Lowe is an exception." - NPR. While it's undeniable that his last album garnered Lowe the best reviews of his career and his best one-week sales in the Soundscan era, there is little doubt that he has always been at the forefront of modern music. Be it his production work with The Damned, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders or his stone-classic solo albums Jesus of Cool or Labour of Lust, Nick has always set the standard for smart, switchblade-sharp pop music. His latest album continues Lowe's late-career evolution. As is his custom, Lowe also peppers the album with three covers -- by Elvis Costello, Tom T. Hall and Jeff West - that fit seamlessly with his originals. FREE deck of cards with purchase! Nick's catalog on sale too! Mates of State - Mountaintops (Barsuk) .................................................. When you throw this record on the stereo, the first thing you notice is the energy and force of it: Go slightly deeper and you find the song-craft. You notice the effortless way their voices harmonize and volley back and forth, the movements within the song, the way they move from upbeat to pastoral so fluidly that you don't perceive it happening. Their instruments and voices all move as one piece, inseparable. Through the years, the textures have become more intricate, deeper. They've begun throwing in the occasional trumpet or guitar, but it is still stunning how much they can do with just keyboards and drums. Neon Indian - Era Extrana (Mom & Pop) .................................................. Neon Indian is Alan Palomo, the Mexican-born, Texas-raised, brilliantly lucid 21-year-old synth-wizard who learned his production chops as part of Ghosthunter and honed them in VEGA. In October 2009 Neon Indian released his critically acclaimed and heralded debut album, Psychic Chasms, nearly anonymously and drew wild speculation for months. As Neon Indian, Palomo has made an art of leaving out the details and letting the world draw its own conclusions. Primus - Green Naugahyde (ATO) .................................................. Primus are back with their first album of brand new music since 1999's Antipap. Primus formed in the late 80s in Northern California, releasing their first album, Suck On This, in 1989. They Signed to Caroline Records and released the now-classic Frizzle Fry in 1990. As part of the alternative rock explosion of the 90s, the band signed to Interscope and gave the world some of the biggest records of the decade, including Sailing The Seas Of Cheese, Pork Soda, Tales From The Punchbowl and The Brown Album, had several Billboard top 10 debuts, garnered a Grammy nomination and wrote the internationally loved and enduring theme song for 'South Park'. Shimmering Stars - Violent Hearts (Hardly Art) .................................................. Vancouver, BC trio Shimmering Stars music sounds from another time, and like a lost treasure unearthed, the group brings you a well captured glimpse into an Everly Brothers/Brian Wilson style world where pop is king. The album, Violent Hearts, is a collection of musical diamonds in a dreamy and angst riddled crown rested on a pillow of reverb. The group's majestic melodies and haunting wall of sound vocals will make fans of even the crustiest of cynics. Sonic Youth - 1991: The Year Punk Broke DVD (Geffen) .................................................. Just as Woodstock captured the pinnacle of the 60s counter-culture movement in cinema, 1991: The Year Punk Broke prolifically documents a new generation of artists that once again grew tired of the stereotypical rock and roll lifestyle and ripped apart this force-fed formula, stripping it down completely and rebuilding from the ground up with its own DIY ethics and creating a scene all their own. With screeching feedback and a wall of sound, Sonic Youth lead the charge, straight through the superficial rock world of the 80s, marking the beginning of the year punk finally broke into the mainstream, giving credence and legitimacy to all those artists who helped pave the way before them. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD) .................................................. St. Vincent, the nom-de-stage of "playful chanteuse [and] fearsome shredder" (NY Times) Annie Clark, releases her second album for 4AD, Strange Mercy. The record's 11 tracks showcase her gift for fusing the cerebral and the visceral, her melodically elegant arrangements packing hefty emotional punches. Clark reunited with producer John Congleton and recorded the album in her hometown of Dallas, TX. Strange Mercy finds St. Vincent redefining the idea of the guitar hero, utilizing the instrument as a pointillist artist might wield a brush. Umphrey's McGee - Death by Stereo (ATO) .................................................. Death By Stereo is a hybrid of what makes Umphrey's McGee so appealing to a wide spectrum of music fans. Filled with a healthy combination of focused, hard-hitting rock songs & head bobbing, groove-driven tracks, the record has something for everybody. The new album features a smattering of road-tested fan favorites as well as some of the slickest, unreleased compositions the band has released to date. Catch them at the Bluebird on October 20th. FREE bonus EP with purchase while supplies last! Wild Flag - s/t (Merge) .................................................. Wild Flag is a Portland, Oregon and Washington, DC-based quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Rebecca Cole, Mary Timony, and Janet Weiss. The members of Wild Flag have played in numerous and notable bands including Sleater-Kinney, Helium, Quasi, The Minders, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and others. In April of 2011, they went to Sacramento, California, where they recorded their self-titled album with engineer Chris Woodhouse at the Hangar. All tracks were recorded live except for the vocals. Wooden Shjips - West (Thrill Jockey) .................................................. Wooden Shjips stand at the forefront of modern psychedelic rock and West is their first album for Thrill Jockey. The over riding theme for the album is the American West, and all of the mythology, romanticism, and idealism that it embodies. The band members grew up on the East Coast, so for a long time the history and literature of the West was an abstraction and a fascination for them. It is easy to see why these would appeal to Wooden Shjips, as their music lends itself to exploration. It is both transformative and transporting, the sum being far greater than it's parts. The steady driving rhythms are the elliptical motion machine driven by the often thick and distorted guitar lines, melodic and boundless. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Omar Souleyman - Haflat Gharbia: Western Concerts LP (Sublime Frequencies) Also Released This Week .................................................. Anthrax - Worship Music (Megaforce) Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick - Lentemuziek (Hush) Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare (Thrill Jockey) Beatles - 1s [remaster] (Capitol) The Bloody Hollies - Yours Until The Bitter End (Alive) Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare (Universal) Philip Glass - Cello Concerto No 1 (Orange Mountain) The Gourds - Old Mad Joy (Vanguard) Jimi Hendrix - In the West (Legacy) Human League - Credo (MB3) Mason Jennings - Minnesota (Stats and Brackets) Glenn Jones - The Wanting (Thrill Jockey) The Kooks - Junk of the Heart (Astralwerks) Lotus - s/t (Sci Fidelity) Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues (WB) Memoryhouse - The Years EP (Sub Pop) Milagres - Glowing Mouth (Kill Rock Stars) Mogwai - Earth Division EP (Sub Pop) Notar - Devil's Playground (Tyrannosaurus) Pajama Club (Neil Finn) - s/t (Lester) The Raincoats - Odyshape (We Three) Reckless Kelly - Good Luck & True Love (No Big Deal) Superchunk - Foolish [reissue] (Merge) Toasters - 2tone Army (Megalith) Toro y Moi - Freaking Out EP (Carpark) Trombone Shorty - For True (Verve) Leslie West - Unusual Suspects (Provogue) Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit (Bella Union) A Winged Victory for the Sullen - s/t (Kranky) Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord) NEXT WEEK - Reserve one and guarantee you'll have it when its released! .................................................. Tori Amos - Night of Hunters (9/20) Boots Electric - Honkey Kong (9/20) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical (9/20) Evangelista - In Animal Tongue (9/20) Wolfgang Gartner - Weekend in America (9/20) Lisa Hannigan - Passenger (9/20) Is And Of The - Heads Phased for Dreamless Sleep (9/20) Ivy - All Hours (9/20) Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time (9/20) Shawn Lee - Tabla Rock (9/20) Jens Lekman - An Argument With Myself EP (9/20) Megafaun - s/t (9/20) Nurses - Dracula (9/20) Jack Oblivian - Rat City (9/20) Patton Oswalt - Finest Hour (9/20) Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam Twenty (9/20) Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi (9/20) Social Climbers - s/t [reissue] (9/20) Southerly - Youth (9/20) Tammar - Visits (9/20) Trust - Bulbform 12" (9/20) UV Pop - Just a Game 7" (9/20) Waters - Out in the Light (9/20) Wavves - Life Sux EP (9/20) Weekend - Red (9/20) VA - This May Be My Last Time Singing : Raw African-American Gospel (9/20) COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. Apparat - The Devil's Walk (9/27) Lewis Black - The Prophet (9/27) Blink 182 - Neighborhoods (9/27) Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart - Don't Explain (9/27) Bonnie Prince Billy & the Phantom Family Halo - Mindeater (9/27) Boom Bip - Zig Zaj (9/27) Botch - We Are Romans (9/27) Corroded - Exit to Transfer (9/27) Dominant Legs - Invitation (9/27) Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams (9/27) Gem Club - Breakers (9/27) Hawkwind - [LP reissues] (9/27) Will Hoge - Number Sever (9/27) Jellyfish - [LP reissues] (9/27) Stanley Jordan - Freinds (9/27) Kasabian - Velociraptor (9/27) Hanni el Khatib - Will the Guns Come Out (9/27) Madlib - Medicine Show #12 (9/27) Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune (9/27) Mastodon - The Hunter (9/27) Christian McBride - Good Feeling (9/27) Mark McGuire - Get Lost (9/27) Mekons - Ancient & Modern (9/27) Nirvana - Nevermind [deluxe] (9/27) Phantom Family Halo - The Mindeater (9/27) Pink Floyd - [remasters] (9/27) Plaid - Scintilli (9/27) Josh Rouse and the Long Vacations - s/t (9/27) DJ Shadow - The Less You Know The Better (9/27) Sleeper Agent - Celabrasion (9/27) Southern Culture on the Skids - Zombified (9/27) Stepkids - s/t (9/27) Stooges - Raw Power Live DVD (9/27) Tune-Yards - Gangsta 12" (9/27) Mark-Anthony Turnage - Anna Nicole (9/27) Twin Sister - In Heaven (9/27) VHS or Beta - Diamonds and Death (9/27) Warm Ghost - Narrows (9/27) Wilco - The Whole Love (9/27) Johnny Winter - Roots (9/27) Carolyn Wonderland - Peace Meal (9/27) Young Man - Ideas of Distance (9/27) Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation (9/27) AIDS Wolf - Ma vie Banale Avant-Garde (10/4) Bonnie Prince Billy - Wolfroy Goes to Town (10/4) Brothertiger - Golden Years (10/4) Dinosaur Jr - LP reissues (10/4) Dreamers of the Ghetto - Enemy/Lover (10/4) The Drift - Blue Hour (10/4) Erasure - Tomorrow's World (10/4) Exitmusic - From Silence (10/4) Feist - Metals (10/4) Indigo Girls - Beauty Queen Sister (10/4) Loney Dear - Hall Music (10/4) Minus the Bear - LP reissues (10/4) Modeselector - Monkeytown (10/4) New Found Glory - Radiosurgery (10/4) Pine Hill Haints - Welcome to the Midnight Opry (10/4) Prince Rama - Trust Now (10/4) Siskiyou - Keep Away from the Dead (10/4) Colin Stetson - Those Who Didn't Run 10" (10/4) Talkdemonic - Ruins (10/4) We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach (10/4) White Dog - Triturate LP (10/4) Zola Jesus - Conatus (10/4) VA - Batman: Arkham City (10/4) Top 5 sellers at Landlocked for the week of 9/5 to 9/11 .................................................. 1. Beirut, The Rip Tide (Pompeii) 2. The Horrible Crowes, Elsie (Side One Dummy) 3. Arcade Fire, Suburbs/Scenes from the Suburbs (Merge) 4. Red Hot Chili Peppers, I'm With You (WB) 5. The War on Drugs, Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Balmorhea, Horrible Crowes, Grace Jones, Peter Wolf Crier, Racebannon, The Rapture, Luke Temple, Hank III, Wu Lyf, Beirut, Charnel House, Jacuzzi Boys, Male Bonding, Tom Morello, Neon Indian, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tinariwen, Butch Walker, Yellow Ostrich, Active Child, Zee Avi, Gabe Dixon, Hotfox, Stephen Malkmus, Stephin Merritt, Stone Coal White, We Are Augustines, Botany, Jeff Bridges, Canon Blue, Cool Kids, Flaming Lips + Lightning Bolt, Gold Leaves, Mister Heavenly, Maria Taylor, The War on Drugs, Steve Cropper, Dom, Jim Ford, The Horrors, Radiohead, Sleeping Bag, Arcade Fire, Archers of Loaf, Richard Buckner, Drive-By Truckers, Fruit Bats, John Hiatt, Justin Hines, Mariachi el Bronx, Moonface, Tig Notaro, Viva Brother, Wood Brothers, Aficionado, Belle & Sebastian, Davila 666, Locksley, Release the Sunbird, Dex Romweber Duo, Reverend Peyton, Portugal the Man, They Might Be Giants, Bobb Trimble and much much more! .................................................. Upcoming Bloomington shows that we're excited about: 9/16 - Mason Jennings @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 9/16 - Joe McPhee @ The Bishop 9/19 - Dark Dark Dark / A Hawk & A Hacksaw @ The Bishop 9/20 - Toro y Moi / Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ The Bishop 9/21 - An Horse @ The Bishop 9/22-25 - Lotus World Music and Arts Festival 9/23 - Youth Lagoon @ The Bishop 9/28 - Tune-Yards @ Rhino's 9/30 - Mount Eerie @ Russian Recording 9/30 - Dar Williams / Joan Osborne @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 9/30 - Wood Brothers @ The Bishop 9/30-10/1 - Can'o'Worms Festival - details TBA 10/7 - Braids @ The Bishop 10/11 - Brett Dennen @ Bluebird 10/12 - Peter Wolf Crier @ The Bishop 10/12 - The Jayhawks / Jessica Lea Mayfield @ Bluebird 10/13 - Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Black Crowes) @ Bluebird 10/14 - Jacuzzi Boys @ The Bishop 10/16 - Ziggy Marley @ Bluebird 10/18 - Melt Banana @ The Bishop 10/20 - Umphrey's McGee @ Bluebird 10/21 - Asobi Seksu @ The Bishop 10/21 - Junior Brown @ Bluebird 10/21 - Nurses / Dominant Legs @ Russian Recording 10/24 - Screaming Females @ The Bishop 10/25 - Davila 666 @ The Bishop 10/27 - Murs @ Rhino's 10/28 - Jonathan Richman @ The Bishop 11/2 - Cold War Kids @ Bluebird 11/3 - The War on Drugs / Purling Hiss @ The Bishop 11/4 - Dr. Dog @ Bluebird We have tickets and/or additional information for many of these wonderful performances. 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